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Japan: International Society for Educational Information, 1974. Paper Covers. Very Good. 7 1/8" X 8 1/4. This booklet is an introduction to the labor situation in Japan and covers employment, wages, labor unions and labor-management relations, employee welfare, worker consciousness, and labor policy; the editor, a professor at Tokyo University, notes that the Japanese system of wages and employment has evoked interest in the Western world, and that Japan's economic growth is based on a highly educated labor force, lifetime employment, a seniority wage system, and enterprise unions organized according to individual companies; further, the labor-managment relation is defined as a human rather than contractual relationship, a situation based on unique Japanese cultural characteristics (white pictorial cover with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Japan, 1986. Paperback. Very Good. 7 1/8" X 10 1/8. This is the first Japanese language textbook which specifically targets academic readings for foreign students who plan to study at universities, colleges, and technical schools in Japan; it is organized to enable them to read and understand general academic texts, and is intended for use at the intermediate level of Japanese language study; the reading pasages were taken from university textbooks used in Japan and cover seven different academic fields: computer science, economics, biology, psychology, public health, and sociology; preface in English, text in Japanese; also includes a separate 56-page supplement, published in 1987 (violet cover with black, white & yellow lettering, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Most of the papers in this volume were written for a symposium held at the 10th annual meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group in 1988 at Sheffield University, whose purpose was to place the most recent archaeological schools of theory in intellectual and sociological perspective and, more generally, to investigate the sources of archaeological theory and the practice of theory-building in archaeology (laminated paper-covered boards with upper right front corner crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1957. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8" X 11. This is the report, published for the Commonwealth Fund, of a major study of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, which began operation in 1947 to provide prepaid medical care by group practice medical centers that emphasized preventive services as well as treatment for illness and injury; the Health Insurance Plan was developed by a committee appointed by Mayor LaGuardia to develop an affordable community-sponsored insurance plan which would enable people of modest income to obtain adequate, competent medical care (blue cloth with gold lettering, slightly rubbed, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Near Fine/Very Good: this is a study of a number of 18th century Loyalist women, beautiful, wealthy, caught up in the double jeopardy of sexual scandal and war, driven in a losing cause into exile, virtually forgotten; inscribed by the author on the front end paper and dated 6 October 1977 (maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine & paper-covered boards; brown pictorial dust jacket with white & gold lettering, author's photo on the back flap, very slight edgewear, a few small edge tears; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good.

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003. Trade Paperback. As New. This book explains what is known about the origins of the universe, galaxies, solar systems, planets, and life on earth; the author is the former editor of Earth magazine (black & green pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment)