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Free Download Halvor Eifring, "Asian Traditions of Meditation"
English | ISBN: 082485568X | 2016 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume brings together for the first time studies of the major traditions of Asian meditation as well as material on scientific approaches to meditation. It delves deeply into the individual traditions while viewing each of them from a global perspective, examining both historical and generic connections between meditative practices from numerous historical periods and different parts of the Eurasian continent. It seeks to identify the cultural and historical peculiarities of Asian schools of meditation while recognizing basic features of meditative practice across cultures, thereby taking the first step toward a framework for the comparative study of meditation.

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Free Download John Gillespie, "Asian Socialism and Legal Change: The dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform"
English | 2011 | pages: 354 | ISBN: 0731537157 | PDF | 4,1 mb
Although the immense process of economic and social transformation currently underway in China and Vietnam is well known, less attention has been devoted to the process of Chinese and Vietnamese legal change. Asian Socialism and Legal Change brings together experts to analyse recent developments in the legal sphere, representing the diversity and dynamism of this process. This book is the first systematic analysis of legal change in Asian transitional economies.

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Free Download Asia-Pacific Disaster Management: Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives By Luke Nottage, Hitoshi Nasu, Simon Butt (auth.), Simon Butt, Hitoshi Nasu, Luke Nottage (eds.)
2014 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 3642397670 | PDF | 7 MB
The book outlines the regulatory environment for disaster prevention and management in broad social, economic and political context. The first half of the book focuses mainly on Japan, especially the '3-11' events: the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku area on 11 March 2011 and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant radiation leaks. The second half focuses on the USA (the only other Asia-Pacific country to have experienced a serious nuclear emergency), Indonesia, China, New Zealand, Australia and international law. One question explored is whether socio-legal norms play different roles in preventing and managing responses to natural disasters compared to 'man-made' disasters. Another is how 'disaster law' interacts with society across very diverse societies in the disaster-prone Asia-Pacific region. The book also addresses the increasingly important roles played by international law and regional regimes for cross-border cooperation in disaster prevention and relief, including the functions played by military forces.Erudite, pragmatic, and charged with detailed, substantive knowledge of an astonishing range of contexts and research fields, this timely collection of important essays on the law and society of disaster management stands as an exemplary international academic response to the disasters of 11 March 2011. (Annelise Riles)

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Free Download Asia's Rise in the 21st Century By Scott B. MacDonald, Jonathan Lemco
2011 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0313393702 | PDF | 4 MB
Asia's Rise in the 21st Century is a wake-up call to the West, offering a sophisticated assessment of a group of nations that are becoming essential markets for U.S. trade, industry, and finance, even as they increasingly represent fierce competition for global markets. The work traces changes that launched the region down the path to potential economic and political ascendancy, and it looks at various factors, from politics to economics to demographics that affect Asia now and will continue to do so in the future.China's prominence is explored in the context of how it complements and competes with the rest of Asia, especially Japan and India, and how it interacts with other major emerging-market countries, such as Brazil, Russia, and Turkey. The book also looks at the challenge China's ascendancy poses to the assertion that a successful capitalist system must be accompanied by political democracy. Finally, the authors suggest ways in which Asia's rise can be accommodated in the West and elsewhere and offer thoughts on where Asia, and especially China, will be in 2030.

