Japan Rapid
the human population growth is most rapid in?
a. Europe
b. the United States
c. Japan
d. developing countries
D. because developing country can’t control their population.
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A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar $3.19 On Dashboard Confession’s fourth album, Christopher Carraba welcomes listeners back into his emotionally claustrophobic world, where relationships are minefields, women are brittle and self-absorbed, and every cloud has a pewter lining. But all this is only fodder for his runaway id, as he deconstructs every encounter, giving us evidence of the pain and betrayal that lurks behind every corner. Fin… |
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Japan Among the Powers, 1890-1990 $32.5 This absorbing book, written by a former diplomat and ambassador to Japan, provides a fresh perspective on Japan’s history, politics, and culture over the past hundred years. Sydney Giffard traces Japan’s phenomenal development into one of the world’s great powers, portraying events in Japan and its rapid industrialization as they were shaped by Japanese decision makers rather than as they were perceived by the outside world. |
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Social Welfare in Japan $68.51 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Social welfare, assistance for the ill or otherwise disabled and for the old, has long been provided in Japan by both the government and private companies. Beginning in the 1920s, the government enacted a series of welfare programs, based mainly on European models, to provide medical care and financial support. Government expenditures for all forms of social welfare increased from 6 of the national income in the early 1970s, to 18 in 1989. The mixture of public and private funding have created complex pension and insurance systems. But a much older tradition calls for support within the family and the local community. The futures of Japans health and welfare systems are being shaped by the rapid aging of the population (see Elderly people in Japan). Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Publication Date: 2010/07/06 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.19 inches |
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Japan and the Contemporary Middle East $310.66 Japan is an economic power of global significance; it is also the worlds largest single national importer of oil. These two facts alone are sufficient to indicate the significance of Japans relationship with the Middle East. But in fact, Japans particularly strong interests in the Middle East extend well beyond oil, and include banking, investment, and an increasing concern with economic assistance.The studies in this book deal with the relevant period of the twentieth century and especially with the rapid transformation of Japans relationship with the region since 1973. It provides access in English to the current economic and political analysis by Japanese specialists concerned with the Middle East, and it will assist anyone interested in Japans relationship with the region. The dependence of Japan on Middle Eastern oil is examined together with the changing nature of Japans energy consumption policies at home, and its involvement in joint ventures in the Middle East. Japans role as a major provider of economic assistance is reviewed, and its future potential role in this area is emphasised. Author: Sugihara, Kaoru/ Sugihara, Kaoru/ Allan, J. A. Series Title: Routledge/Soas Series on Contemporary Politics and Culture i Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 1993/02/19 Language: English Dimensions: 8.54 x 6.06 x 0.81 inches |
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Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea $32.94 In the past fifty years, two factors have led to global population aging: a decline in fertility to levels close to –or even below –replacement and a decline in mortality that has increased world average life expectancy by nearly 67 percent. As the population skews toward fewer young people and more elderly who live longer postretirement lives, demographic changes –labor force participation, savings, economic growth, living arrangements, marriage markets, and social policy –are transforming society in fundamental, irreversible ways.Nowhere are these effects of aging and demographic change more acute –nor their long-term effects more potentially significant –than in the Asia-Pacific region. How will these developments impact the economies and social protection systems of Japan, South Korea, China, and, by extension, the United States? To assess this question, "Aging Asia" showcases cutting-edge, policy-relevant research. The first section focuses on demographic trends and their economic implications; the second section approaches select topics from a global comparative perspective, including social insurance financing, medical costs, and long-term care. |
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The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century $16.7 For decades, Japan has been at the cutting edge of much technology, becoming an industrial superpower in the process. It is not widely acknowledged, however, that Japan’s status as technological leader is the result of historical processes over centuries. This landmark book is the first general English-language history of technology in modern Japan. Impressive for its scope and insight, the book also considers the social costs of rapid technological change. It will be read not only by people interested in modern and premodern Japan, but by those who wish to learn from the "Japanese phenomenon." |
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State and Society in Post-War Japan $3.95 State and Society in Post-War Japan integrates the previous work of disciplinary specialists into a coherent account of how Japanese society has changed since the war. Bernard Eccleston focuses on the way the Japanese state has been managed in the face of unprecedented economic growth rates up to the mid 1970s, and their subsequent slackening in recent times. He examines how political and social processes are organized to reinforce the drive to make Japan the world’s number one economy. In assessing the organizing role of the state, full weight is given to the ways in which the state incorporates competing interests by disarming the opposition of groups who have been excluded from the ‘benefits’ of economic growth. These groups include women, men working outside large firms, racial minorities, outcasts and citizens’ protest groups. Eccleston also raises important questions that are of direct relevance to other industrial societies. In particular, he asks what has been the cost to Japanese society of rapid economic development. Eccleston’s answer provides a vital counterbalance to the prevailing tendency to see Japan as a blueprint for ailing Western economies. |
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Japan and East Asia in Transition: Trade Policy, Crisis and Evolution and Regionalism $150.99 This book examines how Japan has changed its economic relationship with East Asia since the mid 1990’s by looking at its commitments to import relief, regional financial and industrial transformations, and regionalism. While the Japanese government has taken proactive initiatives to sustain the sound development of the regional economies, it has become more strategic in preserving its interests in the rapid industrial transformation. The book includes valuable information about Japan’s trade remedy measures, Sino-Japan relations, and regional integration in East Asia. |
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Catching Up: The Limits of Rapid Economic Development $42.84 Disparities between the economic development of nations have widened throughout the twentieth century, and they show no sign of closing. In the nineteenth century, the economic potential of developed countries was three times that of the rest of the world. Today the gap is twenty times greater, and the trend is increasing. In this provocative reexamination of theories of accelerated development, or catching up, Vladislav L. Inozemtsev traces the evolution of thinking about how countries lagging behind can most swiftly move forward, and assesses their prospects for success in this effort. Inozemtsev reviews the experience of the Soviet Union, as well as the recent experience of Japan, China, and Southeast Asia. He finds that those countries that have moved forward most rapidly have successfully adapted new technology to old processes. But even then, they face daunting odds, as they grapple with the need to change their populations ideas and behavior. And in the 1990s, their rates of development have noticeably declined. Catching Up assesses prospects for successful application of theories of accelerated development in the global economy. Inozemtsevs pessimistic conclusion is that rapid industrial progress is not achievable in the information society of the twentyfirst century. Inozemtsev reaches this conclusion after reviewing theories of accelerated development thinking from the diverse viewpoints of the 1940s and 1950s, to the more intensive ideological polarization of the 1960s. Inozemtsev believes it will be impossible for nonWestern nations to catch up with the West because of their inability to generate or control information and knowledge. Inozemtsev provides an intriguing look at the prospects for development in the industrializing countriesi1/2. Some of Inozemtsevs ideas will be controversial, to say the least, but he succeeds in raising interesting questions concerning why development is uneven and, in some cases, apparently unsustainable. Recommended. |
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Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing in Japan $58.94 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Agriculture, forestry, and fishing form the primary sector of industry of the Japanese economy, together with the Japanese mining industry, but together they account for only 1.3 of gross national product. Only 15 of Japans land is suitable for cultivation, but the agricultural economy is highly subsidized and protected. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing dominated the Japanese economy until the 1940s, but thereafter declined into relative unimportance. In the late 19th century, these sectors had accounted for more than 80 of employment. Employment in agriculture declined in the prewar period, but the sector was still the largest employer by the end of World War II. It was further declined to 23.5 in 1965, 11.9 in 1977, and to 7.2 in 1988. The importance of agriculture in the national economy later continued its rapid decline, with the share of net agricultural production in GNP finally reduced between 1975 and 1989 from 4.1 to 3 In the late 1980s, 85.5 of Japans farmers were also engaged in occupations outside of farming, and most of these parttime farmers earned most of their income from nonfarming activities. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 72 Publication Date: 2010/07/24 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.17 inches |
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The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: Gateway to the Island Empire of the East $222.79 The rapid development of Japan at the turn of the last century, including the defeat of Russia in 1904-5, intrigued the western Imperial powers, but also aroused reactions of contempt and suspicion. Britain was the most important of the powers upon which Japan earnestly wished to impress herself to mitigate the rising tide of anti-Japanese sentiment. An exhibition in London, therefore, was seen as a timely event by the Meiji Government to advance Japanese agendas in political, economic and educational terms. This is the first major study of this remarkable venture, fully reviewed and documented, and concerned principally with the Japanese side of the story. |
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Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society $81.72 Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education, and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question with a new general theory of the growth in civic engagement in postwar democracies. It argues that wartime mobilization unintentionally instills civic skills in the citizenry, thus laying the groundwork for a postwar civic engagement boom. Meanwhile, legacies of prewar associational activities shape the costs of association-building and information-gathering, thus affecting the actual extent of the postwar boom. Combining original data collection, rigorous statistical methods, and in-depth historical case analyses, this book illuminates one of the keys to making postwar democracies work. |
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Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 $31.85 When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country’s more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign, and committed to the traditions of the past. Before long, the shogun surrendered to the emperor, a new constitution was adopted, and Japan emerged as a modern, industrialized state. Despite the length of his reign, little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first emperor ever to meet a European. Most historians discuss the period that takes his name while barely mentioning the man, assuming that he had no real involvement in affairs of state. Even Japanese who believe Meiji to have been their nation’s greatest ruler may have trouble recalling a single personal accomplishment that might account for such a glorious reputation. Renowned Japan scholar Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of rapid and sometimes violent change during this pivotal period in Japan’s history. In this vivid and engrossing biography, we move with the emperor through his early, traditional education; join in the formal processions that acquainted the young emperor with his country and its people; observe his behavior in court, his marriage, and his relationships with various consorts; and follow his maturation into a "Confucian" sovereign dedicated to simplicity, frugality, and hard work. Later, during Japan’s wars with China and Russia, we witness Meiji’s struggle to reconcile his personal commitment to peace and his nation’s increasingly militarized experience of modernization. Emperor of Japan conveys in sparkling prose the complexity of the man and offers an unrivaled portrait of Japan in a period of unique interest. |
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Japan’s Tipping Point: Crucial Choices in the Post-Fukushima World $14.72 Japan’s Tipping Point is a small book on a huge topic. In the post-Fukushima era, Japan is the "canary in the coal mine" for the rest of the world. Can Japan radically shift its energy policy, become greener, more self-sufficient, and avoid catastrophic impacts on the climate? Mark Pendergrast arrived in Japan exactly two months after the Fukushima meltdown. This book is his eye-opening account of his trip and his alarming conclusions. Japan is at a crucial tipping point. A developed country that must import all of its fossil fuel, it can no longer rely on nuclear power, following the massive earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011. Critically acclaimed nonfiction writer Mark Pendergrast went to Japan to investigate Japan’s renewable energy, Eco-Model Cities, food policy, recycling, and energy conservation, expecting to find innovative, cutting edge programs.He discovered that he had been naive. The Japanese boast of their eco-services for eco-products in eco-cities. Yet they rely primarily on imported fossil fuel and nuclear power, live in energy-wasteful homes, and import 60% of their food. That may be changing in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Maybe. But as Pendergrast documents, Japan lags far behind Europe, the United States, and even (in some respects) China in terms of renewable energy efforts. And Japan is mired in bureaucracy, political in-fighting, indecision, puffery, public apathy, and cultural attitudes that make rapid change difficult. Yet Japan is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world, with friendly, resilient people who can, when motivated, pull together to accomplish incredible things.As an island nation, Japan offers a microcosmic look at the problems facing the rest of the globe. And as Japan tips, so may the world.Mark Pendergrast, the author of books such as For God, Country and Coca-Cola, Uncommon Grounds, and Inside the Outbreaks, entertains as he enlightens. As he wrote in Japan’s Tipping Point: "The rest of this account might seem a strange combination of critical analysis, travelogue, absurdist non-fiction, and call to action. It might be called ‘Mark’s Adventures in Japanland: Or, Apocalyptic Visions in a Noodle Shop.’" |
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Japan Awakens: Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) – Book $23.95 Barry Till, the curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, uses the woodblock prints of Japan’s Meiji era to explore an extraordinary period of rapid modernization. Three thematic essays trace the links between the revival of imperial rule and forces both national and international, connecting these events to formal and aesthetic changes in popular prints. The 109 woodblock prints reproduced in this book show everything from torpedoes to imperial wedding parties. |
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Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism $4.87 Have Japan’s relative economic decline and China’s rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power, one of the most comprehensive volumes on East Asian regionalism in the 1990s, present here an impressive new collection that brings the reader up to date. This book argues that East Asia’s regional dynamics are no longer the result of a simple extension of any one national model. While Japanese institutional structures and political practices remain critically important, the new East Asia now under construction is more than, and different from, the sum of its various national parts. At the outset of a new century, the interplay of Japanese factors with Chinese, American, and other national influences is producing a distinctively new East Asian region. Contributors: Dieter Ernst, East-West Center, Honolulu; H. Richard Friman, Marquette University; Derek Hall, Trent University; Natasha Hamilton-Hart, National University of Singapore; Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University; William W. Kelly, Yale University; David Leheny, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Naoko Munakata, Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry; Nobuo Okawara, Kyushu University; T. J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley; Takashi Shiraishi, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo; Merry I. White, Boston University |
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In Japan! $4.99 For everything you do, there’s a song that hits the spot. MOG brings them all to you: a world of music on demand, unlimited mobile downloads and ways to discover music free from the limitations of Pandora. The music you love, with you everywhere you go. |
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Metro Rapid $89.22 Metro Rapid is a bus rapid transit system in Los Angeles County, California, mainly operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority with two routes operated by the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus. The Rapid program attempts to speed up commuter travel time on Los Angeles county streets, complementing the Metro Local bus network operated by the LACMTA as well as other bus routes operated by smaller agencies.To accomplish this, the buses are equipped with special transmittal devices that cause traffic signals to favor the bus, with green lights held longer and red lights shortened. Metro Rapid buses also stop less frequently than Metro Local buses, with Rapid stops located only at major intersections and transfer points. The frequency of Metro Rapid buses is increased as well, as more buses on a line translates to less wait time at each station. All Metro Rapid buses are low floor CNG buses for faster boarding and alighting. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Publication Date: 2009/12/28 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.26 inches |
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Rapid Manufacturing $58.94 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Rapid manufacturing is an additive fabrication technique for manufacturing solid objects by the sequential delivery of energy and/or material to specified points in space to produce that part. Current practice is to control the manufacturing process by computer using a mathematical model created with the aid of a computer. Rapid manufacturing done in parallel batch production can provide a large advantage in speed and cost compared to alternative manufacturing techniques such as plastic injection molding or die casting. Rapid manufacturing may involve custom parts, replacement parts, short run production, or series production. (When the part is used in the development process only, the appropriate term is rapid prototyping.) Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 70 Publication Date: 2010/07/22 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.17 inches |
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Rapid Development $3.94 Corporate and commercial software-development teams all want solutions for one important problem–how to get their high-pressure development schedules under control. In RAPID DEVELOPMENT, author Steve McConnell addresses that concern head-on with overall strategies, specific best practices, and valuable tips that help shrink and control development schedules and keep projects moving. Inside, you’ll find: A rapid-development strategy that can be applied to any project and the best practices to make that strategy work Candid discussions of great and not-so-great rapid-development practices–estimation, prototyping, forced overtime, motivation, teamwork, rapid-development languages, risk management, and many othersA list of classic mistakes to avoid for rapid-development projects, including creeping requirements, shortchanged quality, and silver-bullet syndromeCase studies that vividly illustrate what can go wrong, what can go right, and how to tell which direction your project is goingRAPID DEVELOPMENT is the real-world guide to more efficient applications development. |
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Rapid Deepening $63.73 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rapid deepening, also known as rapid intensification, is a meteorological condition that occurs when the minimum sealevel atmospheric pressure of a tropical cyclone decreases drastically in a short period of time. The National Weather Service describes rapid deepening as a decrease of 42 millibars in less than 24 hours. However, this phrase is liberally applied to most storms undergoing rapid intensification. In order for rapid deepening to occur, several conditions must be in place. Water temperatures must be extremely warm (near or above 30 C, 86 F), and water of this temperature must be sufficiently deep such that waves do not churn deeper cooler waters up to the surface. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 72 Publication Date: 2011/02/23 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.17 inches |
