With much of the "Asian Miracle" destroyed and much of the Western world's awe for Asian ways of managment dissipated, organizations in East Asia are changing with such speed that most of our knowledge about them becomes quickly outdated. Richter takes stock of East Asian management practices, as they are perceived so far, and he discusses the strategies proposed by others to help Asian management redesign itself for the future–including a long-term agenda for change based on the cultural heritage of Confucianism.

In the spirit of Doyle Brunson's Super System, Arnold Snyder's Blackbelt in Blackjack is an underground gambling classic written by one of the grand masters of blackjack and a legend. This newly revised and updated edition is now made available for the first time to a national audience. This is blackjack as a martial art, targeted for serious and professional players looking to win real money at the game. Snyder reveals tips and tricks used by the pros-shuffle tracking, team play, multiple deck camouflage techniques so that the casino can't detect that the player is using winning techniques, and much more. 21 powerful chapters include a complete course on beating blackjack: the devastating red 7 count, the hi-lo count, the zen count, the true count, and so much more.

This second edition contains new data on topical subjects such as organochloride pesticides, endocrine disrupters, aquatic toxicity, industrial waste and ecotoxicity testing. The multidisciplinary nature which proved so popular in the first edition remains, combining the disciplines of chemistry, biochemistry, toxicology, physiology, population ecology and population genetics.

Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind. Interwoven into the story is Coles's personal quest for understanding how the sense of the sacred has stood firm in the lives of individuals–both the famous and everyday people whom he has known–even as they have struggled with doubt.

This book is aimed at business students who need a solid but not excessively theoretical introduction to economics which focuses on the contribution economics can make to the study of business policy. In addition to the standard economics of supply, demand, costs, and competition, the text places special emphasis on specifically business-oriented issues.

Karate comes from the Japanese island of Okinawa (oh-kih-NAH-wah). It is located almost halfway between China and the main islands of Japan. People going to China or Japan often stopped in Okinawa. This made it a place where traders, soldiers, and local people traded goods as well as ideas about hand-to-hand fighting. In the 1700s, several styles of martial arts were created there. Together, they were known as Okinawa-te, or Okinawan hand. In the 1900s, a man named Funakoshi Gichin brought the styles of Okinawa-te together and called them karate.

An introduction to a branch of Voudoun which I choose to call Aeonic Voudoo. A body of theory and practices that grew from a matrix of ritual work, conversation, and readings. Originally published in 1986 by Black Moon.

Most aspects of our private and social lives?-our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other services, and national security–now depend on computing. But how can we know that this computing is trustworthy? In Mechanizing Proof, Donald MacKenzie addresses this key issue by investigating the interrelations of computing, risk, and mathematical proof over the last half century from the perspectives of history and sociology. His discussion draws on the technical literature of computer science and artificial intelligence and on extensive interviews with participants. MacKenzie argues that our culture now contains two ideals of proof: proof as traditionally conducted by human mathematicians, and formal, mechanized proof.

On this CD, Judith Orloff shares her inspirational life story with Deepak Chopra. Together, they explore the mysterious and often misunderstood world of intuition. Learn how both of these renowned physicians rely on intuition in their practice of medicine. Learn how you can discover and use intuition on a daily basis—for relationship issues, parenting problems, medical decisions, and any other challenges that arise in your life.

This book represents a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem of the Jews and the German Reformation. The contributions come from both senior and emerging scholars, from North America, Israel, and Europe, to ensure a breadth in perspective. The essays in this volume are arranged under four broad headings: 1. The Road to the Reformation (late medieval theology and the humanists and the Jews), 2. The Reformers and the Jews (essays on Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin, Osiander, the Catholic Reformers, and the Radical Reformers), 3. Representations of Jews and Judaism (the portrayal of Judaism as a religion, images of the Jews in the visual arts, and in sixteenth-century German literature), and 4. Jewish Responses to the Reformation.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Informed by a broad expertise comprehending all of the disciplines for which human hearing is pertinent. Beament('s) model for the hearing of music…is not only the most speculative section of the book but also the most brilliant. Recommended warmly… it should find a niche in virtually every college, university and professional music library. CHOICE Hearing selected music. By surveying what it selected as western music, this book covers much of the acoustics a student needs, without mathematics or scientific background. It raises many questions about intervals, scales, tone, pitch, loudness and time, and throws doubt on the role conventionally ascribed to harmonics; an account of how musical sounds are coded by the ear and the brain's processing units, provides answers to most of the questions.

Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of conventional security studies, yet such avoidable deaths are a vital part of the notion of 'security' more broadly understood. The book argues that such deaths are caused by the man-made structures of neoliberalism and "andrarchy" and argues that the debate on human security can be reinvigorated by looking at the unarmed, civilian role in causing the deaths of millions of innocent people; from child deaths from preventable disease to honour killings.

From 1896 to 1935, the flamboyant and controversial Billy Sunday preached his version of the gospel to millions of people across the nation. In this nontraditional biography of the man regarded by his enthralled fans as God's unconventional messenger to a sinful world, the curator of the Billy Sunday Historic Site Museum recreates Sunday's life through a material culture lens. W. A. Firstenberger views the photographic record and the print record as well as the landscape, structure, and contents of the Sunday home in Winona Lake, Indiana, to give us an intimate view of Sunday and his family. Through an organizational scheme that incorporates memorabilia from childhood (samplers, Civil War badges), baseball (Billy's 1891 Philadelphia contract, scorecards), evangelism (cartoons, books such as Monkeys and Missing Links), social issues (KKK ads endorsing Sunday, his Women's Christian Temperance life membership certificate), life style (Arts and Crafts decorative pieces, extensive photos of the family's Mount Hood bungalow), and family relations (his personal possessions and those of his wife, Nell, and their children), In Rare Form brings together the inconsistencies between Sunday's material world and his spiritual world.

Western classical music has become as Chinese as Peking Opera, and it has woven its way into the hearts and lives of ordinary Chinese people. This lucidly written account traces the biographies of the bold visionaries who carried out this musical merger. Rhapsody in Red is a history of classical music in China that revolves around a common theme: how Western classical music entered China, and how it became Chinese. China's oldest orchestra was founded in 1879, two years before the Boston Symphony. Since then, classical music has woven its way into the lives of ordinary Chinese people. Millions of Chinese children take piano and violin lessons every week. Yet, despite the importance of classical music in China - and of Chinese classical musicians and composers to the world - next to nothing has been written on this fascinating subject.

The current Asian economic crisis has shattered the belief that Asian ways of management are superior to Western ways. To survive, Asian firms are rethinking their entire approach to managing–and in his latest edited book, Richter, with his contributing authors, provides a sharply focused analysis of how this happened. They detail developments in both the theory and practice of Asian ways of management, analyze the crisis and its impact on Asian firms and business, predict the future of Asian business organization, and offer emerging models for business with their Western counterparts. An important source of fact and interpretation for professionals in multinational organizations and for academics and upper-level students of international business.