Author: Vivien Sung
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: happiness, prosperity, longevity, luck, wealth, concepts, fold, chinese, five
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 081183526X
ISBN-13: 9780811835268

Surround yourself with lucky objects, the Chinese believe, and good fortune will come to you. In word and image, this exquisite volume-a delight to hold in the hand-explores the bounteous meanings of the five-fold symbols of happiness: luck, prosperity, longevity, happiness, and wealth. Drenched in color and lavishly illustrated from ancient and modern sources, Five-Fold Happiness interweaves both Chinese and English text. Peaches, the number eight, the imperial color of gold, a cat with one paw beckoning, or the dragon dance-here are some of the familiar images now revealed in their rich sign

Authors:Sung-Hee Jwa, in Kwon Lee, Sung-Hui Chwa,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: restructuring, chaebol, reforming, korea, corporate, governance, competition
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2004-12-30
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 1843769123
ISBN-13: 9781843769125

The business environment of the chaebol (large corporations in Korea) has changed drastically since the outbreak of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. This book discusses the attempts of the Korean government to remedy structural weaknesses in the corporate sector by launching an aggressive chaebol reform package, supported by the IMF and other international agencies. Its main objective was to restore competitiveness in the corporate sector and to upgrade business conditions to that of international practices and standards. Competition and Corporate Governance in Korea critically reviews governm

Authors:Edward Lear, Vivien Noakes, Vivien Noakes,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: nonsense, verse, complete
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2002-10-29
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0142002275
ISBN-13: 9780142002278

The absurd and whimsical verses of Edward Lear-such as "The Owl and the Pussy-cat," "The Jumblies," "The Scroobious Pip," and countless limericks-have enchanted generations of children and adults alike. This delightful volume, the most comprehensive collection ever of his work, presents all of Lear’s verse and other nonsense writings, including stories, letters, and illustrated alphabets, as well as previously unpublished material, line drawings, and a fascinating introduction by scholar Vivien Noakes.

Authors:Sung-Hui Chwa, Sung-Hee Jwa,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: economics, perspective, chaebol, institutional, new, large, corporations, korea, evolution
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 184064883X
ISBN-13: 9781840648836

Controversy still looms large both in public and academic circles as to the role of large corporations in sustainable economic growth. In this book, the new-institutional economics perspective is adopted to clarify and answer some of the most critical questions relating to the behavior of large corporations in Korea, or the chaebol, and the role and impact of institutions on their behavior. The book proposes a new chaebol policy that should enhance chaebol competitiveness, by introducing a new paradigm for Korea’s development strategy based firmly on a market economy that effectively breaks a

Authors:Ching-Sung Shen, Ching-Sung Shen, Richard Knowles, Va
Publisher: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy
Keywords: chinese, change, contemporary, series, iii, asia, heritage, cultural, phenomenology, philosophy, philosophical, studies, psychology
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1994-05
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 1565180453
ISBN-13: 9781565180451

Author: Vivien Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linguistics, textbooks, cambridge, europe, history, plato
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2003-02-24
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0521565324
ISBN-13: 9780521565325

Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from ancient Greece to the Renaissance. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries have changed to reflect evolving modes of thinking. Classified bibliographies and chapters on research resources are included. A survey chapter updates the coverage to the present day.

Author: Vivien Burr
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: psychology, focus, social, person
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-04-05
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 1841691801
ISBN-13: 9781841691800

Traditional social psychology assumes that the person has an already-existing nature that then becomes subject to the influence of social environment.The Person in Social Psychologychallenges this model,drawing on theories from micro-sociology and contemporary European social psychology to suggest a more "social" re-framing of the person. In this book Vivien Burr has provided a radical new agenda for students of social psychology and sociology. She argues for an understanding of the person, where the social world is not a set of variables that affect a pre-existing individual, but is instead t