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Koda Rapid $71.7 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The koda Rapid was a coupe designed and built by koda in Czechoslovakia between 1984 and 1990. Based on the koda 130/135/136 sedan, it was a replacement for the koda Garde coupe built between 1981 and 1984 itself based upon the koda 105/120 sedan design. Some Garde/Rapid cars were sent to Ludgate Designs in Kent, United Kingdom, by koda to be converted into convertibles. Today the koda Rapid is gaining in popularity as a classic car with Garde and convertible models being most sought after. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Publication Date: 2010/12/04 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.19 inches |
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Rapid Learning $86.03 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rapid learning (or Rapid eLearning) has traditionally referred to a methodology to build elearning courses rapidly. Typically the author will create slides in Powerpoint, record narration on top of the slides, with some software he/she will be allowed to add tests, or even collaboration activities between the slides and then send the whole package (most often as an Adobe Flash file) to a learning management system or a website. Some companies, for example the Rapid Learning Institute (RLI), are now using the term rapid learning to refer the speed at which people learn. The RLI, for example, creates elearning modules called Quick Takes that last six to 10minutes. Elearning has grown rapidly since the 90s but authors and organizations were confronted to the complexity of authoring processes. It is hard and expensive to build online courses from scratch. Hence the idea of recycling existing resources like Powerpoint presentations, and transform them into elearning courses. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2011/02/23 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.25 inches |
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Rapid ACLS $28.94 Designed to offer essential information on-the-spot, where it’s needed most RAPID ACLS, 2nd edition, Revised Reprint is now updated to reflect the 2010 emergency cardiovascular care guidelines. It contains a broad range of topics pertaining to advanced cardiac life support including information on airway management, pharmacology, vascular access, ECGs, electrical therapy, acute coronary syndromes, and special resuscitation situations. Loaded with tables, mnemonics, and algorithms throughout, RAPID ACLS, 2nd edition, Revised Reprint is ideal for use in clinical practice or during an ACLS course. |
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Rapid Prototyping $54.86 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Rapid prototyping is the automatic construction of physical objects using additive manufacturing technology. The first techniques for rapid prototyping became available in the late 1980s and were used to produce models and prototype parts. Today, they are used for a much wider range of applications and are even used to manufacture productionquality parts in relatively small numbers. Some sculptors use the technology to produce complex shapes for fine arts exhibitions. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 68 Publication Date: 2010/06/21 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.16 inches |
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Rapid Testing $54.49 Today, software has to be developed more quickly than ever — at higher quality than ever. Testing is more important than ever — but it must be performed at breakneck speed. Rapid Testing examines every aspect of software testing, identifying methods, tools, tips, and techniques that accelerate testing while at the same time improving software quality. Its proven solutions are supported with practical examples, templates, and checklists that can be used to jumpstart any testing process. Rapid Testing presents a systematic approach to aggressively rooting out bugs early in the development lifecycle, and streamlining every stage of the testing process: planning, design, execution, verification, validation, and reporting. The book’s extensive examples, best practices, and templates make it an ideal resource and quick reference for everyone with testing and software quality responsibilities. |
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Rapid Rectilinear $74.88 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Rapid Rectilinear also named Aplanat is a famous photographic lens design. The Rapid Rectilinear is a lens that is symmetrical about its aperture stop with four elements in two groups. It was introduced by John Henry Dallmeyer in 1866. The symmetry of the design greatly reduces radial distortion. A camera lens (also known as photographic lens, objective lens or photographic objective) is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a camera body and mechanism to make images of objects either on photographic film or on other media capable of storing an image chemically or electronically. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 18 Publication Date: 2011/02/23 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.04 inches |
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Rapid Italian: Volume 2 $18.89 If you like music, and want to make rapid progress without any formal knowledge of language learning, Earworms mbt© Rapid Italian is the course for you…. |
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1250s $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The 1250s decade ran from January 1, 1250, to December 31, 1259. The decade was perhaps most dominated by the Mongols, who under the leadership of Möngke Khan continued their rapid expansion throughout Asia both to the east and west of their home territories. The Mongols destroyed the Kingdom of Dali in Laos, and captured the Goryeo kingdom in Korea, eastern Galicia in Europe, Anatolia in Turkey, and the Islamic center of Baghdad, where tens or hundreds of thousands were killed as the city was burned to the ground. In Thailand the Lannathai kingdom was founded. In Japan, a new sect of Buddhism was formed, while in Korea the carving of Buddhist scriptures on 81,000 wooden blocks was completed. Europe noted several important cultural milestones, including the completion of several important cathedrals and the beginning of construction of others, as well as the founding of the Collège de Sorbonne at the University of Paris. Significant political developments in Europe included the lack of a Holy Roman Emperor for most of the decade, further erosion of the power of the monarchy in England and Portugal, the end of the failed Seventh Crusade in Egypt, and the expulsion of the Jews from France and the Moors from Portugal. In religion, a papal bull authorized the use of torture in the Medieval Inquisition, and the Roman Catholic church clarified the concept of purgatory. Several important modern cities, including Stockholm and Lviv, were founded in the 1250s. One of the largest volcanic eruptions of the Holocene epoch is thought to have occurred ca. January, 1258, with ice cores pointing to a tropical location such as El Chichón, Mexico or possibly Quilotoa, Ecuador. The aftermath may have led to climatic anomalies in rainfall, effects on agriculture,… More: |
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1897 In International Relations $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1897 Treaties, States and Territories Established in 1897, Korean Empire, Republic of Biak-Na-Bato, Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1897. Not illustrated. Excerpt: “Let there be light across the land” The Greater Korean Empire (Korean: , hanja: ) was an empire of Korea that succeeded the Joseon Dynasty that had ruled the nation for 500 years. In 1897, Emperor Gojong proclaimed the new entity at Gyeongungung Palace and oversaw the partially successful modernization of the military, economy, real property laws, education system, and various industries. The Sino-Japanese War marked the rapid decline of any power the Joseon Dynasty of Korea had managed to hold against foreign interference, as the battles of the conflict itself had been fought on Korean soil and the surrounding seas. With its newfound preeminence over waning China, Japan had Japanese delegates negotiate the Treaty of Shimonoseki with the Qing emissaries, through which Japan wrested control over the Liaodong Peninsula from China (a move designed to prevent the southern expansion of Japan’s new rival, Russia), and, more importantly to Korea, scrapped the centuries-old tributary relationship between Joseon and the Qing Dynasty. However, Russia realized this agreement as an act against its interests in northeastern China and eventually brought France and Germany to its side in saying that the Liaodong Peninsula should be repatriated to China. At the time, Japan had no power to resist such foreign pressure, especially by nations that it considered far more advanced and which it sought to emulate, and as such relinquished its claim to the Liaodong Peninsula. With the success of the three-country intervention, Russia emerged as another major power in East Asia, replacing the Qing Dynasty as t… More: |
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19th-Century Japanese People: Emperor Meiji $16.97 New – Chapters: Emperor Meiji. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Meiji Emperor Meiji-tenn) (3 November 1852 30 July 1912) or Meiji the Great was the 122 emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 3 February 1867 until his death. He presided over a time of rapid change in Japa |
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19th-Century Japanese People: Emperor Meiji $16.24 New – Chapters: Emperor Meiji. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Meiji Emperor Meiji-tenn) (3 November 1852 30 July 1912) or Meiji the Great was the 122 emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 3 February 1867 until his death. He presided over a time of rapid change in Japa |
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19th-Century Japanese People: Emperor Meiji $15.33 Used – Chapters: Emperor Meiji. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Meiji Emperor Meiji-tenn) (3 November 1852 30 July 1912) or Meiji the Great was the 122 emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 3 February 1867 until his death. He presided over a time of rapid change in Jap |
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19th-Century Japanese People: Emperor Meiji $13.92 Used – Chapters: Emperor Meiji. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Meiji Emperor Meiji-tenn) (3 November 1852 30 July 1912) or Meiji the Great was the 122 emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 3 February 1867 until his death. He presided over a time of rapid change in Jap |
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Advanced Metallization Conference 2000 (AMC 2000): Volume 16 $11.65 Used – This book focuses on recent work in on-chip interconnects and other aspects of advanced metallization. In particular, the concentration for this year’s volume is on the rapid advances in copper and low-K. The volume is divided into nine parts: Part I contains an invited perspective on the state of semiconductor research and development in Japan; Part II focuses on performance aspects of interconnect architectures; Part III includes some of the most significant recent advances in copper/lo |
