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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Poisoned Table A Novel【電子書籍】[ Diane Michael Cantor ]

THE POISONED TABLE portrays a passionate rivalry between fictional actress Isabel Graves and real-life Shakespearian stage sensation Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble. In this tale of ambition, romance, and betrayal, Graves harbors early resentment, convinced that Kemble’s family theatre connections assured Fanny’s selection for the lead role in Romeo and Juliet despite Isabel’s superior beauty and talent. The novel traces their unconnected adventures and acting careers in the Old and New Worlds, as well as their introduction to the horrors of American slavery and to romance with one of the wealthiest men in America, Pierce Butler, owner of Georgia cotton and rice plantations and master of more than 800 slaves. Kemble, an ardent abolitionist, falls in love with Butler and marries him before she discovers his wealth derives soley from slave labor. Though glad to be separated from plantation life at her husband’s Philadelphia home, Kemble agrees to accompany him on his annual visit to inspect his Georgia investments. Butler assures his wife her apprehensions about slavery will be assuaged once she sees firsthand its humane daily operation. Instead, she is sickened and chronicles her visit in Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839. This account, published in England in 1863, is sometimes credited with dissuading Britain from aiding the Confederacy. Within the novel is a play written by Graves’ lover. Set on a slave plantation, the plot portrays a dinner at the master’s table and the poisonous conditions which produce its bounty, resulting in an attempted murder. In the controversy following this play’s opening night, Kemble and Graves are again at odds, and their rivalry continues as they change places on the stage of theatre and of life.画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Collaborative Innovation Developing Health Support Ecosystems【電子書籍】

＜p＞With the development of the aging society and the increased importance of emergency risk management in recent years, a large number of medical care challenges - advancing medical treatments, care & support, pharmacological treatments, greater health awareness, emergency treatments, telemedical treatment and care, the introduction of electronic charts, and rising costs - are emerging as social issues throughout the whole world. Hospitals and other medical institutions must develop and maintain superior management to achieve systems that can provide better medical care, welfare and health while enabling "support innovation." Key medical care, welfare and health industries play a crucial role in this, but also of importance are management innovation models that enable "collaborative innovation" by closely linking diverse fields such as ICT, energy, electric equipment, machinery and transport.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Looking across different industries, ＜em＞Collaborative Innovation＜/em＞ offers new knowledge and insights on the extraordinary value and increasing necessity of collaboration across different organizations in improving the health and lives of people. It breaks new ground with its research theme of building "health support ecosystems," focusing on protecting people through collaborative innovation. This book opens up new, wide-ranging interdisciplinary academic research domains combining the humanities with science across various areas including general business administration, economics, information technology, medical informatics and drug information science.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】An Essay on the Principle of Population【電子書籍】[ Thomas Malthus ]

＜p＞One of the most influential works of its era on the subject of population growth Thomas Malthus's "An Essay on the Principle of Population" was first published anonymously in 1798. In it Malthus describes his "Iron Law of Population" which asserts that growing populations ultimately lead to a rising supply of labor that would inevitably lower wages and create an increasing rate of poverty. More specifically Malthus argues "The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race." In other words while population has the capacity to grow at an exponential rate the resources that support mans existence, i.e. food and shelter, can only grow at an algebraic rate. While ultimately time would prove Malthus's predictions to be wrong, for they did not foresee the impact of technology on productivity, the work was nonetheless highly influential to both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in developing the theory of natural selection. The work would also stir the debate around the impact of population growth and lead to the first national census laws in Britain.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】O culto da arte em Portugal【電子書籍】[ Jos? Duarte Ramalho Ortig?o ]

＜p＞MEUS SENHORES: Encontrando-me n'este logar por virtude d'um convite da Real Associa??o Central da Agricultura Portugueza, a minha primeira obriga??o ? agradecer a honra que esse convite para mim significa. Essa obriga??o cumpro-a com devo??o, n?o s? pelo respeito que me merecem as pessoas que me convidaram mas ainda pela superior considera??o que ha muito votei ? classe a que pertencem. ? minha convic??o que, se ha possibilidade de consolida??o e desenvolvimento nacional, nenhuma classe est? destinada a ter n'essa grande obra maior e mais proveitosa influencia do que a dos agricultores e proprietarios ruraes; porque em nenhuma outra ? mais intimo e constante o contacto de grandes e pequenos, a penetra??o das diversas condi??es n'um labor conjugado e solidario e, por conseguinte, em nenhuma outra dever? manifestar-se mais intensamente esta harmonia social, este equilibrio moral e economico que ? a cor?a de toda a grandeza politica e que ? a condi??o fundamental da paz e da verdadeira prosperidade. Mostrou a direc??o d'esta Real Associa??o desejos de que me occupasse do credito agricola＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman【電子書籍】[ Joseph R. Fornieri ]

