The easy money that flowed through the banking system prior to 2008 fueled a boom in buy-outs. Now it is gone, how will the private equity industry reinvent itself? A series of interviews with some of the most respected and innovative firms, give rare insights to the strategies that will drive this [...]
A journey through the martial arts of Okinawa, giving accounts of the authors experiences and training on the island over a period spanning nearly two-decades. It also describes much of the Ryukyuan culture related to the martial arts and their associated teachers. A blend of travel writing and inst[...]
This volume features 19 specially written essays by leading scientists and philosophers on John Searle's 1980 "Chinese Room" argument: that the fact that machines can be devised to respond to input with the same output that a mind would give does not mean they are doing the same thing.[...]
A selection of the powerful and poignant wartime letters of Vera Brittain and her friends If war spares me, wrote Vera Brittain to her brother, Edward, in 1916, it will be my one aim to immortalize in a book the story of us four. Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed [...]