 | Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis: Meditations on Computer Systems Development by Patrick Mcdermott
Buy new: $15.26 / Used from: $10.00 Here's my book.
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 | Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan (Stone Bridge Classics) by Basil Hall Chamberlain
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $1.54 Things Japanese is an allusion to Basil Hall Chamberlains 1905 book Things Japanese. A great book, still relevant today.
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 | Japanese Things; Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan, for the Use of Travelers and Others. by Basil Hall Chamberlain
Buy used from: $0.29 Things Japanese, inexplicably renamed Japanese Things by Tuttle in their 1971 reprint. Tuttle is usually simpatico with their audience and authors, but this is an example of a failure to understand the intent of an author: Japanese Things aint got the ring. Despite Tuttles rare lapse, its a great book. Read it!
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 | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.00 This almost serendipiditous conjunction of desperation and opportunity enabled Demings Japanese admirers to integrate his ideas about quality into the inaugural stages of new production cycles and new entrepreneurial ventures in ways that would have lasting consequences over the ensuing decades.
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 | Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense by Bruce Lee
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $4.44 The one-ness of Yin/Yang is necessary in life. If a person riding a bike wishes to go somewhere, he cannot pump on both pedals at the same time or not pump on them at all. In order to move forward, he has to pump one pedal and release the other. So the movement of going forward requires this oneness of pumping and releasing.
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 | A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi
Buy used from: $0.01 Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645), one of Japans greatest strategists, although actually a master of the Sword, Time called him Japans answer to the Harvard MBA!, and said: On Wall Street, when Musashi talks, people listen. The Sword Master enumerates principles of strategy. These precepts have surprisingly broad application to systems analysis, so Musashi is referred to throughout my book.
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 | The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.60 The Japanese seem to be able to elevate anything to a way, there even being Sadō, the way of Tea, as delightfully explained. A way can be a way of life. To some Americans, computers can be a Way. Many followers of the Open Source movement treat hacking (in the good sense) as a way. Eric S. Raymond recommends that you Study Zen, and/or take up martial arts, if you want to truly understand hacking.
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 | Hagakure: The Book of the Samauri by Tsunetomo Yamamoto
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $1.97 Matters of great concern should be treated lightly.
Matters of small concern should be treated seriously.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure
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| THINGS JAPANESE; BEING NOTES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH JAPAN. by Basil Hall Chamberlain
Buy used from: $77.60 Out-of-Print edition; might get it used.
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 | Things Japanese - Being Notes On Various Subjects Conneced With Japan by Basil Hall Chamberlain
Buy new: $31.95 / Used from: $38.99 Out-of-Print edition; might get it used.
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