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Download or read book Samurai William written by Giles Milton and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of ships bound for Asia, and he had washed up in the forbidden land of Japan. The traders were even more amazed to learn that, rather than be horrified by this strange country, Adams had fallen in love with the barbaric splendour of Japan - and decided to settle. He had forged a close friendship with the ruthless Shogun, taken a Japanese wife and sired a new, mixed-race family. Adams' letter fired up the London merchants to plan a new expedition to the Far East, with designs to trade with the Japanese and use Adams' contacts there to forge new commercial links. Samurai William brilliantly illuminates a world whose horizons were rapidly expanding eastwards.
Download or read book Anjin written by Hiromi T. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1600. It is April and Japan's iconic cherry trees are in full flower. A battered ship drifts on the tide into Usuki Bay in southern Japan. On board, barely able to stand, are twenty-three Dutchmen and one Englishman, the remnants of a fleet of five ships and 500 men that had set out from Rotterdam in 1598. The Englishman was William Adams, later to be known as Anjin Miura by the Japanese, whose subsequent transformation from wretched prisoner to one of the Shogun's closest advisers is the centrepiece of this book. As a native of Japan, and a scholar of seventeenth-century Japanese history, the author delves deep into the cultural context facing Adams in what is one of the great examples of assimilation into the highest reaches of a foreign culture. Her access to Japanese sources, including contemporary accounts - some not previously seen by Western scholars researching the subject - offers us a fuller understanding of the life lived by William Adams as a high-ranking samurai and his grandstand view of the collision of cultures that led to Japan's self-imposed isolation, lasting over two centuries. This is a highly readable account of Adams' voyage to and twenty years in Japan and that is supported by detailed observations of Japanese culture and society at this time. New light is shed on Adams' relations with the Dutch and his countrymen, including the disastrous relationship with Captain John Saris, the key role likely to have been played by the munitions, including cannon, removed from Adams' ship De Liefde in the great battle of Sekigahara (September 1600), the shipbuilding skills that enabled Japan to advance its international maritime ambitions, as well as the scientific and technical support Adams was able to provide in the refining process of Japan's gold and silver.
Download or read book Needle-Watcher written by Richard Blaker and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating novel reconstructs the story of Will Adams, a native of Gillingham, in Kent, England, and his voyage to Japan in the seventeenth century. Adams' knowledge of seafaring vessels at the time causes him to be taken into the favor of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and,in time,to become recognized as the founder of the Japanese navy. Adams was one of the most picturesque and daring of Britain's maritime traders, and this depiction of him as the first Englishman to settle in what was then a hostile country is written not only with distinction but also with an imaginative grasp that takes it right out of the class of the ordinary historical novel. It is an epic tale of strange adventures, and it creates an atmosphere of rare and haunting quality. In its understanding of the Japanese mind it is hardly less than remarkable. Will Adams died in Japan in the spring of 1620 and is buried at Yokosuka. Every year a ceremony is still held to commemorate the anniversary of his death. There is also a memorial to him at Ito,in Shizuoka Prefecture, as well as one at his birthplace in England.
Book Synopsis The Log-book of William Adams, 1614-19 by : William Adams
Download or read book The Log-book of William Adams, 1614-19 written by William Adams and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Dances written by William Lee Adams and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A page-turning, tragicomic memoir . . . By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Adams affirms a resilient idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time." —Thúy Đinh, NPR A memoir of glitz, glamour, geopolitics, and the power of pop music, following a misunderstood queer biracial kid from small-town Georgia who became the world's foremost Eurovision Song Contest blogger. As a boy, William Lee Adams spent his days taking care of his quadriplegic brother, while worrying about his undiagnosed bipolar Vietnamese mother, and steering clear of his openly racist and homophobic father. Too shy and anxious to even speak until he was six years old, it seemed unlikely William would ever leave small-town Georgia. He passed the time alone in his room, studying maps and reading encyclopedias, dreaming of distant places where he might one day feel free. In time, William discovered that learning was both a refuge and a ticket out. So even as he struggled to understand and to get others to accept both his sexuality and his biracial identity, William focused on his schoolwork, his extracurricular activities, and building community with the students and teachers who embraced him for who he truly was. Though his scholarship to Harvard parachuted him into a whole new world, he still carried a lifetime of secrets and unanswered questions that would haunt him no matter how far he traveled. Years later, as a journalist in London, William discovered the Eurovision Song Contest—an annual competition known for its extravagant performers and cutthroat politics. Initially just a fan, he started blogging about the contest, ultimately becoming the most sought-after expert on the subject. From Albania, Finland, and Ukraine, to Israel, Sweden, and Russia, William was soon jetting across the Continent to meet divas, drag queens, and aspiring singers, who welcomed him to their beautiful, if dysfunctional, family of choice. An uplifting memoir about glitz, glamour, geopolitics, and finding your people, no matter how far you must travel, Wild Dances celebrates the power of pop music to help us heal and forgive.
