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Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1316517616 | 343 Pages | PDF | 17 MB
In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial governance. In this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source for this period.He shows how the kings of the Western Zhou adapted ritual to create and retain power, while introducing changes that affected later remembrances of Zhou royal ritual and that shaped the tradition of statecraft throughout Chinese history.Using ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, Vogt traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.

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Kingly Splendor: Court Art and Materiality in Han China (Tang Center Series in Early China) by Allison R. Miller
English | December 1, 2020 | ISBN: 0231196601 | True PDF | 360 pages | 61.5 MB
The Western Han dynasty (202 BCE-9 CE) was a foundational period for the artistic culture of ancient China, a fact particularly visible in the era's funerary art. Iconic forms of Chinese art such as dazzling suits of jade; cavernous, rock-cut mountain tombs; fancifully ornate wall paintings; and armies of miniature terracotta warriors were prepared for the tombs of the elite during this period. Many of the finest objects of the Western Han have been excavated from the tombs of kings, who administered local provinces on behalf of the emperors.

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Journey Into Yoga ~ A Guide for Transformation and Discovery by Gordon Kanzer
English | March 11, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VF42SWH | 340 pages | EPUB | 2.55 Mb
"A perfect book for beginners and anyone wanting to know more about the philosophy, asanas, pranayama, anatomy, science and so much more!"

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John F. MacArthur, "Jesus Unleashed: A New Vision of the Bold Confrontations of Christ and Why They Matter"
English | ISBN: 078524297X | 2021 | 160 pages | EPUB | 569 KB
Walk through the gospel records of the "bold confrontations" of Jesus and discover how to use your newfound knowledge of the person of Jesus to defend the biblical truth of the Christian faith.

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Jellyfish Blooms: Causes, Consequences and Recent Advances by Kylie A. Pitt, Jennifer E. Purcell
English | PDF | 2009 | 284 Pages | ISBN : 1402097484 | 5.1 MB
Jellyfish form spectacular population blooms and there is compelling evidence that jellyfish blooms are becoming more frequent and widespread. Blooms have enormous ecological, economic, and social impacts. For example, they have been implicated in the decline of commercial fisheries, they block the cooling water intakes of coastal industries and ships, and reduce the amenity of coastal waters for tourists. Blooms may be caused by overfishing, climate change, and coastal pollution, which all affect coastal waters around the world.

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Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity By Paul Austerlitz
2005 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 0819567825 | PDF | 11 MB
Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, Paul Austerlitz argues that jazz-and the world view or consciousness that surrounds it-embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African American base to engage all of humanity. Fans and musicians have made this claim before, but Austerlitz is the first to examine it from a scholarly perspective. He considers jazz in relation to race and national identity in the United States and then broadens his scope to consider jazz within the African diaspora and in very different transnational scenes, from the Dominican Republic to Finland.Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores jazz in an extraordinary range of contexts. One of the central chapters is devoted to the history of the groundbreaking Latin jazz band Machito and his Afro-Cubans, who were inspired by the dancing of both Harlemites and Jewish mamboniks. In chapter six, seminal drummer Milford Graves, one of Austerlitz's mentors, shares his philosophy that music profoundly influences our biorhythms and indeed shapes our thoughts.

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J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2023: Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119931185 | 459 Pages | EPUB | 0.9 MB
No one likes to pay taxes. And everyone hates paying more taxes than they need to. Yet, each year, Americans make billions of dollars in tax overpayments. In J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2023: Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible, expert attorney and small business advocate Barbara Weltman delivers a thorough and carefully researched explanation of the constantly changing tax laws as they apply to ordinary, taxpaying Americans.

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It Starts With Clients: Your 100-Day Plan to Build Lifelong Relationships and Revenue by Andrew Sobel
English | March 31, 2020 | ISBN: 1119619106 | 256 pages | PDF | 4.70 Mb
World-renowned client relationship authority shows you how to dramatically grow your business by mastering fourteen critical client development challenges

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Joe Vallese, "It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror"
English | ISBN: 1952177790 | 2022 | 400 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Through the lens of horror-from Halloween to Hereditary-queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.

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Is This a Cookbook?: Adventures in the Kitchen by Heston Blumenthal
English | November 29, 2022 | ISBN: 1526621509 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 231 MB
A culinary adventure from three-time James Beard Award-winning, Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal―but is it a cookbook?

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