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Anne Fine
The Jamie and Angus Stories

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0763633127
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Karen Joy Fowler
The Jane Austen Book Club: A Novel

2005 y.
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Description: The Extraordinary New York Times Bestseller In California`s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen`s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships. Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy. ?This exquisite novel is bigger and more ambitious than it appears Fowler`s shrewdest, funniest fiction yet, a novel about how we engage with a novel. You don`t have to be a student of Jane Austen… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0452286530
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Margaret C. Sullivan
The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World

2007 y.
Publisher: Quirk Books
Description: Jane Austen published her first novel in 1811, but today she`s more popular than ever. Film adaptations of her books are nominated for Academy Awards. Chick lit bestsellers are based on her plots. And a new biopic of Austen herself Becoming Jane arrives in theaters this spring. For all those readers who dream about living in Regency England, The Jane Austen Handbook offers step-by-step instructions for proper comportment in the early nineteenth century. You`ll discover: How to Become an Accomplished Lady. How to Run a Great House. How to Indicate Interest in a Gentleman Without Seeming Forward. How to Throw a Dinner Party. How to Choose and Buy Clothing. Full of practical directions for navigating the travails of Regency life, this charming illustrated book also serves as a companion for present-day readers, explaining the English class system, currency, dress, and the nuances of graceful living. … [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-59474-171-5
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Todd Hopkins, Ray Hilbert
The Janitor: How an Unexpected Friendship Transformed a CEO and His Company

2007 y.
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Description: Do you ever find yourself losing sight of the important things in life-work and stress can become overwhelming at times. Such is the situation where CEO Roger Kimbrough finds himself in this business parable. The Janitor was inspired by Todd Hopkins`s personal experiences of interviewing overqualified retired businessmen for evening shift janitorial positions. Todd`s applicants consistently would say they simply needed something to do. In this fable, janitor Bob Tidwell helps Roger to reevaluate how he is leading his business and his life. Bob`s counsel is based upon six principles that Todd and coauthor Ray Hilbert discovered have the most impact on succeeding in business while holding together a personal life. Their insightful advice is delivered in a real-to-life story that inspires you to find greater fulfillment in your life. Like so many CEOs in the corner office, still working when the janitor arrives to do the nightly cleaning, Roger is having a… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0785223193
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Robert Jack Kravitz
The Janitorial Contractors Bible

— y.
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ISBN: 0967618703
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Arthur Janov
The Janov Solution: Lifting Depression Through Primal Therapy

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1585011118
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Ii Cataldo Anthony J., Anthony J. Cataldo, Arline A. Savage
The January Effect and Other Seasonal Anomalies: A Common Theoretical Framework

— y.
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Description: Hardbound. This book applies John Maynard Keynes` theory of investor liquidity preferences to the examination of the stock market literature on the January effect and other seasonal anomalies. Keynes` theory provides a common theoretical framework and represents a paradigm shift for the examination of all seasonals. An extensive literature review is provided along with identification and empirical examinations of the intergenerational transfers hypothesis, special closings of the New York Stock Exchange,tax (estimated tax) payment effects, and an historical/contemporary retail merchandising industry seasonal. Databases used for empirical tests include the Stock Index and Market Seasonals (SIMS) database, the Cowles Index and contemporary Standards and Poor`s counterparts, and the Internal Revenue Service`s Statistic of Income public use file. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0762305525
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Patrick Heenan
The Japan Handbook (REGIONAL HANDBOOKS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)

— y.
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Description: The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century. The series allows the non-specialist student to explore a wide range of complex factors-social and political as well as economic-that affect the growth of developing regions in Asia, Europe, and South America. Each Handbook provides an overview chapter discussing the region`s economic conditions within an historical and political context, as well as 20 or more chapter-length essays written by recognized experts, which analyze the key issues affecting a region`s economy: its population, natural resources, foreign trade, labor problems, and economic inequalities, and other vital factors. In addition, the volumes offer useful support materials, including a series of appendices that include a detailed chronology of events in the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1579580556
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Dick Beason, Dennis Patterson
The Japan That Never Was: Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country

— y.
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Description: Contests conventional wisdom on Japan`s postwar economic success and its economic and political problems in the 1990s, providing a new account of these conditions. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0791460398
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Rachael Hanel
The Japanese American Internment: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books) (You Choose Books)

2008 y.
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ISBN: 1429617659
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Koichi Shimokawa
The Japanese Automobile Industry: A Business History

— y.
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ISBN: 0485112701
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Yoshiko Yamamoto, Bruce Smith
The Japanese Bath

2001 y.
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Description: Delves into the aesthetic of bathing Japanese style, and presents lovely color photos illustrating different materials, styles, and designs of baths, bathing rooms, and gardens. There is information on selecting colors and lighting, and on planning and constructing this refuge of relaxation. Includes a glossary. The authors write on the arts and cr [detailed...]