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Advanced Metallization Conference 2000 (AMC 2000): Volume 16 $11.59 Used – This book focuses on recent work in on-chip interconnects and other aspects of advanced metallization. In particular, the concentration for this year’s volume is on the rapid advances in copper and low-K. The volume is divided into nine parts: Part I contains an invited perspective on the state of semiconductor research and development in Japan; Part II focuses on performance aspects of interconnect architectures; Part III includes some of the most significant recent advances in copper/lo |
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Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea $26.43 New – In the past fifty years, two factors have led to global population aging: a decline in fertility to levels close to –or even below –replacement and a decline in mortality that has increased world average life expectancy by nearly 67 percent. As the population skews toward fewer young people and more elderly who live longer postretirement lives, demographic changes –labor force participation, savings, economic growth, living arrangements, marriage markets, and social policy –are transfo |
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Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea $24.98 Karen Eggleston (Editor), Shripad Tuljapurkar (Editor),Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Asia-Pacific Research Center |
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Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea $20.91 New – In the past fifty years, two factors have led to global population aging: a decline in fertility to levels close to –or even below –replacement and a decline in mortality that has increased world average life expectancy by nearly 67 percent. As the population skews toward fewer young people and more elderly who live longer postretirement lives, demographic changes –labor force participation, savings, economic growth, living arrangements, marriage markets, and social policy –are transfo |
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Agriculture and Trade in the Pacific: Toward the Twenty-First Century $8.35 Used – This is a study of the economic and political forces shaping agriculture and trade in the Pacific region. As rapid industrialization and agricultural policy reform take hold in many Pacific Rim nations, Japan and the newly-industrialized countries of East Asia will provide important and growing import markets for agricultural products well into the next century. The contributors provide information about policy reform in Japan, the meaning of economic de-regulation for New Zealand agricul |
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Agriculture and Trade in the Pacific: Toward the Twenty-First Century $15 Used – This is a study of the economic and political forces shaping agriculture and trade in the Pacific region. As rapid industrialization and agricultural policy reform take hold in many Pacific Rim nations, Japan and the newly-industrialized countries of East Asia will provide important and growing import markets for agricultural products well into the next century. The contributors provide information about policy reform in Japan, the meaning of economic de-regulation for New Zealand agricul |
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Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing in Japan $36.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Agriculture, forestry, and fishing form the primary sector of industry of the Japanese economy, together with the Japanese mining industry, but together they account for only 1.3% of gross national product. Only 15% of Japan’s land is suitable for cultivation, but the agricultural economy is highly subsidized and protected. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing dominated the Japanese economy until the 1940s, but thereafter declined into relative unimportance. In the late 19th century, these sectors had accounted for more than 80 % of employment. Employment in agriculture declined in the prewar period, but the sector was still the largest employer by the end of World War II. It was further declined to 23.5 % in 1965, 11.9 % in 1977, and to 7.2 % in 1988. The importance of agriculture in the national economy later continued its rapid decline, with the share of net agricultural production in GNP finally reduced between 1975 and 1989 from 4.1 to 3 % In the late 1980s, 85.5 % of Japan’s farmers were also engaged in occupations outside of farming, and most of these part-time farmers earned most of their income from nonfarming activities. |
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Altered States: The United States and Japan Since the Occupation $50 The relationship between the United States and Japan is torn by contrary impulses. We face each other across the Pacific as friends and allies, as the two most powerful economies in the world—and as suspicious rivals. Americans admire the industry of the Japanese, but we resent the huge trade deficit that has developed between us, due to what we consider to be unfair trade practices and "unlevel playing fields." Now, in Altered States, historian Michael Schaller strips away the stereotypes and misinformation clouding American perceptions of Japan, providing the historical background that helps us make sense of this important relationship. Here is an eye-opening history of U.S.-Japan relations from the end of World War II to the present, revealing its rich depths and startling complexities. Perhaps Schaller’s most startling revelation is that modern Japan is what we made it—that most of what we criticize in Japan’s behavior today stems directly from U.S. policy in the 1950s. Indeed, as the book shows, for seven years after the end of the war, our occupational forces exerted enormous influence over the shape and direction of Japan’s economic future. Stunned by the Communist victory in China and the outbreak of war in Korea, and fearful that Japan might form ties with Mao’s China, the U.S. encouraged the rapid development of the Japanese economy, protecting the huge industrial conglomerates and creating new bureaucracies to direct growth. Thus Japan’s government-guided, export-driven economy was nurtured by our own policy. Moreover, the United States fretted about Japan’s economic weakness—that they would become dependent on us—and sought to expand Tokyo’s access to markets in the very areas it had just tried to conquer, the old Co Prosperity Sphere. Schaller documents how, as the Cold War deepened throughout the 1950s, Washington showered money on what it saw as the keystone of the eastern shore of Asia, working assiduously |
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Architect of Quality $168.15 No one in the last hundred years has had more influence on the worldwide practice of quality in business than Dr. Joseph Juran. His work is the foundation for much of the quality movement of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries–everything from Total Quality Management to Six Sigma. The teachings and writings of Dr. Juran have had a profound impact on the products we use every day, and his books are considered fundamental references by quality professionals.In this revealing autobiography, Juran retraces his inspiring life journey–from an impoverished, tragic childhood in a tar-papered shack to the revered man who helped invent and champion quality management systems, quality tools, and teams long before they became standard practice. Architect of Quality delves deep into Juran’s motivations, sharing for the first time how the early hardships he faced and his relentless, aggressive spirit shaped his character and fueled his determination to succeed.Born in Braila, Romania, in 1904, Juran left his native country as a child with his impoverished family for the Land of Opportunity, settling in Minneapolis. During the Depression his shoemaker father took up bootlegging, while Juran worked for the Minnesota State Prohibition Committee. After Juran’s mother died his family fell apart, leaving his sisters in an orphanage. Young Juran moved with his father to the Minneapolis red light district and lived among the bums. Somehow, despite these abject beginnings, Juran became the first in his family to earn a college degree–and went on to achieve more than he could have ever dreamed possible.Juran describes his rapid success and dramatic failure in his early years at WesternElectric’s famed Hawthorne plant, relives his experiences working on the war effort in Washington D.C. in the 1940s, and reveals how he developed the core ideas behind the quality movement. He also helped advise postwar Japan–which would subsequently become the world quality, leader, and |
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Art Anti-Art Non-Art $45.12 Collaborative, ephemeral, self-reflective, multidisciplinary–the work generated by the rapid series of experimental artistic movements that energized the public sphere in postwar Japan was anything but private, static, or expected, despite the enduring engagement of Japanese artists withWestern modernism. For two decades, a small but progressive group of visual artists, musicians, dancers, theater performers, and writers variously confronted the fraught legacy of World War II in Japan, which included occupation by a foreign power, growing economic inequality, and the clash betweenrepressive social mores and an increasingly industrialized, urban, and consumer-oriented culture. Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art offers an introduction to this highly charged and innovative era in Japanese artistic practice. Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from March 6 to June 3, 2007, this catalogue features objects, books, periodicals, photographs, and other ephemera created by artists associated with Experimental Workshop, Gutai, High Red Centre, Neo Dada, Provoke, Tokyo Fluxus, and VIVO, among others. |
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Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970 $33.36 New – Collaborative, ephemeral, self-reflective, multidisciplinary–the work generated by the rapid series of experimental artistic movements that energized the public sphere in postwar Japan was anything but private, static, or expected, despite the enduring engagement of Japanese artists withWestern modernism. For two decades, a small but progressive group of visual artists, musicians, dancers, theater performers, and writers variously confronted the fraught legacy of World War II in Japan, wh |
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Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970 $31.12 Collaborative, ephemeral, self-reflective, multidisciplinary–the work generated by the rapid series of experimental artistic movements that energized the public sphere in postwar Japan was anything but private, static, or expected, despite the enduring engagement of Japanese artists with Western modernism. For two decades, a small but progressive group of visual artists, musicians, dancers, theater performers, and writers variously confronted the fraught legacy of World War II in Japan, which included occupation by a foreign power, growing economic inequality, and the clash between repressive social mores and an increasingly industrialized, urban, and consumer-oriented culture. Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art offers an introduction to this highly charged and innovative era in Japanese artistic practice. Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from March 6 to June 3, 2007, this catalogue features objects, books, periodicals, photographs, and other ephemera created by artists associated with Experimental Workshop, Gutai, High Red Centre, Neo Dada, Provoke, Tokyo Fluxus, and VIVO, among others. |
