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Book Cambridge University List of Members up to December 1994

Download or read book Cambridge University List of Members up to December 1994 written by University of Cambridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-25 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second supplement to the triennial full listing of all members of the University (see below).

Book List of Members   Cambridge University

Download or read book List of Members Cambridge University written by University of Cambridge and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cambridge University List of Members

Download or read book Cambridge University List of Members written by University of Cambridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Global Emerging Market in Transition

Download or read book The Global Emerging Market in Transition written by Vladimir Lʹvovich Kvint and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of the work of Vladimir L. Kvint, Global Emerging Market in Transition: Articles, Forecasts, and Studies is an essential guide to understanding the intricacies behind global trends and emerging markets. Starting with the explanations and definitions of global trends, classifications of different perspectives of emerging markets, and the general understanding of the nature of modern global emerging markets, Professor Kvint moves the reader through the current emerging markets in Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America, providing analyses and forecasts. He then presents an in-depth analysis of today's largest emerging market-Russia. Professor Kvint stresses the importance of Russia's move from a communist command system to a free-market economy, and how this will affect the business community politically, socially, and economically.

Book Cambridge University List of Members

Download or read book Cambridge University List of Members written by Cambridge University and published by . This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daitokuji

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory P. A. Levine
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780295985404
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Daitokuji written by Gregory P. A. Levine and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zen Buddhist monastery Daitokuji in Kyoto has long been revered as a cloistered meditation centre, a repository of art treasures, and a wellspring of the "Zen aesthetic." Gregory Levine's Daitokuji unsettles these conventional notions with groundbreaking inquiry into the significant and surprising visual and social identities of sculpture, painting, and calligraphy associated with this fourteenth-century monastery and its enduring monastic and lay communities. The book begins with a study of Zen portraiture at Daitokuji that reveals the precariousness of portrait likeness; the face that gazes out from an abbot's painting or statue may not be who we expect it to be or submit quietly to interpretation. By tracing the life of Daitokuji's famed statue of the chanoyu patriarch Sen no Riky-u (1522-91), which was all but destroyed by the ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-98) but survived in Rash-omon-like narratives and reconstituted sculptural forms, Levine throws light upon the contested status of images and their mytho-poetic potential. Levine then draws from the seventeenth-century journal of K-ogetsu S-ogan, Bokuseki no utsushi, to explore practices of calligraphy connoisseurship at Daitokuji and the pivotal role played by the monastery's abbots within Kyoto art circles. The book's final section explores Daitokuji's annual airings of temple treasures not merely as a practice geared toward preservation but also as a space in which different communities vie for authority over the artistic past. An epilogue follows the peripatetic journey of the monastery's scrolls of the 500 Luohan from China to Japan, to exhibition and partial sale in the West, and back to Daitokuji. Illuminating canonical and heretofore ignored works and mining a trove of documents, diaries, and modern writings, Levine argues for the plurality of Daitokuji's visual arts and the breadth of social and ritual circumstances of art making and viewing within the monastery. This diversity encourages reconsideration of stereotyped notions of "Zen art" and offers specialists and general readers alike opportunity to explore the fertile and sometimes volatile nexus of the visual arts and religious sites in Japan.

Book Cambridge University List of Members

Download or read book Cambridge University List of Members written by University of Cambridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cambridge University List of Members Up to 31 December 1988

Download or read book Cambridge University List of Members Up to 31 December 1988 written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-10 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancestral Leaves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Esherick
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-02-09
  • ISBN : 0520266994
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Ancestral Leaves written by Joseph Esherick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Esherick looks at familiar historical events and processes anew, enriching that history with great personal depth. There is really nothing like it."—William T. Rowe, author of China's Last Empire: The Great Qing "A uniquely revealing and humanizing prism through which to view the fascinating human drama of modern Chinese history, replete with information for both longtime students of China and newcomers alike. An absolutely splendid book."—Elizabeth Perry, author of Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship and the Modern Chinese State

Book Comptes rendus du quatorzi  me conf  rence internationale de M  canique des sols et des travaux de fondation  Hambourg  6 12 septembre 1997

Download or read book Comptes rendus du quatorzi me conf rence internationale de M canique des sols et des travaux de fondation Hambourg 6 12 septembre 1997 written by and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crack Up Capitalism

Download or read book Crack Up Capitalism written by Quinn Slobodian and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023 In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy. Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces: free ports, tax havens, special economic zones. With the new spaces, ultracapitalists have started to believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether. Crack-Up Capitalism follows the most notorious radical libertarians—from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel—around the globe as they search for the perfect space for capitalism. Historian Quinn Slobodian leads us from Hong Kong in the 1970s to South Africa in the late days of apartheid, from the neo-Confederate South to the former frontier of the American West, from the medieval City of London to the gold vaults of right-wing billionaires, and finally into the world’s oceans and war zones, charting the relentless quest for a blank slate where market competition is unfettered by democracy. A masterful work of economic and intellectual history, Crack-Up Capitalism offers both a new way of looking at the world and a new vision of coming threats. Full of rich details and provocative analysis, Crack-Up Capitalism offers an alarming view of a possible future.

