Japanese Spa Resorts by Jinling Qu

By Jinling Qu

The stylish layout of the resort and the ideal concord among jap conventional tradition and the fashionable layout notion during this booklet current you either sensual and mental appreciation of the prosperous spa tradition of Japan, the spa state on this planet. With greater than fifty recognized and amazing eastern resorts incorporated, the ebook supplies specific descriptions of the scales, amenities, and the layout varieties of the japanese spa baths of every lodge specifically. From the internal layout of the spacious and shiny reception halls, the posh ocean-front visitor rooms, and the comfortable attractiveness and wellbeing salons to the outside panorama layout of eastern gardens and definitely the right position close to the mountains or by means of a river, and particularly the individualized recuperative spa baths, all show the paintings of the japanese spa resort grasp designers.

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By Jinling Qu

The stylish layout of the resort and the ideal concord among jap conventional tradition and the fashionable layout notion during this booklet current you either sensual and mental appreciation of the prosperous spa tradition of Japan, the spa state on this planet. With greater than fifty recognized and amazing eastern resorts incorporated, the ebook supplies specific descriptions of the scales, amenities, and the layout varieties of the japanese spa baths of every lodge specifically. From the internal layout of the spacious and shiny reception halls, the posh ocean-front visitor rooms, and the comfortable attractiveness and wellbeing salons to the outside panorama layout of eastern gardens and definitely the right position close to the mountains or by means of a river, and particularly the individualized recuperative spa baths, all show the paintings of the japanese spa resort grasp designers.

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Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese by Koichi Iwabuchi

By Koichi Iwabuchi

Globalization is generally considered the global unfold of Western—particularly American—popular tradition. but if one state stands proud within the dissemination of popular culture in East and Southeast Asia, it's Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop song, tv dramas equivalent to Tokyo Love tale and Long Vacation—the export of jap media and tradition is gigantic company. In Recentering Globalization, Koichi Iwabuchi explores how jap pop culture circulates in Asia. He situates the increase of Japan’s cultural strength in mild of decentering globalization strategies and demonstrates how Japan’s wide cultural interactions with the opposite components of Asia complicate its experience of being "in yet above" or "similar yet greater to" the region.

Iwabuchi has carried out vast interviews with manufacturers, promoters, and shoppers of pop culture in Japan and East Asia. Drawing upon this learn, he analyzes Japan’s "localizing" technique of repackaging Western popular culture for Asian intake and the methods eastern pop culture arouses nearby cultural resonances. He considers how transnational cultural flows are skilled in a different way in quite a few geographic components by means of taking a look at bilateral cultural flows in East Asia. He indicates how jap well known song and tv dramas are promoted and understood in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and the way "Asian" pop culture (especially Hong Kong’s) is acquired in Japan.

Rich in empirical element and theoretical perception, Recentering Globalization is an important contribution to wondering cultural globalization and transnationalism, relatively within the context of East Asian cultural studies.

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By Koichi Iwabuchi

Globalization is generally considered the global unfold of Western—particularly American—popular tradition. but if one state stands proud within the dissemination of popular culture in East and Southeast Asia, it's Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop song, tv dramas equivalent to Tokyo Love tale and Long Vacation—the export of jap media and tradition is gigantic company. In Recentering Globalization, Koichi Iwabuchi explores how jap pop culture circulates in Asia. He situates the increase of Japan’s cultural strength in mild of decentering globalization strategies and demonstrates how Japan’s wide cultural interactions with the opposite components of Asia complicate its experience of being "in yet above" or "similar yet greater to" the region.

Iwabuchi has carried out vast interviews with manufacturers, promoters, and shoppers of pop culture in Japan and East Asia. Drawing upon this learn, he analyzes Japan’s "localizing" technique of repackaging Western popular culture for Asian intake and the methods eastern pop culture arouses nearby cultural resonances. He considers how transnational cultural flows are skilled in a different way in quite a few geographic components by means of taking a look at bilateral cultural flows in East Asia. He indicates how jap well known song and tv dramas are promoted and understood in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and the way "Asian" pop culture (especially Hong Kong’s) is acquired in Japan.

Rich in empirical element and theoretical perception, Recentering Globalization is an important contribution to wondering cultural globalization and transnationalism, relatively within the context of East Asian cultural studies.

