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This book challenges the perception of Japan as a 'copying culture' through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.

It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japanese apparently assimilate all things foreign and at the same time such a fear of their skill at artificially remaking and automating the world around them. Countering the idea of a Japan that deviously or ingenuously copies others, it elucidates the history of creative exchanges with the outside world and the particular myths, philosophies...

Everybody is aware, all seven billion of us. We are aware of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. All people share the experience of being aware, but relatively few people are aware that they are aware. Most people's lives consist of a flow of thoughts, images, ideas, feelings, sensations, sights, sounds, and so on. Very few people ask, "What is it that knows this flow of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions? With what am I aware of my experience?"

The knowing of our being--or rather, awareness's knowing of its own being in us--is our primary experience, our most...

Lesen lernen mit einem Abenteuer auf der Ritterburg
Wer befreit Burg Eliot aus der Belagerung? In diesem SUPERLESER!-Erstlesebuch machen sich Mittelalter-Fans mit einem Ritter und dessen Knappen auf ins Abenteuer. Sie dürfen an einem ruhmreichen Ritterturnier teilnehmen. Aber dann belagern Franzosen die stolze Burg! Was ist zu tun? Eine mitreißende Sachgeschichte über mittelalterliche Heldentaten, dank klarer Gliederung, einfachem Wortschatz und Bildern perfekt für Leseanfänger*innen.

Buch zur Leseförderung ab der 1./2. Klasse (Lesestufe 2)...

- Includes new evidence and research in support of the theory of morphic resonance

- Explores the major role that morphic resonance plays not just in animal instincts and cultural inheritance but also in the larger process of evolution

- Shows that nature is not ruled by fixed laws but by habits and collective memories

In this fully revised and updated edition of The Presence of the Past, Cambridge biologist Rupert Sheldrake lays out...