Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism

For over a a thousand years, Buddhism has ruled eastern demise rituals and ideas of the afterlife. The 9 essays right here, ranging chronologically from the 10th century to the current, carry to mild either continuity and alter in dying practices over the years.

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For over a a thousand years, Buddhism has ruled eastern demise rituals and ideas of the afterlife. The 9 essays right here, ranging chronologically from the 10th century to the current, carry to mild either continuity and alter in dying practices over the years.

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The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan by Rebecca Copeland, Melek Ortabasi

By Rebecca Copeland, Melek Ortabasi

The 1st anthology of its style, the fashionable Murasaki brings the vibrancy and wealthy mind's eye of women's writing from the Meiji interval to English-language readers. besides conventional prose, the editors have selected and thoroughly translated brief tales, performs, poetry, speeches, essays, and private magazine entries. chosen readings comprise writings via the general public speaker Kishida Toshiko, the dramatist Hasegawa Shigure, the short-fiction author Shimizu Shikin, the political author Tamura Toshiko, and the novelists Miyake Kaho, Higuchi Ichiyo, Tazawa Inabune, Kitada Usurai, Nogami Yaeko, and Mizuno Senko. the amount additionally incorporates a thorough advent to every interpreting, an in depth index directory ancient, social, and literary strategies, and a finished consultant to extra research.

The fierce tenor and ambitious content material of those texts refute the preferred trust that ladies of this period have been passive and silent. an essential addition to classes in women's reviews and eastern literature and heritage, the trendy Murasaki is a unique source for college students and students.

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By Rebecca Copeland, Melek Ortabasi

The 1st anthology of its style, the fashionable Murasaki brings the vibrancy and wealthy mind's eye of women's writing from the Meiji interval to English-language readers. besides conventional prose, the editors have selected and thoroughly translated brief tales, performs, poetry, speeches, essays, and private magazine entries. chosen readings comprise writings via the general public speaker Kishida Toshiko, the dramatist Hasegawa Shigure, the short-fiction author Shimizu Shikin, the political author Tamura Toshiko, and the novelists Miyake Kaho, Higuchi Ichiyo, Tazawa Inabune, Kitada Usurai, Nogami Yaeko, and Mizuno Senko. the amount additionally incorporates a thorough advent to every interpreting, an in depth index directory ancient, social, and literary strategies, and a finished consultant to extra research.

The fierce tenor and ambitious content material of those texts refute the preferred trust that ladies of this period have been passive and silent. an essential addition to classes in women's reviews and eastern literature and heritage, the trendy Murasaki is a unique source for college students and students.

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The Arts of Japan: An Illustrated History by Hugo Munsterberg

By Hugo Munsterberg

The Arts of Japan used to be initially released via Tuttle Publishing in print shape in 1957.

"This book," within the phrases of the writer, "represents an try and fill a long-felt desire for an account of the background of jap artwork which might take care of the crafts in addition to with the so-called positive arts and hold the tale of eastern paintings as much as the current day rather than finishing with the dying of Hiroshige." The reader will fast understand how good this target has been completed. the following, in a stimulating and informative textual content and 121 well-selected plates—12 in complete colour—is a dynamic remedy of a number of the affects that experience formed the process jap artwork historical past within the fields of portray, sculpture, structure, and handicrafts. mentioned with hard perception are the effect of some of the Indian and chinese language colleges, the pervasive effect of Zen philosophy, and the numerous different inventive advancements, giving the reader a well-rounded photo of the good value and contribution of eastern paintings. designated good points of the booklet are sections on handicrafts and a bankruptcy on prehistoric paintings. The booklet comes at a time whilst there's an woke up curiosity in Oriental artwork during the global. while new equipment of artwork study were so improved and sophisticated that many interpretations of prior writers were made out of date. as a result of linguistic obstacles, political upheavals, and the restricted variety of experts, misconceptions were in particular various within the box of Oriental artwork. The Arts of Japan admirably corrects those misinterpretations, consolidates the result of the newest scholarship, and in a single compact quantity provides an updated, authoritative survey of jap paintings all through its lengthy heritage and in all its colourful range.

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By Hugo Munsterberg

The Arts of Japan used to be initially released via Tuttle Publishing in print shape in 1957.

