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Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition

University of California Press, 2003

Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong—more than four times the size of the American Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most Westerners. Here is the first book...

Designing Interactions

MIT Press, 2007

Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical objectÐ²Ð”beautiful or utilitarianÐ²Ð”but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions,...

The Rough Guide to Tokyo - 4th Edition

Rough Guides, 2008

The Rough Guide to Tokyo is the ultimate insiders guide to accessing Japan''s dazzling capital, with comprehensive coverage of all the sights, from beautiful traditional gardens to start-of-the-art museums and the iconic new Tokyo Midtown development. It tracks down the latest and best places to sleep, eat, drink and shop and gives...

Bionics for the Evil Genius

McGraw-Hill, 2005

The best-selling Evil Genius format provides hobbyists with a fun and inexpensive way to learn bionics via 25 complete projects. Once the focus of popular 70's TV, bionics (integrating mechanical and electronic materials with living matter) are being used more than ever to replace or repair physiological or anatomical functions or disorders....

Bupleurum Species: Scientific Evaluation and Clinical Applications (Traditional Herbal Medicines for Modern Times)

CRC Press, 2006

The prominence of the Bupleurum species cannot be overstated. Across China and Japan, it serves as a main or supplementary ingredient in over two thirds of traditional medications. For over 2000 years, it has been used to treat fevers, intestinal maladies, malaria, and countless other afflictions. Modern research indicates that it may possess...

Shaping the EU Global Strategy: Partners and Perceptions (The European Union in International Affairs)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners. Spanning four continents, these ten important global actors – the BRICS together with the USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Mexico – are of profound significance to the EU in economics, politics, security and global governance. In 2015,...

Intercultural Management: MBA Masterclass (MBA Masterclass Series)

Kogan Page, 2003

Intercultural management is an emerging but increasingly crucial area of study. Essentially, intercultural management concerns itself with work forces that function in different cultural contexts. These differences can be either ‘external’, where an organization operates across national and ethnic cultures, or ‘internal’,...

Mechatronics for the Evil Genius

McGraw-Hill, 2005

DEVELOP THE MECHATRONIC SIDE OF YOUR GENIUS WITH 25 FUNTASTIC PROJECTS!

If you're fascinated by electronics and mechanics, this hands-on tour of the junction where they meet will bring you hours of fun and learning. Noted electronics author Newton Braga's Mechatronics for the Evil Genius guides you step by step...

Tsunamis and Hurricanes: A Mathematical Approach

Springer, 2006

"... This book is useful for researchers working in mathematical modeling and hydrodynamics." Zentralblatt MATH 11/2007

Tsunamis and hurricanes have had a devastating impact on the population living near the coast during the year 2005. The calculation of the power and intensity of tsunamis and...

Modeling Decision for Artificial Intelligence: 8th International Conference, MDAI 2011

Springer, 2011

This volume contains papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI 2011), held in Changsha, China, July 28-30. This conference followed MDAI 2004 (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain),MDAI 2005 (Tsukuba, Japan),MDAI 2006 (Tarragona,Catalonia, Spain), MDAI 2007 (Kitakyushu,...

Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia: Volume 1 & 2

ABC Clio, 2004

This illustrated reference work covers a wide range of festivals that have sacred origins and are, or have been, part of a folk tradition, a world religion, or a major civilization.

• More than 150 A–Z entries on the content and context of each festival, tracing its historical development and geographic variations, from...

Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.S. bases in Okinawa, Japan and how transnational movements within East Asia during the Occupation period brought foreign workers, mostly from the Philippines, to work on these bases. Decades later, in a seeming “reproduction of base labour”, returnees of both Okinawan...

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