Okazaki: 8 books

Chieko N. Okazaki writes, 'A sanctuary is a holy place, a place hallowed of God, a place of safety and refuge.' This beautiful concept is the centering principle of her new book. 'We all have moments when we are heart-hungry for sanctuary. And in these times of stress and turmoil what is our sanctuary?...

What you have to give is enough if you give it with all your heart. Is there ever enough time, enough money, enough power within us to do all that our lives seem to require of us? Most of us feel our inadequacies keenly, and the fear of failure can keep us from reaching out and offering what little we...

Toward the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mutsu Munemitsu was ousted from his home Kisu-han as a result of his father’s defeat in a power struggle. To avenge this, Mutsu bolstered his talent to become a man of “genius and learning in equal measure.” He joined the Kobe Naval Training Center founded...

Learn how to use Microsoft Word for long, complex documents. Microsoft Word is by far the most widely used word processing program. All over the world, it is used to create everything from half-page memos, meeting agendas, and letters to scientific journal articles, grant applications, and 1000 page...

This medical guide introduces methods that will help to heal currently incurable diseases, namely, cancers and collagen and allergic diseases. Although all of currently available cancer drugs are harmful due to their strong side effects, harmless and side effect-free cancer drugs; benzaldehyde...

This book is designed to be useful for guitarists at any skill level. Beginners can use it as an introduction to the foundational concepts of the instrument, intermediate players can use it for training and theoretical work, and advanced players can explore the sections on advanced theory, extended...

In this thesis, the author investigates hidden-order phase transition at T0 = 17.5 K in the heavy-fermion URu2Si2. The four-fold rotational symmetry breaking in the hidden order phase, which imposes a strong constraint on the theoretical model, is observed through the magnetic torque measurement....

An engaging ethnography of Korean American immigrant families navigating the United States Both scholarship and popular culture on Asian American immigrant families have long focused on intergenerational cultural conflict and stereotypes about “tiger mothers” and “model minority” students....