Japan Through The Looking Glass

Author : Alan MacFarlane
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847650580

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Japan Through the Looking Glass by Alan MacFarlane Pdf

This entertaining and endlessly surprising book takes us on an exploration into every aspect of Japanese society from the most public to the most intimate. A series of meticulous investigations gradually uncovers the multi-faceted nature of a country and people who are even more extraordinary than they seem. Our journey encompasses religion, ritual, martial arts, manners, eating, drinking, hot baths, geishas, family, home, singing, wrestling, dancing, performing, clans, education, aspiration, sexes, generations, race, crime, gangs, terror, war, kindness, cruelty, money, art, imperialism, emperor, countryside, city, politics, government, law and a language that varies according to whom you are speaking. Clear-sighted, persistent, affectionate, unsentimental and honest - Alan Macfarlane shows us Japan as it has never been seen before.

Author : Kongdan Oh,Ralph C. Hassig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815798200

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North Korea through the Looking Glass by Kongdan Oh,Ralph C. Hassig Pdf

Fifty-five years after its founding at the dawn of the cold war, North Korea remains a land of illusions. Isolated and anachronistic, the country and its culture seem to be dominated exclusively by the official ideology of Juche, which emphasizes national self-reliance, independence, and worship of the supreme leader, General Kim Jong Il. Yet this socialist utopian ideal is pursued with the calculations of international power politics. Kim has transformed North Korea into a militarized state, whose nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and continued threat to South Korea have raised alarm worldwide. This paradoxical combination of cultural isolation and military-first policy has left the North Korean people woefully deprived of the opportunity to advance socially and politically. The socialist economy, guided by political principles and bereft of international support, has collapsed. Thousands, perhaps millions, have died of starvation. Foreign trade has declined and the country's gross domestic product has recorded negative growth every year for a decade. Yet rather than initiate the sort of market reforms that were implemented by other communist governments, North Korean leaders have reverted to the economic policies of the 1950s: mass mobilization, concentration on heavy industry, and increased ideological indoctrination. Although members of the political elite in Pyongyang are acutely aware of their nation's domestic and foreign problems, they are plagued by fear and policy paralysis. North Korea Through the Looking Glass sheds new light on this remote and peculiar country. Drawing on more than ten years of research—including interviews with two dozen North Koreans who made the painful decision to defect from their homeland—Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig explore what the leadership and the masses believe about their current predicament. Through dual themes of persistence and illusion, they explore North Korea's stubborn adherence to policies that have

Author : Vibha Sharma,Ashlie Brink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848885295

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Childhood through the Looking Glass by Vibha Sharma,Ashlie Brink Pdf

Author : Paul French
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622099821

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Through the Looking Glass by Paul French Pdf

The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with newspapers printed in the European factories of Canton in the 1820s. It also starts with a duel between two editors over the future of China and ends with a fistfight in Shanghai over therevolution. This book tells the story of China's foreign journalists.

Author : Tim Price
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857195371

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Investing Through the Looking Glass by Tim Price Pdf

The investment markets have never been more dangerous. Interest rates are at all-time lows; the sanctity of cash deposits is under threat; government bonds are expensive and offer ultra-low or negative yields; equity markets are largely detached from reality after years of loose monetary policy. Investors need to calibrate themselves to the realities of this extraordinary new environment so that they can protect their wealth and, ideally, prosper. In Investing Through the Looking Glass, longstanding portfolio manager and investment columnist Tim Price identifies and shatters a number of investment myths and misconceptions. He questions whether stock markets inevitably rise over the longer term, whether bonds continue to be relevant as a failsafe low-risk asset, whether professional fund managers represent "smart money", and much more besides. But this is not just a counsel of despair. Having identified the problems besetting today's investor, the focus then moves on to practical guidance to help investors preserve and grow their capital in this age of inflationary and deflationary uncertainty. Tim Price provides ideas on how to find attractive investments in distorted equity markets, on what might be the best-kept secret in finance, and how best to insure portfolios in an environment of heightened systemic risk. Investing Through the Looking Glass presents a route map for navigating one of the most challenging financial environments that anyone has ever seen. For the sake of your wealth, can you afford not to read it?

Author : Karoline Szatek-Tudor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443879491

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Uniting Regions and Nations through the Looking Glass of Literature by Karoline Szatek-Tudor Pdf

This volume of essays emphasizes the common theme that bodies of water may segregate, but, ironically, also unite nations and their readers through the literature that authors from various countries produce. It reveals the importance of valuing literature that, over time, has travelled down bubbling streams, across lakes, along ocean waves, and white-water rivers because fiction, drama, and poetry know neither actual nor artificial boundaries, and, therefore, they cross-fertilize, and even transform, beliefs, practices, and roles across cultures. Topics examined here range from South Africa’s on-going crises that, in part, mirror those of Somalia and Mozambique to poetry that has been reinvented as a literature in movement and to philosopher Henri Bergson’s influence on other philosophers, as well as Nikos Kazantzakis, author of Zorba the Greek. The scholars contributing to this collection hail from across the globe, allowing the work to add to conversations on regional and international literary study, with special emphasis on writings from such places as Japan, Luxembourg, the Caribbean, the United States, Hungary, South Africa, Greece, and Turkey.

Author : Michael Herzfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521389089

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Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass by Michael Herzfeld Pdf

Despite having emerged in the heyday of a dominant Europe, of which Ancient Greece is the hallowed spiritual and intellectual ancestor, anthropology has paradoxically shown relatively little interest in contemporary Greek culture. In this innovative and ambitious book, Michael Herzfeld moves Greek Ethnography from the margins to the centre of anthropological theory, revealing the theoretical insights that can be gained by so doing. He shows that the ideology that originally led to the creation of anthropology also played a large part in the growth of the modern Greek nation-state, and that Greek ethnography can therefore serve as a mirror for an ethnography of anthropology itself. He further demonstrates the role that scholarly fields, including anthropology, have played in the construction of contemporary Greek culture and Greek identity.

Author : Akira
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781645051770

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SCP Foundation: Iris Through the Looking-Glass (Light Novel) Vol. 1 by Akira Pdf

WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?! An ordinary boy encounters the paranormal when a photo of the same girl starts inexplicably showing up in every book he opens. One day, the girl reaches out and pulls him into the photo to her location: a cell in a top-secret facility belonging to the SCP Foundation, an organization dedicated to the research and containment of people, objects and phenomena that defy reality! Even worse: they’ve deemed him a threat to be contained, and he’s going to have to work with them if he ever wants to see the outside world again! Content relating to the SCP Foundation, including the SCP Foundation logo, is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 and all concepts originate from http://www.scp-wiki.net and its authors. SCP Foundation: Iris Through the Looking Glass, being derived from this content, is also released under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0. To view a copy of the license, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or contact Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. See full list of credits at https://sevenseasentertainment.com/scp-credits/

Author : Lise Buranen,Alice Myers Roy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791440796

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Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World by Lise Buranen,Alice Myers Roy Pdf

Contributors offer many definitions and facets of plagiarism and intellectual property, demonstrating that if defining a supposedly "simple" concept is difficult, then applying multiple definitions is even harder, creating practical problems in many realms.

Author : Akira
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781645055839

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SCP Foundation: Iris Through the Looking Glass (Light Novel) by Akira Pdf

An ordinary boy encounters the paranormal when a photo of the same girl starts inexplicably showing up in every book he opens. One day, the girl reaches out and pulls him into the photo to her location: a cell in a top-secret facility belonging to the SCP Foundation, an organization dedicated to the research and containment of people, objects and phenomena that defy reality! Even worse: they've deemed him a threat to be contained, and he's going to have to work with them if he ever wants to see the outside world again!

Author : James McCarraher
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781291314793

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Salisbury City Hall - Through The Looking Glass by James McCarraher Pdf

The opening of the New Picture House Cinema in Fisherton Street on 27th September 1937 caused quite a stir in Salisbury. For 24 years, the cinema drew in the crowds and entertained the people of Salisbury until it closed in 1961. On 30th January 1963, the building received a new lease of life when it opened as the City Hall, a multi-purpose community venue. The Hall became the home for the local beat dances, hosting the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and local boys, Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich. This book charts the history of the building from 1937 to 2013, based upon interviews with staff both past and present.

