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 Japanese Buddhism: A Cultural History By Yoshiro Tamura; Jeffrey Hunter 2001 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 4333016843 | PDF | 6 MB Buddhism was founded in India more than two thousand years ago, but the Japanese molded it to suit their culture, and it became one of the most enduring and far-reaching cultural and intellectual forces in Japan's history.The stamp of Japanese Buddhism is unmistakable in the nation's poetry, literature, and art; and the imprint of Japan's indigenous culture is clear from the amalgamation of pre-Buddhist worship and esoteric Buddhism in the practice of the Shugendo ascetics.Japan's Buddhism and the nation's cultural infrastructure are so inextricably linked that it is impossible to understand one without the other. Japanese Buddhism is both a history of Japanese Buddhism and an introduction to Japan's political, social, and cultural history. It examines Japanese Buddhism in the context of literary and intellectual trends and of other religions, exploring social and intellectual questions that an ordinary history of religion would not address.  Japan in the American Century By Kenneth B. Pyle 2018 | 472 Pages | ISBN: 0674983645 | PDF | 30 MB No nation was more deeply affected by America's rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt's uncompromising policy of unconditional surrender led to the catastrophic finale of the Asia-Pacific War and the most intrusive international reconstruction of another nation in modern history. Japan in the American Century examines how Japan, with its deeply conservative heritage, responded to the imposition of a new liberal order.The price Japan paid to end the occupation was a cold war alliance with the United States that ensured America's dominance in the region. Still traumatized by its wartime experience, Japan developed a grand strategy of dependence on U.S. security guarantees so that the nation could concentrate on economic growth. Yet from the start, despite American expectations, Japan reworked the American reforms to fit its own circumstances and cultural preferences, fashioning distinctively Japanese variations on capitalism, democracy, and social institutions.Today, with the postwar world order in retreat, Japan is undergoing a sea change in its foreign policy, returning to an activist, independent role in global politics not seen since 1945. Distilling a lifetime of work on Japan and the United States, Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of the two nations' relationship at a time when the character of that alliance is changing. Japan has begun to pull free from the constraints established after World War II, with repercussions for its relations with the United States and its role in Asian geopolitics.  Miltiades Varvounis, "Jan Sobieski: The King Who Saved Europe" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1462880800, 1462880819 | 276 pages | EPUB | 1.5 MB Jan Sobieski was one of the most extraordinary and visionary monarchs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 until his death. He was a man of letters, an artistic person, a dedicated ruler but above all the greatest soldier of his time. Popular among his subjects, he won considerable fame for his decisive victory over the Ottomans at the walls of Vienna (1683). For defeating the Muslim invaders, Pope Innocent XI hailed Sobieski as the saviour of Christendom.  JUST MERCY: The Taiwan Straits Crises in the Color of Law by SOPHIA FERRIS English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B8QVJBXJ | 88 pages | EPUB | 0.15 Mb Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in October 1949 and the establishment of the defeated Kuomintang (KMT) exile rule on the island two months later, China's relationship with Taiwan has been fraught with conflict. The KMT's insistence on continuing to represent not just Taiwan but all of China initially led to challenges to the island's autonomous sovereignty; later, Taiwan refused to yield sovereignty to the then-dominant power that had developed on the other side of the Taiwan Strait.  Simon Rae, "It's Not Cricket: Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game" English | 2002 | ISBN: 0571215823 | EPUB | 7 MB An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game.  Dominik Mueller, "Islam, Politics and Youth in Malaysia: The Pop-Islamist Reinvention of PAS " English | ISBN: 0415844754 | 2014 | 196 pages | PDF | 3 MB Providing an ethnographic account of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) and its Youth Wing (Dewan Pemuda PAS), this book analyses the genesis and role of Islamic movements in terms of their engagement in mainstream politics. It explores the party's changing approach towards popular culture and critically investigates whether the narrative of a post-Islamist turn can be applied to the PAS Youth.  Inuit Mythology: Ancient Myths of Gods, Goddess, Creatures and Stories by Trident Books English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B18FFHT9 | 55 pages | EPUB | 0.46 Mb Inuit mythology refers to the indigenous peoples of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland's shared spiritual beliefs and practices. Their religion has many parallels with the religions of other North Polar peoples. Inuit myths and legends, like any mythology, both are entertaining and educational. The Inuit attributed excellent and evil powers to deities who lived in a spirit world intertwined with the stunning northern landscape.  Julia Burdge, Michelle Driessen, "Introductory Chemistry: An Atoms First Approach" English | 2016 | pages: 609 | ISBN: 0073402702 | PDF | 126,8 mb From its very origin, Introductory Chemistry: An Atoms First Approach by Julia Burdge and Michelle Driessen has been developed and written using an atoms‐first approach specific to introductory chemistry. It is not a pared down version of a general chemistry text, but carefully crafted with the introductory‐chemistry student in mind.  Intimacy on the Internet: Media Representations of Online Connections By Lauren Rosewarne 2016 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 1138824178 | PDF | 3 MB The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of the Internet in seeking intimate connections―be it a committed relationship, a hook-up, or a community in which to dabble in fringe sexual practices. Popular culture (film, narrative television, the news media, and advertising) present two very distinct pictures of the use of the Internet as related to intimacy. From news reports about victims of online dating, to the presentation of the desperate and dateless, the perverts and the deviants, a distinct frame for the intimacy/Internet connection is negativity. In some examples however, a changing picture is emerging. The ubiquitousness of Internet use today has meant a slow increase in comparatively more positive representations of successful online romances in the news, resulting in more positive-spin advertising and a more even-handed presence of such liaisons in narrative television and film. Both the positive and the negative media representations are categorised and analysed in this book to explore what they reveal about the intersection of gender, sexuality, technology and the changing mores regarding intimacy.  Christian Reus-Smit, "International Relations: A Very Short Introduction" English | 2020 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 0198850212 | EPUB | 2,4 mb International relations affects everyone's lives: their security, economic well-being, rights and freedoms, and the environment they share. Recently we have seen the transformation from a world of empires to today's world of sovereign states, which are enmeshed in a complex array of international institutions, all exercising degrees of political authority. The new global organization of political authority has far-reaching consequences. |
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