At first it seemed this wasn't really an interrogation but a piece of bureaucratic book-keeping.
Mr. Ishii was the author of a recently published book about bureaucratic corruption titled "The Parasites Consuming Japan".
Crozier's breakthrough book, The Bureaucratic Phenomenon (1963 in French, 1964 in English), is a still wonderful account of how an organisation as a system generates the overlapping vicious circles that then block the system.
A book about bureaucratic change would make for dry reading if it didn't have a colorful main character, and Petraeus, wherever he goes, appears ready-made: he's smiling, educated, super-fit, and very smart — and he likes to talk to reporters.
His offices — he has three of them, for various bureaucratic reasons — overflowed with books that now seem superfluous: endless volumes on the perestroika years, books about transitions to democratic governance.
Amazon does not have an Argentinian site and import restrictions make it a bureaucratic nightmare to purchase books from international internet sellers.
It also took much time and numerous bureaucratic hurdles before the books bought in Peking could be shipped to outside China, and it required the help of Zhang Xueliang's office to finally ship the last 27,000 ce out of China.
In a book full of bureaucratic mortals, the devil and his crew provide some much-needed honesty.
Amid the bureaucratic prose of his dreadful book The Blair Revolution, Peter Mandelson managed to articulate one noble thought.
This book tells the bureaucratic story of Iraq's Year 1, the year after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, when the United States was the legal occupying power and responsible for the country's administration.
Lest this seem a prescription for more derring-do than reflection, Mr. Berenson gives himself plenty of opportunity to ruminate — on politics, poverty, Islam, trust, courage and festering bureaucratic rivalries — by cramming his book full of people who think, plot and (sometimes too conveniently) experience the emotions he needs to move his story along.