＜p＞2015 ISHS Superior Achievement Award＜/p＞ ＜p＞What constitutes Lincoln’s political greatness as a statesman? As a great leader, he saved the Union, presided over the end of slavery, and helped to pave the way for an interracial democracy. His great speeches provide enduring wisdom about human equality, democracy, free labor, and free society. Joseph R. Fornieri contends that Lincoln’s political genius is best understood in terms of a philosophical statesmanship that united greatness of thought and action, one that combined theory and practice. This philosophical statesmanship, Fornieri argues, can best be understood in terms of six dimensions of political leadership: wisdom, prudence, duty, magnanimity, rhetoric, and patriotism. Drawing on insights from history, politics, and philosophy, Fornieri tackles the question of how Lincoln’s statesmanship displayed each of these crucial elements.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Providing an accessible framework for understanding Lincoln’s statesmanship, this thoughtful study examines the sixteenth president’s political leadership in terms of the traditional moral vision of statecraft as understood by epic political philosophers such as Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Fornieri contends that Lincoln’s character is best understood in terms of Aquinas’s understanding of magnanimity or greatness of soul, the crowning virtue of statesmanship. True political greatness, as embodied by Lincoln, involves both humility and sacrificial service for the common good. The enduring wisdom and timeless teachings of these great thinkers, Fornieri shows, can lead to a deeper appreciation of statesmanship and of its embodiment in Abraham Lincoln.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With the great philosophers and books of western civilization as his guide, Fornieri demonstrates the important contribution of normative political philosophy to an understanding of our sixteenth president. Informed by political theory that draws on the classics in revealing the timelessness of Lincoln’s example, his interdisciplinary study offers profound insights for anyone interested in the nature of leadership, statesmanship, political philosophy, political ethics, political history, and constitutional law.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Ship of Ghosts The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga ofHer Survivors【電子書籍】[ James D. Hornfischer ]

＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞NEW YORK TIMES＜/em＞ BESTSELLER＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Son, we’re going to Hell."＜/p＞ ＜p＞The navigator of the USS ＜em＞Houston＜/em＞ confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS ＜em＞Houston＜/em＞ was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. It wasn’t a fair fight, but the men of the Houston would wage it to the death.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hornfischer brings to life the awesome terror of nighttime naval battles that turned decks into strobe-lit slaughterhouses, the deadly rain of fire from Japanese bombers, and the almost superhuman effort of the crew as they miraculously escaped disaster again and again?until their luck ran out during a daring action in Sunda Strait. There, hopelessly outnumbered, the ＜em＞Houston＜/em＞ was finally sunk and its survivors taken prisoner. For more than three years their fate would be a mystery to families waiting at home.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the brutal privation of jungle POW camps dubiously immortalized in such films as ＜em＞The Bridge on the River Kwai＜/em＞, the war continued for the men of the ＜em＞Houston＜/em＞ーa life-and-death struggle to survive forced labor, starvation, disease, and psychological torture. Here is the gritty, unvarnished story of the infamous Burma?Thailand Death Railway glamorized by Hollywood, but which in reality mercilessly reduced men to little more than animals, who fought back against their dehumanization with dignity, ingenuity, sabotage, will?powerーand the undying faith that their country would prevail.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Using journals and letters, rare historical documents, including testimony from postwar Japanese war crimes tribunals, and the eyewitness accounts of ＜em＞Houston＜/em＞’s survivors, James Hornfischer has crafted an account of human valor so riveting and awe-inspiring, it’s easy to forget that every single word is true.＜/p＞ ＜p＞BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from James D. Hornfischer's ＜em＞Neptune's Inferno＜/em＞.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Collaboration Strategy How to Get What You Want from Employees, Suppliers and Business Partners【電子書籍】[ Mr Felix Barber ]

＜p＞Current strategy thinking focuses on what to do, not how to motivate employees, suppliers and business partners to do it. Whether working with employees or with external suppliers, companies are increasingly stumbling with implementing strategy. But why is this happening? And how can we address it? ＜em＞Collaboration Strategy＜/em＞ argues that motivating people and companies is fundamental to business success. In the activities that matter most in today's economy ? design, development, marketing, sales, projects ? it is hard to define just what you want done. Setting up business activities to get the results you want becomes a strategic challenge. In industries from pharmaceuticals to fashion, software to stock exchanges, new ways of working with partners that break down traditional company boundaries and establish new roles and relationships have enabled businesses to grow rapidly and achieve superior profits.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the heart of this book, Felix Barber and Michael Goold have combined their considerable expertise to present a complete and original 'collaboration framework' based on their findings over a seven year period in which they interviewed over 200 businesses. The framework explains how to set up to get the results you want for a range of different activities and industries. They present the 10 requirements needed for profitable collaboration, and use real-life scenarios to apply their framework and analysis, offering a menu of tactics to address the most common problems in setting up collaboration with partners.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Essentially, you must design a basis for working together, or 'collaboration,' with your employees and suppliers that will get them to do what you want.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Allied Participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Coalition of the Willing for the Iraq War 2003, Force Contributions by Nations, Challengers for Army Planners【電子書籍】[ Progressive Management ]