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Asagaya Station $34.71 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Asagaya Station is a train station of Ch Main Line, East Japan Railway Company in Suginami, Tokyo. The station, on a four-track section, is served by local and rapid services of the Ch Main Line on weekdays. On weekends, only local trains make stop at this station. The station began operation on July 15, 1922. The Ch Main Line commonly called the Ch Line, is one |
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Asagaya Station $48 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Asagaya Station is a train station of Ch Main Line, East Japan Railway Company in Suginami, Tokyo. The station, on a four-track section, is served by local and rapid services of the Ch Main Line on weekdays. On weekends, only local trains make stop at this station. The station began operation on July 15, 1922. The Ch Main Line commonly called the Ch Line, is one |
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Asia’s Computer Challenge: Threat or Opportunity for the U.S. & the World $1.08 Used – How did the computer industry evolve into its present global structure? Why have some Asian countries succeeded more than others? Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer delve into these questions and emerge with an explanation of the rapid rise of the computer industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Asia’s Computer Challenge makes a systematic comparison of the historical development of the computer industries of Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan and concludes that neither a plan |
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Asia’s Computer Challenge: Threat or Opportunity for the U.S. & the World $1.77 Used – How did the computer industry evolve into its present global structure? Why have some Asian countries succeeded more than others? Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer delve into these questions and emerge with an explanation of the rapid rise of the computer industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Asia’s Computer Challenge makes a systematic comparison of the historical development of the computer industries of Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan and concludes that neither a plan |
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Asia’s Flying Geese: How Regionalization Shapes Japan $13.83 In Asia’s Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan’s paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why didn’t the purportedly unstoppable pressures of globalization force a rapid and radical shift in Japan’s business model? In a book with lessons for the larger debate about globalization and its impact on national economies, Hatch shows how Japanese political and economic elites delayed-but could not in the end forestall-the transformation of their distinctive brand of capitalism by trying to extend it to the rest of Asia. For most of the 1990s, the region grew rapidly as an increasingly integrated but hierarchical group of economies. Japanese diplomats and economists came to call them “flying geese.” The “lead goose” or most developed economy, Japan, supplied the capital, technology, and even developmental norms to second-tier “geese” such as Singapore and South Korea, which themselves traded with Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, and so on down the V-shaped line to Indonesia and coastal China. Japan’s model of capitalism, which Hatch calls “relationalism,” was thus fortified, even as it became increasingly outdated.Japanese elites enjoyed enormous benefits from their leadership in the region as long as the flock found ready markets for their products in the West. The decade following the collapse of Japan’s real estate and stock markets would, however, see two developments that ultimately eroded the country’s economic dominance. The Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s destabilized many of the surrounding economies upon which Japan had in some measure depended, and the People’s Republic of China gained new prominence on the global scene as an economic dynamo. These changes, Hatch concludes, have forced real transformation in Japan’s corporate governance, its domestic politics, and in its ongoing relations with its neighbors. |
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Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues $32.56 Used – The past two decades have witnessed a rapid increase of cross-border marriage migration between Southeast- and East Asia. The majority of these marriages are between are men of wealthier countries/regions and women from economically less developed ones. The phenomena of “brides from Asia” in Japan, “Chosonjok brides” and “mixed marriages” in South Korea and “foreign and mainland brides” in Taiwan, all attract huge media attention, cause public panic, and challenge these societies whose po |
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Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues $52.38 Used – The past two decades have witnessed a rapid increase of cross-border marriage migration between Southeast- and East Asia. The majority of these marriages are between are men of wealthier countries/regions and women from economically less developed ones. The phenomena of “brides from Asia” in Japan, “Chosonjok brides” and “mixed marriages” in South Korea and “foreign and mainland brides” in Taiwan, all attract huge media attention, cause public panic, and challenge these societies whose po |
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Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues $52.38 New – The past two decades have witnessed a rapid increase of cross-border marriage migration between Southeast- and East Asia. The majority of these marriages are between are men of wealthier countries/regions and women from economically less developed ones. The phenomena of “brides from Asia” in Japan, “Chosonjok brides” and “mixed marriages” in South Korea and “foreign and mainland brides” in Taiwan, all attract huge media attention, cause public panic, and challenge these societies whose pop |
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Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues $32.82 New – The past two decades have witnessed a rapid increase of cross-border marriage migration between Southeast- and East Asia. The majority of these marriages are between are men of wealthier countries/regions and women from economically less developed ones. The phenomena of “brides from Asia” in Japan, “Chosonjok brides” and “mixed marriages” in South Korea and “foreign and mainland brides” in Taiwan, all attract huge media attention, cause public panic, and challenge these societies whose pop |
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Asias Flying Geese: How Regionalization Shapes Japan $13.83 Used – In Asia’s Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan’s paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why didn’t the purportedly unstoppable pressures of globalization force a rapid and radical shift in Japan’s business model? In a book with lessons for the larger debate about globalization and its impact on national economies, Hatch shows how Japanese political and economic elites delayedbut could not in the end forestallthe transformation of t |
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Asias Flying Geese: How Regionalization Shapes Japan $13.28 Used – In Asia’s Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan’s paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why didn’t the purportedly unstoppable pressures of globalization force a rapid and radical shift in Japan’s business model? In a book with lessons for the larger debate about globalization and its impact on national economies, Hatch shows how Japanese political and economic elites delayedbut could not in the end forestallthe transformation of t |
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Automated Guideway Transit: An Assessment of Prt and Other New Systems $19.88 New – Original publisher: Washington: United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1975. LC Number: TA1207 .U54 1975 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)01908932 Subject: Personal rapid transit. Excerpt: …4 S H U TTLE-LOOP T RANSIT ( SLT ) STATUS In the United States there are nine SLT systems in operation and six more under construction. Two SLTs stems are operating abroad – one in Japan and the other in France. Five companies in the United States have been involved in producing vehicles for SLT |
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Automated Guideway Transit: An Assessment of Prt and Other New Systems $34.67 Used – Original publisher: Washington: United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1975. LC Number: TA1207 .U54 1975 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)01908932 Subject: Personal rapid transit. Excerpt: …4 S H U TTLE-LOOP T RANSIT ( SLT ) STATUS In the United States there are nine SLT systems in operation and six more under construction. Two SLTs stems are operating abroad – one in Japan and the other in France. Five companies in the United States have been involved in producing vehicles for SLT |
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Automated Guideway Transit: An Assessment of Prt and Other New Systems $19.88 Used – Original publisher: Washington: United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1975. LC Number: TA1207 .U54 1975 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)01908932 Subject: Personal rapid transit. Excerpt: …4 S H U TTLE-LOOP T RANSIT ( SLT ) STATUS In the United States there are nine SLT systems in operation and six more under construction. Two SLTs stems are operating abroad – one in Japan and the other in France. Five companies in the United States have been involved in producing vehicles for SLT |
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Automated Guideway Transit: An Assessment of Prt and Other New Systems $34.67 New – Original publisher: Washington: United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1975. LC Number: TA1207 .U54 1975 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)01908932 Subject: Personal rapid transit. Excerpt: …4 S H U TTLE-LOOP T RANSIT ( SLT ) STATUS In the United States there are nine SLT systems in operation and six more under construction. Two SLTs stems are operating abroad – one in Japan and the other in France. Five companies in the United States have been involved in producing vehicles for SLT |
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B-Daman $10.84 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Battle B-Daman, Crash B-Daman, B-Daman, Super B-Daman: Battle Phoenix 64. Excerpt: B-Daman ( ? ) is a marble shooting toy produced in Japan by Takara . In 2005, Hasbro licensed the ” Battle B-Daman ” configuration of the toy. In 2004, Hasbro joined forces with Takara and Fox Entertainment Group to bring it to the Japan and USA. In 2005, Takara licensed the show to Fox Entertainment Group . The blaster’s design is a humanoid figure at the centre, from which a specially made marble, is launched (not just any marbles can be used). Different attachments are used to change a B-Daman’s accuracy, power, balance, control, and rapid fire. They are customizable and each have a special gimmick. In the English language Battle B-Daman toys, the marbles are referred to as “B-Daballs”. In all cases they are simply called “marbles” (Japanese : ; biidama , hence the name “B-Daman”) in Japan. Game rules Depending on how it is played, there are different sets of game rules. In Hasbro’s “Battle B-Daman” tournament set, it has the following 10 games: EZ play A set of rules advertised in Japanese version of the game, which defines game types that do not use B-dabattlefield. Unless otherwise stated, the following rules use limited model B-Daman as targets: Tournaments Game tournaments are by Hasbro in Canada every summer. Takara hosts many tournaments year round in Japan, much like Beyblade. B-Daman seri… |