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Free Download Asia In The Global Economy: Finance, Trade and Investment By Ramkishen S. Rajan, Sunil Rongala
2008 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 9812705732 | PDF | 4 MB
This book consists of 20 short essays on different dimensions of international economic policy with specific (though not exclusive) focus on Asia. Topics covered include: exchange rate regimes and reserve buildup in Asia; global macroeconomic imbalances; financial sector liberalization; international capital flows to and from Asia; infrastructure financing in Asia; foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, production networks, manufacturing and outsourcing in Asia; the economic rise of China and India; and trade, financial and monetary regionalism in Asia. While the book covers important and often technical economic issues of contemporary policy relevance, it is written in a manner that is easily accessible to non-economists, including students of public policy, international affairs, international commerce and business, as well as policy-makers and interested observers. Contents: Monetary and Exchange Rates Issues: Asia's Embarrassment of Riches: A Story of Prudence, Global Imbalances, and Some Good Old Fashioned Mercantilism; The Known Unknown: The Whopping US Current Account Deficit and Its Implications (With Surabhi Jain); Will the US Dollar Remain Top Dog ?: The Billion Dollar Question (With Jose Kiran); A Central Banker's Holy Grail: Inflation-Targeting Frameworks with Reference to Asia (With Tony Cavoli); Singapore s Currency Baskets and the Mantra of Competitiveness: The Importance of Real Exchange Rates; Financial Liberalization, Financial Crises and the Financing of Development: Barbarians at the Gates: Foreign Bank Entry in Asia; The Tobin Tax: A Panacea for Financial Crises?; International Capital Flows to Asia: The Never-ending Magic Spigot?; Using Reserves to Finance Infrastructure in India: Will it Clear the Gridlock?; The Goldmine of Development Finance: Reassessing the Importance of Migrants Remittances; Trade, Investment and the Rise of China and India: The Do s and Don ts of Attracting Foreign Direct Investment; Chips from East Asia, Hardware from Southeast Asia, and Assembled in China: Production Sharing and Trade in Asia; All Paths Lead to India: Do Other Asian Countries Pose a Challenge to Its Dominance in Services Outsourcing? (With Sadhana Srivastava); The Rise of the Indian Manufacturing Sector: A True Underdog Story; Will the Big Tiger Leave Any Crumbs for the Little Dragons? China vs Southeast Asia; Economic Regionalism in Asia: Embracing One s Neighbour: Redefining the Importance of India to ASEAN; Going It Alone: Singapore s Trade Strategy (With Rahul Sen); ASEAN Economic Integration: Taking Care of Business; Uncooperative Cooperation: The Saga of Economic Cooperation in South Asia; Monetary and Financial Cooperation in Asia: More than Just Buzzwords?.

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English | ISBN: 1032014741 | 2024 | 434 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1300 KB + 39 MB
As one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives became a foundational text in the burgeoning field of asexuality studies. This revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition both celebrates the book's impact and features new scholarship at the vanguard of the field.

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Free Download Gay L. Byron, William S. Love, Vincent L. Wimbush, "Asceticism"
English | 2002 | pages: 673 | ISBN: 0195085353, 0195151380 | PDF | 41,8 mb
From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history. Offering a sweeping view of this elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture, Asceticism looks at the ascetic impulse from a unique vantage point. Cross-cultural, cross-religious, and multidisciplinary in nature, these essays provide a broad historical and comparative perspective on asceticism-a subject rarely studied outside the context of individual religious traditions. The work represents the input of more than forty preeminent scholars in a wide range of fields and disciplines, and analyzes asceticism from antiquity to the present in European, Near Eastern, African, Asian, and North American settings.

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Free Download Alan Epstein, "As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey"
English | 2001 | pages: 305 | ISBN: 006093395X | PDF | 1,0 mb
A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to live in Rome. In As the Romans Do, he celebrates the spirit of this stylish, dramatic, ancient city that formed the hub of a far-flung empire and introduced the Mediterranean culture to the rest of the world. He also reveals today's Roman men and women in all their appealing contradictions: their gregarious caffe culture; inborn artistic flair; passionate appreciation of good food; instinctive mistrust of technology; showy sex appeal; ingrained charm and expressiveness; surprisingly unusual attitudes toward marriage and religion; and much, much more.

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Free Download Arzneimittel-Atlas 2013: Der Arzneimittelverbrauch in der GKV By Prof. Dr. med. Bertram Häussler, Dr. med. Ariane Höer (auth.), Prof. Dr. med. Bertram Häussler, Dr. med. Ariane Höer, Elke Hempel (eds.)
2013 | 458 Pages | ISBN: 3642387942 | PDF | 9 MB
Der Arzneimittel-Atlas - für einen realistischen Blick auf den ArzneimittelmarktValide Informationen über den Verbrauch von Arzneimitteln sind für gesundheits- und wirtschaftspolitische Entscheidungen unabdingbar. Der Arzneimittel-Atlas liefert für 31 Indikationsgruppen transparente und strukturierte Informationen über die Entwicklung der Verordnungen zu Lasten der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung. Alle Analysen basieren auf dem Konzept der Tagesdosen und auf Erstattungspreisen. Für das Jahr 2012 werden im Vergleich zu 2011 die Änderungen von Verbrauch und Preis sowie strukturelle Verschiebungen betrachtet und regionale Unterschiede dargestellt. Ergänzt wurde außerdem eine zusammenfassende Darstellung zu Wirkstoffen, bei denen der Patentablauf zur Einführung von Generika geführt hat. Schließlich wird der Arzneimittelverbrauch in Beziehung zur Prävalenz verschiedener Erkrankungen gesetzt. Im Fokus des Arzneimittel-Atlas 2013 stehen erneut die Auswirkungen des Gesetzes zur Neuordnung des Arzneimittelmarktes (AMNOG) sowie in diesem Jahr die rheumatoide Arthritis.

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