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Luxury Strategy in Action by Jonas Hoffmann

By Jonas Hoffmann

Written via specialists in luxurious and model administration at SKEMA enterprise tuition this interesting new booklet bargains a brand new point of view that demanding situations the demonstrated principles of the posh and model undefined. The authors and participants study the evolution of luxurious procedure and the way the posh is being redefined within the twenty-first century.

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By Jonas Hoffmann

Written via specialists in luxurious and model administration at SKEMA enterprise tuition this interesting new booklet bargains a brand new point of view that demanding situations the demonstrated principles of the posh and model undefined. The authors and participants study the evolution of luxurious procedure and the way the posh is being redefined within the twenty-first century.

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Problems Unique to the Holocaust by Harry James Cargas

By Harry James Cargas

Sufferers of the Holocaust have been confronted with ethical dilemmas for which not anyone might arrange. but some of the life-and-death occasions compelled upon them required instant activities and approximately most unlikely offerings. In difficulties particular to the Holocaust , latest prime Holocaust students learn the tough questions surrounding this negative bankruptcy in global historical past. Is it ever valid to betray others to save lots of your self? If a bunch of Jews is hiding in the back of a wall and a child starts off to cry, should still an grownup smother the kid to guard the security of the others? How in charge are the bystanders who observed what was once occurring yet did not anything to help the sufferers of persecution? as well as those questions, one contributor considers even if commentators might be aim in examining the Holocaust or if it is a subject to be left simply to Jews. within the ultimate essay, one other pupil assesses the problem of ethics in a post-Holocaust international. This singular choice of essays, which closes with a meditation on Daniel Goldhagen's arguable e-book Hitler's keen Executioners , asks daring questions and encourages readers to examine the tragedy of the Holocaust in a brand new gentle.

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By Harry James Cargas

Sufferers of the Holocaust have been confronted with ethical dilemmas for which not anyone might arrange. but some of the life-and-death occasions compelled upon them required instant activities and approximately most unlikely offerings. In difficulties particular to the Holocaust , latest prime Holocaust students learn the tough questions surrounding this negative bankruptcy in global historical past. Is it ever valid to betray others to save lots of your self? If a bunch of Jews is hiding in the back of a wall and a child starts off to cry, should still an grownup smother the kid to guard the security of the others? How in charge are the bystanders who observed what was once occurring yet did not anything to help the sufferers of persecution? as well as those questions, one contributor considers even if commentators might be aim in examining the Holocaust or if it is a subject to be left simply to Jews. within the ultimate essay, one other pupil assesses the problem of ethics in a post-Holocaust international. This singular choice of essays, which closes with a meditation on Daniel Goldhagen's arguable e-book Hitler's keen Executioners , asks daring questions and encourages readers to examine the tragedy of the Holocaust in a brand new gentle.

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The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe

By Lisa Lowe

In this uniquely interdisciplinary paintings, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas within the overdue eighteenth- and early 19th- centuries, exploring the hyperlinks among colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. examining throughout information, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the growth of Anglo-American empire, staring at that summary can provide of freedom usually imprecise their embeddedness inside colonial stipulations. Race and social distinction, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial techniques during which “the human” is universalized and “freed” through liberal types, whereas the peoples who create the stipulations of hazard for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. reading the archive of liberalism along the colonial country information from which it's been separated, Lowe bargains new equipment for studying the previous, studying occasions good documented in documents, and people issues absent, no matter if actively suppressed or purely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a style of studying in detail, which defies approved nationwide obstacles and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of background, politics, economics, and tradition, and eventually, wisdom itself.

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By Lisa Lowe

In this uniquely interdisciplinary paintings, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas within the overdue eighteenth- and early 19th- centuries, exploring the hyperlinks among colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. examining throughout information, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the growth of Anglo-American empire, staring at that summary can provide of freedom usually imprecise their embeddedness inside colonial stipulations. Race and social distinction, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial techniques during which “the human” is universalized and “freed” through liberal types, whereas the peoples who create the stipulations of hazard for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. reading the archive of liberalism along the colonial country information from which it's been separated, Lowe bargains new equipment for studying the previous, studying occasions good documented in documents, and people issues absent, no matter if actively suppressed or purely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a style of studying in detail, which defies approved nationwide obstacles and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of background, politics, economics, and tradition, and eventually, wisdom itself.

