Ping Pong Vol 1

Author : Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1974722635
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ping Pong, Vol. 1 written by Taiyo Matsumoto and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makoto “Smile” Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka “Peco” Hoshino have been playing table tennis since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game has changed. Seeing potential in them that they themselves don’t fully realize, the coach recruits them for the school team. Bringing out their best will mean challenging the top players from rival schools in the summer tournament, including an ace Chinese exchange student who almost made the Olympic team. With the pressure on, can Smile and Peco take the heat and make it into the finals? -- VIZ Media

Author : Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1974722643
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ping Pong, Vol. 2 written by Taiyo Matsumoto and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things have changed since the last inter-high tournament. Peco has quit the game, and “Smile” Tsukimoto's desire to play is gone. Even “Demon” Sakuma has been kicked off the Kaio team. But Coach Koizumi isn’t going to let all that talent go to waste and launches a plan to get Tsukimoto back on the team and into top condition. Every great athlete needs a great rival to push them past their limits, and Peco and Smile—friends since they were children—must now challenge each other to become the heroes they always dreamed they could be. -- VIZ Media

Author : Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1974728889
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No. 5, Vol. 1 written by Taiyo Matsumoto and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where most of the earth has become a harsh desert, the Rainbow Council of the Peace Corps has a growing crisis on its hands. No. 5, one member of a team of superpowered global security guardians and a top marksman, has gone rogue. Now the other guardians have to hunt down No. 5 and his mysterious companion, Matryoshka. But why did No. 5 turn against the council, and what will it mean for the future of the world? -- VIZ Media

Author : Fred Danner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465392300
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures of the Ping-Pong Diplomats written by Fred Danner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story reads like an adventure novel. The only difference is that the events in a novel are made up; these adventures really happened; the people are real; and the political effects of their actions have produced 40 years of peaceful coexistence between the Peoples Republic of China and the United States. This is the only historically complete narrative which covers the actual ping-pong diplomacy events, provides the background foreign policy information to explain why these events happened, & shows what could have happened if there were no ping-pong diplomats. The world news media was prevented from general coverage of the U.S. World Table Tennis Team to China, while U.S. publicity about the return visit of the Chinese World Team to the U.S. on the Grand Tour was largely controlled to serve the political aims and objectives of the Nixon administration. For those average Americans who became our Cold-War Warriors willingly taking the risks involved, and those who worked behind the scenes to make their risks worthwhile; such experiences occur only once in a lifetime. America and the world are a lot better off because of their efforts. Its time to read the real story of ping-pong diplomacy!

Author : Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1421558211
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GoGo Monster written by Taiyo Matsumoto and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third grader Yuki Tachibana lives in two worlds. In one world, he is a loner ridiculed by his classmates and reprimanded by his teachers for telling stories of supernatural beings that only he can see. In the other world, the supernatural beings vie for power with malevolent spirits who bring chaos into the school, the students' lives, and nature itself. -- VIZ Media

Author : Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher : Viz
ISBN 13 : 9781421555256
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunny written by Taiyo Matsumoto and published by Viz. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sei's parents drop him off at a children's home, he does what he can to fit in with the other troubled children and, like them, finds escape in a broken-down old car and his imagination.

Author : Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1974713857
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cats of the Louvre written by Taiyo Matsumoto and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris contains more than just the most famous works of art in history. At night, within its darkened galleries, an unseen and surreal world comes alive—a world witnessed only by the small family of cats that lives in the attic. Until now... Translated by Tekkonkinkreet film director Michael Arias. -- VIZ Media

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224104
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dandelions written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating discovery, Kawabata’s unfinished final novel Dandelions is a great master’s last word A fascinating discovery, Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972. Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions explores love and madness and consists almost entirely conversations between a woman identified only as Ineko's mother, and Kuno, a young man who loves Ineko and wants to marry her. The two have left Ineko at the Ikuta Clinic, a mental hospital, which she has entered for treatment of somagnosia, a condition that might be called “seizures of body blindness.” Although her vision as a whole is unaffected, she periodically becomes unable to see her lover Kuno. Whether this condition actually constitutes madness is a topic of heated discussion between Kuno and Ineko’s mother: Kuno believes Ineko's blindness is actually an expression of her love for him, as it is only he, the beloved, she cannot see. In this tantalizing book, Kawabata explores the incommunicability of desire and carries the art of the novel, where he always suggested more than he stated, into mysterious and strange new realms. Dandelions is the final word of a truly great master, the first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize.

Author : Nicholas Griffin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857207377
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ping-Pong Diplomacy written by Nicholas Griffin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was one of the most significant developments of the post-war era: China finally abandoning its close relationship with the Soviet Union to begin detente with the USA. Astonishingly, the man who helped make it happen was a British aristocrat, Ivor Montagu, a Soviet spy who knew Stalin and dined with Trotsky. Even more remarkably, the means to this rapprochement was table tennis, a sport loved by both Chairman Mao and Montagu. For years, Montagu had lived a dual life, working to spread communism and also table tennis around the world. Surprisingly, the two strands of his career would come together in an event of global significance. Nicholas Griffin weaves a compelling story to reveal the background to the famous occasion in 1971, when the USA's Glenn Cowan, a 19-year-old hippie, befriended China's world champion Zhuang Zedong, who was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. Within days, the Americans would be playing the Chinese in front of 18,000 fans in Beijing, with the whole world watching. It was the beginning of a thaw in Sino-US relations that forced the Soviets into a crippling arms race that acted as a catalyst to pressuring them into errors that would draw the Cold War to an end. Sometimes sport truly can have the biggest consequences.

Author : Dan Seemiller
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780880115209
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning Table Tennis written by Dan Seemiller and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a competitive tournament player or a serious recreational player, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies will help you improve your game. Dan Seemiller, 5-time U.S. singles and 11-time doubles champion, shows you all the shots and strategies for top-level play. The book features 19 drills for better shot-making, plus Seemiller's own grip and shot innovations that will give you an edge over the competition. Featuring the most effective table tennis techniques and strategies, Winning Table Tennis shows you how to choose the right equipment, serve and return serves, use proper footwork and get into position, practice more efficiently, prepare for competitions, make effective strategy decisions in singles and doubles play, and condition your body for optimal performance.