Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art, and Texts
ISBN: 9780774810814 / Angielski / Miękka / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ancient region of Gandhara, with its prominent Buddhist heritage, has long fascinated scholars of art history, archaeology, and textual studies. Discoveries of inscriptions, text fragments, sites, and artworks in the last decade have added new pieces to the Gandharan puzzle, redefining how we understand the region and its cultural complexity. The essays in this volume reassess Gandharan Buddhism in light of these findings, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that illuminates the complex historical and cultural dynamics of the region. By integrating archaeology, art history,... The ancient region of Gandhara, with its prominent Buddhist heritage, has long fascinated scholars of art history, archaeology, and textual studies... |
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Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature
ISBN: 9780774811736 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia. Reclaiming Adat focuses on the filmmakers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat to counter the homogenizing aspects of both Islamic discourse and globalization in this period. They practised their project of recuperation with an emphasis on sexuality and a return to archaic forms such as magic and traditional healing. Using close textual readings of literature and film, Khoo Gaik Cheng reveals the tensions between gender, modernity, and... In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia. Reclaiming Adat |
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Vietnam Battle Chronology: U.S. Army and Marine Corps Combat Operations, 1965-1973
ISBN: 9780786417063 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A chronological listing of over 600 army and marine combat operations from 1965 through to1973. Each entry includes the dates, name, location, type of action, units involved, events, casualties, and resulting political or military activity. Information was derived in part from official documents.
A chronological listing of over 600 army and marine combat operations from 1965 through to1973. Each entry includes the dates, name, location, type of...
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306,61 zł |
Students and Teachers of the New China: Thirteen Interviews
ISBN: 9780786432882 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of interviews with students and teachers in Hangzhou, China. Ranging in age from 7 to 52, the 13 interviewees represent a cross-section of Chinese culture and experience, with various levels of social status, education, and economic standing. Their words, supplemented by the authors detailed descriptions of their surroundings and daily activities, offer a fresh perspective on life in present-day China.
This is a collection of interviews with students and teachers in Hangzhou, China. Ranging in age from 7 to 52, the 13 interviewees represent a cross-s...
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246,49 zł |
Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism
ISBN: 9780801494499 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of essays, nine development specialists explore the Asian NICs' exceptional ability to capitalize on the favorable economic environment of the 1960s and then to adapt flexibly to worsening conditions in the 1970s and...
In this collection of essays, nine development specialists explore the Asian NICs' exceptional ability to capitalize on the favorable economic environ...
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What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
ISBN: 9780802130310 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive, compact, lucid, and faithful account of the Buddha's teachings persistently enjoys great popularity in colleges, universities, and theological schools both here and abroad. -An exposition of Buddhism conceived in a resolutely modern spirit.---from the Foreword.
-For years, - says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, -the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula's What the Buddha Taught fills the need as only could be done by one having a firm grasp of the vast material to be sifted. It is a model... This comprehensive, compact, lucid, and faithful account of the Buddha's teachings persistently enjoys great popularity in colleges, universities, and...
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Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism
ISBN: 9780802151278 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This uniquely contemporary guide to understanding the timeless message of Buddhism, and in particular its relevance in actual human relations, was inspired by Shantideva's 'Guide To The Bodhisattva's Way Of Life', which the author translated into English, the oral instructions of living Buddhist masters, Heidegger's classic 'Being and Time', and the writings of the Christian theologians Paul Tillich and John MacQuarrie. This uniquely contemporary guide to understanding the timeless message of Buddhism, and in particular its relevance in actual human relations, was ... |
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Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India
ISBN: 9780804744140 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays by leading social scientists focuses on development in India to explore the emergence of "regional modernities" in ways that are distinct from a so-called global modernity and its myriad local variations. "Regional," for the authors, incorporates the state and other subnational and supranational social and political formations that are more or less salient depending on the social networks and development projects under consideration. In particular, the concept of region allows the assessment of large-scale ethnic, religious, social, and geo-political formations as...
This collection of essays by leading social scientists focuses on development in India to explore the emergence of "regional modernities" in ways that...
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681,69 zł |
Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India
ISBN: 9780804744157 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays by leading social scientists focuses on development in India to explore the emergence of "regional modernities" in ways that are distinct from a so-called global modernity and its myriad local variations. "Regional," for the authors, incorporates the state and other subnational and supranational social and political formations that are more or less salient depending on the social networks and development projects under consideration. In particular, the concept of region allows the assessment of large-scale ethnic, religious, social, and geo-political formations as...
This collection of essays by leading social scientists focuses on development in India to explore the emergence of "regional modernities" in ways that...
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163,19 zł |
Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960
ISBN: 9780804745338 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Performing the Visual explores the practice of wall painting in China from a new perspective. Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval library in western China, the author analyzes the painters' pictorial strategies. She also examines the financial accounting of Buddhist temples, providing practical information that ninth- and tenth-century critics ignored: how artists were paid and when, the temple's role as mediator between patrons and artists, and the way painters functioned outside the monastic system, working in guilds and...
Performing the Visual explores the practice of wall painting in China from a new perspective. Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings o...