ISBN: 158685027X
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Masayo Duus, Beth Cary
The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920

— y.
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Description: In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II. By the end of World War I, the Hawaiian Islands had become what a Japanese guidebook called a `Japanese village in the Pacific,` with Japanese immigrant workers making up nearly half the work force on the Hawaiian sugar plantations. Although the strikers eventually capitulated, the Hawaiian territorial government, working closely with the planters, cracked down on the strike leaders, bringing them to trial for an alleged conspiracy to dynamite the house of a plantation official. And to end dependence on Japanese immigrant labor, the planters lobbied hard in Washington to lift restrictions on the immigration of Chinese workers. Placing the event in… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0520204859
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Makoto Ito, Makoto Itoh
The Japanese Economy Reconsidered

— y.
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Description: The Japanese economy has shown paradoxical changes. Its success in forming a company-centered society generated the long downturn toward zero-growth capitalism. The successful spread of information technologies resulted in the deterioration of economic life among working people and a wide fall in birth rate. At the zenith of the Japanese model of company system, a huge bubble swelled, so as to prepare a prolonged depression throughout the 1990s. Neoliberalism with spiral reversal of capitalist development toward more competitive markets promoted difficulties among people. This book offers lucid reconsideration of neoliberalism through concrete Japanese experiences. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0333665198
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Edward R. Beauchamp
The Japanese Economy and Economic Issues since 1945 (Dimensions of Contemporary Japan)

— y.
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Description: The best scholarship on the development of contemporary Japan This collection presents well over 100 scholarly articles on modern Japanese society, written by leading scholars in the field. These selections have been drawn from the most distinguished scholarly journals as well as from journals that are less well known among specialists, and the articles represent the best and most important scholarship on their particular topic. An understanding of the present through the lens of the past The field of modern Japan studies has grown steadily as Westerners have recognized the importance of Japan as a lading world economic force and an emerging regional power. The post-1945 economic success of the Japanese has, however, been achieved in the context of that nation`s history, social structure, educational enterprise and political environment. It is impossible to understand the postwar economic miracle without an appreciation of these elements. Japan`s economic… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0815327323
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Rameshwar Tandon
The Japanese Economy and the Way Forward

2005 y.
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Description: Book Description This book explains the causes of the `lost decade` in the Japanese economy and the series of policy mistakes which lead to a deflationary environment. What will the future bring for the Japanese economy? Without reforms, the situation can only decline. The issue is that the institutions and policies that were used to drive the `Japanese miracle` are still in place. The book argues that Japan`s crisis is thus a crisis of governance. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1403947783
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Michael Smitka
The Japanese Economy in the Tokugawa Era, 1600-1868 (Japanese Economic History, 1600-1960, 6)

— y.
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Description: Makes Japanese sources accessible in English Although much of the work on Japanese economic history is inaccessible to Westerners, many of Japan`s leading economic historians have published widely in English. Combined with the work of Western economists who can utilize Japanese-language sources, this series assembles a wide range of English-language articles on the key issues in Japanese economic development. Individual volumes cover the interwar period, postwar reconstruction and growth, the textile industry, demographics, agriculture, trade, and the rise of commerce and `protoindustry` in the Tokugawa era. An information-packed classroom and research resource An introductory essay in each volume discusses the significance of the articles, compares various economic development in Japan with those in other countries, and puts studies in the context of similar studies in Europe. A versatile research resource, this 7-volume set is a veritable gold mine of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0815327102
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David Flath
The Japanese Economy

— y.
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ISBN: 0198775032
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Takatoshi Ito
The Japanese Economy

