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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 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。