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Free Download Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice By Brian Steininger
2017 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 0674975154 | PDF | 18 MB
Written Chinese served as a prestigious, cosmopolitan script across medieval East Asia, from as far west as the Tarim Basin to the eastern kingdom of Heian period Japan (794 1185). In this book, Brian Steininger revisits the mid-Heian court of the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, where literary Chinese was not only the basis of official administration, but also a medium for political protest, sermons of mourning, and poems of celebration.Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan reconstructs the lived practice of Chinese poetic and prose genres among Heian officials, analyzing the material exchanges by which documents were commissioned, the local reinterpretations of Tang aesthetic principles, and the ritual venues in which literary Chinese texts were performed in Japanese vocalization. Even as state ideology and educational institutions proclaimed the Chinese script s embodiment of timeless cosmological patterns, everyday practice in this far-flung periphery subjected classical models to a string of improvised exceptions. Through careful comparison of literary and documentary sources, this book provides a vivid case study of one society s negotiation of literature s position both within a hierarchy of authority and between the incommensurable realms of script and speech."

Free Download China During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 By Tomoko Shiroyama
2009 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 0674036174 | PDF | 4 MB
The Great Depression was a global phenomenon: every economy linked to international financial and commodity markets suffered. The aim of this book is not merely to show that China could not escape the consequences of drastic declines in financial flows and trade but also to offer a new perspective for understanding modern Chinese history. The Great Depression was a watershed in modern China. China was the only country on the silver standard in an international monetary system dominated by the gold standard.Fluctuations in international silver prices undermined China's monetary system and destabilized its economy. In response to severe deflation, the state shifted its position toward the market from laissez faire to committed intervention. Establishing a new monetary system, with a different foreign-exchange standard, required deliberate government management; ultimately the process of economic recovery and monetary change politicized the entire Chinese economy. By analyzing the impact of the slump and the process of recovery, this book examines the transformation of state-market relations in light of the linkages between the Chinese and the world economy.

Free Download T. L. Short, "Charles Peirce and Modern Science"
English | ISBN: 1009223542 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In this book, T. L. Short places the notorious difficulties of Peirce's important writings in a more productive light, arguing that he wrote philosophy as a scientist, by framing conjectures intended to be refined or superseded in the inquiries they initiate. He argues also that Peirce held that the methods and metaphysics of modern science are amended as inquiry progresses, making metaphysics a branch of empirical knowledge. Additionally, Short shows that Peirce's scientific work expanded empiricism on empirical grounds, grounding his phenomenology and subverting the fact/value dichotomy, and that he understood statistical explanations in nineteenth-century science as reintroducing the idea of final causation, now made empirical. Those innovations underlie Peirce's late ideas of a normative science and of philosophy as a branch of science. Short's rich and original study shows us how to read Peirce's writings and why they are worth reading.

Free Download Challenges to the Power of Zeus in Early Greek Poetry by Noriko Yasumura
English | July 21, 2011 | ISBN: 0715636782, 147250447X | True EPUB/PDF | 240 pages | 11.2/2 MB
In the earliest extant works of Greek literature, Zeus reigns supreme in the Olympian hierarchy. However, scattered and scanty though they may be, there are allusions to threats of rebellion which challenge Zeus' supremacy.

Free Download Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe by Katharina N. Piechocki
English | November 13, 2019 | ISBN: 022664118X, 0226816818 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 12.2 MB
Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BHQ61LF8 | 70 pages | MOBI | 0.18 Mb
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Free Download Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo, "Cardozo on the Parashah: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Volume 1 - Bereshit/Genesis"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1948403102 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.3 mb
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Free Download Capitalism at a Crossroads: A New Reset?
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031232569 | 662 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 18 MB
As the current capitalist system has been increasingly struggling to respond to the problems and uncertainties in the global economy, this book aims to identify the main economic, social, and ecological problems and discusses solutions for a more inclusive and sustainable economic system. Written by an international selection of contributors, it takes a wider perspective beyond classical orthodox economics.

Free Download H.-J. Senn, U. Kapp, "Cancer Prevention"
English | 2007 | pages: 243 | ISBN: 354037695Xб 3540828109 | PDF | 3,9 mb
This volume contains the main proceedings of the fourth international conference on "Cancer Prevention 2006," which was held during February 16-18, 2006, in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Written by international experts in the field, the book comprises a comprehensive update on the most recent developments in the upsurging fields of molecular biology and cancer genetics and their interactions with clinical epidemiology and cancer prevention at various levels.

Free Download Ann Elias, "Camouflage Australia: Art, nature, science and war"
English | ISBN: 1920899731 | 2011 | 262 pages | PDF | 29 MB
In 1939 a group of artists, designers, architects, scientists and military experts met in Sydney, Australia, to discuss the impending war. Convinced that the need for regional innovations in the military science of concealment and deception was urgent, they nominated a zoologist to lead a campaign to camouflage Australia. "Camouflage Australia" tells a once secret and little known story of how the Australian government accepted the advice of zoologist William John Dakin and seconded the country's leading artists and designers, including Max Dupain and Frank Hinder, to deploy optical tricks and visual illusions for civilian and military protection. Their work was an array of ingenious constructions for the purpose of disguise and subterfuge. Drawing on previously unpublished photographs and documents, "Camouflage Australia" exposes the story of fraught collaborations between civilian and military personnel who disagreed over camouflage's value to wartime operations and the usefulness of artists to warfare. In this engrossing book, Ann Elias provides international context for the historical circumstances and events of the organisation of camouflage in World War II in Australia and the Pacific region. She elaborates on the parallel involvement of British and American artists in the field of concealment and deception, and reveals the widespread interest shown by western naturalists and scientists in the application to warfare of the behaviours and aesthetics of animals. "Camouflage Australia", by redressing the near invisible contribution of Australian artists and designers to defence in World War II, makes a major contribution to the history of art and to the history of Australia. Importantly, by discussing how citizens dutifully transformed themselves into servants of the war enterprise as camouflage labourers, camouflage designers, and camouflage field officers, the author provides a valuable historical perspective for the 21st century when ethical conflicts and moral struggles dominate debates on war participation. And camouflage itself, even in an age of nuclear warfare, retains many of its historical methods and controversies.