"This book," within the phrases of the writer, "represents an try and fill a long-felt desire for an account of the background of jap artwork which might take care of the crafts in addition to with the so-called positive arts and hold the tale of eastern paintings as much as the current day rather than finishing with the dying of Hiroshige." The reader will fast understand how good this target has been completed. the following, in a stimulating and informative textual content and 121 well-selected plates—12 in complete colour—is a dynamic remedy of a number of the affects that experience formed the process jap artwork historical past within the fields of portray, sculpture, structure, and handicrafts. mentioned with hard perception are the effect of some of the Indian and chinese language colleges, the pervasive effect of Zen philosophy, and the numerous different inventive advancements, giving the reader a well-rounded photo of the good value and contribution of eastern paintings. designated good points of the booklet are sections on handicrafts and a bankruptcy on prehistoric paintings. The booklet comes at a time whilst there's an woke up curiosity in Oriental artwork during the global. while new equipment of artwork study were so improved and sophisticated that many interpretations of prior writers were made out of date. as a result of linguistic obstacles, political upheavals, and the restricted variety of experts, misconceptions were in particular various within the box of Oriental artwork. The Arts of Japan admirably corrects those misinterpretations, consolidates the result of the newest scholarship, and in a single compact quantity provides an updated, authoritative survey of jap paintings all through its lengthy heritage and in all its colourful range.

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Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market: Evidence by Catherine Hakim

By Catherine Hakim

This crucial examine offers the result of the 1st research of work marketplace information from Britain's new SARs, drawing comparisons with learn effects for the united states and for Western ecu nations. the writer totally examines numerous appropriate phenomena, akin to: a brand new and targeted classification of integrated occupations, using women and men both in hugely certified paintings; the diversification of part-time paintings; the emergence of a brand new classification of marginal jobs; and the growth of scholar jobs. This booklet additionally presents an outstanding introductory advisor for destiny SAR users.

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By Catherine Hakim

This crucial examine offers the result of the 1st research of work marketplace information from Britain's new SARs, drawing comparisons with learn effects for the united states and for Western ecu nations. the writer totally examines numerous appropriate phenomena, akin to: a brand new and targeted classification of integrated occupations, using women and men both in hugely certified paintings; the diversification of part-time paintings; the emergence of a brand new classification of marginal jobs; and the growth of scholar jobs. This booklet additionally presents an outstanding introductory advisor for destiny SAR users.

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The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan by Michitsuna no Haha

By Michitsuna no Haha

Author note: Translated through Edward Seidensticker
Publish 12 months note: First released 974
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Written within the 10th century, the Kagero Nikki, translated the following as The Gossamer Years, belongs to an analogous interval because the celebrated Tale of Genji and The Pillow e-book of Sei Shonagon. just like the Pillow e-book of Sei Shonagon, The Gossamer Years is a magazine stored through a noblewoman.

This frank autobiography diary finds tempestuous many years of the author's unsatisfied marriage and her starting to be indignation at rival other halves and mistresses. To impetuous to be happy as a subsidiary spouse, this gorgeous noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the wedding approach of her time in a single of eastern literature's earliest makes an attempt to painting tricky components of the primary social hierarchy.

Very little is understood of the writer outdoor of what's similar in her diary. Her identify is unknown -- yet she was once on the topic of the woman Murasaki, writer of the story of Genji, and to Sei Shonagon, writer of The Pillow Book.

A vintage paintings of early eastern prose, The Gossamer Years deals a undying and intimate glimpse into the tradition of old Japan.

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By Michitsuna no Haha

Author note: Translated through Edward Seidensticker
Publish 12 months note: First released 974
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Written within the 10th century, the Kagero Nikki, translated the following as The Gossamer Years, belongs to an analogous interval because the celebrated Tale of Genji and The Pillow e-book of Sei Shonagon. just like the Pillow e-book of Sei Shonagon, The Gossamer Years is a magazine stored through a noblewoman.

This frank autobiography diary finds tempestuous many years of the author's unsatisfied marriage and her starting to be indignation at rival other halves and mistresses. To impetuous to be happy as a subsidiary spouse, this gorgeous noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the wedding approach of her time in a single of eastern literature's earliest makes an attempt to painting tricky components of the primary social hierarchy.

