How can Confucianism lead to business and personal success? Follow the extraordinary career of Steve Tsai, whose unshakable commitment to truth, family and nation helped him overcome poverty and deprivation, led him through two terrible wars, and positioned him to play a decisive role in Taiwan’s development as a modern nation-state. In these pages, he looks back on a life full of important lessons for those who seek success and fulfillment, offering hard-earned wisdom and experience, and a heart-felt optimism for life and humanity. Steve Tsai shares the secrets of his success: family, faith, learning and friends. These constant companions transformed him from a shoeless itinerant student into a driving force of Taiwan’s modernization and ultimately leading figure of the American hotel industry. 1. Modern Confucian Entrepreneur also offers invaluable wisdom for how Confucian values, properly understood and applied, can bring success in organizational management, leadership, investment
The fact that Snow did not sneak into “red China” to gather information constituting the basis of his Red Start over China all alone is in many instances isunderstood even by scholars.Mao Zedong’s biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow’s (1905–1972) account in Red Star over China for the route Mao traveled from early childhood through his youth.How the “Red Star” Rose introduces the image of Mao and the biographical information made known to the world through the publication of Red Star, and with its publication the circumstances which they fundamentally undermined. Ishikawa Yoshihiro uses Mao Zedong as raw material to examine from whence and how ordinary historical information and images which we habitually use unconsciously come into being.He desires to help readers to reconsider the historicity of the generation of not only
It is a biography of Mr. Suen Siu Man, Simon, BBS, JP, known as a successful entrepreneur, the founder and the chairman of SML Group. The legendary life experience of Mr. Suen is introduced in ten chapters: “Ambition”, “Aspiration”, “Innovation”, “Magnification”, “Transformation”, “Integrity”, “Morality”, “Creativity”, “Rationality” and “Reciprocity”. And more than 100 precious photos provided by Mr. Suen are included in this book.
This is a new biography on Zhou Enlai, one of the most important and yet debatable political figures in the Chinese Communist Party. Based on solid research and first-hand information obtained from of
A warm, inspiring picture book biography of author Madeleine L’Engle and the making of A Wrinkle in Time, a household favorite for over sixty years!When Madeleine L'Engle was very small, she marvelled at the stars. They guided her throughout her life, making her feel part of a big and exciting world, even when she felt alone. They made her want to ask big questions―Why are we here? What is my place in the universe?―and let her imagination take flight. Books, too, were like stars―asking questions and proposing answers. Books kept Madeleine company, and soon, she began to write and share her own. But would other people see the wonder she found in the world?Written by Madeleine's granddaughter Charlotte Jones Voiklis and bestselling picture book author Jennifer Adams, A Book, Too, Can Be a Star follows the life of one of the world's greatest creators―and gives children encouragement to lead a creative, inquisitive life.
A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his timeBased on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London
A richly illustrated biography of Georgia O'Keeffe follows her life from the time she was a young girl, when she viewed the world in her own way, practicing her drawings and running free, to adulthood, when she followed her love of art from the steel canyons of New York City to the plains of New Mexico. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
The life of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is introduced in this early reader biography. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed it was possible to change the world with peaceful protest
An illustrated rhyming biography of the African American woman and first Naval engineer to design a ship using a computer. “Solid inspiration.” -Kirkus, starred review
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a rally, and went on to give his speech with the bullet in his chest? Or that he skinny-dipped in the Potomac River? Bet you didn't know that he had a zebra, a lion, and a one-legged rooster at the White House! Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the larger-than-life president, from his childhood and his Rough Rider days to his rise to politics and his complicated presidential legacy.Narrated by the two spirited siblings and animated by Allison Steinfeld's upbeat illustrations, Teddy Roosevelt is an authoritative, accessible, and one-of-a-kind biography infused with Dan Gutman's signature zany sense of humor.
