Scottish Tours (8-vol. set) (ES)
Following the success of earlier facsimile collections (Lake District Tours: A Collection of Travel Writings and Guide Books in the Romantic Era and Picturesque Wales: Facsimile Reprints of ''Pennant's Tours'' and ''Wales Illustrated''), this is the third Edition Synapse collection of travel writing and guidebooks written during the period of 'picturesque tours'. Scotland became a popular destination for eighteenth-century writers. Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1...
The English edition of Liu Lihong's work is a milestone for the profession of Chinese medicine in the 21st century. Classical Chinese Medicine delivers a straightforward critique of the politically motivated 'integration' of traditional Chinese wisdom with Western science during the last sixty years, and represents an ardent appeal for the recognition of Chinese medicine as a science in its own right. Professor Liu's candid presentation has made this book a bestseller in China, treasured not onl...
White Aster
by Karl 1865-1939 Florenz and Tetsujiro 1856-1944 Inoue
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, Volume 82, 1 May-31st July 1963 (Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru)
The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru has established its position as the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. It is indispensable to the scholar, fascinating to the layperson, and at times something of a primer in politics, democracy, and world affairs, as Nehru intended his periodic letters to his chief ministers to be. It provides a panorama of home and the world as seen from the centre of power in India by an acutely sensitive observe...
The Story of Manu (Murty Classical Library of India - HUP) (Murty Classical Library of India, #4)
by Allasani Peddana
Manucaritramu, or The Story of Manu, by the early sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the definitive literary monument of Telugu civilization and a powerful embodiment of the imperial culture of Vijayanagara, the last of the great premodern south Indian states. It is the story of Svarochisha Manu, who ruled over the previous cosmic age and who serves here as prototype for the first human being. Peddana explores the dramatic displacements, imaginative projections, and intricate workings...
Confucius and the Chinese Classics
by Augustus Ward 1816-1891 Loomis
Here is a collection of eight tales set in medieval Japan. Modeled on the lively literary styles of setsuwa, oto-zoshi, and sekkyo bushi, themes range from the comic to the erotic and from the adventurous to the bizarre. Umehara delights in confronting the reader's preconceptions, breaking the established taboos of contemporary Japanese culture.
Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph)
by Constance A. Cook
Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao outlines the evolution of musical performance in early China, first within and then ultimately away from the socio-religious context of ancestor worship. Examining newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period, Constance A. Cook compares the rhetoric of Western Zhou (1046-771 BCE) and Spring and Autumn (770-481 BCE) bronze inscriptions with later occurrences of similar terms in which ritual music began to be used as a form of self-cultivation and educ...
This novel follows two friends' attempt to climb the rumbling Mount Aso as it threatens to erupt. It records their banter about their backgrounds, behaviours and reactions to the things they see along the way. The book combines western autobiography and the traditional Japanese literary diary.
An English Translation and the Correct Interpretation of Laozi's Tao Te Ching 英譯並正解老子道德經
by Ks Vincent Poon and Kwok Kin Poon
Selected Works of jawaharlal Nehru (1-31 march 1959) (Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru)
The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authoritative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. Given the literary abilities and singular position of Jawaharlal Nehru, these volumes can be considered a primer to politics, democracy and international affairs. With extensive annotations, it provides a panorama of home and the world as seen from the centre of power in India by an acutely sensitive observer and a skillful statesman. Part of this prestigious series, volume 4...
Ancient Japanese Waves Adult Coloring Book Hamonshu
by Nihonga Wave Designs