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A History of Indian Buddhism

From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna

By: Akira Hirakawa

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A History of Indian Buddhism

From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna

By: Akira Hirakawa

This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism.

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Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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8120809556

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A History of Indian Buddhism

From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna

By: Akira Hirakawa

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A History of Indian Buddhism

From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna

By: Akira Hirakawa

This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism.

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Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese Archipelago

Exploring the Japanese Skyscape

By: Akira Goto

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Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese Archipelago

Exploring the Japanese Skyscape

By: Akira Goto

Goto introduces the diverse and multilayered skylore and cultural astron- omy of the peoples of the Japanese Archipelago. Going as far back as the Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods, this book examines the significance of constellations in the daily life of farmers, fishermen, sailors, priests, and the ruling classes throughout Japan’s ancient and medieval history. As well as covering the systems of the dominant Japanese people, he also explores the astronomy of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, and of the people of the Ryukyu Islands. Along the way he discusses the importance of astronomy in official rituals, mythol- ogy, and Shinto and Buddhist ceremonies. This book provides a unique overview of cultural astronomy in Japan and is a valuable resource for researchers as well as anyone who is inter- ested in Japanese culture and history.

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148

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Routledge

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1000221091

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9781000221091

Catch-up Industrialization

The Trajectory and Prospects of East Asian Economies

By: Akira Suehiro

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Catch-up Industrialization

The Trajectory and Prospects of East Asian Economies

By: Akira Suehiro

Catch-Up Industrialization is an innovative examination of how the political ideology of 'developmentalism' has driven East Asian economic growth. The author considers innovative production and management techniques, the patterns of industrial relations, and the way education shapes the workforce, using this information to assess late 20th century East Asian economic development based on economic liberalization and the rapid diffusion of information technology.The term 'catch-up' links developing and developed countries, and defines the socioeconomic mindset common to high-growth societies of Asia. The author's argument differs from neoclassical approaches emphasizing the workings of the market, statist ones emphasizing policy rather than private initiatives, business studies lacking macroeconomic and global perspectives, work by development economists based on agriculture, and World BankIMF studies that lack socio-cultural and historical understanding.

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420

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NUS Press

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9971693836

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9789971693831

Corporate Strategy for Dramatic Productivity Surge

By: Akira Ishikawa,Tetsur? Saisho

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Corporate Strategy for Dramatic Productivity Surge

By: Akira Ishikawa,Tetsur? Saisho

Corporate Strategy for Dramatic Productivity Surge deals with the very basics of productivity and cost performance OCo including abridgement of time, increase in speed, enhancement of capabilities, increase in sensitivity and precision, enhancement of efficiency and effectiveness, alteration of size, reduction of costs and increase in revenue, among others.This book consists of five parts OCo Introduction, Case Studies of Super Effects in Management Functions, Case Studies of Global Scale Super Effects Realized, Case Studies of Super Effects in Marketing Domains, and Conclusion: The Road to Realizing the Super Effect OCo featuring more than fifty successful cases of productivity surge or super effects, including risk-driven ones. Productivity surge herein means a dramatic reduction of costs, at least by one-tenth, while maintaining effectiveness or discontinuous increase in effectiveness by at least 10 times, while keeping the costs the same.Cases highlighted in the book are instrumental and valuable for the organizations worldwide to evaluate processes, avoid unnecessary failure and work towards future success.

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World Scientific

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981444930X

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9789814449304

Atlas of the Supraaortic Craniocervical Arterial Variations

MR and CT Angiography

By: Akira Uchino

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Atlas of the Supraaortic Craniocervical Arterial Variations

MR and CT Angiography

By: Akira Uchino

This book presents numerous figures of various variations of the supraaortic arteries detected by MR and CT angiography. Improved both MR and CT angiographic image quality permits incidental detection of even small anomalous arterial branches. Although the cerebral arterial variations may have limited clinical significance, their correct diagnosis during MR and CT angiographic image interpretation is important to interventional neuroradiologists as well as both neurosurgeons and otorhinolaryngologists, who must be familiar with arterial variations to prevent complications during surgery. Readers can easily identify arterial variations and make correct diagnosis during image interpretation using this textbook.