＜p＞The invasion of Iraq in March 2003ーOperation Iraqi Freedomーwas controversial at its start. The United Nations was reluctant to provide a specific endorsement for direct U.S. military action. Without this authorization, a number of close allies refused to participate in the operation. In order to garner greater support and provide an international flavor to the intervention, President George W. Bush assembled a "coalition of the willing," ultimately involving about sixty nations. Although some of these countries supplied little more than nominal assistance, fully thirty-seven of them furnished a total of around 150,000 ground forces from the start of the operation through July 2009. These troops conducted security operations; provided reconstruction assistance; operated command-and-control headquarters; and fought, were wounded, and killed alongside U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines. This temporary alliance was more than just a paper coalition; it involved substantial and important support from our international partners in helping achieve U.S. war aims. It is important that the United States Army and the American people know about and remember the sacrifices of these allies. Allied Participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom highlights a number of key aspects of allied support to the U.S.-led operation. The presence of ground forces from so many coalition partners allowed U.S. combat forces to focus their generally superior capabilities in more contested sections of the country. This division of labor served American ends while still ensuring that our partners performed vital work that fully justified their commitment to Iraq's security. These combined operations also strengthened the ties between countries and improved the quality of interoperability between U.S. and coalition troops. Allied support played an important role in stabilizing the situation in Iraq.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This short study also underscores the significant challenges that U.S. Army planners faced in Iraqi Freedom in integrating a host of different military partners into U.S. operational plans. Similar issues of working together in a complex military environment will doubtless reoccur in future operations, but the benefits of assembling such coalitions will almost certainly outweigh the problems. The United States cannot fight alone in the current operational environment, and improving the quantity and quality of our interaction with our international partners should continue to be a high priority. I commend this monograph to today's Army to read, gain insight into such combined operations, and reflect on how much support our allies can provide in future military endeavors.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Introduction * Allied Participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom * Overview * Formation of the Coalition of the Willing, November 2002-March 2003 * Major Combat Operations: Coalition Forces Land Component Command, March-May 2003 * Combined Joint Task Force-7, June 2003-May 2004 * Multi-National Force-Iraq, May 2004-July 2009 * Analysis * Force Contributions by Nations * Albania * Armenia * Australia * Azerbaijan * Bosnia-Herzegovina * Bulgaria * Czech Republic * Denmark * Dominican Republic * El Salvador * Estonia * Georgia * Honduras * Hungary * Italy * Japan * Kazakhstan * Latvia * Lithuania * Macedonia * Moldova * Mongolia * The Netherlands * New Zealand * Nicaragua * Norway * Philippines * Poland * Portugal * Republic of Korea * Romania * Slovakia * Spain * Thailand * Tonga * Ukraine * United Kingdom * Further Readings * Abbreviations＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】METAS "SMART" EN PALABRAS SIMPLES【電子書籍】[ S.J. Scott ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Descripci?n del libro＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞DESCUBRA:＜/strong＞ Aprenda a establecer metas personales y profesionales que efectivamente pueda alcanzar.＜/p＞ ＜p＞?A menudo se propone metas que pareciera no poder lograr jam?s? Todos tenemos sue?os y aspiraciones. La mayor?a de nosotros anhela establecer relaciones satisfactorias. Algunos desean alcanzar su libertad personal. Otros aspiran a lograr fama y ?xito. Y otros luchan por hacer buenos negocios. Cualquiera sea la naturaleza de sus ambiciones, establecer metas puede ayudarlo a alcanzarlas.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sin embargo, si se plantea metas equivocadas es posible que se sienta frustrado y desmotivado. Cuando apuntamos a objetivos demasiado elevados, es muy f?cil darnos por vencidos al notar que nuestro sue?o no se hace nunca realidad.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Todos debemos enfrentar distintos desaf?os en la vida que nos gustar?a superar; el secreto para conseguirlo est? en elaborar un plan y cumplirlo con fidelidad. Establecer metas SMART puede ayudarlo en dicha tarea.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ACT?E:＜/strong＞ Establezca metas SMART y consiga resultados reales.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Su formulaci?n es muy simple. Basta con que ponga por escrito un resultado que busca alcanzar y el plazo en el que pretende alcanzarlo. La parte dif?cil de la labor es actuar. Como podr? haberse dado cuenta, Internet est? plagada de libros que hablan sobre c?mo establecer metas. Pero existe un problema: la mayor?a de ellos no alude a las actividades diarias o h?bitos que son necesarios para alcanzarlas.＜/p＞ ＜p＞En METAS "SMART" EN PALABRAS SIMPLES podr? obtener un plan de diez pasos para el establecimiento y logro de metas. A diferencia de otros, este libro le ense?ar? a transformar una idea en realidad. Adem?s de ofrecerle un panorama general de las metas SMART, tambi?n obtendr? un plan maestro para llevar dichas metas a la rutina de la vida diaria.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞DESCARGUE:＜/strong＞ METAS "SMART" EN PALABRAS SIMPLES - 10 PASOS PARA DOMINAR SUS METAS PERSONALES Y PROFESIONALES＜/p＞ ＜p＞METAS "SMART" EN PALABRAS SIMPLES contiene un detallado plan maestro para convertir cualquier meta importante de la vida en un viable programa de trabajo diario. Por medio de este libro conseguir?:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Entender c?mo se formula adecuadamente una meta SMART＜br /＞ Detectar aquello que realmente desea lograr＜br /＞ Establecer metas para 7 ?reas de su vida＜br /＞ Formular metas trimestrales totalmente factibles＜br /＞ Transformar metas SMART en h?bitos en tan solo 5 pasos＜br /＞ Verificar el cumplimiento de sus metas por medio de una revisi?n semanal＜br /＞ Organizar visualmente la informaci?n para definir cada paso a seguir＜br /＞ Controlar el avance diario alcanzado con respecto a sus metas＜br /＞ Superar los 5 principales obst?culos para el establecimiento de metas SMART＜br /＞ Revisar sus metas de la manera correcta y corroborar que su rumbo es adecuado＜br /＞ Mantener alta la motivaci?n al asumir la responsabilidad de sus propias metas＜/p＞ ＜p＞Establecer metas no tiene por qu? ser tarea dif?cil. Es posible conseguir cualquier meta que nos propongamos si tan solo aplicamos el plan adecuado. METAS "SMART" EN PALABRAS SIMPLES puede ayudarlo al respecto.＜/p＞ ＜p＞?Necesita m?s informaci?n?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Descargue el libro y comience hoy mismo a trabajar en sus propias metas.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Regrese a la parte superior de la pantalla y seleccione la opci?n "Buy".＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Deliver Value Through Rapid Implementations【電子書籍】[ Simon Miller ]