Very little is understood of the writer outdoor of what's similar in her diary. Her identify is unknown -- yet she was once on the topic of the woman Murasaki, writer of the story of Genji, and to Sei Shonagon, writer of The Pillow Book.

A vintage paintings of early eastern prose, The Gossamer Years deals a undying and intimate glimpse into the tradition of old Japan.

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The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its by Oded Shenkar

By Oded Shenkar

Via 2015, China might have the world's greatest economic system. within the chinese language Century, Oded Shenkar indicates how China is restoring its imperial glory by way of infusing glossy know-how and industry economics right into a non-democratic method managed through the Communist celebration and paperwork. Shenkar indicates why China's quest for international luck differs noticeably from predecessors comparable to Japan, India, and Mexico... why it represents a primary restructuring of the worldwide company system... and why it's going to remodel the jobs of contributors within the international economic system. He previews tomorrow's new aggressive flooring principles, phrases of employment, and intake styles, and exhibits how chinese language ascendancy is redrawing political, monetary, and social conflict strains. study why the U.S. is so much liable to China's ascent... how China's forget for highbrow estate creates sustainable aggressive advantage... how China's development affects international companies and person buying judgements. especially, Shenkar exhibits what you need to do to outlive and prosper in "The chinese language Century."

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By Oded Shenkar

Via 2015, China might have the world's greatest economic system. within the chinese language Century, Oded Shenkar indicates how China is restoring its imperial glory by way of infusing glossy know-how and industry economics right into a non-democratic method managed through the Communist celebration and paperwork. Shenkar indicates why China's quest for international luck differs noticeably from predecessors comparable to Japan, India, and Mexico... why it represents a primary restructuring of the worldwide company system... and why it's going to remodel the jobs of contributors within the international economic system. He previews tomorrow's new aggressive flooring principles, phrases of employment, and intake styles, and exhibits how chinese language ascendancy is redrawing political, monetary, and social conflict strains. study why the U.S. is so much liable to China's ascent... how China's forget for highbrow estate creates sustainable aggressive advantage... how China's development affects international companies and person buying judgements. especially, Shenkar exhibits what you need to do to outlive and prosper in "The chinese language Century."

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Marketing Health Behavior: Principles, Techniques, and by Kathleen A. Brehony, Lee W. Frederiksen, Laura J. Solomon

By Kathleen A. Brehony, Lee W. Frederiksen, Laura J. Solomon (auth.), Lee W. Frederiksen, Laura J. Solomon, Kathleen A. Brehony (eds.)

This is a ebook that grew out of frustration. the disappointment used to be rooted in our failed makes an attempt to aid humans adjust health-related habit. From a behavioral medication standpoint, it was once easily obvious to us that there have been many stuff humans may well do to enhance their well-being. a few of these have been preventive behaviors, while others have been even more healing or rehabilitative in nature. placed in a different way, there have been particular recognized behavioral innovations that individuals might use to take care of or regain their solid well-being. but regardless of our strong intentions, enthusiasm, and substantial efforts, whatever used to be unsuitable. humans dropped out of remedy or didn't keep on with behavioral prescriptions. Workshops and clinics have been half-empty. If humans might attend workshops or stick with healing courses, their health and wellbeing would receive advantages. but in our event and within the adventure of such a lot of our colleagues, compliance to therapy courses used to be an immense challenge. confronted with this type of state of affairs, you could blame the victim-in this situation the customer. it's normal to listen to therapists speak of poorly inspired consumers, whinge that individuals are only no longer drawn to bettering their overall healthiness, or perhaps speculate approximately people's self-destructive developments. even if this can be comforting to the thera­ pist, it does little or no to resolve the matter. What was once wanted was once an method of enhance adherence to healing courses instead of comforting excuses for his or her failure. it's during this context that we turned uncovered to the realm of social marketing.

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By Kathleen A. Brehony, Lee W. Frederiksen, Laura J. Solomon (auth.), Lee W. Frederiksen, Laura J. Solomon, Kathleen A. Brehony (eds.)

