Download or read book Quicklet on Michael Lewis Pacific Rift Why Americans and Japanese Don t Understand Each Other written by Audrey Louise Rodgers and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK Time and time again we are faced with comparisons between Japan and America. With as many cultural differences as there are between our two countries there’s always a wealth of information to delve into on any given subject. Lewis sticks with what he knows in writing Pacific Rift, but the result isn’t as successful as it could be. Lewis’ humor makes up for his shallow analysis of Japanese business culture only so much and leaves a lot to be desired in the end. Throughout the book we are introduced to a handful of characters, some representing America and some representing Japan. The two major characters, who Lewis personally travelled to Japan to speak with, are Robert Collins and Shuji Tomikawa. Carolyn See describes the experience best: “From this ambiguous, not to say irreverent position, the author outlines his own journalistic approach to this short volume, which is to find an American doing business in Tokyo, and a Japanese working out of New York; follow them around, watch them as they stumble, record their successes, diagnose their attitudes and assess, if possible, the chances for these two great countries ever to come to some kind of financial and cultural accord.” MEET THE AUTHOR Audrey graduated from UT Austin with a BA in Studio Art in 2008, and has spent the following three years writing creatively in her free time. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Japan and the U.S. have always been polar opposites, which has caused tense relations between them. The opening of Japan’s borders did little in the way of changing its nationalistic outlook, but major changes occurred nonetheless. The shogunate was dissolved, capitalism and democracy were adopted, and more and more foreign companies steadily worked their way into Japan. Or at least they attempted to. Once SCAP came along Japan’s closed-jaw-economics were pried open a bit. The tight-knit zaibatsu companies were disbanded, leaving room for companies like AIU to come to Japan. Positive changes arose from the introduction of these new, foreign countries, but in turn unemployment skyrocketed. With the jarring change to their economy, Japan eventually expelled SCAP and returned to their former ways. The status quo is very important in Japanese culture, so anything that threatens it is usually shut out in any way possible. Anything as small as a man like Robert Collins trying to get beef for lower prices or as major as foreign companies trying to survive in the Japanese market is promptly shut down. This way of behavior is so much a second nature to the Japanese that when asked about it there’s no acknowledgment of such actions being made. “Try harder” is the default response to any criticism on the subject, as if the solution is that simple and the fault not on them... Buy a copy to keep reading!
Download or read book Pacific Rift written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the cultural rift between America and Japan, focusing on a Harvard-educated Japanese man in New York and an American living in Tokyo
Download or read book International Law and the Cold War written by Matthew Craven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine in detail the relationship between the Cold War and International Law.
Download or read book Introduction to Psychology written by Jennifer Walinga and published by Hasanraza Ansari. This book was released on with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each section.
Download or read book Culture Across the Curriculum written by Kenneth Dwight Keith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides background content and teaching ideas to support the integration of culture in a wide range of psychology courses.
Download or read book A Daughter of the Middle Border written by Hamlin Garland and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequel to Garland's acclaimed autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border, continues his story as he sets out for Chicago and settles into a Bohemian encampment of artists and writers. There he meets Zulime Taft, an artist who captures his heart and eventually becomes his wife. The intensity of this romance is rivaled only by Garland's struggle between America's coastal elite and his heartland roots. A Daughter of the Middle Border won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, forever securing his place in the literary canon.
Download or read book Letters from Vladivostock 1894 1930 written by Eleanor L. Pray and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years — from the time of Tsar Alexander III to the early years of Stalin’s rule — she wrote more than 2,000 letters chronicling her family life and the tumultuous social and political events she witnessed. Vladivostok, 5,600 miles east of Moscow, was shaped by a rich intersection of Asian cultures, and Pray’s witty and observant writing paints a vivid picture of the city and its denizens during a period of momentous social change. The book offers highlights from Pray’s letters along with illuminating historical and biographical information.
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Download or read book Collective Memory Work written by Corey W. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seemingly mundane events of daily life create a complex knowledge base of lived experience to be explored. But how does one research common experiences and account for context, culture, and identity? A dilemma arises because experience is not just embedded in events, but also in the socially constructed meanings associated with those events. This book details the philosophical underpinnings, design features and implementation strategies of Collective Memory Work – a methodology frequently employed by social justice activists/scholars. Collective Memory Work can provide scholars with unique and nuanced ways to solve problems for and with their participants. Most importantly, the chapters also detail projects and social justice in action, analysing their participants’ real stories and experiences: projects that focus on LGBTQ youth, #blacklivesmatter activists, white faculty working at historically Black colleges and universities, men’s media consumption and much more. Written in an engaging and accessible style, readers will come to understand the potential of their own qualitative research using Collective Memory Work.
Download or read book The Darlings written by Cristina Alger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bonfire of the Vanities for our times, by an author who “knows her way around 21st-century wealth and power” (The Wall Street Journal). Since he married Merrill Darling, daughter of billionaire financier Carter Darling, attorney Paul Ross has grown accustomed to all the luxuries of Park Avenue. But a tragic event is about to catapult the Darling family into the middle of a massive financial investigation and a red-hot scandal. Suddenly, Paul must decide where his loyalties really lie. Debut novelist Cristina Alger is a former analyst at Goldman Sachs, an attorney, and the daughter of a Wall Street financier. Drawing on her unique insider's perspective, Alger gives us an irresistible glimpse into the highest echelons of New York society—and a fast-paced thriller of epic proportions that powerfully echoes Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children and reads like a fictional Too Big to Fail.
Download or read book Seeing the Elephant written by Hans Binnendijk and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual history of the post Cold War period
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Download or read book Rethinking the Principles of War written by Anthony Mc Ivor and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new work features the fresh thinking of thirty-one leading authors from a variety of military and national security disciplines ... The anthology is part of a larger Rethinking the Principles of War project, sponsored by the Office of Force Transformation and the U.S. Navy, to reexamine traditional and unorthodox approaches to the future of warfare"--Jacket.
Download or read book Uncomfortable Wars Revisited written by John T. Fishel and published by Editorial Galaxia. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an updated model for conducting unconventional warfare in today's world