＜h4＞Implement Oracle Business Intelligence Applications＜/h4＞ ＜p＞Provide actionable business intelligence across the enterprise to enable informed decision-making and streamlined business processes. ＜em＞Oracle Business Intelligence Applications: Deliver Value Through Rapid Implementations＜/em＞ shows how to justify, configure, customize, and extend this complete package of BI solutions. You'll get a technical walkthrough of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications architecture--from the dashboard to the data source--followed by best practices for maximizing the powerful features of each application. You will also find out about stakeholders critical to project approval and success.＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Optimize performance using Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine＜/li＞ ＜li＞Deliver timely financial information to managers with Oracle Financial Analytics＜/li＞ ＜li＞Enable a streamlined, demand-driven supply chain via Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics＜/li＞ ＜li＞Provide end-to-end visibility into manufacturing operations with Oracle Manufacturing Analytics＜/li＞ ＜li＞Optimize supply-side performance through Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics＜/li＞ ＜li＞Use Oracle Human Resources Analytics to provide key workforce information to managers and HR professionals＜/li＞ ＜li＞Track the costs and labor required to maintain and operate assets with Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Analytics＜/li＞ ＜li＞Maintain visibility into project performance via Oracle Project Analytics＜/li＞ ＜li＞Provide actionable insight into sales opportunities using Oracle Sales Analytics＜/li＞ ＜li＞Enable superior customer service with Oracle Service Analytics＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The North American Indian (1907), volume 1 of a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the US and Alaska【電子書籍】[ Edward S. Curtis ]

＜p＞"The task of recording the descriptive material embodied in these volumes, and of preparing the photographs which accompany them, had its inception in 1898. Since that time, during each year, months of arduous labor have been spent in accumulating the data necessary to form a comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes of the United States and Alaska that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive customs and traditions. The value of such a work, in great measure, will lie in the breadth of its treatment, in its wealth of illustration, and in the fact that it represents the result of personal study of a people who are rapidly losing the traces of their aboriginal character and who are destined ultimately to become assimilated with the "superior race."＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Advance and Retreat【電子書籍】[ Harry Turtledove ]

THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN!＜br＞＜br＞When Avram became King of Detina, he declared he intended to liberate the blond serfs from their ties to the land. This noble assertion immediately plunged the kingdom into a civil war that would prove long and bloody, and set brother against brother. The northern provinces, dependent on their serf's labor, seceded, choosing Avram's cousin, Grand Duke Geoffrey, as their king. To save the kingdom, Avram sent armies clad in gray against the slave-holding North, battling Geoffrey's army, arrayed in blue.＜br＞＜br＞Though King Avram held more land and wealth than Geoffrey, Geoffrey's men were better soldiers and the North had better and more powerful wizards. Still, as the war raged on, greater population and superior organization began to tell and the tide turned against the North.＜br＞＜br＞Even so, the war is far from over. The South still faces two formidable leaders: General Bell, whose loss of a leg has only strengthened his resolve, and Ned of the Forest, whose unicorn riders are the most dangerous force on the Northern side. And though the Southern sorcerers have become more adept at war spells, use of sorcery is unpredictableーas the North learned earlier when its forces held an almost impregnable position, but retreated in terror when an overconfident sorcerer's spell went awry.＜br＞＜br＞Though victory seems in sight for the South, its armies must now battle the North on its own ground, ground which will prove treacherous and deadly. . . .＜br＞＜br＞At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Holding Our World Together Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community【電子書籍】[ Brenda J. Child ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities were, in fact, organized around women's labor, the sanctity of mothers, and the wisdom of female elders. In this well-researched and deeply felt account of the Ojibwe of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River, Brenda J. Child details the ways in which women have shaped Native American life from the days of early trade with Europeans through the reservation era and beyond.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The latest volume in the Penguin Library of American Indian History, ＜em＞Holding Our World Together＜/em＞ illuminates the lives of women such as Madeleine Cadotte, who became a powerful mediator between her people and European fur traders, and Gertrude Buckanaga, whose postwar community activism in Minneapolis helped bring many Indian families out of poverty. Drawing on these stories and others, Child offers a powerful tribute to the many courageous women who sustained Native communities through the darkest challenges of the last three centuries.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Partnership Marketing How to Grow Your Business and Transform Your Brand Through Smart Collaboration【電子書籍】[ Ron Kunitzky ]