— y.
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Description: A comparative perspective and an analytic approach grounded in mainstream economics distinguish this broad, accessible introduction to the Japanese economy. Throughout, Ito utilizes standard economic concepts in comparing Japan with the United States in terms of economic performances, underlying institutions, and government policies. Referring to cultural factors where appropriate, Ito subjects the basic facts about the Japanese economy to modern theoretical and empirical scrutiny, discussing macroeconomic growth, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policies, industrial structures and policies, the labor market, saving and investment, and international trade and finance. Ito reviews relevant aspects of Japan`s history before launching into a broad analysis of the country`s markets and its economic policies. He concludes with a look at such contemporary economic issues as the Japanese distribution system, Japanese asset prices, and US-Japan trade conflicts…. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0262090295
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Marcus Rebick
The Japanese Employment System: Adapting to a New Economic Environment

2005 y.
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Description: This book is a study of the Japanese employment system and how it is changing in response to the economic slowdown of the last decade and the aging of the Japanese population. It focusses on the growth of atypical employment relations and the greater indvidualization of labor-management relations. The labor markets for women, older workers and youth are given special treatment. Issues such as the rise in unemployment, the decline in the family enterprise, rising inequality, the decline of the labor foce, and Japanese immigration policy are also addressed. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0199247242
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W. Mark Fruin
The Japanese Enterprise System: Competitive Strategies and Cooperative Structures (Clarendon Paperbacks)

— y.
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Description: This work merges inquiry and interpretation in a study of the evolution and emergence of Japan`s leading industrial firms in the twentieth century. It combines historical and organizational analyses with development and strategy studies. This synthesis offers a model of institutional development under conditions of late economic development and private initiative that falls somewhere between a capitalist development state and a free market economy. Business rather than industrial policy is emphasized, revealing robust institutions and a dynamic to activate and encourage interaction among them. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0198288980
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J.J. Choi
The Japanese Finance : Corporate Finance and Capital Markets in Changing Japan (International Finance Review)

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionJapan has always been an `odd man out` from the standpoint of Western norm or Western finance. It is a country that is as developed as any in the West. However, it is also a country that possesses the significant institutional and cultural traits that separate it from the West. An important question in finance is to what extent the basic models of finance, developed with the Western `perfect market` view in mind, can be applied to Japan, or conversely, what critical adjustments must be made to make models amendable to the reality of Japanese finance. This book contains 21 substantive papers that address various aspects of Japanese finance. This is an attempt to bring them together under the same cover so that the commonality andpeculiarity of Japanese finance can be more easily discerned across different applications as well as compared across countries. Hence, despite apparent differences in topics, the theme is international and comparative in nature… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0762310685
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Yoshio Suzuki
The Japanese Financial System (Clarendon Paperbacks)

— y.
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ISBN: 0198283091
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Beate Reszat
The Japanese Foreign Exchange Market (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia, 12)

— y.
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Description: Japan`s financial markets have seen dramatic changes recently. One of them is the explosive growth of currency trading and the increasing international role of the yen. Tokyo has become the third largest center of foreign exchange worldwide, behind London and New York. The Japanese Foreign Exchange Market gives a comprehensive overview of this activity. It provides a comparative economic analysis of practices and risks as well as related policy issues. After a short introduction to the history of money in Japan, the work focuses on three areas: general characteristics of the market, the nature of foreign exchange rates and policy issues. This is the first non-Japanese language title to examine the prolific rise of Japan`s foreign currency market , its idiosyncracies, and its future role in the global economy. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415142326
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Noboru Murata, Alexandra Black
The Japanese House: Architecture and Interiors

2005 y.
Publisher: Scriptum Editions
Description: Much admired for its purity of form and its harmony with the natural environment, the Japanese house is one of the classic forms of residential architecture. `The Japanese House` reveals the unique style of domestic architecture and interior aesthetics that is native to Japan: the beautifully simple proportions based on the measure of the tatami mat, the fluid floor plan with its movable screens to divide and expand space, the indigenous materials of wood, paper and straw, and the use of ceramics, textiles and nature itself to enhance the home environment. These elements and more are explored through thirteen of the most inspiring houses in Japan. Формат: 25 см х 25 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-902686-52-7
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Ian Inkster
The Japanese Industrial Economy: Late Development and Cultural Causation (Routledge Studies in Growth Economies of Asia)