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Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success by Jerry Yudelson

By Jerry Yudelson

Advertising eco-friendly construction companies: suggestions for fulfillment provides all of the details key decision-makers have to reply to the fast-growing marketplace for eco-friendly constructions, layout and development services. thoroughly up-to-date, revised and elevated from the author's prior works, this publication is the only source you must achieve the fairway development marketplace.With a legitimate grounding in modern advertising and marketing concept and perform, the ebook assembles hard-to-find info to help executives and companions in layout and building organizations in crafting aggressive suggestions that construct on their company' strengths, whereas shoring up their weaknesses. considering so much layout and development organisations specialise in specific industry sectors, the e-book systematically examines the $64000 marketplace segments for eco-friendly constructions. It additionally provides key company case justifications for eco-friendly structures that support architects, engineers and developers to appreciate shopper motivations and reply to them with applicable advertising strategies and communications ideas. The booklet examines how the fairway development marketplace is adopting sure new items and layout techniques, info that may aid brands and gross sales groups to craft applicable advertising innovations. The ebook additionally is helping vendors and builders comprehend the golf green development enterprise case and to determine what different modern organisations and tasks have discovered - find out how to industry and promote eco-friendly constructions and eco-friendly advancements in a hugely aggressive industry. * learn how modern organisations industry and promote eco-friendly structures * improve suggestions for achievement during this quick becoming, continually altering and hugely aggressive market * methods to comprehend purchaser motivations and reply to them with applicable advertising strategies and communications concepts

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By Jerry Yudelson

Advertising eco-friendly construction companies: suggestions for fulfillment provides all of the details key decision-makers have to reply to the fast-growing marketplace for eco-friendly constructions, layout and development services. thoroughly up-to-date, revised and elevated from the author's prior works, this publication is the only source you must achieve the fairway development marketplace.With a legitimate grounding in modern advertising and marketing concept and perform, the ebook assembles hard-to-find info to help executives and companions in layout and building organizations in crafting aggressive suggestions that construct on their company' strengths, whereas shoring up their weaknesses. considering so much layout and development organisations specialise in specific industry sectors, the e-book systematically examines the $64000 marketplace segments for eco-friendly constructions. It additionally provides key company case justifications for eco-friendly structures that support architects, engineers and developers to appreciate shopper motivations and reply to them with applicable advertising strategies and communications ideas. The booklet examines how the fairway development marketplace is adopting sure new items and layout techniques, info that may aid brands and gross sales groups to craft applicable advertising innovations. The ebook additionally is helping vendors and builders comprehend the golf green development enterprise case and to determine what different modern organisations and tasks have discovered - find out how to industry and promote eco-friendly constructions and eco-friendly advancements in a hugely aggressive industry. * learn how modern organisations industry and promote eco-friendly structures * improve suggestions for achievement during this quick becoming, continually altering and hugely aggressive market * methods to comprehend purchaser motivations and reply to them with applicable advertising strategies and communications concepts

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Origami: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making Animals, by Yukiko Duke, Norio Torimoto

By Yukiko Duke, Norio Torimoto

Master the traditional paintings of paper folding with this illustrated step by step guide.

From playful animals to gentle plant life and enjoyable paper airplanes, this origami consultant has tasks that would satisfaction either youngsters and adults. With phrases, illustrations, and greater than three hundred photos, even the main advanced of folds and manipulations are made basic by means of this book’s easy-to-follow directions. grasp Norio Torimoto takes the secret out of the paintings of paper folding by means of instructing readers the right kind approach at the back of the artwork and the elemental formations which are the root for all his tasks. three hundred colour illustrations; 10 black & white illustrations

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By Yukiko Duke, Norio Torimoto

Master the traditional paintings of paper folding with this illustrated step by step guide.

