Even Withered Trees Give Prosperity to the Mountain and Other Proverbs of Japan


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Guy Zona offers a gift book for every season filled with charm and enchantment, wit and wisdom. Zona, whose previous collections of proverbs from the African, Native American, and Latin traditions have opened readers' eyes, turns his attention to the folk teachings of the Japanese in this beautifully designed book.




Japanese Proverbs and Sayings


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Collection of 2,500 maxims and adages, selected as illustrative of Japanese thought, giving transliterations of Japanese originals as well an English parallels.




Intelligence Analysis


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Robert M. Clark explains that a collaborative, target-centric approach allows for more effective analysis, while better meeting customer needs.




Proverbium


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Yearbook of international proverb scholarship.










Encyclopedia of the Ancient World: Coriolanus, Gnaeus Marcius-Pharsalus, Battle of


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Covers world cultures from prehistory through the year 700 C.E., including essays on persons, cultures, wars, battles, documents or works, traditions or cultural phenomena, structures or artifacts, places or sites, terms, and groups or civilizations.







Popular Mechanics


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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.




If You Have Two Loaves of Bread, Sell One and Buy a Lily


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Four thousand years of Chinese history have provided us with an especially rich treasury of these pithy expressions of wisdom. From time immemorial shrewd observations of human relationships have been condensed in concise proverbs, and passed from generation to generation to serve as guiding principles in the lives of the Chinese people. To understand the ethics of the Chinese people and the philosophical background of their outlook on life, one can do no better than to study their proverbs.