Product Description: This celebration of what is perhaps the most influential of all poetic forms takes haiku back to its Japanese roots, beginning with poems by the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters Basho, Busson, and Issa, and going all the way up to the late twentieth century to provide a survey of haiku through the centuries, in all its minimalist glory...read more

Product Description: Humor has long been a lively element in traditional Japanese culture. Through parody, satire, personification, and wit, Japanese humor has a playful, subtle, and incongruous nature. Here, the benign and gentle quality of Japanese humor is presented through 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson, among others...read more

Product Description: Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson—all written on themes of people of various shapes and sizes, young and old—are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan. The poems appear both in skillful English translation, as well as in the original Japanese...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Information modelling is essential in the process of problem-solving. Drawing on a wide research field from the viewpoint of information modelling, this volume covers topics such as: the modelling and the tools for concept formation; associative search for databases and knowledge bases; enterprise modelling for enterprise integration systems; meta models for integrating multiple models, or for selecting appropriate ones; theoretical foundations for the modelling in databases; knowledge bases, and hyper media; natural language semantics for information modelling; software modelling for concurrent processes and distributed systems; object modelling and inference for vision, and manipulator and information modelling and taxonomies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)