Author : R.A. Rayman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429815522

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Economics Through the Looking-Glass by R.A. Rayman Pdf

Published in 1998. In spite of spectacular improvements in market flexibility, the characteristics of the past twenty years are slow growth and high unemployment. Economics Through the Looking-Glass exposes the theoretical fallacy at the heart of the New Economic Orthodoxy. The fallacy lies in treating the economy as a "single-gear" machine guaranteed to operate at its full employment potential as long as it benefits from the lubricant of perfectly flexible markets (in a Walrasian Utopia of continuous market-clearing equilibrium). Unemployment is thereby reduced to a structural problem of market imperfection. As a cure for unemployment, market flexibility is presumed to be adequate; as a cure for inflation, monetary restriction is presumed to be safe. The flaw in Orthodox logic is exposed by a demonstration that a monetary economy operates as a 'multi-gear' machine. Unless it is in 'top-gear', market flexibility (even of Utopian perfection) is not sufficient for full employment. 'Single-gear' Economic Orthodoxy is shown to have developed, not as a science, but as a religion beginning with Adam Smith's revelation of the Law of Competition. A Looking-Glass journey backwards in time from Adam Smith uncovers his suppression of the Law of Circulation and exposes the dangerous delusion of Orthodox economic policy. As a weapon against unemployment, market flexibility is inadequate; as a weapon against inflation, monetary restriction is unsafe. The 'multi-gear' alternative heralds the final stage of economic liberalisation: deregulation of the market for money. The rescue of interest rates from political or central bank interference and the control of inflation by a mechanism triggered by market forces would put an end to the Orthodox policy of maintaining unemployment above its natural market rate by misguided monetary intervention.

Author : Mireille Hildebrandt
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849808774

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Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law by Mireille Hildebrandt Pdf

This timely book tells the story of the smart technologies that reconstruct our world, by provoking their most salient functionality: the prediction and preemption of our day-to-day activities, preferences, health and credit risks, criminal intent and

Author : Alan Macfarlane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1491075414

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Encounters with Japan and the Japanese by Alan Macfarlane Pdf

I knew little of Japan and the Japanese before I was fifty although I had been interested in some curious similarities between the islands of England and Japan historically (primogeniture, early industrialization, centralized feudalism, ascetic religion, tea drinking). When I was invited to Hokkaido University in 1990 as a visiting British Council fellow, I was delighted at the opportunity to visit this fabled land with my wife Sarah; though I distinctly remembering having to find a map to work out exactly where Japan was. When we visited Japan, we met our hosts Professors Kenichi and Toshiko Nakamura. They became close friends and have remained so since. Our friendship and collaboration has been the underpinning of all my work on Japan. They have hosted, guided, corrected and stimulated us during our numerous visits since 1990, and when they came for sabbaticals to Oxford and Cambridge we would hold long informal seminars in the attempt to understand each other's culture. I found and still find Japan enormously puzzling. In many superficial ways, as mentioned, it is like England. Yet as one goes deeper, the differences become more pronounced. I spent fifteen years in often fruitless attempts to understand it and was only finally able to write my book when I read Lafcadio Hearn. Hearn had fallen in love with Japan, learnt the language, taught in Japanese schools, married a Japanese wife. Yet in the preface to Japan - An Interpretation he wrote: 'Long ago the best and dearest Japanese friend I ever had said to me... "When you find, in four or five years more, that you cannot understand the Japanese at all then you will begin to know something about them." After having realised the truth of my friend's prediction, - after having discovered that I cannot understand the Japanese at all, - I feel better qualified to attempt this essay.' Entering Japan is a gradual process and my final book, Japan Through the Looking Glass (2007) is the summation of many earlier attempts. The various stages of that journey are quite well illustrated in a number of articles and talks, only some of them published, which I have written since 1993. They are rough and sometimes unchecked, but they do give a sense of how I tried to come to terms with various puzzling features of Japan - economy, social structure, law and custom, work, technology and art.

Author : C-Rene Dominique
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780595280605

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Markets in the Looking Glass by C-Rene Dominique Pdf

Here the author of Unfettered Globalization (1999) provides a fast-paced primer on how markets contribute to wealth creation by boosting our natural trading instinct, and how the same markets may turn dreadful without a minimum of social oversight. Using simple language and analyses, he debunks the ideological predilection of the theory of markets, dots the i's and crosses the t's. He also shows how the international economic institutions have been corrupted and transformed into markets enforcers, uncovers the political dimension of "free trade," and exposes the potential dangers of an uncontrolled international capital market. More specifically, the author provides a lucid, step-by-step account of the Asian currency debacle of 1997, and argues that the Argentine meltdown in 2001, the dot.com and telecom bubbles, and the debt overhang of developing countries, etc., are simply natural outcomes of unfettered markets. This means that globalization cannot be a viable programme in the absence of a global institution empowered to stabilize, to control, and to legitimize its outcomes.