Book Synopsis Against Extinction by : William Mark Adams
Download or read book Against Extinction written by William Mark Adams and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Servant of the Shogun by : Richard Tames
Download or read book Servant of the Shogun written by Richard Tames and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of William Adams, an English sailor who was shipwrecked in Japan in 1600 and discusses this influence on Japanese history
Download or read book Pars Japonica written by William De Lange and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the harrowing account of one of the most ill-fated expeditions in maritime history. Of five ships that sailed from Rotterdam at the turn of the 16th century, only one reached the largely unknown islands of Japan. The pilot of that ship was the inspiration for the hero of James Clavell's Shogun.
Book Synopsis Scaling Leadership by : Robert J. Anderson
Download or read book Scaling Leadership written by Robert J. Anderson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform Your Organization by Scaling Leadership How do senior leaders, in their own words, describe the most effective leaders—the ones that get results, grow the business, enhance the culture and leave in their wake a trail of other really effective leaders? Conversely, how do senior leaders describe the kind of leader that undercuts the organization’s capacity and capability to create its future? This book, based on groundbreaking research, shows how senior leaders describe and develop leadership that works, that does not, that scales, and that limits scale. Is your leadership built for scale as you advance in today’s volatile, uncertain, dynamic, and disruptive business environment? This context puts a premium on a very particular kind of leadership—High-Creative leadership capable of rapidly growing the organization while simultaneously transforming it into more agile, innovative, adaptive and engaging workplace. The research presented in this book suggests that senior leaders can describe the High-Creative leadership with surprising clarity. They also describe with equal precision the High-Reactive leadership that cancels itself out and seriously limits scale. Which type of leader are you? You scale your leadership by increasing the multiple on your leadership in three ways. First, by developing the strengths that differentiate the most effective leaders from the strengths deployed by the most Reactive and ineffective leaders. And second, by increasing your leadership ratio—the ratio of most the effective strengths to the most damaging liabilities. Third, by developing High-Creative leaders all around you. Scaling Leadership provides a proven framework for magnifying agile and scalable leadership in your organization. Scalable leadership drives forward-momentum by multiplying high-achieving leaders at scale so that growth, productivity and innovation increase exponentially. Creative leaders multiply their strengths beyond technical competence by leading in deep relationship, with radical humanity, passion and integrity. Drawing upon decades of solid research and experience enhancing individual capability and collective leadership effectiveness with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, the authors provide an innovative and efficient framework to help you: Take stock of your own personal balance of leadership strengths and weaknesses Scale your leadership in deep relationship and high integrity Proliferate high-achievers throughout your organization’s leadership system Identify ineffective leadership and course-correct quickly Transform your organization by transforming leadership Scaling Leadership is an invaluable tool for executives, managers, and leaders in business, academia, nonprofit organizations, and more. This innovative resource provides effective techniques, real-world examples, and expert guidance for organizations seeking to improve performance, align and execute strategies, and transform their business with scalable leadership capability.
Book Synopsis Adams's Chronicle of Bristol by : William Adams
Download or read book Adams's Chronicle of Bristol written by William Adams and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis This Book Will Save Your Life by : A.M. Homes
Download or read book This Book Will Save Your Life written by A.M. Homes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her debut in 1989, A. M. Homes, author of the forthcoming novel The Unfolding, has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years. This Book Will Save Your Life is a vivid, uplifting, and revealing story about compassion, transformation, and what can happen if you are willing to lose yourself and open up to the world around you.
