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| Author: Lisa Katayama
Creator: Joel Holland
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
Buy New: $14.95
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 25482
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0811862151
Dewey Decimal Number: 640.410952
EAN: 9780811862158
Publication Date: April 2, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Entertaining and totally useful! May 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Love learning the super creative ways to be more efficient in every day living. I think this would also would make a cool & unique gift too.
 An excellent introduction to Japanese cleverness May 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Urawaza" is a word with a long history in Japan. In martial arts, it means "from the back", an unexpected or tricky move that only experts might know. In the computer gaming world it means programmers' back-doors that let players gain points, levels and advantage by doing something unexpected.
In society in general it represents frugal and clever household techniques. There's been a show on Japanese television for nine years where ordinary people share their tricks with other people. UTube is a great source of videos often taken from this show. The sound is often in Japanese, but the tricks work without sound. I've learned to perfectly fold a tee shirt in a few seconds, for example. An even more amazing video shows how to make babies stop crying by breathing on them after drinking a bit of red or white wine.
This book is an excellent introduction to the genre. The ideas work -- I tried the shallot trick for a stuffy nose and I was cleared up in a few seconds -- and the illustrations are excellent and amusing. Each of these Urawazas comes with a technical explanation of why they may work. The philosophical approach is a commentary on the loss of ingenuity in an era of specialized products, many of which don't work very well.
If you enjoy reading the cooking shortcuts in cooking magazines or the shop hints in "Popular Mechanics", you'll find this a real adventure in human ingenuity.
Robert C. Ross 2008
Fun November 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This a fun book with a lot of simple and very helpful tricks that you can use in your daily life. It is very entertaining and I love sharing the secrets. I found myself using the tips and tricks in this book from the first day I started reading it.
I would definitely recommend it.
Five Stars even before purchase...I OWE this author! December 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When the Dallas Morning News reviewed this book, I almost passed. I'm 66 and have had about enough of household hints, but it was a slow day and I read to the end. Paraphrasing, "To restore a wool sweater shrunk in the dryer, soak in a sink of water and hair conditioner, then block etc...." My Prince had washed in hot water AND dried my favorite garment ever...a $300 merino wool/possum fur cardigan sweater from New Zealand. No kidding,from an XXL it might have fit a 10 year old child. I hadn't discarded the sweater, thinking I might someday make potholders or something from it. So after a dip in the sink with about half a bottle of hair conditioner, a short soak, a quick rinse, a towel blot, a block and my sweater is nearly perfect. My gosh, what else is in this book? Can't wait to find out.
great book August 16, 2008
This book is so neat. We've tried a lot of the little tricks already. Very interesting, and also gave us a laugh on a few of them :)
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