The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. First Printing. 24 cm, 284, illus., slight sticker residue to DJ. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. First Printing. 24 cm, 284, illus., slight sticker residue to DJ. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2017. Special Illustrated Edition [stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 9.5 inches. xvii, [1], 302 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Maps. A Note to Readers. Key Players. Time Line. The Author Recommends. Author's Source Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American journalist, author, and former television host. During the late 1970s and 1980s, he reported for local television stations in the United States and later for CBS News and ABC News. He anchored the tabloid television program Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995. O'Reilly joined the Fox News Channel in 1996 and hosted The O'Reilly Factor until 2017. The O'Reilly Factor was the highest-rated cable news show for 16 years. He is the author of numerous books and hosted The Radio Factor (2002–2009). Since 2017, he has hosted the No Spin News podcast which he founded after being fired from Fox. O'Reilly is considered to be a conservative commentator. More
Tokyo: Tokyo Printing Company, Ltd., 1938. 399, illus., index, foxing on fore-edge, boards scuffed & wrinkled, lettering on spine somewhat faded. More
Tokyo: Foreign Press Center, Japan, 1979. First Eng Lang Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 187, wraps, illus., map. The author was Prime Minister of Japan. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. First? Edition. First? Printing. 358, notes, bibliography, index, few library markings, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, spine faded. More
New York: Bantam Books [Bantam Air & Space Series], 1991. First Bantam Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. xix, [3], 374, [4] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Tabular Information. Slight wear to cover. Masatake Okumiya (July 27, 1909 – February 22, 2007) was a historian and lieutenant general in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Okumiya graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1930. He was commissioned an ensign in April 1932, received his wings in November 1933 as a naval aviator, and was promoted to sub-lieutenant in the same month. In 1937, he participated in the attack on the USS Panay. Promoted to lieutenant-commander in October 1941, Okumiya served throughout World War II, including on the aircraft carrier Ry j and with the 2nd Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. During 1942–1943, he served as chief of staff of the 26th Naval Air Squadron, and was appointed to a staff post in August 1944. He was promoted to his final rank of commander in November 1944. At the end of the war, Okumiya was interrogated by Allied intelligence officers, after which he was demobilized. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1922. 330, tables, biblio, index, lib stamps & marks, sm pc missing corn 2nd rear flylf, sm tears sp, lib sticker on sp & r bd, bds worn. More
Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1951. First Edition. 366, map, footnotes, index, discoloration inside hinges, DJ scuffed and soiled: small tears, small chips missing. More
Canoga Park, CA: Major Books, 1976. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Mass market paperback. 333 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page discoloration. Author Zenji Orita was a leading Japanese submarine captain who’s exploits in World War II ranged over the entire Pacific. In 1944, Orita was at Ulithi Atoll when he launched the first “human torpedoes” called Kaiten’s. Joseph D. Harrington was an author and retired Navy chief journalist. Among his several World War II books were: "Katein," "Rendezvous at Midway," "I-Boat Captain," and a posthumously published book," Yankee Samurai,"concerning the secret role of Nisei in America's Pacific victory. More
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, [1972]. 21 cm, 95, wraps, footnotes, references, ink date on half-title, ink name on title page. Studies in international affairs, no. 16. More
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International Ltd., 1972. First Edition. 312, illus., notes, bibliography, waviness to entire text & some damp stains (no pages stuck together), bookplate ins 2nd fr flyl. More
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International Ltd., 1968. First Edition. 339, illus., notes, appendix, library bookplate & sticker, boards & spine faded, some soiling to fore-edge, library call # on spine. More
New York: Arco Publishing Company, Inc, 1969. Reprint Edition. 634, illus., maps, tables, index, glossary, several pages creased, plastic coating on bds, bookplate ins fr bd, some wear bd edges. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2010. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 367 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. First-hand accounts of the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Several weeks after publication, Henry Holt and Company stopped printing and selling the book because the author relied on a fraudulent source for part of the book. Copies were withdrawn from sale and as a result, copies of this edition in the secondhand market are becoming increasingly scarce. Pellegrino subsequently revised the text to remove some of the disputed content. The book was retitled "To Hell and Back" and released by a different publisher in 2015. More
New York: The Christian Herald, 1910. 395, illus., pencil notes pp. x-xii, ink inscript fr flylf, discolor ins bds, bds scuffed, top & bottom edges of spine threadbare. More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corp. 1943. 284, boards somewhat soiled, crease in spine, pages have darkened. More
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1979. 122, illus., notes, bibliography, DJ flaps pasted inside bds, color map of Far East pasted ins r flylf, DJ soiled & sticker residue. More
Cambridge, MA: Institute for Foreign Policy, c1982. First Printing. 23 cm, 88, wraps, illus., footnotes. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. First Printing. 253, illus., notes, bibliography, index, small stains inside front flyleaf, some wear and small tears to top and bottom DJ edges. More
Aldershot: Gale & Polden Limited, 1950. 424, illus., maps, appendices, glossary, index, foxing inside boards and flyleaves and to fore-edge, DJ soiled, worn, and wrinkled. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 9.5 inches by 7 inches. 32 pages. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations. 209 items are identified. Chronology. Cover soiled and stained. Secretary of State Daniel Webster charged Perry with seeking coaling stations, trading ports, and protection for sailors in distress. The Secretary of the Navy offered him any available ships to augment the East India Squadron, his choice of officers, and any reasonable amount of money for equipment and presents. He purchased a wade variety of gifts for officials he would meet in the Far East. These included samples of American technology, art, science, and culture intended not only to impress but to inform and educate. The nucleus of this exhibition was deposited in the Smithsonian in 1859. Most of the rest of the items in the exhibition had been loaned by friends of the Smithsonian. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Third Edition (reprinted), Revised Throughout in the Light of Recent Discoveries by Henri Cordier (of Paris). Hardcover. 2 Volumes. Volume I, cii, [4], 462, folding map. Volume II, xxii, [2], 662, [2] pages. Footnotes. Maps. Illustrations. A Bibliography of Sir Henry Yule's Writings. Supplementary Notes on Special Subjects. Index. Covers worn and soiled with some tears and wear at spine. Sir Henry Yule KCSI CB FRSGS (1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889) was a Scottish Orientalist and geographer. He published many travel books, including translations of the work of Marco Polo and Mirabilia by the 14th-century Dominican Friar Jordanus. He was also the compiler of a dictionary of Anglo-Indian terms, the Hobson-Jobson, with Arthur Coke Burnell. Yule retired in 1862, and in 1863 he was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath through the influence of Sir Roderick Murchison. He devoted his leisure to the medieval history and geography of Central Asia. He made use of the richly stocked public libraries there during this period. He published Cathay and the Way Thither (1866), and the Book of Marco Polo (1871), for which he received the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society the following year. Yule was a member, and from 1877 to 1889 President, of the Hakluyt Society. Henri Cordier (8 August 1849 – 16 March 1925) was a French linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, and Orientalist. He was President of the Société de Géographie in Paris. Cordier was a prominent figure in the development of East Asian and Central Asian scholarship. Cordier had a strong impact on the development of Chinese scholarship, and was a mentor of the noted French sinologist Édouard Chavannes. More
New York: Free Press, c1990. Second Printing. 25 cm, 855, figures, apendices, notes, references, index. More
New York: Free Press, c1990. First Printing. 25 cm, 855, figures, apendices, notes, references, index. More
New York: Paperback Library, 1971. Second Paperbk Printing. Pocket paperbk, 351, wraps, appendix, bibliography, index, text somewhat darkened, some pages creased, covers somewhat soiled and creased. More