This handsome boxset contains three classic texts from China and Japan, The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings and The Way of the Samurai, presented in elegant hardback editions with gilded page edges.

Together, these texts set out strategies and techniques for warfare and conflict that span more than 2500 years. Despite this military focus, their insights into have since been used as a source of insight into many areas of life, including leadership and corporate strategy.

InThe Art of War, Chinese general Sun Tzu sets out indispensable leadership skills, promoting strategic flexibility, quick thinking on the battlefield, and understanding the enemy's intentions. The Book of Five Rings was written by an ancient Samurai warrior and is hailed as a limitless source of insight into business strategy and outwitting the competition. In The Way of the Samurai, Inazo Nitobe explores the moral code of the Japanese warrior class, offering timeless wisdom on success and discipline which still resonates today.

Featuring elegant cover designs with gold foil-stamping, these luxurious illustrated editions make a wonderful gift or collectible for anyone wishing to apply ancient wisdom to the modern world.

Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, "The Art of War " is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it has been by military leaders since ancient times. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, "The Art of War " applies to competition and conflict in general, on every level from the interpersonal to the international. Its aim is invincibility, victory without battle, and unassailable strength through understanding the physics, politics, and psychology of conflict.

Sweet Potato Processing Technology systematically introduces processing technologies of sweet potato starch and its series products including sweet potato protein, dietary fibers, pectin, granules, anthocyanins and chlorogenic acids. The book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of physicochemical and functional properties of sweet potato products, the nutritional components extracted from sweet potato, as well as their utilization in food, medicine and cosmetic fields. This book can provide the scientific basis and technical support for virtuous circle promotion and structure upgrade of sweet potato processing industry. This book will be a valuable reference for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as specialists and enterprise research staff in the field of food technology.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Opportunities multiply as they are seized.'Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very carefully about strategy before resorting to physical battle, this philosophy continues to be applied to the corporate and business world.Sun Tzu's timeless appraisal of the different aspects of warfare are laid out in 13 chapters, including sections on `Laying Plans', `Waging War' and `Terrain'. Words that are as resonant today in every aspect of our lives as they were when he wrote them.

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.

Korean director Hae-sung Song's remake of John Woo's 1986 action blockbuster. Leaving his younger brother Cheol (Kim Kang-woo) behind, Kim Hyeok (Jin-mo Ju) flees North Korea with his best friend Lee Yeong-choon (Seung-heon Song), and sets himself up as an illegal arms smuggler in South Korea. After being double-crossed in an arms deal, Hyeok is caught and spends three years in jail. On his release, and still guilt-ridden over leaving his brother behind, he sets out to seek a reconciliation with Cheol, now a police officer, only to have his advances rebuffed. Now, as Hyeok tries to go straight, he finds himself on a collision course with Cheol as the two opposing brothers get caught up in a gang war that threatens to engulf them both.

Explore the concepts, algorithms, and applications underlying federated learning In Federated Learning for Future Intelligent Wireless Networks, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a robust and insightful collection of resources covering the foundational concepts and algorithms powering federated learning, as well as explanations of how they can be used in wireless communication systems. The editors have included works that examine how communication resource provision affects federated learning performance, accuracy, convergence, scalability, and security and privacy. In the book, readers will explore a wide range of topics that show how federated learning algorithms, concepts, and design and optimization issues that apply to wireless communications. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to the fundamental concepts and algorithms of federated learning, including horizontal, vertical, and hybrid FL Comprehensive explorations of wireless communication network design and optimization for federated learning Practical discussions of novel federated learning algorithms and frameworks for future wireless networks Expansive case studies in edge intelligence, autonomous driving, IoT, MEC, blockchain, and content caching and distribution Perfect for electrical and computer science engineers, researchers, professors, and postgraduate students with an interest in machine learning, Federated Learning for Future Intelligent Wireless Networks will also benefit regulators and institutional actors responsible for overseeing and making policy in the area of artificial intelligence.

Cilia Signaling in Development and Disease, Volume 155 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Cilia and mTOR signaling, Cilia and Kidney, Extraciliary functions of IFT proteins, Cilia and eye stem cells, Cilia and eye development, Cryo-EM/ET and cilia structure, and Control of protein and lipid composition of photoreceptor outer segments and the implications for eye diseases.

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

As divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that "the other side is too far gone." An authentic difficult dialogue has the power to mobilize our shared humanity in addressing divisions and making transformative change for a more just society. Decades of social science research on meaningful human exchanges can help make sure you not only engage in a difficult dialogue, but that you can engage authentically for the desired goal of transformative change. A difficult dialogue is an exchange between two or more individuals that are likely to disagree or clash. This book will provide a solid foundation for understanding and engaging in difficult dialogues. As you traverse through the pages, you will develop a better understanding of how desires for power and belonging shape each unique difficult dialogue and recognize how experiences with motivation and defensiveness impact difficult dialogues. Further, you will read about case studies of successful dialogues between children and adults and discover the positive benefits of engaging in difficult dialogues with the youth in your life. Finally, you will be given the opportunity to learn about and practice specific skills to prepare for, engage in, and move forward before, during, and after a difficult dialogue. Given the intellectual foundation you will construct while reading this book, this book includes a workbook section to put your newfound skills to work. If you are left wondering "If difficult dialogues are difficult by nature, is it really worth engaging in one?" This book will shed light on the power dialogue grants you to inspire transformative change. Difficult dialogues show us that very few people are truly "too far gone" to communicate, reflect, transform, and act. We have all bore witness to both massive societal issues and their proliferating repercussions. However, there is hope in that each can begin to be solved and dismantled with the comparatively small task of engaging in authentic difficult dialogues. To address societal ills - to grow - we must be courageous, we must be vulnerable, and we must have authentic difficult dialogues. We must do this for a better world, for a more just world, and this book may serve as a foundation and a reference as you progress in your journey.

Although AI has incredible potential, it has three weak links: 1. Blackbox, lack of explainability2. Silos, slews of siloed systems across the AI ecosystem3. Low-performance, most of ML/DL based AI systems are SLOW.Fixing these problems will pave the road to strong and effective AI. Graph databases, particularly high-performance graph database or graph computing, should allow this to happen.The Essential Criteria of Graph Databases simply broadens the horizon of graph applications. The book collects several truly innovative graph applications in asset-liability and liquidity risk management, which hopefully will spark readers’ interest in further broaden the reach and applicable domains of graph systems.