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Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition
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...
Just Doing My Job: Stories of Service from World War II
Just Doing My Job: Stories of Service from World War II
Preserving the personal histories of civilians and soldiers who united to defend America during the Second World War, this oral history tells the stories of ordinary citizens who left jobs and families behind to contribute to the war effort. Chronicling the sacrifices made by otherwise average people, this...
The Rough Guide to Tokyo - 4th Edition
The Rough Guide to Tokyo - 4th Edition

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...

Kanban Made Simple: Demystifying and Applying Toyota's Legendary Manufacturing Process
Kanban Made Simple: Demystifying and Applying Toyota's Legendary Manufacturing Process

Originally developed at Toyota, the manufacturing process known as “kanban” has helped revolutionize how corporations and suppliers achieve maximum efficiency in getting products to and from the assembly line. Kanban adds a new dimension to just-in-time manufacturing by keeping your production line “liquid” at all...

Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies
Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies

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...

Gaming, Simulations and Society: Research Scope and Perspective
Gaming, Simulations and Society: Research Scope and Perspective
This book presents a current research scope and perspective of Simulation and Gaming. Theoretical problems of Simulation and Gaming will be examined with a view to improving the social sciences through the introduction of the techniques and concepts of Simulation and Gaming. The fields of economics, political science, psychology and business...
Sakai O' Deployment and Management: Open Source Collaboration and Learning for Higher Education
Sakai O' Deployment and Management: Open Source Collaboration and Learning for Higher Education
The original Sakai software descended from work by Indiana University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Michigan, uPortal, and the Open Knowledge Initiative. Lots of the original code came from University of Michigan’s framework, known as CHEF, the CompreHensive...
Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection (Physics Textbook)
Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection (Physics Textbook)
Since the preparation of the second edition (1995) of Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection, many important developments have taken place that affect the profession of radiological health protection. The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has issued new documents in a number of areas that are addressed in this third...
CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing
CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing

First published a decade ago, CJKV Information Processing quickly became the unsurpassed source of information on processing text in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. It has now been thoroughly updated to provide web and application developers with the latest techniques and tools for disseminating information directly...

Child Welfare and Development: A Japanese Case Study
Child Welfare and Development: A Japanese Case Study

Bamba and Haight provide an in-depth understanding of the everyday experiences and perspectives of maltreated children and their substitute caregivers and teachers in Japan. Their innovative research program combines strategies from developmental psychology, ethnography, and action research. Although child advocates from around the world...

The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography
The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography

Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret code she used to communicate with her conspirators. And thus the course of British history...

Wikipedia Revolution, The: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
Wikipedia Revolution, The: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."

--Jimmy Wales

With more than 2,000,000 individual articles on everything from Aa! (a Japanese pop group) to Zzyzx, California, written by an army of volunteer...

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