The Japan That Never Was

The Japan That Never WasContests conventional wisdom on Japan's postwar economic success and its economic and political problems in the 1990s, providing a new account of these conditions. In this book, the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s. They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan's political economic system was organized and

especially on the nanometre length scale due to the presence of surfaces and interfaces

This collection summarises current research on the effects of different management strategies on the physical

Strengthened by the love of their community

and use of mythological creatures

This book provides the reader with an interactive experience of quantum optics

It is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand why sentencing reforms failed to achieve their intended goals

In Now What

Science permeates nearly every aspect of our lives

the process of adaptation

Smith explores how worthwhile acts implement ideals of worthiness in four major domains-work

and prebiotics

conceived an intellectual vision of Ireland free