＜p＞Google, Microsoft, Apple, Starbucks, and Wal-Mart are "category killers." Why? One key to their astounding success is that they have mastered the art of creating highly attractive partner and customer value propositions. They have all built their business on the principles and practices of Partnership Marketing to offer superior products, create long-term distribution opportunities, new revenue streams for their businesses, and increased brand awareness on a world-wide level.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Developing an affiliation with the right partner allows both parties to realize successes that they could not have otherwise achieved on their own by transforming their individual strengths into mutual performance. Whether you're an entrepreneur working to expand your customer base and increase value or a corporation looking for cost-effective ways to stimulate growth and brand-presence on a tight budget, ＜em＞Partnership Marketing＜/em＞ is a practical in-depth guide to this core business concept.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A powerful strategy in good times, partnership marketing is an excellent way to gain competitive advantage and grow your business even in tough, recessionary economic conditions. As marketing resources are being slashed everywhere, coupled with employee lay-offs and cutbacks to existing programs, partnership marketing is a creative way to do more with less.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Partnership Marketing＜/em＞ provides the complete how-to of collaborating successfully with other organizations, including: how to align PM objectives to your resources; how to assess what you have to offer a partner-brand and how to leverage your core strengths; how to search for the right partner-brand; how to assess the pros and cons of partnering with other brands; and much more.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Iron Will Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006【電子書籍】[ Terry S. Reynolds ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The history of Cleveland-Cliffs, a company that played a key role in iron mining development in the Lake Superior region.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-?2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia P. Dawson tell the story of Cleveland-Cliffs, the only surviving independent American iron mining company, now known as Cliffs Natural Resources. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland-Cliffs played a major role in the opening and development of the Lake Superior mining district and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through Cleveland-Cliffs' history, Reynolds and Dawson examine major transitions in the history of the American iron and steel industry from the perspective of an important raw materials supplier.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Reynolds and Dawson trace Cleveland-Cliffs' beginnings around 1850, its growth under Samuel L. Mather and his son William G. Mather, its emergence as an important player in the growing national iron ore market, and its tribulations during the Great Depression. The authors explore the company's fortunes after World War II, when Cleveland-Cliffs developed technologies to tap into vast reserves of low-grade Michigan iron ore and turned to joint ventures and strategic partnerships to raise the capital needed to implement them. The authors also explain how the company became the largest independent producer of iron ore in the United States by purchasing the mining interests of its bankrupt partners during the implosion of the American steel industry in the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Reynolds and Dawson detail Cleveland-Cliffs' evolving efforts to deal with labor, from its early mostly immigrant workforce to its ambitious program of welfare capitalism in the early twentieth century to its struggles with organized labor after World War II.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Iron Will is a thorough, well-organized history based on extensive archival research and interviews with company personnel. This story will appeal to scholars interested in industrial or mining history, business historians, and those interested in Great Lakes and Michigan history.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】American Woman's Home: Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes【電子書籍】[ Catharine Esther Beecher ]

＜p＞The authors of this volume, while they sympathize with every honest effort to relieve the disabilities and sufferings of their sex, are confident that the chief cause of these evils is the fact that the honor and duties of the family state are not duly appreciated, that women are not trained for these duties as men are trained for their trades and professions, and that, as the consequence, family labor is poorly done, poorly paid, and regarded as menial and disgraceful. To be the nurse of young children, a cook, or a housemaid, is regarded as the lowest and last resort of poverty, and one which no woman of culture and position can assume without loss of caste and respectability. It is the aim of this volume to elevate both the honor and the remuneration of all the employments that sustain the many difficult and sacred duties of the family state, and thus to render each department of woman's true profession as much desired and respected as are the most honored professions of men. When the other sex are to be instructed in law, medicine, or divinity, they are favored with numerous institutions richly endowed, with teachers of the highest talents and acquirements, with extensive libraries, and abundant and costly apparatus. With such advantages they devote nearly ten of the best years of life to preparing themselves for their profession; and to secure the public from unqualified members of these professions, none can enter them until examined by a competent body, who certify to their due preparation for their duties. Woman's profession embraces the care and nursing of the body in the critical periods of infancy and sickness, the training of the human mind in the most impressible period of childhood, the instruction and control of servants, and most of the government and economies of the family state. These duties of woman are as sacred and important as any ordained to man; and yet no such advantages for preparation have been accorded to her, nor is there any qualified body to certify the public that a woman is duly prepared to give proper instruction in her profession. This unfortunate want, and also the questions frequently asked concerning the domestic qualifications of both the authors of this work, who have formerly written upon such topics, make it needful to give some account of the advantages they have enjoyed in preparation for the important office assumed as teachers of woman's domestic duties. The sister whose name is subscribed is the eldest of nine children by her own mother, and of four by her step-mother; and having a natural love for children, she found it a pleasure as well as a duty to aid in the care of infancy and childhood. At sixteen, she was deprived of a mother, who was remarkable not only for intelligence and culture, but for a natural taste and skill in domestic handicraft. Her place was awhile filled by an aunt remarkable for her habits of neatness and order, and especially for her economy. She was, in the course of time, replaced by a stepmother, who had been accustomed to a superior style of housekeeping, and was an expert in all departments of domestic administration.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Miss or Mrs.?【電子書籍】[ Wilkie Collins ]

＜p＞The night had come to an end. The new-born day waited for its quickening＜/p＞ ＜p＞light in the silence that is never known on land--the silence before＜/p＞ ＜p＞sunrise, in a calm at sea.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Not a breath came from the dead air. Not a ripple stirred on the＜/p＞ ＜p＞motionless water. Nothing changed but the softly-growing light; nothing＜/p＞ ＜p＞moved but the lazy mist, curling up to meet the sun, its master, on the＜/p＞ ＜p＞eastward sea. By fine gradations, the airy veil of morning thinned in＜/p＞ ＜p＞substance as it rose--thinned, till there dawned through it in the first＜/p＞ ＜p＞rays of sunlight the tall white sails of a Schooner Yacht.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From stem to stern silence possessed the vessel--as silence possessed＜/p＞ ＜p＞the sea.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But one living creature was on deck--the man at the helm, dozing＜/p＞ ＜p＞peaceably with his arm over the useless tiller. Minute by minute the＜/p＞ ＜p＞light grew, and the heat grew with it; and still the helmsman slumbered,＜/p＞ ＜p＞the heavy sails hung noiseless, the quiet water lay sleeping against＜/p＞ ＜p＞the vessel's sides. The whole orb of the sun was visible above the＜/p＞ ＜p＞water-line, when the first sound pierced its way through the morning＜/p＞ ＜p＞silence. From far off over the shining white ocean, the cry of a＜/p＞ ＜p＞sea-bird reached the yacht on a sudden out of the last airy circles of＜/p＞ ＜p＞the waning mist.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The sleeper at the helm woke; looked up at the idle sails, and yawned＜/p＞ ＜p＞in sympathy with them; looked out at the sea on either side of him, and＜/p＞ ＜p＞shook his head obstinately at the superior obstinacy of the calm.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Blow, my little breeze!" said the man, whistling the sailor's＜/p＞ ＜p＞invocation to the wind softly between his teeth. "Blow, my little＜/p＞ ＜p＞breeze!"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"How's her head?" cried a bold and brassy voice, hailing the deck from＜/p＞ ＜p＞the cabin staircase.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Anywhere you like, master; all round the compass."＜/p＞ ＜p＞The voice was followed by the man. The owner of the yacht appeared on＜/p＞ ＜p＞deck.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Behold Richard Turlington, Esq., of the great Levant firm of Pizzituti,＜/p＞ ＜p＞Turlington & Branca! Aged eight-and-thirty; standing stiffly and＜/p＞ ＜p＞sturdily at a height of not more than five feet six--Mr. Turlington＜/p＞ ＜p＞presented to the view of his fellow-creatures a face of the＜/p＞ ＜p＞perpendicular order of human architecture. His forehead was a straight＜/p＞ ＜p＞line, his upper lip was another, his chin was the straightest and the＜/p＞ ＜p＞longest line of all. As he turned his swarthy countenance eastward,＜/p＞ ＜p＞and shaded his light gray eyes from the sun, his knotty hand plainly＜/p＞ ＜p＞revealed that it had got him his living by its own labor at one time or＜/p＞ ＜p＞another in his life. Taken on the whole, this was a man whom it might＜/p＞ ＜p＞be easy to respect, but whom it would be hard to love. Better company at＜/p＞ ＜p＞the official desk than at the social table. Morally and physically--if＜/p＞ ＜p＞the expression may be permitted--a man without a bend in him.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Elect Lady【電子書籍】[ George MacDonald ]