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Banks at Risk: Global Best Practices in an Age of Turbulence $65 The crisis revealed a pressing need for better bank governance and risk management along with enhanced supervision and regulation. The Basel III framework—which substantially strengthens bank capital adequacy and introduces liquidity requirements as well as specific supervisory tools to address systemic risk—was a rapid and decisive response, yet much work remains to be done. Beyond the full, timely and consistent global implementation of Basel III, important issues that need to be addressed include systemically important financial institutions, effective cross-border resolution regimes and shadow banking. Banks at Risk provides unique insights into what went wrong and why. More importantly, it contributes to the ongoing debate on how to mitigate the severity and likelihood of future crises.Jaime CaruanaGeneral Manager, Bank for International SettlementsThis is a timely and comprehensive study of risks facing the global banking industry. The book draws on the expertise of top banking experts: commercial bankers, central bankers, regulators and risk experts from China, Japan, the U.S. and other parts of the world to give the reader a comprehensive view of challenges facing the international banking industry. The contributors clearly set out the challenges facing regulators and market participants in this uncertain environment. One of the most valuable characteristics of this book is the sheer scope of the contributors’ vision. They consider every aspect of the global banking system, its risks and possible solutions for ensuring a more stable environment.Mark MobiusExecutive Chairman, Templeton Asset ManagementAmong the plethora of offerings in the wake of the global financial crisis, Banks at Risk is a must-read. This collection of contributions provides a thoughtful tour of the lessons from the crisis with perspectives from regulators, |
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Battle Of Shanghai $74 The Battle of Shanghai was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army, Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army, Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the entire war. Since 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in incessant, smaller conflicts, often known as “incidents,” that saw China lose territories piece by piece. The term “incident” traditionally has been used to downplay Japanese invasions of China. By August 1937, following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 7 and the ensuing Japanese invasion of North China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek decided to lead China into total war with Japan, though without a formal declaration of war. Dogged Chinese resistance at Shanghai was aimed at stalling the rapid Japanese advance, giving much needed time for the Chinese government to move vital industries to the interior, while at the same time attempting to bring sympathetic Western Powers to China’s side. |
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Battles Involving Mongolia: Soviet-Japanese War $12.1 New – Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Soviet-Japanese War of 1945 (Russian:, lit. Soviet-Japanese War), began on August 9, 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. The Soviets conquered Manchukuo, Mengjiang (inner Mongolia), northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. The rapid defeat of Japan |
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Battles Involving Mongolia: Soviet-Japanese War $11.94 New – Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Soviet-Japanese War of 1945 (Russian:, lit. Soviet-Japanese War), began on August 9, 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. The Soviets conquered Manchukuo, Mengjiang (inner Mongolia), northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. The rapid defeat of Japan |
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Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism $1.99 Have Japan’s relative economic decline and China’s rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power, one of the most comprehensive volumes on East Asian regionalism in the 1990s, present here an impressive new collection that brings the reader up to date.This book argues that East Asia’s regional dynamics are no longer the result of a simple extension of any one national model. While Japanese institutional structures and political practices remain critically important, the new East Asia now under construction is more than, and different from, the sum of its various national parts. At the outset of a new century, the interplay of Japanese factors with Chinese, American, and other national influences is producing a distinctively new East Asian region. |
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Blindside: Why Japan is Still Winning the Battle for Global Supremacy $2.94 Used – Western analysts have consistently underestimated the economic prowess of Japan. As this book shows, they are doing so yet again. Meanwhile, Japan is using the smokescreen of recession to make rapid progress toward its goal of controlling the lion’s share of world growth. |
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Blindside: Why Japan is Still Winning the Battle for Global Supremacy $3.07 Used – Western analysts have consistently underestimated the economic prowess of Japan. As this book shows, they are doing so yet again. Meanwhile, Japan is using the smokescreen of recession to make rapid progress toward its goal of controlling the lion’s share of world growth. |
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Botchan $12.43 Botchan (Master Darling) (1906), won Kinnosuke Natsume (pseudonym Natsume Soseki) wide public admiration as well as critical acclaim. Major themes in Kinnosuke’s works include ordinary people fighting against economic hardship, the conflict between duty and desire, loyalty and group mentality versus freedom and individuality, personal isolation and estrangement, the rapid industrialization of Japan and its social consequences, contempt of Japan’s aping of Western culture and a pessimistic view of human nature. |
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Burma 1942: The Road from Rangoon to Mandalay $22.77 New – This is a comprehensive and challenging study of one of the key conflicts of WWII. In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire. The rapid loss of all of Britain’s possessions in the Far East was the culmination of a failed attempt to deal with the rise of Japanese imperialism. Britain’s bluff was called and millions of Britain’s ‘protected’ subjects in Asia fell into the hands of a brutal occupying pow |
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Burma 1942: The Road from Rangoon to Mandalay $10.88 Used – This is a comprehensive and challenging study of one of the key conflicts of WWII. In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire. The rapid loss of all of Britain’s possessions in the Far East was the culmination of a failed attempt to deal with the rise of Japanese imperialism. Britain’s bluff was called and millions of Britain’s ‘protected’ subjects in Asia fell into the hands of a brutal occupying po |
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Burma 1942: The Road from Rangoon to Mandalay $22.77 Used – This is a comprehensive and challenging study of one of the key conflicts of WWII. In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire. The rapid loss of all of Britain’s possessions in the Far East was the culmination of a failed attempt to deal with the rise of Japanese imperialism. Britain’s bluff was called and millions of Britain’s ‘protected’ subjects in Asia fell into the hands of a brutal occupying po |
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Burma 1942: The Road from Rangoon to Mandalay $10.88 New – This is a comprehensive and challenging study of one of the key conflicts of WWII. In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire. The rapid loss of all of Britain’s possessions in the Far East was the culmination of a failed attempt to deal with the rise of Japanese imperialism. Britain’s bluff was called and millions of Britain’s ‘protected’ subjects in Asia fell into the hands of a brutal occupying pow |
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Business Networks in Japan: Supplier-Customer Interaction in Product Development $7.76 Used – The remarkable success of Japanese industry has frequently been attributed to the inter-corporate alliances and networks that exist in the Japanese economic system. Many commentators argue that is has been these networks that have been key to both the rapid growth and success of Japanese industry. Business Networks in Japan explores the creation of supplier-customer networks through case studies of two of Japan’s largest companies: the Toshiba Corporation and the Nippon Steel Corporation. |
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Business Networks in Japan: Supplier-Customer Interaction in Product Development $145.85 New – The remarkable success of Japanese industry has frequently been attributed to the inter-corporate alliances and networks that exist in the Japanese economic system. Many commentators argue that is has been these networks that have been key to both the rapid growth and success of Japanese industry. Business Networks in Japan explores the creation of supplier-customer networks through case studies of two of Japan’s largest companies: the Toshiba Corporation and the Nippon Steel Corporati |
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Business Networks in Japan: Supplier-Customer Interaction in Product Development $92.24 New – The remarkable success of Japanese industry has frequently been attributed to the inter-corporate alliances and networks that exist in the Japanese economic system. Many commentators argue that is has been these networks that have been key to both the rapid growth and success of Japanese industry. Business Networks in Japan explores the creation of supplier-customer networks through case studies of two of Japan’s largest companies: the Toshiba Corporation and the Nippon Steel Corporati |
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Business Networks in Japan: Supplier-Customer Interaction in Product Development $14.82 Used – The remarkable success of Japanese industry has frequently been attributed to the inter-corporate alliances and networks that exist in the Japanese economic system. Many commentators argue that is has been these networks that have been key to both the rapid growth and success of Japanese industry. Business Networks in Japan explores the creation of supplier-customer networks through case studies of two of Japan’s largest companies: the Toshiba Corporation and the Nippon Steel Corporation. |
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Business, Markets and Government in the Asia-Pacific $68.95 Exploring the thorny issues of industrial organisation, competition policy and liberalization in the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the ways in which governments regulate business. Using case studies from China, the USA, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan, the authors take a comparative look at the evolution of policies and their implementation on the ground.With a specific focus on the energy, transport and telecommuncations sectors, this book represents the most up-to-date analysis of the ways in which governments in the Asia-Pacific are coping with rapid industrial and economic change. |