Book Synopsis Institute Book of Readers Theatre by : Dr. William Adams
Download or read book Institute Book of Readers Theatre written by Dr. William Adams and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a compendium of the Institute's basic findings presented in a format intended to be a maximum hands-on use to the wide range of readers who wish to apply presentational theater to their individual needs.
Book Synopsis William Adams, 1594-1661, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Some of His Descendants by : Kenneth Lloyd Bosworth
Download or read book William Adams, 1594-1661, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Some of His Descendants written by Kenneth Lloyd Bosworth and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Adams (1594-1661) and his family settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts, before 1635. He was the father of seven children, ca. 1620-ca. 1642. The family moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts, before 1642. Record lists and children and grandchildren of each generation but chiefly follows line of descent to Madeline Adams Whitehead. Madeline Adams (1913-1994) was born in Paris Township, Linn County, Kansas, the daughter of Robert Clyde Adams (1885-1955) and Harriet [Hattie] Mapes Adams (1883-1918). Her family moved to Corvallis, Oregon, ca. 1939. She married Charles Edward Whitehead, son of William Henry Whitehead (1882-1919) and Blance Eaton Whitehead (1883-1911) at Kansas City in 1936. They settled at Los Angeles, California. They had three daughters, 1941-1945.
Book Synopsis An introduction to the theory of numbers by : Ivan Niven
Download or read book An introduction to the theory of numbers written by Ivan Niven and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Proust Souvenir by : William Howard Adams
Download or read book A Proust Souvenir written by William Howard Adams and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grouped together after the part-title "Swann's Way" are the portraits of the family members, diplomats, doctors, school friends, salonistes, and servants who made up the Right Bank bourgeois milieu into which Proust was born. Part-title "The Guermantes Way" includes the aristocratic, Faubourg Saint-Germain world to which Proust aspired. With part-title "The Artists' and Writers' Way" come the Bergotte of Anatole France and actresses with whom he became romatically involved. The closing section is the self-portrait of Paul Nadar, son fo Felix Nadar, the legendary avant-gardist in whose studio the Impressionists had held their first exhibition.
Book Synopsis The Original Letters of the English Pilot, William Adams, Written from Japan Between A.D. 1611 and 1617 by : William Adams
Download or read book The Original Letters of the English Pilot, William Adams, Written from Japan Between A.D. 1611 and 1617 written by William Adams and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass by : F. M. Caulkins
Download or read book Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass written by F. M. Caulkins and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass: And of the Rev. Eliphalet Adams, of New London, Conn A general subscription of inhabitants at Ipswich, in December, 1618, contains the names of William Adams and William Adams, Jun. William Adams died in 1661. William Adams, Jun. died in January, 1659. It may be assumed with probability that these persons were father and son. A comparison of other facts makes it also tolerably clear that William Adams, Sen. had three sons who lived to manhood, and probably left posterity, viz: - 1. William, who died 1659. 2. Nathaniel, ascertained by Farmer to be son of William, Sen. 3. Samuel, of Ipswich, 1665. (Vide Farmer.) The Rev. William Adams, an esteemed minister of Dedham (ordained 1673), was undoubtedly the son of William Adams, Jun. In a Journal, kept by him, and subsequently to be copied in this Memoir, he refers to uncles N. A. and S. A., who appear to have been the guardians of his minority. This corresponds with our statement of the family. He mentions also a brother by the name of John; and this allows us to proceed a step farther in our list. William Adams, Jun., who died 1659, left two sons, viz.: - 1. William. 2. John. The following Memoir will attempt to trace the line of the first named of these sons. William Adams was born 27 May, 1650. We have his own authority for this date. He does not say where this event took place; but in all probability it was at Ipswich. From an allusion in his Journal to his "grandmother Starr," it may be supposed that his mother bore that name; but nothing more respecting her family has been ascertained. If the foregoing statement of his paternity be correct, he was left an orphan at the age of nine years. His means were slender; but being exceedingly desirous of a liberal education, he was assisted by his relatives to enter Harvard College, and was graduated at that institution in 1671. He came from thence with the esteem and respect of his teachers, and with a character for integrity, learning, and piety, that gave a pleasing promise of future usefulness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
