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 Free Download All That Glittered: Britain's Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush by Timothy Alborn English | September 17, 2019 | ISBN: 0190603518 | 276 pages | PDF | 8.90 Mb During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world's supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation's emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older social hierarchy.
 Free Download Precious Treasures from the Diamond Throne: Finds from the Site of the Buddha's Enlightenment By Sam van Schaik (Editor); Daniela De Simone (Editor); Gergely Hidas (Editor); Michael Willis (Editor) 2021 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 086159228X | PDF | 8 MB The Mahābodhi temple at Bodhgayā in eastern India has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation and attained enlightenment. The site, soon identified as the 'Diamond Throne' or vajrāsana, became a destination for pilgrims and a focus of religious attention for more than two thousand years.This volume presents new research on Bodhgayā and assesses the important archaeological, artistic and literary evidence that bears witness to the Buddha's enlightenment and to the enduring significance of Bodhgayā in the history of Buddhism. The book brings together a team of international scholars to look at the history and perception of the site across the Buddhist world and its position in the networks of patronage and complex religious landscape of northern India. The volume assesses the site's decline in the thirteenth century, as well as its subsequent revival as a result of archaeological excavations in the nineteenth century. Using the British Museum's collections as a base, the authors discuss the rich material culture excavated from the site that highlights Bodhgayā's importance in the field of Buddhist studies.  Free Download The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty by English | March 21st, 2023 | ISBN: 023120695X, 0231206941 | 376 pages | True EPUB | 2.00 MB The Mongols, their khans, and the empire they built and ruled in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries exert an enduring fascination. Caricatured as a marauding horde that ravaged surrounding peoples, in reality the Mongols created institutions, trading networks, economic systems, and intellectual and technological exchanges that shaped the early modern world. However, the centuries after the waning of Mongol power remain overlooked in comparison to the days of Chinggis Khan.
![A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival [Audiobook]](https://i121.fastpic.org/big/2023/0304/ba/c0b70a3f2294fe37127db3db8da6adba.jpeg) Free Download A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0B8345B7Y | 2023 | 8 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 251 MB Author: Gulchehra Hoja Narrator: Sarah Suzuk This extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China-and a woman who gave up everything to help her people. In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime - and thus that of her family - was her award-winning investigations on the plight of her people, the Uyghurs, whose existence and culture is being systematically destroyed by the Chinese government. A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs is Gulchehra's stunning memoir, taking us into the everyday world of life under Chinese rule in East Turkestan (more formally as the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China), from her idyllic childhood to its modern nightmare. The grandchild of a renowned musician and the daughter of an esteemed archaeologist, Gulchehra grew up with her people's culture and history running through her veins. She showed her gifts early on as a dancer, actress, and storyteller, putting her on a path to success as a major television star. Slowly though, she began to understand what China was doing to her people, as well as her own complicity as a journalist. As her rising fame and growing political awakening coincided, she made it her mission to expose the crimes Beijing is committing in the far reaches of its nation, no matter the cost.  A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival by Gulchehra Hoja English | February 21, 2023 | ISBN: 0306828847 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 31.8 MB This extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China-and a woman who gave up everything to help her people.  Azra Moeed, "Kia Ora Precious Jewels: Stories of A Teacher's Learning Journey in New Zealand" English | ISBN: 1637679653 | 2022 | 120 pages | EPUB | 4 MB This book is not a scholarly text reporting research, nor does it intend to show someone how to teach. I present learnings about teaching and how important my students, my Precious Jewels have been in my growth as a teacher. It is about me growing up with the support of a lot of students.  Rostislav Berezkin, Victor H. Mair, "Many Faces of Mulian: The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0295742526, 0295742518 | PDF | pages: 273 | 41.6 mb The story of Mulian rescuing his mother's soul from hell has evolved as a narrative over several centuries in China, especially in the baojuan (precious scrolls) genre. This genre, a prosimetric narrative in vernacular language, first appeared around the fourteenth century and endures as a living tradition. In exploring the evolution of the Mulian story, Rostislav Berezkin illuminates changes in the literary and religious characteristics of the genre. He also examines material from other forms of Chinese literature and from modern performances of baojuan, tracing their transformation from tools of Buddhist proselytizing to sectarian propaganda to folk ritualized storytelling. Ultimately, he reveals the special features of baojuan as a type of performance literature that had its foundations in multiple literary traditions.  Precious Children of India: Giving Voice to Destitute Children of the World By Elizabeth Ann Carpenter 2014 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1622452011 | EPUB | 4 MB Children around the world are living in dire conditions without even the basic necessities of water, food, shelter, and love. They often suffer in silence, struggling simply to exist among the unexplainable and irreversible conditions in which they find themselves. Many are so young they do not even know what they lack - the love of a family and the comfort of a home. Survival is their only concern as they grow up in a world of adults who seem to have forgotten them or are so busy with their own survival that they really do not have time to care. These first-person narratives are compiled from conversations with dozens of boys and girls in India. The stories put a voice to the suffering that they and thousands more like them endure every day. Children bravely share their stories of being caste bound, trafficked, beggars, witnesses to murder, unwanted, and of suffering great loss. Each child is a witness to his or her own story of survival. From their voices can be heard the desperate plea for someone to care, if not for themselves, then for those even less fortunate whose voices have not yet been heard.  English | 2022 | ISBN: 1611809339 | 350 pages | True EPUB | 8.57 MB The first and only commentary on the Buddhist master Longchenpa's essential text on Dzogchen by modern scholar and Nyingma master, Khangsar Khenpo Tenpa'i Wangchuk. Longchen Rabjam (1308-1363), also known as Longchenpa, is a great luminary of Tibetan Buddhism. Regarded as a master of Dzogchen, or Great Perfection, Longchenpa's prolific writings have made him one of Tibet's most renowned and precious teachers. In clear and elegant verse, Longchenpa's Precious Treasury of the Fundamental Nature establishes the definitive view of the ultimate nature of mind according to the secret class of pith instructions of the Great Perfection.  Shawn Nocher, "The Precious Jules" English | 2022 | ISBN: 1094058319 | 422 pages | EPUB | 1.1 MB "Beautifully written...a great book club pick!" - Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author |
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