Phoenix Books / Publishers

A publisher specializing in books on the business practices, cultures & languages of China, Japan,Korea & Mexico; available from Amazon.com.

Phoenix Books / Publishers is the dba of author Boye Lafayette De Mente, internationally known for his 70-plus pioneer cultural-insight books on China, Japan, Korea, Mexico and the U.S. His other publishers include McGraw-Hill, the Periplus-Tuttle-Berkeley Group, Kodansha International ,and over a dozen Asian and European publishers. De Mente wrote the first books ever on the Japanese way of doing business: Japanese Etiquette & Ethics in Business [1959[, and How to Do Business in Japan [1962]...the only books on the subject for nearly 10 years. All of his titles are available from the major online booksellers. One of his latest: THE WOMAN IN THE BLUE BRA!: an account of what male dominance has done to business, education, entertainment, the news media and politics in the U.S.