From playful animals to gentle plant life and enjoyable paper airplanes, this origami consultant has tasks that would satisfaction either youngsters and adults. With phrases, illustrations, and greater than three hundred photos, even the main advanced of folds and manipulations are made basic by means of this book’s easy-to-follow directions. grasp Norio Torimoto takes the secret out of the paintings of paper folding by means of instructing readers the right kind approach at the back of the artwork and the elemental formations which are the root for all his tasks. three hundred colour illustrations; 10 black & white illustrations

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The Findability Formula: The Easy, Non-Technical Approach to by Heather F. Lutze

By Heather F. Lutze

To achieve success in enterprise you need to manage to allure the ideal consumers and convince them to shop for. notwithstanding, on the net, humans merely see what the major search engines direct them to and the contest for these most sensible spots is fierce. So how do you make sure that your online business is front-and-center while customers are trying to find suggestions? the answer's The Findability formulation. The Findability formulation is for an individual who desires to enhance effects from online marketing. The ebook is particularly written for company proprietors who're annoyed with an internet site that isn't exhibiting up in seek effects and never producing company. The Findability formulation may also help readers know how customers and buyers look for services and products on the web, and may express them, step by step, the best way to optimize their findability. The publication might be a non-technical consultant to successfully construction and imposing, from the floor up, a web seek advertising and marketing application that will get effects. The reader will learn the way paid seek works, and the way paid and natural seek can interact to create optimal internet visibility and decrease paid seek expenses through the years. the fundamental message of the e-book is that there's a formulation for findability and for changing customers to purchasers.Readers' merits from The Findability Formula:* an entire step by step method of search engine optimization appropriate to any services or products, The Findability formulation will contain easy-to-follow guide from bankruptcy to bankruptcy in addition to release checklists within the appendix.* the main up to date seek learn and information to be had, together with unusual how you can hook up with your on-line buyer.* exhibits the reader the right way to keep away from universal seek advertising errors that expense giant funds. easy methods to now not be bullied and take regulate of in-house e-commerce division options and SEM agencies.* A small corporation can compete effectively in seek with better, well-established opponents. find out how to paintings smarter to get even greater seek engine "findability".* Maximizes the reader's funding. The reader will not waste cash by way of needlessly procuring "clicks" from consumers who've no purpose of shopping for. The funding during this booklet should be repaid millions of occasions over.* Saves time, funds and effort in growing in-house seek advertising and marketing courses and correctly monitoring effects through key-phrase. Negates the necessity to lease outdoors SEM firms

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By Heather F. Lutze

To achieve success in enterprise you need to manage to allure the ideal consumers and convince them to shop for. notwithstanding, on the net, humans merely see what the major search engines direct them to and the contest for these most sensible spots is fierce. So how do you make sure that your online business is front-and-center while customers are trying to find suggestions? the answer's The Findability formulation. The Findability formulation is for an individual who desires to enhance effects from online marketing. The ebook is particularly written for company proprietors who're annoyed with an internet site that isn't exhibiting up in seek effects and never producing company. The Findability formulation may also help readers know how customers and buyers look for services and products on the web, and may express them, step by step, the best way to optimize their findability. The publication might be a non-technical consultant to successfully construction and imposing, from the floor up, a web seek advertising and marketing application that will get effects. The reader will learn the way paid seek works, and the way paid and natural seek can interact to create optimal internet visibility and decrease paid seek expenses through the years. the fundamental message of the e-book is that there's a formulation for findability and for changing customers to purchasers.Readers' merits from The Findability Formula:* an entire step by step method of search engine optimization appropriate to any services or products, The Findability formulation will contain easy-to-follow guide from bankruptcy to bankruptcy in addition to release checklists within the appendix.* the main up to date seek learn and information to be had, together with unusual how you can hook up with your on-line buyer.* exhibits the reader the right way to keep away from universal seek advertising errors that expense giant funds. easy methods to now not be bullied and take regulate of in-house e-commerce division options and SEM agencies.* A small corporation can compete effectively in seek with better, well-established opponents. find out how to paintings smarter to get even greater seek engine "findability".* Maximizes the reader's funding. The reader will not waste cash by way of needlessly procuring "clicks" from consumers who've no purpose of shopping for. The funding during this booklet should be repaid millions of occasions over.* Saves time, funds and effort in growing in-house seek advertising and marketing courses and correctly monitoring effects through key-phrase. Negates the necessity to lease outdoors SEM firms

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Proceedings of the Third Japan — USSR Symposium on by T. A. Azlarov, Ya. M. Husainov (auth.), Gisiro Maruyama,

By T. A. Azlarov, Ya. M. Husainov (auth.), Gisiro Maruyama, Jurii V. Prokhorov (eds.)

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