Product Description: This book provides an economic approach to the study of collective decision making. In Social Choice theory, the main problem of collective decision making is normally conceived of as one of aggregating diverse individual preferences...read more

The ‘nihonjinron’ is a body of writing and thought which constitutes a major and highly thought of academic industry in Japan. It analyses the Japanese identity and presupposes that the Japanese differ radically from other people in their make-up. It believes that their uniqueness is due to linguistic, sociological and philosophical differences. First published in 1988, this book is a critical analysis of the thought on which the ‘nihonjinron’ is based. Placing particular emphasis upon psychoanalysis, which constitutes the centrepiece of the book, Peter Dale reasons that the ‘nihonjinron’ should be treated as a mythological system.

Product Description: This volume brings together papers presented at the Oxford Energy Seminar from 1982 to 1985, focusing on the operations of the oil market and behavior of oil prices, and the role and policies of OPEC in recent years. The book traces the major changes in Saudi Arabia's policies as evidenced by statements made at the Seminar, and includes the speeches that marked the beginning of the current oil price crisis as well as authoritative comments on OPEC policies from officials of both producers and OECD countries and senior managers of major oil companies...read more

Product Description: The English writer Mrs. Bishop (aka Isabella L. Bird) was a household name in the 19th century, and one of the great female explorers of all time. This book is a fascinating chronicle of her travels in Japan, which at the time had only just opened its gates to the outside world.

An account of the author's stay in a monastery in Kyoto, Japan, in order to learn about Zen Buddhism, introduces readers to Sachiko--a well-educated English-speaking, Japanese housewife locked in a traditional marriage but drawn to the author and to Western culture

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Product Description: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan

Offers a checklist of acceptible and unacceptible practices, attitudes, and actions for visitors to the region

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Product Description: HER BOSS DEMANDED MARRIAGE! Pregnant Molly Larkin thought Sheik Kaliq bin Shalik would graciously accept her resignation, but instead he proposed a marriage of convenience. Seemed her powerful boss needed an American bride to stay in the country and, thanks to opening her heart to the wrong man, Molly needed a name for her unborn child...read more

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Product Description: This is the updated third edition of an atlas first published in 1998. During the past six years, the transportation network of the metropolitan area of Tokyo has changed a good deal. In the case of the subway system, lines have been extended, and some rapid-transit lines have been added, so code numbers for each station are given in our atlas for foreign travelers to identify them easily...read more

Whether your customers are traveling in luxury or with just a pack on their back, it's important that they have a safe, fun, and easy-going trip. Bad etiquette and a misunderstanding about customs can put an otherwise very exciting trip on hold faster than a bad case of food poisoning. Readers are going to want to know about the Culture Smart! customs and etiquette series and will find them as indispensable as their passports. The Culture Smart! titles are not your basic travel guides: they are consistently updated customs and etiquette references for more than twenty-five countries, with six new titles available this fall. Now more than ever, travelers are more than just sightseers and tourists; they're ambassadors making impressions of the United States wherever they go. Readers will find these to be invaluable for pointing them on their way to a safe and fun trip abroad.

Product Description: Order the freshest fugu, survive a karaoke session and know how deep to bow. Go beyond the shrines, sushi and subway and discover Japan through its language and people.Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages...read more

Product Description: The Rough Guide Japanese Phrasebook is the definitive Phrasebook to help you make the most of your time in Japan. Whether you want to book a hotel room, ask what time the train leaves, or buy a drink from the bar, this Phrasebook has a dictionary of more than 5,000 words and will help you communicate with the locals in no time...read more

Product Description: Featuring an attractive new cover, and the same convenient, traveler-friendly size as the previous editions, this completely up-to-date version includes maps, created by satellite imaging, that offer some of the most comprehensive and detailed topography of Japan to date...read more

Product Description: For more than one thousand years, the vast Buddhist monastery and temple complex on remote Mount Kōya has been one of Japan's most important religious centers. Saint Kōbō Daishi (also known as Kūkai), founder of the esoteric Shingon school and one of the great figures of world Buddhism, consecrated the mountain for holy purposes in the early 800s...read more

Culture Wise Japan is essential reading for anyone planning to visit or live in Japan, whether for business or pleasure, for a few weeks' vacation or a lifetime. It is guaranteed to help newcomers avoid cultural and social gaffes; make friends and influence people; and enhance their understanding of Japan and the Japanese people. Printed in color.

Product Description: A distillation of Bouvier's lifelong quest for Japan and his many travels, so that the reader discovers the country through the eyes of both a passionate young man, the sensual appreciation of a middle-aged artist, and the serenity of an experienced writer...read more