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  • Brand Activation: Implementing the Real Drivers of Sales and Profit

    by Alex McKay, Graham Brown, Neale Skalberg ...
    The days of brand activation are nearing an end. The future lies in customer activation.The concept of 'brand activation' has become an overused buzzword in the sales and marketing world. The term is becoming rapidly outdated, used to describe anything from mass media advertising and outdoor events to digital applications and in-store point of sale.Drawing on research, industry insights and real ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pilgrimage in Tibet

    by Alex McKay ...
    The Western image of Tibet as a sacred land is in many ways a mythical construction. But the Tibetans themselves have traditionally mapped out their land in terms of areas of sacred space, and pilgrimage, ensuring a high degree of mobility within all classes of Tibetan society. Pilgrims travelled to local, regional, and national centres throughout recorded Tibetan history. In recent years, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World

    Studies in Central Asian Buddhism

    Edited by Ishihama Yumiko, Alex McKay ...
    Series series Global Asia
    The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Set in the final days of the Qing Empire when the Russian and British ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Tibetans

    by Matthew T. Kapstein ...
    Series series Peoples of Asia
    This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Tibet, its culture and history.A clear and comprehensive overview of Tibet, its culture and history.Responds to current interest in Tibet due to continuing publicity about Chinese rule and growing interest in Tibetan Buddhism.Explains recent events within the context of Tibetan history.Situates Tibet in relation to other Asian ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Tibetan History Reader

    Edited by Gray Tuttle, Kurtis Schaeffer ...
    Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, this resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies, along with several new contributions. Beginning with Tibet's emergence as a regional power and concluding with its profound contemporary transformations, the collection is both a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • India

    A Sacred Geography

    by Diana L Eck ...
    In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged.No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Story of Tibet

    Conversations with the Dalai Lama

    by Thomas Laird ...
    "A memorable and vivid history lesson about a remote mysterious place that, in terms of its sheer survival, has implications for our own lives." — The Times-PicayuneOver the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, one-on-one interviews that ranged widely, covering not only the history of Tibet but science, reincarnation ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Buddhism

    Teachings, History and Practices

    by Peter Harvey ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    In this new edition of the best-selling Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of the Buddhist tradition in both Asia and the West. Extensively revised and fully updated, this new edition draws on recent scholarship in the field, exploring the tensions and continuities between the different forms of Buddhism. Harvey critiques and corrects ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Chinese Philosophy - Simple Guides

    by Peter Nancarrow ...
    Series series Simple Guides
    THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate the variety, subtlety and wisdom of a unique philosophical tradition• to understand the major schools of thought that have shaped Chinese civilization• to draw on a rich cultural resource for different perspectives on questions of our time• to recognize traditional concepts that continue to inform Chinese thinking today China, an emerging superpower, is heir ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shinto - Simple Guides

    by Ian Reader, Simple Guides ...
    Series series Simple Guides
    This book will help you to:Appreciate the significance of Japan's own religion in everyday life.To become familiar with the key traditions and festivals (matsuri) of the Shinto year.To understand what you will see at Shinto shrines and in Shinto ritual.To gain insights into the controversies surrounding Shinto, politics, and nationalism.Access the world's religions with Simple Guides: Religion a s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Concise History of Buddhism

    by Andrew Skilton ...
    An ideal introduction to the history of Buddhism. Andrew Skilton - a writer on and practitioner of Buddhism - explains the development of the basic concepts of Buddhism during its 2,500 years of history and describes its varied developments in India, Buddhism's homeland, as well as its spread across Asia, from Mongolia to Sri Lanka and from Japan to the Middle East. A fascinating insight into the ... Read more

    $15.59 USD