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171

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Springer Nature

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9811668035

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9789811668036

Transcription Factors

By: S. Akira

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Transcription Factors

By: S. Akira

With contributions by numerous experts

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600

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540210954

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9783540210955

Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan

Regulating and Deregulating the Market in Edo, 1780–1870

By: Akira Shimizu

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Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan

Regulating and Deregulating the Market in Edo, 1780–1870

By: Akira Shimizu

This study is an unique approach to social and cultural history of Japan through the scope of food and food ways. In this book-length study of food markets in the early modern Japanese capital of Edo, Akira Shimizu draws a fascinating picture of early modern Japanese society where specialty foods—seasonal, regional, and hard-to-find delicacies that satisfied the palate of nation’s highest political authority, the shogun—served as a powerful nexus that connected different social groups. In the course of their daily lives, peasants, fisherfolks, and merchants, who made specialty food available at the market, were in constant negotiation with powerful wholesalers and government authorities in charge of procuring specialty foods of the highest qualities for the shogun’s Edo Castle. Utilizing a number of previously unused archival materials that reveals the lives of those at the bottom of the society, the book traces the production, supply, and handling of specialty foods and shows how ordinary people were empowered to assume control over the distribution of specialty food, eventually affecting their procurement for the shogunal kitchen. In doing so, they disrupted the existing market order on the shogunal requisition, and led to the reconfiguration of market relations.

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193

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793618275

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9781793618276

Fully-Depleted SOI CMOS Circuits and Technology for Ultralow-Power Applications

By: Takayasu Sakurai,Akira Matsuzawa,Takakuni Douseki

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Fully-Depleted SOI CMOS Circuits and Technology for Ultralow-Power Applications

By: Takayasu Sakurai,Akira Matsuzawa,Takakuni Douseki

Fully-depleted SOI CMOS Circuits and Technology for Ultralow-Power Applications addresses the problem of reducing the supply voltage of conventional circuits for ultralow-power operation and explains power-efficient MTCMOS circuit design for FD-SOI devices at a supply voltage of 0.5 V. The topics include the minimum required knowledge of the fabrication of SOI substrates; FD-SOI devices and the latest developments in device and process technologies; and ultralow-voltage circuits, such as digital circuits, analog/RF circuits, and DC-DC converters. Each ultra-low-power technique related to devices and circuits is fully explained using figures to help understanding.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387292187

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9780387292182

Advances in Fluid Modeling & Turbulence Measurements

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Flow Modeling and Turbulence Measurements : Tokyo, Japan, 4-6 December 2001

By: Akira Wada

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Advances in Fluid Modeling & Turbulence Measurements

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Flow Modeling and Turbulence Measurements : Tokyo, Japan, 4-6 December 2001

By: Akira Wada

This book is an essential reference for engineers and scientists working in the field of turbulence. It covers a variety of applications, such as: turbulence measurements; mathematical and numerical modeling of turbulence; thermal hydraulics; applications for civil, mechanical and nuclear engineering; environmental fluid mechanics; river and open channel flows; coastal problems; ground water.

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890

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World Scientific

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9812777598

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9789812777591

On Parole

By: Akira Yoshimura

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On Parole

By: Akira Yoshimura

After sixteen years in prison, Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes. He must adjust to the intensity of Tokyo while living with the memory of his crime. Akira Yoshimura charts the psychology of a quiet man as he negotiates through the traumas of freedom: finding a job, a place to live, even something as simple as buying an alarm clock. Kikutani takes comfort in the numbing repetition of the chicken farm where he works, only to be drawn inexorably back to the scene of the murder. As Yoshimura's carefully crafted plot swings in ever tightening arcs, we are drawn toward a shattering, perhaps inescapable conclusion."--BOOK JACKET.

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HarperVia

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0156011476

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Book's by Akira Hirakawa

A History of Indian Buddhism

A History of Indian Buddhism

A History of Indian Buddhism

A History of Indian Buddhism

Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese Archipelago

Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese Archipelago

Catch-up Industrialization

Catch-up Industrialization

Corporate Strategy for Dramatic Productivity Surge

Corporate Strategy for Dramatic Productivity Surge

Atlas of the Supraaortic Craniocervical Arterial Variations

Atlas of the Supraaortic Craniocervical Arterial Variations

Transcription Factors

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Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan

Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan

Fully-Depleted SOI CMOS Circuits and Technology for Ultralow-Power Applications

Fully-Depleted SOI CMOS Circuits and Technology for Ultralow-Power Applications

Advances in Fluid Modeling & Turbulence Measurements

Advances in Fluid Modeling & Turbulence Measurements

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