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Business, Markets and Government in the Asia-Pacific: Competition Policy, Convergence and Pluralism $199.19 Exploring the thorny issues of industrial organisation, competition policy and liberalization in the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the ways in which governments regulate business. Using case studies from China, the USA, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan, the authors take a comparative look at the evolution of policies and their implementation on the ground.With a specific focus on the energy, transport and telecommuncations sectors, this book represents the most up-to-date analysis of the ways in which governments in the Asia-Pacific are coping with rapid industrial and economic change. |
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Business-State Relations and Development $55.51 Used – In the late 1980s, the concept of embedded autonomy became central to the literature of economic development in East Asia. Rapid economic growth in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan was attributed to the state role in development (Johnson 1982, Wade 1990, Evans 1985). The state embedded itself in the social networks of the entrepreneurs. This model of the developmental state credit that the success in East Asia to the state’s structure and role in prioritizing the achievement of rapid economi |
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Business-State Relations and Development $85.28 Used – In the late 1980s, the concept of embedded autonomy became central to the literature of economic development in East Asia. Rapid economic growth in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan was attributed to the state role in development (Johnson 1982, Wade 1990, Evans 1985). The state embedded itself in the social networks of the entrepreneurs. This model of the developmental state credit that the success in East Asia to the state’s structure and role in prioritizing the achievement of rapid economi |
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Business-State Relations and Development $55.51 New – In the late 1980s, the concept of embedded autonomy became central to the literature of economic development in East Asia. Rapid economic growth in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan was attributed to the state role in development (Johnson 1982, Wade 1990, Evans 1985). The state embedded itself in the social networks of the entrepreneurs. This model of the developmental state credit that the success in East Asia to the state’s structure and role in prioritizing the achievement of rapid economic |
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Business-State Relations and Development $85.28 New – In the late 1980s, the concept of embedded autonomy became central to the literature of economic development in East Asia. Rapid economic growth in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan was attributed to the state role in development (Johnson 1982, Wade 1990, Evans 1985). The state embedded itself in the social networks of the entrepreneurs. This model of the developmental state credit that the success in East Asia to the state’s structure and role in prioritizing the achievement of rapid economic |
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Can Japan Globalize? $75.06 Used – Japan’s deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future? The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan G |
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Can Japan Globalize? $113.53 New – Japan’s deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future? The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan Gl |
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Can Japan Globalize? $113.53 Used – Japan’s deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future? The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan G |
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Can Japan Globalize? $75.06 New – Japan’s deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future? The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan Gl |
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Can Japan Globalize?: Studies on Japan’s Changing Political Economy and the Process of Globalization in Honour of Sung-Jo Park $74.84 New – Japan’s deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future? The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan Glo |
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Can Japan Globalize?: Studies on Japan’s Changing Political Economy and the Process of Globalization in Honour of Sung-Jo Park $135 Japan’s deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future? The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan Globalize? covers a broad range of areas from macro- and micro-economic structures to political and social relations. |
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Can Japan Globalize?: Studies on Japan’s Changing Political Economy and the Process of Globalization in Honour of Sung-Jo Park $113.53 Used – Japan’s deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future? The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan Gl |
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Can Japan Globalize?: Studies on Japan’s Changing Political Economy and the Process of Globalization in Honour of Sung-Jo Park $74.84 Used – Japan’s deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future? The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan Gl |
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Can Japan Globalize?: Studies on Japan’s Changing Political Economy and the Process of Globalization in Honour of Sung-Jo Park $113.53 New – Japan’s deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future? The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan Glo |
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Changing Face of Women Managers in Asia $46.95 The influence of Asian cultures and religious traditions has often been used to explain Asian women’s under-utilisation and under-representation in management. This book examines the influence of culture and tradition on organisational and management practices, and how these affect the progress of women in management in Asian economies. This book, written by prominent scholars of the Asian region, explores which organizational and management practices are universal, and which other aspects (such as human resource practices) are culture specific, and how these in turn affect the advancement / representation of women in the Asian region.Higher educational levels, falling fertility rates and sectoral changes have contributed to women’s increasing participation in the labour force. As women become more educated and qualified for managerial positions, the number of Asian women managers and executives is predicted to rise over the next decade. The Asian economies covered by this up-to-date collection have undergone rapid economic transformation. Until now, most research on contemporary women managers has been drawn from studies conducted in developed countries. Covering case studies in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, this book uses different perspectives to examine the constraints, opportunities and challenges for women managers in the Asian context and presents an update on their progress in management. |
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Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan $155.37 New – The flowering of the cherry blossom is a powerful symbol of hope in Japan. The first buds open in March and within six weeks the whole country has celebrated the blossom’s return as a signal of new beginnings. Intrigued by this unique national celebration, and by Japan’s rapid modernization in the last 60 years, Lowell Sheppard sets out on a six week adventure through the 2000 mile length of the country, following the flowering of the blossom as it progresses north. Travelling on a bicycle |
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Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan $88.58 New – The flowering of the cherry blossom is a powerful symbol of hope in Japan. The first buds open in March and within six weeks the whole country has celebrated the blossom’s return as a signal of new beginnings. Intrigued by this unique national celebration, and by Japan’s rapid modernization in the last 60 years, Lowell Sheppard sets out on a six week adventure through the 2000 mile length of the country, following the flowering of the blossom as it progresses north. Travelling on a bicycle |
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Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan $0.63 Used – The flowering of the cherry blossom is a powerful symbol of hope in Japan. The first buds open in March and within six weeks the whole country has celebrated the blossom’s return as a signal of new beginnings. Intrigued by this unique national celebration, and by Japan’s rapid modernization in the last 60 years, Lowell Sheppard sets out on a six week adventure through the 2000 mile length of the country, following the flowering of the blossom as it progresses north. Travelling on a bicycl |
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Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan $149.35 New – The flowering of the cherry blossom is a powerful symbol of hope in Japan. The first buds open in March and within six weeks the whole country has celebrated the blossom’s return as a signal of new beginnings. Intrigued by this unique national celebration, and by Japan’s rapid modernization in the last 60 years, Lowell Sheppard sets out on a six week adventure through the 2000 mile length of the country, following the flowering of the blossom as it progresses north. Travelling on a bicycle |
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Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan $99.56 New – The flowering of the cherry blossom is a powerful symbol of hope in Japan. The first buds open in March and within six weeks the whole country has celebrated the blossom’s return as a signal of new beginnings. Intrigued by this unique national celebration, and by Japan’s rapid modernization in the last 60 years, Lowell Sheppard sets out on a six week adventure through the 2000 mile length of the country, following the flowering of the blossom as it progresses north. Travelling on a bicycle |
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Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan $1.7 Used – The flowering of the cherry blossom is a powerful symbol of hope in Japan. The first buds open in March and within six weeks the whole country has celebrated the blossom’s return as a signal of new beginnings. Intrigued by this unique national celebration, and by Japan’s rapid modernization in the last 60 years, Lowell Sheppard sets out on a six week adventure through the 2000 mile length of the country, following the flowering of the blossom as it progresses north. Travelling on a bicycl |
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Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan $135.65 New – The flowering of the cherry blossom is a powerful symbol of hope in Japan. The first buds open in March and within six weeks the whole country has celebrated the blossom’s return as a signal of new beginnings. Intrigued by this unique national celebration, and by Japan’s rapid modernization in the last 60 years, Lowell Sheppard sets out on a six week adventure through the 2000 mile length of the country, following the flowering of the blossom as it progresses north. Travelling on a bicycle |