This is a ebook that grew out of frustration. the disappointment used to be rooted in our failed makes an attempt to aid humans adjust health-related habit. From a behavioral medication standpoint, it was once easily obvious to us that there have been many stuff humans may well do to enhance their well-being. a few of these have been preventive behaviors, while others have been even more healing or rehabilitative in nature. placed in a different way, there have been particular recognized behavioral innovations that individuals might use to take care of or regain their solid well-being. but regardless of our strong intentions, enthusiasm, and substantial efforts, whatever used to be unsuitable. humans dropped out of remedy or didn't keep on with behavioral prescriptions. Workshops and clinics have been half-empty. If humans might attend workshops or stick with healing courses, their health and wellbeing would receive advantages. but in our event and within the adventure of such a lot of our colleagues, compliance to therapy courses used to be an immense challenge. confronted with this type of state of affairs, you could blame the victim-in this situation the customer. it's normal to listen to therapists speak of poorly inspired consumers, whinge that individuals are only no longer drawn to bettering their overall healthiness, or perhaps speculate approximately people's self-destructive developments. even if this can be comforting to the thera­ pist, it does little or no to resolve the matter. What was once wanted was once an method of enhance adherence to healing courses instead of comforting excuses for his or her failure. it's during this context that we turned uncovered to the realm of social marketing.

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An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay by Martin Harwit

By Martin Harwit

At 8:15 A.M., August 6, 1945, the Enola homosexual published her load. For 40­ 3 seconds, the world's first atomic bomb plunged via six miles of transparent air to its preset detonation altitude. There it exploded, destroying Hiroshima and 80 thousand of her voters. No conflict had ever obvious such speedy devastation. inside of 9 days Japan surrendered. global warfare II used to be over and a nuclear palms race had all started. Fifty years later, the nationwide Air and area Museum was once within the ultimate phases of getting ready an exhibition at the Enola Gay's historical undertaking whilst eighty-one participants of Congress angrily demanded cancellation of the deliberate show and the resignation or dismissal of the museum's director. The Smithsonian tnstitution, of which the nationwide Air and area Museum is a component, is seriously depending on congressional investment. The Institution's leader government, Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman, in place of work merely 4 months on the time, scrapped the convey as asked, and promised to in my view oversee a brand new demonstrate with out any ancient context. within the wake of that call I resigned because the museum's director and left the Smithsonian.

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By Martin Harwit

At 8:15 A.M., August 6, 1945, the Enola homosexual published her load. For 40­ 3 seconds, the world's first atomic bomb plunged via six miles of transparent air to its preset detonation altitude. There it exploded, destroying Hiroshima and 80 thousand of her voters. No conflict had ever obvious such speedy devastation. inside of 9 days Japan surrendered. global warfare II used to be over and a nuclear palms race had all started. Fifty years later, the nationwide Air and area Museum was once within the ultimate phases of getting ready an exhibition at the Enola Gay's historical undertaking whilst eighty-one participants of Congress angrily demanded cancellation of the deliberate show and the resignation or dismissal of the museum's director. The Smithsonian tnstitution, of which the nationwide Air and area Museum is a component, is seriously depending on congressional investment. The Institution's leader government, Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman, in place of work merely 4 months on the time, scrapped the convey as asked, and promised to in my view oversee a brand new demonstrate with out any ancient context. within the wake of that call I resigned because the museum's director and left the Smithsonian.

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Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jane Marie Todd, Maurice Olender

By Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jane Marie Todd, Maurice Olender

Anthropology Confronts the issues of the fashionable World is the 1st English translation of a sequence of lectures Claude Lévi-Strauss added in Tokyo in 1986. Written with an eye fixed towards the long run as his personal unique occupation used to be drawing to an in depth, this quantity offers a synthesis of the author’s significant principles approximately structural anthropology, a box he helped identify. Critiquing insights of his previous writings at the dating among race, heritage, and civilization, Lévi-Strauss revisits the social matters that by no means ceased to fascinate him.

He starts with the statement that the cultural supremacy loved through the West for over centuries is at an finish. worldwide wars and genocides within the 20th century have fatally undermined Western religion in humanity’s development via medical development. Anthropology, although, could be the motor vehicle of a brand new “democratic humanism,” broadening conventional frameworks that experience constrained cross-cultural understandings of the human , and offering a foundation for inquiries into what different civilizations, comparable to these of Asia, can teach.

