A Tragedy more beautiful than Revenge. In the dark tomorrow of 2049, two worlds wrapped in one have tolerated and collided with one another for generations. The Unified Taskforce becoming one to represent the first world, the world you and I live in day to day, and then there is the second. A underworld society that reigns in the shadows. Thriving in war and chaos... But there are two sides to every war. Only a fool would believe conflict is ever so simple. Cyberpunk - Science Fiction - Dark Fantasy

This book is a detailed study of monkey parks in Japan. It describes how the parks manage free-ranging macaque troops for touristic display and examines the various problems that arise, as well as proposals for park reform.

"Although located far from the populated centers of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. For centuries Kumano was the most visited pilgrimage site in Japan and attracted devotees from across the boundaries of sect (Buddhist, Daoist, Shinto), class, and gender. It was also a major institutional center, commanding networks of affiliated shrines, extensive landholdings, and its own army, and a site of production, generating agricultural products and symbolic capital in the form of spiritual values. Kumano was thus both a real place and a utopia: a non-place of paradise or enlightenment. It was a location in which cultural ideals—about death, salvation, gender, and authority—were represented, contested, and even at times inverted. This book encompasses both the real and the ideal, both the historical and the ideological, Kumano. It studies Kumano not only as a site of practice, a stage for the performance of asceticism and pilgrimage, but also as a place of the imagination, a topic of literary and artistic representation. Kumano was not unique in combining Buddhism with native traditions, for redefining death and its conquest, for expressing the relationship between religious and political authority, and for articulating the religious position of women. By studying Kumano’s particular religious landscape, we can better understand the larger, common religious landscape of premodern Japan."

Are you looking forward to a trip to Japan? Is it a country that you have always wanted to visit? Do you need some advice before going? Japan is a country with an ancient culture, wrapped around a modern and technologically advanced infrastructure. It is a land that is packed with symbolic meaning and huge sprawling cities that are teeming with people. Japanese people are polite, well-mannered and welcoming, but a failure to heed to some of their traditions may mean causing offence or even landing you in trouble. In Travel Guide for Japan, you can make a start about learning some of the customs and ways of Japanese people, as well as getting the low down on some of the best cities to visit, like: Fukuoka Nagoya Osaka Sapporo Tokyo You can avoid any unpleasant incidents by reading this quick guide, which provides much of the background to behaving in a respectful manner, as well as showing you where to go to make the most of your time while in the country. So, if you are heading for this amazing country soon, get a copy of Travel Guide for Japan today and make sure your trip gets off on the right foot.

CLOUDS OVER PARADISE AN AROUND THE WORLD ADVENTURE By Thayer Keith Miller N3TM (Ex WA3EFH) A TRUE ADVENTURE STORY---The account of the adventures of a senior officer on the windjammer yacht YANKEE TRADER on its first around-the-world expedition in 1973-1974. Relive the adventure with all the details like you were there. THIS STORY WILL APPEAL TO YOU---If you are interested in amateur radio, ocean sailing, travel and adventure. Ive never heard such a story. It ought to be a best seller! Thomas I. Kolstad, Captain U. S. Navy Very interesting reading! CQ Magazine Definitely, this story is meant for a television series! Tony Lopopolo, Literary Critic Thayer Keith Miller is the best qualified person to tell this storyships officer, ham radio operator, cruise consultant and operator of sailing expeditions in the South Pacific. He shares this knowledge and expertise as he recounts the adventure story in detail based on original logs, diaries, notes and personal recollections. It is perhaps the most detailed story you will ever read and it is very informative in this edited and shortened account. The author was arrested in Hong Kong and imprisoned as a suspected spy. Later, without a passport or money he was shanghaied in Singapore and held as an impressed seaman for three months. He recounts his rescue at sea off the coast of Kenya by an armed boarding party and his repatriation in a top secret operation planned by the U.S. State Department. His friend was later murdered in the Seychelles while making arrangements to reunite the author with his girlfriend. A disturbed passenger and crew members caused troublephysical and verbal abuse with accusations of sabotage and mutiny. The author describes how the international amateur radio fraternity played a vital role in his escape from circumstances because of his shipboard operation as WA3EFH maritime mobile. A TRUE STORYBETTER THAN FICTION. READ IT NOW! Many of the events took place in the Seychelles, an island chain sometimes known as the Paradise of the Indian Ocean and original site of the Garden of Eden, hence the title and its implications.

Remembering Paradise studies three major eighteenth-century nativist scholars in Japan: Kada no Azumamaro, Kamo no Mabuchi, and the celebrated Motoori Norinaga. Peter Nosco demonstrates that these scholars, frequently depicted as the formulators of rabid xenophobia, were intellectuals engaged in a quest for meaning, wholeness, and solace in what they perceived to be disordered times. He traces the emergence and development of their philosophies, identifying elements of continuity into the eighteenth century from the singular Confucian-nativist discourse of the seventeenth century. He also describes the rupture between nativism and Confucianism at the start of the eighteenth century and the quest for ancient, distinctly Japanese values. The emphasis on patriotism and nostalgia in the works of these three scholars may have relevance to the kind of nationalism emerging in Japan in the 1980s, manifested in a renewed interest in visiting one’s home place and in the history and culture of the seventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries. The current fusion of nationalism and nostalgia can perhaps be better understood through Nosco’s analysis of comparable sentiments that were important in earlier times.

Bringing together a group of international scholars, Directors of Urban Change in Asia examines who the 'directors' for urban change are in an eclectic mix of Asian cities. The books discusses how, in the majority of cases, urban change has come about primarily as the result of visionary leaders, on national, regional and local levels. It also makes clear that the less successful cities have tended to lack such leaders.

From Penguins to Paradise: My Life as an Advertising Man invites the reader to laugh at and learn about the ad industry in equal measure. It charts the career of a young advertising agency trainee, from his initial struggles as a trainee Account Executive to his appointment as Managing Director (Thailand), and eventually Senior Vice President (International). His insightful and often hilarious experiences range from the pitfalls of trying to make penguins perform for a TV commercial in London to the trials of opening some of the first Western agencies in Moscow and China. How do ad agencies work? How do you take the knowledge from London agencies and apply it in Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Brazil, while at the same time learning from these foreign cultures? And what is bachelor life really like in these far-away countries? All is revealed in this informative, light-hearted, and entertaining book.

Depictions of sex, violence, and crime abound in many of today's movies, sometimes making it seem that the idyllic life has vanished-even from our imaginations. But as shown in this unique book, paradise has not always been lost. For many years, depictions of heaven, earthly paradises, and utopias were common in popular films. Illustrated throughout with intriguing, rare stills and organized to provide historical context, Visions of Paradise surveys a huge array of films that have offered us glimpses of life free from strife, devoid of pain and privation, and full of harmony. In films such as Moana, White Shadows in the South Seas, The Green Pastures, Heaven Can Wait, The Enchanted Forest, The Bishop's Wife, Carousel, Bikini Beach, and Elvira Madigan, characters and the audience partake in a vision of personal freedom and safety-a zone of privilege and protection that transcends the demands of daily existence. Many of the films discussed are from the 1960s-perhaps the most edenic decade in contemporary cinema, when everything seemed possible and radical change was taken for granted. As Dixon makes clear, however, these films have not disappeared with the dreams of a generation; they continue to resonate today, offering a tonic to the darker visions that have replaced them.