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Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan $239.67 New – The flowering of the cherry blossom is a powerful symbol of hope in Japan. The first buds open in March and within six weeks the whole country has celebrated the blossom’s return as a signal of new beginnings. Intrigued by this unique national celebration, and by Japan’s rapid modernization in the last 60 years, Lowell Sheppard sets out on a six week adventure through the 2000 mile length of the country, following the flowering of the blossom as it progresses north. Travelling on a bicycle |
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Chikubushima $52.72 Chikubushinta, a sacred island north of the ancient capital of Kyoto, attracted the attention of Japan’s rulers in the Momoyama period (1568-1615) and became a repository of their art, including a lavish, decorated building dedicated to the world of Benzaiten. In this meticulous and lucid study, Andrew Warsky keenly illustrates how private belief and political ambition influenced artistic production at the intersection of institutional Buddhism and Shinto during this tumultuous period of rapid and radical political, social, and aesthetic change. He offers substantial conclusions not only about this specific site, but also, more, broadly, about the nature of art production in Japan and how perceptions of the sacred shaped the concerns and actions of the secular rulers. The patrons of the island included the dominant political figures of the time: the late sixteenth-century ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598), who supported numerous projects at the apogee of his power, and his heir Hideyori (1593-1615), as well as their rival and eventual successor to national hegemony, Tokugasva Icyasu (1542-1616). After Hide voshi’s death, the Tovototni clan struggled to retain their power and sought new opportunities to position themselves as chief conduits olivine protection and beneficence for the realm. They enacted and signified this role by zealous, indefatigable sponsorship of sacred architecture and its ornament, icons, and rituals. In the early seventeenth century, the Toyoconti clan sponsored a major refurbishing of the Benzaiten Hall on Chikubushima, transporting a lavishly decorated structure from Kyoto to be installed as its core. Enveloped in polychrome paintings by the Kano workshop (theleading painting studio of the period), black-and-gold lacquer, gilt metalwork, and pictorial relief wood carvings, this core is the most complete ensemble of ornament and architecture surviving from the Momoyama period. Wacky has had unique access to the island, and many of the image |
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China’s Emergent Political Economy: Capitalism in the Dragon’s Lair $42.81 New – This edited volume represents the first collaborative effort to explicitly view China’s rapid international ascent as associated with the same process that catapulted Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and Japan to international prominence – the emergence of a capitalist political economy. Each chapter therefore applies the capitalist lens to analyze aspects of China’s monumental social, economic, and political transition. Topics addressed range from examinations of China’s industr |
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China’s Emergent Political Economy: Capitalism in the Dragon’s Lair $24.42 New – This edited volume represents the first collaborative effort to explicitly view China’s rapid international ascent as associated with the same process that catapulted Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and Japan to international prominence – the emergence of a capitalist political economy. Each chapter therefore applies the capitalist lens to analyze aspects of China’s monumental social, economic, and political transition. Topics addressed range from examinations of China’s industr |
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Chinese Strategic Thought Toward Asia $89 This book traces the development of Chinese thinking over four periods from the 1980s on and covers strategies toward: Russia and Central Asia, Japan, the Korean peninsula, Southeast and South Asia, and regionalism. It compares strategic thinking, arguing that the level was lowest under Jiang Zemin and highest under Hu Jintao. While pinpointing many mistaken assumptions, it credits China with overall successes and concludes that China stands at a crossroads. Deng Xiaoping’s legacy about patiently biding its time may be replaced by growing assertiveness, which was difficult to suppress earlier and now is emboldened by China’s rapid rise. |
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Chinese Strategic Thought toward Asia $89 This book traces the development of Chinese thinking over four periods from the 1980s on and covers strategies toward: Russia and Central Asia, Japan, the Korean peninsula, Southeast and South Asia, and regionalism. It compares strategic thinking, arguing that the level was lowest under Jiang Zemin and highest under Hu Jintao. While pinpointing many mistaken assumptions, it credits China with overall successes and concludes that China stands at a crossroads. Deng Xiaoping’’s legacy about patiently biding its time may be replaced by growing assertiveness, which was difficult to suppress earlier and now is emboldened by China’’s rapid rise. |
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Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society $30.84 Used – Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education, and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question with a new general theory of the growth in civic engagement in postwar democracies. It argues that wartime mobilization unintentionally instills civic skills in the citizenry, thus laying the groundwork for a postwar civic engagemen |
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Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society $42.5 Used – Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education, and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question with a new general theory of the growth in civic engagement in postwar democracies. It argues that wartime mobilization unintentionally instills civic skills in the citizenry, thus laying the groundwork for a postwar civic engagemen |
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Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society $50.17 New – Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education, and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question with a new general theory of the growth in civic engagement in postwar democracies. It argues that wartime mobilization unintentionally instills civic skills in the citizenry, thus laying the groundwork for a postwar civic engagement |
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Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society $72.98 New – Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education, and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question with a new general theory of the growth in civic engagement in postwar democracies. It argues that wartime mobilization unintentionally instills civic skills in the citizenry, thus laying the groundwork for a postwar civic engagement |
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Colonial Legacies: Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia $62.09 New – It is well known that Taiwan and South Korea, both former Japanese colonies, achieved rapid growth and industrialization after 1960. The performance of former European and American colonies (Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) has been less impressive. Some scholars have attributed the difference to better infrastructure and greater access to education in Japan’s colonies. Anne Booth examines and critiques such arguments in this ambitious co |
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Colonial Legacies: Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia $62.56 Used – It is well known that Taiwan and South Korea, both former Japanese colonies, achieved rapid growth and industrialization after 1960. The performance of former European and American colonies (Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) has been less impressive. Some scholars have attributed the difference to better infrastructure and greater access to education in Japan’s colonies. Anne Booth examines and critiques such arguments in this ambitious c |
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Colonial Legacies: Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia $91.95 New – It is well known that Taiwan and South Korea, both former Japanese colonies, achieved rapid growth and industrialization after 1960. The performance of former European and American colonies (Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) has been less impressive. Some scholars have attributed the difference to better infrastructure and greater access to education in Japan’s colonies. Anne Booth examines and critiques such arguments in this ambitious co |
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Colonial Legacies: Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia $91.95 Used – It is well known that Taiwan and South Korea, both former Japanese colonies, achieved rapid growth and industrialization after 1960. The performance of former European and American colonies (Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) has been less impressive. Some scholars have attributed the difference to better infrastructure and greater access to education in Japan’s colonies. Anne Booth examines and critiques such arguments in this ambitious c |
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Consumption: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences $992.63 Used – Ranging from classic discussions of the nineteenth century to contemporary debates, these volumes comprise the most extensive guide available to past and current research on consumption. The contents are highly inter-disciplinary, with approaches ranging from anthropology and media studies, to geography and business studies. The set also makes use of the rapid increase in studies of actual consumption across the globe, with examples from China, Japan, India and South America. |
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Consumption: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences $622.49 New – Ranging from classic discussions of the nineteenth century to contemporary debates, these volumes comprise the most extensive guide available to past and current research on consumption. The contents are highly inter-disciplinary, with approaches ranging from anthropology and media studies, to geography and business studies. The set also makes use of the rapid increase in studies of actual consumption across the globe, with examples from China, Japan, India and South America. |
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Consumption: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences $992.63 New – Ranging from classic discussions of the nineteenth century to contemporary debates, these volumes comprise the most extensive guide available to past and current research on consumption. The contents are highly inter-disciplinary, with approaches ranging from anthropology and media studies, to geography and business studies. The set also makes use of the rapid increase in studies of actual consumption across the globe, with examples from China, Japan, India and South America. |
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