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  • Fear and Fortune

    Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush

    de Mette M. High ...
    Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the USSR and tens of millions of livestock were killed in devastating droughts in the early 2000s. Volatility and uncertainty as well as political and ... Leer más

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  • Across Many Mountains

    A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom

    "A moving reminder that the consequences of the Chinese invasion of Tibet continue down to this day. A lovely memoir of three generations of Tibetan women." —Oliver StoneKunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. One of the country's youngest Buddhist nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery. Though simple, Kunsang's life gave her all she ... Leer más

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  • Hatha Yoga Pradipika English

    Series series English
    ~ A liquid translation of the terse but very precise syllabus of Swatmarama’s yoga classic. ~It elaborates physical body postures, breath-infusion, mystic arresting-actions and linkage to a divine world using the technique of kundalini manipulation for subtle body transformation.Complicated?It sure is. Use this if you would sort the components of consciousness and push the limits of psychic ... Leer más

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  • The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

    The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an ... Leer más

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  • The Art of War: A New Translation

    A New Translation

    Series series Chinese Bound
    Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzus The Art of War is still used as a book of military strategy today. Napoleon, Mae Zedong, General Vo Nguyen Giap and General Douglas MacArthur all claimed to have drawn inspiration from it. And beyond the world of war, business and management gurus have also applied Sun Tzus ideas to office politics and corporate strategy. Using a new translation by James ... Leer más

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  • Encounters with Chinese Writers

    de Annie Dillard ...
    Chinese and U.S. writers try to bridge the culture gap in this "splendid little book" from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ( The Washington Post Book World).Winner of the New England Book Show AwardIt's been a pilgrimage for Annie Dillard: from Tinker Creek to the Galapagos Islands, the high Arctic, the Pacific Northwest, the Amazon Jungle—and now, China. This ... Leer más

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  • The Massacres at Mt. Halla

    Sixty Years of Truth Seeking in South Korea

    de Hun Joon Kim ...
    In The Massacres at Mt. Halla**, Hun Joon Kim presents a compelling story of state violence, human rights advocacy, and transitional justice in South Korea since 1947.** The "Jeju 4.3 events" were a series of armed uprisings and counterinsurgency actions that occurred between 1947 and 1954 in the rugged landscape around Mt. Halla in Jeju Province, South Korea. The counterinsurgency strategy was ... Leer más

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  • Explorations in Daoism

    Medicine and Alchemy in Literature

    de Ho Peng Yoke ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    The Daoist canon is the definitive fifteenth century compilation of texts concerning ritual, alchemical and meditation practices within Daoist religion. Many of these texts are undated and anonymous, so dating them is essential for a clear understanding of the development of Chinese alchemy, and the place of these texts in history.Ho Peng Yoke's Explorations in Daoism brings together an ... Leer más

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  • The Yengishiki/The Englishiki

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    Shinto ("the way of the gods") is the indigenous faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan herself. It remains Japan's major religion besides Buddhism. "Shinto gods" are called kami. They are sacred spirits which take the form of things and concepts important to life, such as wind, rain, mountains, trees, rivers and fertility. Humans become kami after they die and are revered by their ... Leer más

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  • Vietnam

    de Mary McCarthy ...
    Hailed as "the most provocative and disturbing analytical indictment . . . of America's role in Vietnam" by the New York Times, this is Mary McCarthy's riveting account of her journeys to Saigon and HanoiIn 1967, the editor of the New York Review of Books sent Mary McCarthy to Vietnam. In this daring and incisive account , McCarthy brings her critical thinking and novelist's eye to one of the ... Leer más

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  • Shamans in Asia

    Edición de Clark Chilson, Peter Knecht ...
    Shamans throughout much of Asia are regarded as having the power to control and coerce spirits. Many Asians today still turn to shamans to communicate with the world of the dead, heal the sick, and explain enigmatic events. To understand Asian religions, therefore, a knowledge of shamanism is essential.Shamans in Asia provides an introduction to the study of shamans and six ethnographic studies, ... Leer más

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  • Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece

    de Lisa Raphals ...
    Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first systematic account and analysis of the two side by side. Who practised divination in these cultures and who consulted it? What kind of questions did they ask, and what methods were used to answer those questions? As well as these practical aspects, Lisa ... Leer más

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