＜p＞LANDLORD'S DAUGHTER AND TENANT'S SON. In a kitchen of moderate size, flagged with slate, humble in its appointments, yet looking scarcely that of a farmhouseーfor there were utensils about it indicating necessities more artificial than usually grow upon a farmーwith the corner of a white deal table between them, sat two young people evidently different in rank, and meeting upon no level of friendship. The young woman held in her hand a paper, which seemed the subject of their conversation. She was about four- or five-and-twenty, well grown and not ungraceful, with dark hair, dark hazel eyes, and rather large, handsome features, full of intelligence, but a little hard, and not a little regnantーas such features must be, except after prolonged influence of a heart potent in self-subjugation. As to her social expression, it was a mingling of the gentlewoman of education, and the farmer's daughter supreme over the household and its share in the labor of production. As to the young man, it would have required a deeper-seeing eye than falls to the lot of most observers, not to take him for a weaker nature than the young woman; and the deference he showed her as the superior, would have enhanced the difficulty of a true judgment. He was tall and thin, but plainly in fine health; had a good forehead, and a clear hazel eye, not overlarge or prominent, but full of light; a firm mouth, with a curious smile; a sun-burned complexion; and a habit when perplexed of pinching his upper lip between his finger and thumb, which at the present moment he was unconsciously indulging. He was the son of a small farmerーin what part of Scotland is of little consequenceーand his companion for the moment was the daughter of the laird. "I have glanced over the poem," said the lady, "and it seems to me quite up to the average of what you see in print." "Would that be reason for printing it, ma'am?" asked the man, with amused smile＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Creating A Collaborative Enterprise【電子書籍】[ Robert Nitschke ]

＜p＞Your organization can collaborate its way to success. There are many relationships which must be integrated for an enterprise to deliver superior performance. Does the enterprise know who these groups are, how important they are, and how to relate to them to achieve greater success? Knowing how to change the inter-relationships and dependencies on these groups will contribute to increased success.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Los favores del mundo【電子書籍】[ Juan Ruiz de Alarc?n ]