— y.
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Description: This book provides a highly reliable guide to the industrial economy and history and will be of interest to those involved in Asian studies, Japanese studies, economists and professionals in business and enterprise culture. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415250013
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Kimiko Barber
The Japanese Kitchen

2007 y.
Publisher: Kyle Books
Description: In her groundbreaking book, Kimiko Barber presents 100 essential ingredients, from the more familiar, such as soba (noodles) and nori (seaweed), to the more unusual umeboshi (pickled plums) and fu (pretty, colored gluten sponge cakes). Through informative prose, beautiful food photography and images of real people from diverse backgrounds and cultures, The Japanese Kitchen tells the full story behind Japanese cuisine and makes it both inviting and accessible to all. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1904920667
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Masahiko Aoki, Hugh Patrick
The Japanese Main Bank System: Its Relevance for Developing and Transforming Economies

— y.
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Description: A thorough empirical and theoretical analysis of the Japanese main bank system, this book also examines the relevance of the system as a model for developing market economies and transforming socialist economies the world over. The basic characteristics of the main bank system are examined here: its roots, development, and role in the heyday of its rapid growth, as well as its performance, strengths and weaknesses. The work goes on to look at how the system has changed over the last two decades. The contributors conclude that banking-based systems are in most cases the most appropriate for industrial financing until a relatively late stage of a country`s economic and financial development. Incorporating the results of a major World Bank research program,the volume brings together some of the best scholars in the field and will be of interest to specialists in Japanese studies and those with a general interest in systems of finance. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0198288999
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Florian Kohlbacher
The Japanese Mobile Communications Market

2008 y.
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Description: Mobile phones seem to have become a ubiquitous phenomenon of the societies of the industrialized nations in the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century. Even though Japan is not the leading market in terms of penetration rate, it is still considered to be the world`s most innovative and advanced mobile communications mar­ket. Especially in the field of mobile commerce, Japan is regarded as a role model for markets in other countries and Western firms are trying to learn their lesson from Japan`s experience. This book is to provide an introduction to the Japanese mobile communications market from a consumer behavior perspective. Con­sumers and their behavior and perceptions lie at the heart of the analysis of this book. The goal is to shed some light on the driving forces in the Japanese mobile telephone market, which basically made Japan the leading market in mobile phone technology, as it was the first country in the world to have introduced mobile internet, camera phones and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 3639026306
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Andrew H. Shipley
The Japanese Money Tree: How Investors Can Prosper from Japan`s Economic Rebirth

2007 y.
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Description: Front Flap For over a decade, investors shunned Japan, which had been stuck in an economic quagmire. But reforms have unleashed the world`s second largest economy. Andrew H. Shipley`s The Japanese Money Tree challenges the stale conventional wisdom regarding Japan`s grim prospects, and highlights how foreign investors are making the most of exciting opportunities in Tokyo. He also reveals how readers themselves, whether institutional money managers or individual investors, can profit from Japan`s economic rebirth. The Japanese Money Tree reflects Shipley`s 15 years `on the ground` in Japan, sharing actual experiences of foreign investors operating there. Shipley uncovers immense intellectual property value hidden `off the books` in Japanese firms, and explores enormous private equity and hedge fund opportunities emerging in Japan. You`ll find new insights into Japan`s trading relationships with China, its demographic realities, its new real estate boom, and much… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0132343908
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Yuniya Kawamura
The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion (Dress, Body, Culture)

2004 y.
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Description: Book Description Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the world. It has a rigid and tightly controlled system that non-western designers have difficulty penetrating. Yet a number of the most influential Japanese designers have broken into this scene and made a major impact. How? Kawamura shows how French fashion has been both disturbed and strengthened by the addition of `outside` forces such as Kenzo Takada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, and Hanae Mori. She considers many other key questions the fashion industry should be asking itself. Does the system facilitate or inhibit creativity? Has it become preoccupied with the commercial projection of `product images` rather than with the clothing itself? And what direction will French fashion take without Saint Laurent, Miyake and Kenzo? This is the first in-depth study of the Japanese revolution in Paris fashion and raises provocative questions for the future of the industry. [detailed...]

ISBN: 185973815X
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