Автор: Medvetz Thomas Название: Think Tanks in America ISBN: 022614366X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226143668 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 34380 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill. This book argues that the curious ambiguity of the think tank is not an accidential feature of its existence, but the very key to its impact.
Название: Buddhism in America ISBN: 0231159722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231159722 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 111380 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Over the past half century in America, Buddhism has grown from a transplanted philosophy to a full-fledged religious movement, rich in its own practices, leaders, adherents, and institutions. Long favored as an essential guide to this history, Buddhism in America covers the three major groups that shape the tradition--an emerging Asian immigrant population, native-born converts, and old-line Asian American Buddhists--and their distinct, yet spiritually connected efforts to remake Buddhism in a Western context.
This edition updates existing text and adds three new essays on contemporary developments in American Buddhism, particularly the aging of the baby boom population and its effect on American Buddhism's modern character. New material includes revised information on the full range of communities profiled in the first edition; an added study of a second generation of young, Euro-American leaders and teachers; an accessible look at the increasing importance of meditation and neurobiological research; and a provocative consideration of the mindfulness movement in American culture. The volume maintains its detailed account of South and East Asian influences on American Buddhist practices, as well as instances of interreligious dialogue, socially activist Buddhism, and complex gender roles within the community. Introductory chapters describe Buddhism's arrival in America with the nineteenth-century transcendentalists and rapid spread with the Beat poets of the 1950s. The volume now concludes with a frank assessment of the challenges and prospects of American Buddhism in the twenty-first century.
Автор: Howe Название: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Hb) ISBN: 0195078942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195078947 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 31480 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent, weaving together political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history and religion.
Автор: Lieven Anatol Название: America Right or Wrong ISBN: 0199660255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199660254 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 20530 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Renowned contemporary commentator Anatol Lieven anatomizes American nationalism - its roots, its defining features, and its recent radicalization - and just how greatly this is contributing to the paralysis of effective government in what remains the world`s most powerful and important country
Автор: GERNET, Jacques Название: Buddhism in Chinese Society ISBN: 0231114117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231114110 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 41250 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: First published in French in 1956, this classic work integrates the study of Buddhist doctrine with that of Chinese society from the fifth to the tenth centuries.
Автор: Brian P. Levack Название: The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America ISBN: 0199578168 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199578160 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 150650 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
Автор: Hamlin Kimberly A. Название: From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women`s Rights in Gilded Age America ISBN: 022613461X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226134611 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 51560 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Provides the study of American women`s responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women`s rights movement.
Автор: Mufwene Salikoko S. Название: Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America ISBN: 022612620X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226126203 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 50880 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Exploring the many different contact points between Iberian colonialism and indigenous cultures, this title features contributors who identify the crucial parameters of language evolution that have led to today`s state of linguistic diversity in Latin America.
Название: The faces of Buddhism in America ISBN: 0520213017 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520213012 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 37130 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the United States, with adherents estimated in the several millions. But what exactly defines a `Buddhist`? This book brings together some of the leading voices in Buddhist studies to examine the debates surrounding contemporary Buddhism`s many faces.
Автор: Osto Douglas Название: Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America ISBN: 0231177305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231177306 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 41250 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the 1950s and 1960s, Americans combined psychedelics with Buddhist meditation to achieve direct experience through altered states of consciousness. As some practitioners became more committed to Buddhism, they abandoned the use of psychedelics in favor of stricter mental discipline, but others carried on with the experiment, advancing a fascinating alchemy called psychedelic Buddhism. Altered States combines interviews with well-known figures in American Buddhism and psychedelic spirituality and personal stories of everyday practitioners to define a distinctly American religious phenomenon.
Автор: Bulmer-Thomas Название: The Economic History of Latin America since Independence ISBN: 1107608554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107608559 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 56140 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study, now in a revised and updated third edition, covers the economic history of Latin America from independence in the 1820s to the present. It stresses the differences between Latin American countries while recognizing the external influences to which the whole region has been subject. Victor Bulmer-Thomas notes the failure of the region to close the gap in living standards between it and the United States and explores the reasons. He also examines the new paradigm taking shape in Latin America since the debt crisis of the 1980s and asks whether this new economic model will be able to bring the growth and improvement in equity that the region desperately needs. This third edition contains a wealth of new material that draws on the new research in the area in the past ten years.
Автор: Marcus Greil, Sollors Werner Название: A New Literary History of America ISBN: 0674064100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674064102 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 34310 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history.
In more than two hundred original essays, "A New Literary History of America" brings together the nation's many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what "Made in America" means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric--cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape.
The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood's "American Gothic," Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on "Tarzan," Bharati Mukherjee on "The Scarlet Letter," Gish Jen on "Catcher in the Rye," and Ishmael Reed on "Huckleberry Finn." From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, "Life," Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new.
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