＜p＞EL MEXICANISMO DE ALARCON El mundo de la comedia de Alarc?n es, en lo exterior, el mismo mundo de la escuela de Lope: galanes nobles que pretenden, contra otros de su categor?a, o m?s altos (frecuentemente pr?ncipes), a damas vigiladas, no por madres que jam?s existen, sino por padres, hermanos o t?os; enredos e intrigas de amor; conflictos de honor por el decoro femenino o la emulaci?n de los caballeros; amor irreflexivo en el hombre, afici?n variable en la mujer; soluci?n, la que salga, distribuy?ndose matrimonios aun innecesarios o inconvenientes. Pero este mundo, que en la obra de los dramaturgos peninsulares vive y se agita vertiginosamente anudando y reanudando conflictos como en compleja danza de figuras, en Alarc?n se mueve con menos rapidez: su marcha, su desarrollo son m?s mesurados y m?s calculados, sometidos a una l?gica m?s estricta (salvo los desenlaces). Ya se?al? en ?l Hartzenbusch "la brevedad de los di?logos, el cuidado constante de evitar repeticiones, y la manera singular y r?pida de cortar a veces los actos" (y las escenas). No se excede, si se le juzga comparativamente, en los enredos; mucho menos en las palabras; reduce los mon?logos, las digresiones, los arranques l?ricos, las largas pl?ticas y disputas llenas de brillantes juegos de ingenio. S?lo los relatos suelen ser largos, por excesivo deseo de explicaci?n, de l?gica dram?tica. Sobre el ?mpetu y la prodigalidad del espa?ol europeo que cre? y divulg? el mecanismo de la comedia se ha impuesto, como fuerza moderadora, la prudente sobriedad, la discreci?n del mexicano. Y son tambi?n de mexicano los dones de observaci?n. La observaci?n maliciosa y aguda, hecha con esp?ritu sat?rico, no es privilegio de ning?n pueblo; pero, si bien el espa?ol la expresa con abundancia y desgarro (?y qu? mejor ejemplo, en las letras, que las inacabables diatribas de Quevedo?), el mexicano la guarda socarronamente para lanzarla, bajo concisa f?rmula, en oportunidad inesperada. Las observaciones breves, las r?plicas imprevistas, las f?rmulas epigram?ticas, abundan en Alarc?n, y constituyen uno de los atractivos de su teatro. Y bastar?a comparar, para este argumento, los enconados ataques que le dirigieron Quevedo mismo, y Lope, y G?ngora, y otros ingenios eminentes,ーsi en esta ocasi?n mezquinosー, con las sobrias respuestas de Alarc?n, por v?a alusiva, en sus comedias, particularmente aquella, no ya sat?rica sino amarga, de Los pechos priviligiados (acto III, escena III): Culpa a aquel que, de su alma olvidando los defetos, graceja con apodar lo que otro tiene en el cuerpo. La observaci?n de los caracteres y las costumbres es el recurso fundamental y constante de Alarc?n, mientras en sus ?mulos es incidental: y n?tese que digo la observaci?n, no la reproducci?n espont?nea de las costumbres ni la libre creaci?n de los caracteres, en que no les vence. Este prop?sito de observaci?n incesante se subordina a otro m?s alto: el fin moral, el deseo de dar a una verdad ?tica aspecto convincente de realidad art?stica. Alarc?n crea, dentro del antiguo teatro espa?ol, la especie, en ?ste solitaria, sin antecedentes calificados ni sucesi?n inmediata, de la comedia de costumbres. No s?lo la crea para Espa?a, sino tambi?n para Francia: imit?ndolo, traduci?ndolo, no s?lo a una lengua diversa, sino a un sistema art?stico diverso, Corneille introduce en Francia, con Le menteur, la alta comedia, que iba a ser en manos de Moliere labor fina y profunda. Esa comedia, al extender su imperio por todo el siglo XVIII, vuelve a entrar en Espa?a, para alcanzar nuevo apogeo, un tanto p?lido, con Don Leandro Fern?ndez de Morat?n y su escuela, en la cual figura, significativamente, otro mexicano de discreta personalidad art?stica: Don Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza. Pero la nacionalidad no explica por completo al hombre. Las dotes de observador en nuestro dramaturgo, que coinciden con las de su pueblo, no son todo su caudal art?stico: lo superior en ?l es la trasmutaci?n de elementos morales en elementos est?ticos, d?n rara vez concedido a los creadores. Alarc?n es singular, por eso, no s?lo en la literatura espa?ola, sino en la literatura universal＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】China and Weapons of Mass Production The "China Price" Is the "Cheating Price"【電子書籍】[ Peter Navarro ]

＜p＞This Element is an excerpt from ＜em＞The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won＜/em＞ (ISBN: 9780132359825) by Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The horrific truth behind the “China Price”: dangerous, oppressive working conditions, and outright slave labor.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If China is winning on the basis of a cheap, well-disciplined labor force and superior manufacturing methods, that’s one set of facts. In fact, however, much of the “China Price” advantage is the result of slave-labor conditions coupled with a potent array of unfair trade practices that violate virtually every tenet and norm of international trade....＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Oracle Business Intelligence Applications: Deliver Value Through Rapid Implementations【電子書籍】[ Simon Miller ]

＜h4＞Implement Oracle Business Intelligence Applications＜/h4＞ ＜p＞Provide actionable business intelligence across the enterprise to enable informed decision-making and streamlined business processes. ＜i＞Oracle Business Intelligence Applications: Deliver Value Through Rapid Implementations＜/i＞ shows how to justify, configure, customize, and extend this complete package of BI solutions. You'll get a technical walkthrough of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications architecture--from the dashboard to the data source--followed by best practices for maximizing the powerful features of each application. You will also find out about stakeholders critical to project approval and success.＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Optimize performance using Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine ＜li＞Deliver timely financial information to managers with Oracle Financial Analytics ＜li＞Enable a streamlined, demand-driven supply chain via Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics ＜li＞Provide end-to-end visibility into manufacturing operations with Oracle Manufacturing Analytics ＜li＞Optimize supply-side performance through Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics ＜li＞Use Oracle Human Resources Analytics to provide key workforce information to managers and HR professionals ＜li＞Track the costs and labor required to maintain and operate assets with Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Analytics ＜li＞Maintain visibility into project performance via Oracle Project Analytics ＜li＞Provide actionable insight into sales opportunities using Oracle Sales Analytics ＜li＞Enable superior customer service with Oracle Service Analytics＜/ul＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Asia's Turning Point An Introduction to Asia's Dynamic Economies at the Dawn of the New Century【電子書籍】[ Ivan Tselichtchev ]

＜p＞Asia was probably the biggest economic sensation of the post-war decades. The breathtaking success of Japan was followed by a remarkable rise of "four tigers", then ASEAN founder states and then China. The Asian miracle became a commonly accepted definition of this success. In the late 1970s and especially 80s it became clear that the balance of power in the world had changed. Politicians, businessmen, scholars began to talk about "the new Asia Pacific age" and Asian economic model, different from and, maybe, even superior to Western capitalism. However, in 1997-98 the Asian economic crisis came and made the region a sick man. Six years before that Japan, the regional powerhouse entered more than a decade-long period of stagnation. The miracle was over. However, the crisis was overcome within a surprisingly short period of time. Naturally, the question arises: What now? What is going on in the region after the miracle and after the crisis? What is today's face of Asian capitalism and how should we view its performance?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Readers interested in regional developments will find a lot of literature about miracle decades and crisis years. However, few analysts have addressed the challenging questions addressed in this book.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The authors vividly show that Asian capitalism is undergoing a radical structural transformation. These changes are directly affecting its key institutions: governments, companies, labor relations, etc. As a result Asian economic systems are becoming much closer to the Western-style, especially Anglo-Saxon capitalism, though the region retains some important specific features, especially regarding business culture.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book is a must for business people worldwide, for all those who study the region in colleges and business schools, for people engaged in various international activities and, finally, for all those who want learn more about our world at the dawn of the new century.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Reforms and Economic Transformation in India【電子書籍】[ Jagdish Bhagwati ]

