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Japan underwent tumultuous changes in the eighteenth century. The merchant class was rising in power, and the privileges of the professional warriors, or "samurai", were disappearing.
The 47 Ronin Story is the classic story of Lord Asano of Ako and one of the bloodiest vendettas in Japan's feudal history. In 1701 in Edo, Japan, Lord Asano of Ako lashed out at a corrupt court official and set in motion a chain of events that shocked the country and brought the Shogun himself to a legal and moral impasse. When it was over, there emerged the most unlikely set of heroes-the forty-seven ronin, or "ex-samurai", of Ako.
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Lang's retelling of the Arabian Nights stories, as a continuation of his classic collections of fairy tales. According to Wikipedia: "Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844, Selkirk â€" July 20, 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales.".
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In the time when the Shogun ruled Japan, two hundred samurai suffered a grave insult—their master met an unjust death. Forty-seven of them are courageous enough to avenge him. Jiro is a lowly servant to one of the brave samurai Chosen as his master's unlikely spy during the planning of the great revenge, Jiro must learn when to talk and when to listen, or at any moment he could lose his head to a samurai's razor-sharp sword. And even as Jiro plays his small part in the unfolding plot, he searches for the truth about his own identity..
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Management advisor Don Schmincke believes leaders can thrive in the third millennium by utilizing principles developed during the first. They originate in a moral code known as Bushido that was followed by samurai warriors in ninth-century Japan and formalized by Daidoji Yuzan as the Code of the Samurai some seven centuries later. Now updating them as The Code of the Executive, Schmincke points out parallels between past and present and suggests this connection is a natural. In those days, he writes, the shogun was regulatory government, feudal barons the hard-driving CEOs, real estate their business, and samurai the executives hired to oversee it all. These samurai relied upon their rigid ethical guide to discharge both professional and personal responsibilities favorably, Schmincke notes, and today's corporate leaders can succeed by similarly following its teachings. Dividing fundamentals into categories such as "Personal Principles," "Roles and Responsibilities, and "Education and Development," he shows how ancient wisdom on cooperation, integrity, accountability, sacrifice, power, and so on can apply to contemporary situations. On "Respecting Personnel," for example, he suggests "reasonable argument" be used to "gain agreement" on serious infractions--while "for trivial issues" it is better to be "indulgent and patient and not sweat the insignificant." --Howard Rothman.
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Modern Library College Editions

William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" is a remarkable work by a man who himself was something of a marvel. It remains one of the most readable seventeenth-century American books, attractive to us as much for its artfulness as for its high seriousness, the work of a good storyteller with intelligence and wit. Edited, with an Introduction, by Francis Murphy..
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With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the lives of all the men profiled in this book changed. The attack brought the country together in a way it had never seen before, or since. Recruiting offices were swamped with volunteers enlisting to avenge the sneak attack that had occurred that Sunday morning.

The enlistees included farm boys from Texas, college students from Massachusetts, laborers from Detroit, professional men from New York and movie stars from Hollywood. It included men and women from every walk of life in every state and territory. Some of the biggest movie stars of the time answered the call and they answered it not to serve as entertainers or be actors in Signal Corps training films, they sought out and found hazardous duty flying combat missions in bombers and fighters, sailing the waters of the North Atlantic and the South Pacific. They jumped out of planes behind enemy lines on D-Day. They were at the Battle of the Bulge; they ran supplies to anti-Nazi guerillas through German blockades, they hit Omaha Beach with the first wave on the morning of June 6th, 1944, and filmed the carnage of Tarawa while under intense enemy fire. And one, who became a movie star after the war, won the Congressional Medal of Honor while becoming the most decorated American soldier of World War II.

Many men left the military after the war with ambitions they wouldn't have dreamed of prior to serving, but the GI Bill availed them to opportunities that heretofore weren't a possibility. The stars who served returned to their acting careers and were joined by a whole new generation of stars for the fifties and beyond. The amazing stories of the movie stars who became war heroes and the war heroes who became movie and TV stars is what this book is all about..
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