Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott

By Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott

Representing an remarkable collaboration between foreign students from Asia, Europe, and the U.S., this quantity rewrites the heritage of East Asia by means of rethinking the contentious dating among Confucianism and girls. The authors speak about the absence of girls within the Confucian canonical culture and think about the presence of girls in politics, relations, schooling, and paintings in premodern China, Korea, and Japan.

What emerges is an idea of Confucianism that's dynamic rather than monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As lecturers, moms, writers, and rulers, ladies have been energetic brokers during this approach. Neither rebels nor sufferers, those ladies embraced facets of respectable norms whereas resisting others. The essays current a robust picture of what it intended to be lady and to stay a woman's lifestyles in numerous social settings and historic conditions. difficult the normal inspiration of Confucianism as an oppressive culture that victimized ladies, this provocative ebook unearths it as a contemporary build that doesn't replicate the social and cultural histories of East Asia prior to the 19th century.

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By Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott

Representing an remarkable collaboration between foreign students from Asia, Europe, and the U.S., this quantity rewrites the heritage of East Asia by means of rethinking the contentious dating among Confucianism and girls. The authors speak about the absence of girls within the Confucian canonical culture and think about the presence of girls in politics, relations, schooling, and paintings in premodern China, Korea, and Japan.

What emerges is an idea of Confucianism that's dynamic rather than monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As lecturers, moms, writers, and rulers, ladies have been energetic brokers during this approach. Neither rebels nor sufferers, those ladies embraced facets of respectable norms whereas resisting others. The essays current a robust picture of what it intended to be lady and to stay a woman's lifestyles in numerous social settings and historic conditions. difficult the normal inspiration of Confucianism as an oppressive culture that victimized ladies, this provocative ebook unearths it as a contemporary build that doesn't replicate the social and cultural histories of East Asia prior to the 19th century.

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Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques: A Contemporary by Steve Nison

By Steve Nison

Conventional Western equipment for chart research (the foundation of all technical analyses) use bar or issues and determine charts. but over a hundred years sooner than those equipment originated, the japanese have been utilizing their very own sort of technical research to be used within the rice futures industry. this system - often called the japanese Candlestick Charting options due to its shut resemblance to candlesticks - has lately been attracting realization since it presents distinctive insights into the industry. This paintings beneficial properties over three hundred charts that use candlesticks by myself and together with Western charting concepts, and explains their use.

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By Steve Nison

Conventional Western equipment for chart research (the foundation of all technical analyses) use bar or issues and determine charts. but over a hundred years sooner than those equipment originated, the japanese have been utilizing their very own sort of technical research to be used within the rice futures industry. this system - often called the japanese Candlestick Charting options due to its shut resemblance to candlesticks - has lately been attracting realization since it presents distinctive insights into the industry. This paintings beneficial properties over three hundred charts that use candlesticks by myself and together with Western charting concepts, and explains their use.

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The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the by Phillip Brown

By Phillip Brown

This publication lifts the veneer of 'employability', to reveal severe difficulties within the manner that destiny staff try to control their employability within the pageant for tough-entry jobs within the wisdom economic climate; in how businesses comprehend their human source techniques and pastime to recruit the managers and leaders of the long run; and within the executive failure to return to phrases with the realities of the knowledge-based financial system. The call for for high-skilled, excessive waged jobs, has been exaggerated. however it is anything that governments are looking to think since it distracts awareness from thorny political concerns round equality, chance, and redistribution. whether it is assumed that there are many sturdy jobs for individuals with the correct credentials then the difficulty of who will get the easiest jobs loses its political sting. but when solid jobs are in constrained provide, how the contest for a livelihood is equipped assumes paramount value. This factor, isn't misplaced at the heart periods, provided that they depend upon educational success to take care of, if no longer improve the occupational and social prestige of kin. the truth is that expanding congestion out there for wisdom staff has resulted in transforming into heart category anxieties approximately how their off-spring are going to satisfy the emerging threshold of employability that now needs to be completed to face any sensible probability of discovering fascinating and profitable employment. the result's a bare-knuckle fight for entry to elite colleges, faculties, universities and jobs. This booklet examines even if employability rules are incorrect simply because they forget about the realities of 'positional' clash within the festival for a livelihood, in particular because the upward thrust of mass larger schooling has arguably performed little to extend the employability of scholars for tough-entry jobs. will probably be of curiosity to someone trying to comprehend the way in which knowledge-based corporations recruit and the way this can be inspired via executive coverage, be they Researchers, teachers and scholars of commercial and administration, business family members, Human source administration, Politics or Sociology; Human source administration or Recruitment execs; or activity applicants.

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By Phillip Brown

This publication lifts the veneer of 'employability', to reveal severe difficulties within the manner that destiny staff try to control their employability within the pageant for tough-entry jobs within the wisdom economic climate; in how businesses comprehend their human source techniques and pastime to recruit the managers and leaders of the long run; and within the executive failure to return to phrases with the realities of the knowledge-based financial system. The call for for high-skilled, excessive waged jobs, has been exaggerated. however it is anything that governments are looking to think since it distracts awareness from thorny political concerns round equality, chance, and redistribution. whether it is assumed that there are many sturdy jobs for individuals with the correct credentials then the difficulty of who will get the easiest jobs loses its political sting. but when solid jobs are in constrained provide, how the contest for a livelihood is equipped assumes paramount value. This factor, isn't misplaced at the heart periods, provided that they depend upon educational success to take care of, if no longer improve the occupational and social prestige of kin. the truth is that expanding congestion out there for wisdom staff has resulted in transforming into heart category anxieties approximately how their off-spring are going to satisfy the emerging threshold of employability that now needs to be completed to face any sensible probability of discovering fascinating and profitable employment. the result's a bare-knuckle fight for entry to elite colleges, faculties, universities and jobs. This booklet examines even if employability rules are incorrect simply because they forget about the realities of 'positional' clash within the festival for a livelihood, in particular because the upward thrust of mass larger schooling has arguably performed little to extend the employability of scholars for tough-entry jobs. will probably be of curiosity to someone trying to comprehend the way in which knowledge-based corporations recruit and the way this can be inspired via executive coverage, be they Researchers, teachers and scholars of commercial and administration, business family members, Human source administration, Politics or Sociology; Human source administration or Recruitment execs; or activity applicants.

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Riches in Niches: How to Make It Big in a Small Market by Susan Friedmann

By Susan Friedmann

Why perform a little monetary advisors finish up making hundreds of thousands on television
giving funding recommendation whereas others exertions in obscurity? How do a little
attorneys land usual columns in prestigious alternate guides? the place do
those audio system who supply the once a year deal with at conventions come
from? what's the mystery cause decide upon few provider execs
enjoy high-profile, high-prestige, and high-paying prestige as "experts" in
their fields?

More importantly, can the remainder of us do it? Susan Friedmann solutions a
resounding "Yes!" In Riches in Niches: the best way to Make It giant in a Small
Market, Friedmann explores the a number of components that separate the
"experts" from the carrier execs who could have identical--if no longer
better--skills, yet whom not anyone has ever heard of.

You will learn:

* Why positioning your self as a professional in a Niche--a candy spot
known as a nichepreneur--is the main surefire path to good fortune any
service specialist may well want.

* The GEL formulation: Friedmann's confirmed strategy that exhibits provider
professionals how to define the pro area of interest that makes the easiest
use in their talents whereas yielding greatest profit.

* The Seven secrets and techniques nichepreneurs want to know to create, declare, and
benefit from their professional Identity.

* inventive how one can create secondary, even tertiary, source of revenue streams
capitalizing at the merits of "Being the Expert."

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By Susan Friedmann

Why perform a little monetary advisors finish up making hundreds of thousands on television
giving funding recommendation whereas others exertions in obscurity? How do a little
attorneys land usual columns in prestigious alternate guides? the place do
those audio system who supply the once a year deal with at conventions come
from? what's the mystery cause decide upon few provider execs
enjoy high-profile, high-prestige, and high-paying prestige as "experts" in
their fields?

More importantly, can the remainder of us do it? Susan Friedmann solutions a
resounding "Yes!" In Riches in Niches: the best way to Make It giant in a Small
Market, Friedmann explores the a number of components that separate the
"experts" from the carrier execs who could have identical--if no longer
better--skills, yet whom not anyone has ever heard of.

You will learn:

* Why positioning your self as a professional in a Niche--a candy spot
known as a nichepreneur--is the main surefire path to good fortune any
service specialist may well want.