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366,28 zł |
Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies
ISBN: 9780804747042 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well. This book is the first in English to document the extraordinary scale, complexity, and variation of giving in contemporary Japan. Gift-Giving in Japan is based on eighteen months' fieldwork in the Tokyo metropolitan area, as well as short-term research in other parts of Japan. The core of the study is the experience of family representatives of different ages, classes, genders, occupations, neighborhoods, and religions. The author also...
Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as wel...
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120,25 zł |
Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China
ISBN: 9780804747318 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book in any language to explore the cultural connotations of childhood in the early phases of Chinese history. Drawing upon both traditional and archeological materials, this study encompasses the stages of human development that begin with the embryo and extend to late adolescence. While texts from China's most ancient period scarcely mention children, rather suddenly, in Han times (206 BC-AD 220), the written record begins to feature fairly detailed references to children and the childhoods of famous figures. The aim of this book is to identify the cultural conditions that...
This is the first book in any language to explore the cultural connotations of childhood in the early phases of Chinese history. Drawing upon both tra...
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386,63 zł |
How Far Across the River?: Chinese Policy Reform at the Millennium
ISBN: 9780804747660 / Angielski / Twarda / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gradual change has been a hallmark of the Chinese reform experience, and China's success in its sequential approach makes it unique among the former command economies. Since 1979, with the inception of the continuing era of reform, the Chinese economy has flourished. Growth has averaged nine percent a year, and China is now a trillion dollar economy. China has become a major trading power and the predominant target among developing countries for foreign direct investment. Despite all this, China remains poor and the reform process unfinished. This book takes its defining theme from Deng...
Gradual change has been a hallmark of the Chinese reform experience, and China's success in its sequential approach makes it unique among the former c...
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432,42 zł |
Reforming India's External, Financial, and Fiscal Policies
ISBN: 9780804747752 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A traditionally conservative country in financial matters, India enacted a series of reforms in response to its balance of payments crisis in the early 1990s. But since then only halting progress has been made, raising concerns about India's rising fiscal deficit, inefficiencies in its financial system, and its still relatively closed economy. This book analyzes some of the complex issues currently facing the Indian economy. Looking at India in the international economy, the first section examines reforms of policies toward trade and capital inflows, including issues in exchange rate policy...
A traditionally conservative country in financial matters, India enacted a series of reforms in response to its balance of payments crisis in the earl...
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386,63 zł |
Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics
ISBN: 9780804748797 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have occurred in China's population: one of the fastest fertility declines in modern history and a gender gap among infants that is the highest in the world. These changes have contributed to an imminent crisis of social security for a rapidly aging population, provoking concern in China and abroad. What political processes underlie these population shifts? What is the political significance of population policy... China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and bec... |
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549,42 zł |
Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics
ISBN: 9780804748803 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have occurred in China's population: one of the fastest fertility declines in modern history and a gender gap among infants that is the highest in the world. These changes have contributed to an imminent crisis of social security for a rapidly aging population, provoking concern in China and abroad. What political processes underlie these population shifts? What is the political significance of population policy...
China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and becaus...
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128,84 zł |
Popular Political Support in Urban China
ISBN: 9780804749596 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Has the current political system in the People's Republic of China lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese public? On the basis of three carefully drawn surveys of Beijing residents between 1995 and 1999, the author finds that diffuse support for the current political system--based on attitudes toward institutions and values--remains strong, at least among city-dwellers, though it is gradually declining. Specific support for current political authorities, as measured by evaluations of their performance in major policy domains, is much weaker, with many citizens evaluating the...
Has the current political system in the People's Republic of China lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese public? On the basis of three carefu...
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274,71 zł |
Popular Political Support in Urban China
ISBN: 9780804750578 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Has the current political system in the People's Republic of China lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese public? On the basis of three carefully drawn surveys of Beijing residents between 1995 and 1999, the author finds that diffuse support for the current political system--based on attitudes toward institutions and values--remains strong, at least among city-dwellers, though it is gradually declining. Specific support for current political authorities, as measured by evaluations of their performance in major policy domains, is much weaker, with many citizens evaluating the...
Has the current political system in the People's Republic of China lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese public? On the basis of three carefu...
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137,42 zł |
Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China
ISBN: 9780804751605 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book-length ethnography of the revival of a popular religious temple in contemporary rural China examines the organizational and cultural logics that inform the staging of popular religious activities. It also explores the politics of the religious revival, detailing the relationships of village-level local activists and local state agents wtih temple associations and temple bosses. Shedding light on shifting state-society relationships in the reform era, this book is of interest to scholars and students in Asian Studies, the social sciences, and religious and ritual studies.
This book-length ethnography of the revival of a popular religious temple in contemporary rural China examines the organizational and cultural logics ...
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590,12 zł |
Developing Engaged Readers in School and Home Communities
ISBN: 9780805819762 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A synthesis of current directions in reading research, theory and practice unified by what has been referred to as the engagement perspective of reading. The work represents the key components of the National Reading Research Center in the USA.
A synthesis of current directions in reading research, theory and practice unified by what has been referred to as the engagement perspective of readi...
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239,05 zł |