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Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which…
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"Originally published in German as Undinge: Umbreuche der Lebenswelt A by Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin. Published in 2021 by Ullstein Verlag"--Title page verso.
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Hans Knapp
A true account of a working lifetime spent in the woods of coastal BC. Filled with life and death stories, and larger-than-life characters. Loggers of the B.C. Coast is a…
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Scott Crawford
Spans the centuries of the war through a series of novelistic biographies, portraying historical figures' roles in key events and developments of their times.
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John Buckler,Hans Beck (McGill University, Montreal)
Approaches Greek political and military history in the fourth century BC from the perspective of Thebes and neighbouring Phocis. The authors uncover the dynamic tension between local affairs and the…
Michael Loewe
This book, first published in 1974, studies the historical development of China during the Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9), a time of great intellectual, religious and political change.
Zhao Zhenwan
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Sophia-Karin Psarras
Using archaeological data to examine the development of Han dynasty Chinese art (206 BC-AD 220), this book focusses on the iconography of paradise. Influence from the Chinese Bronze Age is…
Past scholarship described the fourth century BC as an age of theatrical decline. This book helps you explore all aspects of fourth-century theatre, reveals it to be an epoch of…
This is a unique and conclusive reference work about the 6,000 individual men and women known to us from China’s formative first empires. No comparable work exists. Without exaggeration a…
This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last…
Qinghua Guo
An enormous number of burial objects have been unearthed from ancient tombs in archaeological excavations in China. These mingqi were made in all kinds of materials and in a broad…
Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the history of religion in ancient China from the…
Focused on the social dimensions of Chinese religion, this multi-disciplinary presentation of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and shamanism in a time of foundational historic change analyzes their respective pantheons, rituals, geographies…
Han Fei
Variously considered a Taoist and a cynic, Han Fei has been seen as a forerunner to Machiavelli. At the end of the Warring States, he was the brain and the…
Hannah Arendt
Architects contemplate Hannah Arendt’s spatial-political thinking
Hannah Arendt once stated that spatial thinking is political thinking. The latest issue of OASE gathers contributions from architects–George Baird, Patrick Bouchain, Pier Vittorio…