* The GEL formulation: Friedmann's confirmed strategy that exhibits provider
professionals how to define the pro area of interest that makes the easiest
use in their talents whereas yielding greatest profit.

* The Seven secrets and techniques nichepreneurs want to know to create, declare, and
benefit from their professional Identity.

* inventive how one can create secondary, even tertiary, source of revenue streams
capitalizing at the merits of "Being the Expert."

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Marketing Value Metrics: A New Metrics Model to Measure by Malcolm McDonald

By Malcolm McDonald

It's usually acknowledged that folks can't deal with what they can not degree. Marketing worth Metrics indicates not just how advertising systematically contributes to shareholder price, but additionally presents a framework for constructing and imposing advertising ideas which are measurable and responsible. development at the recommendations and examine present in Marketing Accountability written an identical authors, Marketing worth Metrics is absolutely updated to incorporate analytics pertinent for today’s retailers reminiscent of social media metrics. the most important steps within the modeling technique are defined intimately, as are the methods for employing it in practice.

Marketing price Metrics permits senior executives to successfully degree the influence of promoting task opposed to organizational ambitions, and should empower advertising groups and their managers to justify and shield their plans and techniques to their CEOs and CFOs.

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By Malcolm McDonald

It's usually acknowledged that folks can't deal with what they can not degree. Marketing worth Metrics indicates not just how advertising systematically contributes to shareholder price, but additionally presents a framework for constructing and imposing advertising ideas which are measurable and responsible. development at the recommendations and examine present in Marketing Accountability written an identical authors, Marketing worth Metrics is absolutely updated to incorporate analytics pertinent for today’s retailers reminiscent of social media metrics. the most important steps within the modeling technique are defined intimately, as are the methods for employing it in practice.

Marketing price Metrics permits senior executives to successfully degree the influence of promoting task opposed to organizational ambitions, and should empower advertising groups and their managers to justify and shield their plans and techniques to their CEOs and CFOs.

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Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan: The by Stewart Lone

By Stewart Lone

In distinction to the long-lasting stereotype of a ‘nation of samurai’, this booklet makes use of provincial newspapers and native documents to listen to the voices of normal humans dwelling in imperial Japan via numerous many years of struggle and peace. those voices demonstrate the actual studies, reviews and feelings of fellows, girls and kids. They exhibit that the impact of a uniquely disciplined, regimented, militaristic society, which took root within the Western mind's eye from the Eighteen Nineties and which helped lead to the Pacific warfare of 1941-5, is a gross phantasm.

Stewart Lone demanding situations the long-standing view of prewar Japan as a ‘militaristic’ society. rather than hoping on the standard money owed approximately senior commanders and politics on the center of presidency, he exhibits the realities of provincial society’s kin with the army in Japan at floor point. operating from the viewpoint of civil society and either rural and concrete lifestyles within the provinces, Lone investigates broader civil contacts with the army together with colleges, neighborhood companies, relaxation and leisure, civic ceremonies and monuments, in addition to public attitudes in the direction of the army and its values.

This e-book may be of curiosity to top undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturers attracted to army historical past and eastern history.

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By Stewart Lone

In distinction to the long-lasting stereotype of a ‘nation of samurai’, this booklet makes use of provincial newspapers and native documents to listen to the voices of normal humans dwelling in imperial Japan via numerous many years of struggle and peace. those voices demonstrate the actual studies, reviews and feelings of fellows, girls and kids. They exhibit that the impact of a uniquely disciplined, regimented, militaristic society, which took root within the Western mind's eye from the Eighteen Nineties and which helped lead to the Pacific warfare of 1941-5, is a gross phantasm.

Stewart Lone demanding situations the long-standing view of prewar Japan as a ‘militaristic’ society. rather than hoping on the standard money owed approximately senior commanders and politics on the center of presidency, he exhibits the realities of provincial society’s kin with the army in Japan at floor point. operating from the viewpoint of civil society and either rural and concrete lifestyles within the provinces, Lone investigates broader civil contacts with the army together with colleges, neighborhood companies, relaxation and leisure, civic ceremonies and monuments, in addition to public attitudes in the direction of the army and its values.

This e-book may be of curiosity to top undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturers attracted to army historical past and eastern history.