Surveying an international close to the twenty-first century, Lévi-Strauss assesses a few of the dilemmas of cultural and ethical relativism a globalized society faces—ethical dimensions of financial inequality, the increase of other types of spiritual fundamentalism, the promise and peril of genetic and reproductive engineering. A laboratory of concept starting onto the long run, Anthropology Confronts the issues of the fashionable World is a vital addition to the canon of 1 of the twentieth-century’s so much influential theorists.

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By Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jane Marie Todd, Maurice Olender

Anthropology Confronts the issues of the fashionable World is the 1st English translation of a sequence of lectures Claude Lévi-Strauss added in Tokyo in 1986. Written with an eye fixed towards the long run as his personal unique occupation used to be drawing to an in depth, this quantity offers a synthesis of the author’s significant principles approximately structural anthropology, a box he helped identify. Critiquing insights of his previous writings at the dating among race, heritage, and civilization, Lévi-Strauss revisits the social matters that by no means ceased to fascinate him.

He starts with the statement that the cultural supremacy loved through the West for over centuries is at an finish. worldwide wars and genocides within the 20th century have fatally undermined Western religion in humanity’s development via medical development. Anthropology, although, could be the motor vehicle of a brand new “democratic humanism,” broadening conventional frameworks that experience constrained cross-cultural understandings of the human , and offering a foundation for inquiries into what different civilizations, comparable to these of Asia, can teach.

Surveying an international close to the twenty-first century, Lévi-Strauss assesses a few of the dilemmas of cultural and ethical relativism a globalized society faces—ethical dimensions of financial inequality, the increase of other types of spiritual fundamentalism, the promise and peril of genetic and reproductive engineering. A laboratory of concept starting onto the long run, Anthropology Confronts the issues of the fashionable World is a vital addition to the canon of 1 of the twentieth-century’s so much influential theorists.

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The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the by Robert D. Parmet

By Robert D. Parmet

The grasp of 7th road is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892—1982), some of the most debatable and influential exertions leaders in 20th-century the United States. A “character” within the truest experience of the be aware, Dubinsky was once either respected and reviled, yet by no means boring, conformist, or sure through conference. A Jewish hard work radical, Dubinsky fled czarist Poland in 1910 and started his occupation as a garment employee and union agitator in big apple urban. He speedy rose in the course of the ranks of the overseas girls’ Garment Workers’Union (ILGWU) and have become its president in 1932. Dubinsky led the ILGWU for thirty-four years, the place he championed “social unionism,” which provided staff advantages starting from overall healthiness care to housing. relocating past the area of the ILGWU, Dubinsky additionally performed a number one position within the American Federation of work (AFL), fairly in the course of international struggle II. A staunch anti-communist, Dubinsky labored tirelessly to rid the yankee hard work move of communists and fellow-travelers.Robert D. Parmet additionally chronicles Dubinsky’s influential position in neighborhood, nationwide, and overseas politics. a unprecedented character whose existence and instances current a desirable lens into the yankee exertions flow, Dubinsky leaps off the pages of this meticulously researched and vividly particular biography.

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By Robert D. Parmet

The grasp of 7th road is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892—1982), some of the most debatable and influential exertions leaders in 20th-century the United States. A “character” within the truest experience of the be aware, Dubinsky was once either respected and reviled, yet by no means boring, conformist, or sure through conference. A Jewish hard work radical, Dubinsky fled czarist Poland in 1910 and started his occupation as a garment employee and union agitator in big apple urban. He speedy rose in the course of the ranks of the overseas girls’ Garment Workers’Union (ILGWU) and have become its president in 1932. Dubinsky led the ILGWU for thirty-four years, the place he championed “social unionism,” which provided staff advantages starting from overall healthiness care to housing. relocating past the area of the ILGWU, Dubinsky additionally performed a number one position within the American Federation of work (AFL), fairly in the course of international struggle II. A staunch anti-communist, Dubinsky labored tirelessly to rid the yankee hard work move of communists and fellow-travelers.Robert D. Parmet additionally chronicles Dubinsky’s influential position in neighborhood, nationwide, and overseas politics. a unprecedented character whose existence and instances current a desirable lens into the yankee exertions flow, Dubinsky leaps off the pages of this meticulously researched and vividly particular biography.

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