Book China s Provinces in Reform

Download or read book China s Provinces in Reform written by David Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the impact of social and political change on China's provinces during the reform era. Offering an in-depth comparative anaysis of a number of major provinces, it challenges generalizations over the nature of change in China

Book Inside Early Music

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  • Author : Bernard D. Sherman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2003-10-09
  • ISBN : 0190290811
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Inside Early Music written by Bernard D. Sherman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's "Top Classical Albums" of 1993 and 1994 featured Anonymous 4, who sing medieval music, and the best-selling Beethoven recording of 1995 was a period-instruments symphony cycle led by John Eliot Gardiner, who is Deutsche Grammophon's top-selling living conductor. But the movement has generated as much controversy as it has best-selling records, not only about the merits of its results, but also about the validity of its approach. To what degree can we recreate long-lost performing styles? How important are historical period instruments for the performance of a piece? Why should musicians bother with historical information? Are they sacrificing art to scholarship? Now, in Inside Early Music, Bernard D. Sherman has invited many of the leading practitioners to speak out about their passion for early music--why they are attracted to this movement and how it shapes their work. Readers listen in on conversations with conductors Gardiner, William Christie, and Roger Norrington, Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars, vocalists Susan Hellauer of Anonymous 4, forte pianist Robert Levin, cellist Anner Bylsma, and many other leading artists. The book is divided into musical eras--Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classic and Romantic--with each interview focusing on particular composers or styles, touching on heated topics such as the debate over what is "authentic," the value of playing on period instruments, and how to interpret the composer's intentions. Whether debating how to perform Monteverdi's madrigals or comparing Andrew Lawrence-King's Renaissance harp playing to jazz, the performers convey not only a devotion to the spirit of period performance, but the joy of discovery as they struggle to bring the music most truthfully to life. Spurred on by Sherman's probing questions and immense knowledge of the subject, these conversations movingly document the aspirations, growing pains, and emerging maturity of the most exciting movement in contemporary classical performance, allowing each artist's personality and love for his or her craft to shine through. From medieval plainchant to Brahms' orchestral works, Inside Early Music takes readers-whether enthusiasts or detractors-behind the scenes to provide a masterful portrait of early music's controversies, challenges, and rewards.

Book Provincial Strategies of Economic Reform in Post Mao China

Download or read book Provincial Strategies of Economic Reform in Post Mao China written by Peter T. Y. Cheung and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies economic decentralization in eight Chinese provinces -- Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shaanxi, Shandong, Fujian, Hainan, and Sichuan -- by focusing on the role of provincial leadership in the initiation and implementation of economic reform.

Book The European Archaeologist  1     21a

Download or read book The European Archaeologist 1 21a written by Henry Cleere and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers together the first 10 years of The European Archaeologist (ISSN 1022-0135), from Winter 1993 through to the 10th Anniversary Conference Issue, published in 2004 for the Lyon Annual Meeting.

Book Lived Religion in America

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  • Author : David D. Hall
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1997-11-16
  • ISBN : 9780691016733
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Lived Religion in America written by David D. Hall and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating collection that graphically demonstrates how participants become subtle theologians of 'lived religion' in America, from (Mrs. Cowman's STREAMS IN THE DESERT to) Ojibway hymn-singing to rustic homesteading and the 'Women's Aglow' movement".--John Butler, Yale University.

Book A History of Scientific Journals

Download or read book A History of Scientific Journals written by Aileen Fyfe and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton’s day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of researchers. Yet the use of scientific journals to report, share and store results is a thread that runs through the history of science from Newton’s day to ours. Scientific journals are now central to academic research and careers. Their editorial and peer-review processes act as a check on new claims and findings, and researchers build their careers on the list of journal articles they have published. The journal that reported Newton’s optical experiments still exists. First published in 1665, and now fully digital, the Philosophical Transactions has carried papers by Charles Darwin, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking. It is now one of eleven journals published by the Royal Society of London. Unrivalled insights from the Royal Society’s comprehensive archives have enabled the authors to investigate more than 350 years of scientific journal publishing. The editorial management, business practices and financial difficulties of the Philosophical Transactions and its sibling Proceedings reveal the meaning and purpose of journals in a changing scientific community. At a time when we are surrounded by calls to reform the academic publishing system, it has never been more urgent that we understand its history.