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Web 2.0-Anwendungen im Marketing von Kunstmuseen: Eine by Tanja Binder

By Tanja Binder

Das internet 2.0 etabliert sich gegenwärtig als Teil eines modernen Marketings. Das gilt auch für die Kulturbranche: Vor allem in Zeiten leerer öffentlicher Kassen und schrumpfender Zuschüsse eröffnet das net interessante neue Wege, um mit den verschiedenen Stakeholdern Kontakt aufzunehmen. Hier besteht die probability, eine jüngere Zielgruppe für sich zu gewinnen. Unter Berücksichtigung von Controlling-Aspekten untersucht Tanja Binder, wann und in welcher shape Social Media sinnvoll für ein effizientes Museumsmarketing genutzt werden kann, um den Marketingaufgaben Besucherbindung, Besucherakquisition, Leistungsinnovation, Leistungspflege und Stakeholder-Kommunikation nachzukommen.

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By Tanja Binder

Das internet 2.0 etabliert sich gegenwärtig als Teil eines modernen Marketings. Das gilt auch für die Kulturbranche: Vor allem in Zeiten leerer öffentlicher Kassen und schrumpfender Zuschüsse eröffnet das net interessante neue Wege, um mit den verschiedenen Stakeholdern Kontakt aufzunehmen. Hier besteht die probability, eine jüngere Zielgruppe für sich zu gewinnen. Unter Berücksichtigung von Controlling-Aspekten untersucht Tanja Binder, wann und in welcher shape Social Media sinnvoll für ein effizientes Museumsmarketing genutzt werden kann, um den Marketingaufgaben Besucherbindung, Besucherakquisition, Leistungsinnovation, Leistungspflege und Stakeholder-Kommunikation nachzukommen.

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Soul of the Samurai: Modern Translations of Three Classic

Modern translations of 3 vintage works of Zen & Bushido

In Soul of the Samurai revered writer and translator Thomas Cleary unearths the real essence of Bushido or Zen warrior teachings in response to 17th-century jap samurai grasp Yagyu Munenori and his Zen instructor Takuan Soho.

The 3 works of Zen Bushido translated in Soul of the Samurai are:
The e-book of the Sword by way of Yagyu Munenori
The Inscrutable Subtlety of Immovable Wisdom by way of Takuan Soho
The Peerless Sword through Takuan Soho Yagyu was once a popular swordsman and leader of the Shogun's mystery police, whereas Takuan used to be the Zen non secular mentor to the Emperor. This samurai philosophy e-book includes the 1st English translations in their seminal writings on Bushido. Cleary not just offers transparent and readable translations yet accomplished notes introducing the social, political, and organizational ideas that outlined Samurai culture—their loyalty to kin, their feel of carrier and responsibility, and their political ideas for facing allies and enemies.

These writings introduce the reader to the genuine global of Zen tradition and the secrets and techniques at the back of the Samurai's success—being "in the moment" and liberating the brain from all distractions, permitting you to react at once and instinctively with out considering. In those vintage works we research that Zen psychological regulate and meditational education have been as very important to the Samurai as swordsmanship and combating abilities.

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Modern translations of 3 vintage works of Zen & Bushido

In Soul of the Samurai revered writer and translator Thomas Cleary unearths the real essence of Bushido or Zen warrior teachings in response to 17th-century jap samurai grasp Yagyu Munenori and his Zen instructor Takuan Soho.

The 3 works of Zen Bushido translated in Soul of the Samurai are:
The e-book of the Sword by way of Yagyu Munenori
The Inscrutable Subtlety of Immovable Wisdom by way of Takuan Soho
The Peerless Sword through Takuan Soho Yagyu was once a popular swordsman and leader of the Shogun's mystery police, whereas Takuan used to be the Zen non secular mentor to the Emperor. This samurai philosophy e-book includes the 1st English translations in their seminal writings on Bushido. Cleary not just offers transparent and readable translations yet accomplished notes introducing the social, political, and organizational ideas that outlined Samurai culture—their loyalty to kin, their feel of carrier and responsibility, and their political ideas for facing allies and enemies.

These writings introduce the reader to the genuine global of Zen tradition and the secrets and techniques at the back of the Samurai's success—being "in the moment" and liberating the brain from all distractions, permitting you to react at once and instinctively with out considering. In those vintage works we research that Zen psychological regulate and meditational education have been as very important to the Samurai as swordsmanship and combating abilities.

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