＜p＞＜em＞Reforms and Economic Transformation in India＜/em＞ is the second volume in the series ＜em＞Studies in Indian Economic Policies＜/em＞. The first volume, ＜em＞India's Reforms: How They Produced Inclusive Growth＜/em＞ (OUP, 2012), systematically demonstrated that reforms-led growth in India led to reduced poverty among all social groups. They also led to shifts in attitudes whereby citizens overwhelmingly acknowledge the benefits that accelerated growth has brought them and as voters, they now reward the governments that deliver superior economic outcomes and punish those that fail to do so. This latest volume takes as its starting point the fact that while reforms have undoubtedly delivered in terms of poverty reduction and associated social objectives, the impact has not been as substantial as seen in other reform-oriented economies such as South Korea and Taiwan in the 1960s and 1970s, and more recently, in China. The overarching hypothesis of the volume is that the smaller reduction in poverty has been the result of slower transformation of the economy from a primarily agrarian to a modern, industrial one. Even as the GDP share of agriculture has seen rapid decline, its employment share has declined very gradually. More than half of the workforce in India still remains in agriculture. In addition, non-farm workers are overwhelmingly in the informal sector. Against this background, the nine original essays by eminent economists pursue three broad themes using firm level data in both industry and services. The papers in part I ask why the transformation in India has been slow in terms of the movement of workers out of agriculture, into industry and services, and from informal to formal employment. They address what India needs to do to speed up this transformation. They specifically show that severe labor-market distortions and policy bias against large firms has been a key factor behind the slow transformation. The papers in part II analyze the transformation that reforms have brought about within and across enterprises. For example, they investigate the impact of privatization on enterprise profitability. Part III addresses the manner in which the reforms have helped promote social transformation. Here the papers analyze the impact the reforms have had on the fortunes of the socially disadvantaged groups in terms of wage and education outcomes and as entrepreneurs.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】History of the Moorish Empire in Europe (Complete)【電子書籍】[ Samuel Parsons Scott ]

＜p＞Few countries of the globe present to the eye of the traveller so desolate, so forbidding an aspect as that vast and arid peninsula which, embracing an area of more than a million square miles, stretches away through twenty-four degrees of latitude, from the confines of the Syrian Desert to the shores of the Indian Ocean. Its surface, while far from possessing the monotonous character with which popular fancy is accustomed to invest it, is, for the greater part of its extent, destitute of those physical advantages which tempt either the cupidity or the enterprise of man. Its coasts are low and unhealthy. Its harbors are few and unsafe. Its mineral resources are to this day unexplored and unknown. Its impenetrable deserts, guarded by a fierce and martial population, have always set at defiance the best-matured plans of invasion and conquest. In the principality of Yemen, appropriately named The Happy, the cultivation of the soil has flourished from time immemorial, but in almost every other province the returns of agricultural labor are discouraging and unremunerative. Illimitable wastes of sand, over which sweeps the deadly blast of the simoom; mountains, bald, craggy, and volcanic, whose slopes are destitute of every trace of vegetable life; plains strewn with blocks of tufa and basalt; valleys dotted here and there with stunted shrubs, or encrusted with a saline deposit similar to that upon the shores of the Dead Sea; a soil impregnated with nitre; such are, and have been from prehistoric times, the physical features of the Arabian Peninsula. No stream worthy of the name of river, dispensing wealth and fertility in its winding course to the sea, flows through this dreary and inhospitable land. Wherever a spring was found, a permanent settlement arose, and the black tents of the Bedouin gave place to huts of sun-dried bricks, while the dignity of the sheik, who now aspired to the title of prince, was satisfied with a dwelling superior to those of his subjects only in point of size. The oasis, generally suggestive of shady groves and purling streams, is often, in reality, nothing more than the dry bed of a mountain torrent, along whose borders a little withered vegetation furnishes the hardy camel with pasture, and where a scanty supply of brackish water can, by laborious digging, be obtained. Overhead glitters a sky of brass, unflecked by a single cloud, and, morning and evening, the rays of the sun, mellowed and refracted by the vapors of the earth, clothe every elevation with scarlet, azure, and violet tints which, blended in exquisite harmony, rival the splendors of the rainbow; developing, under the effects of radiation, optical illusions and charming pictures of the mirage, attributed by superstitious ignorance to the influence of enchantment. The unbroken stillness of the Desert, the wide expanse of uninhabited territory, produce a sense of mental depression, accompanied by an apprehension of danger from the convulsions of nature and the violence of man, which no experience seems able to remove; affecting even the sturdy camel-driver, familiar with these solitudes from childhood, who shudders as he urges his string of panting beasts over the drifted sand-heaps and through the mountain fastness, the reputed haunt of evil genii and the vantage ground from whence the murderous banditti oft beset the caravan. So deeply-rooted and tenacious is this feeling that the Arab regards a journey successfully performed as just cause for congratulation, and indeed not inferior to a triumph, as is indicated by his familiar proverb, “Travel is a victory.”＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。