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  • The I Ching

    A Biography

    de Richard J. Smith ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    How the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the worldThe I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Mapping China and Managing the World

    Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

    de Richard J. Smith ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and comprehensive systems of classifying all natural ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Ecosocial Work in Community Practice

    Embracing Ecosocial Worldviews and Promoting Sustainability

    Edición de Komalsingh Rambaree, Meredith C. F. Powers, Richard J. Smith ...
    This book focuses on ecosocial work within the context of community practice. It aims to provide insights on understanding key issues, concepts and debates surrounding the mainstreaming of ecosocial work for sustainable community development. Divided into three parts, the first part of the book focuses on ecosocial work and ecosocial change around water, the ecology of coastal communities ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Fortune-tellers and Philosophers

    Divination In Traditional Chinese Society

    de Richard J Smith ...
    Providing an analysis of Chinese divination as a means of organizing and interpreting reality, Richard Smith examines a wide variety of mantic techniques - from the use of the hallowed Yjing to such popular practices as siting (geomancy), astrology, numerology, physiognomy, the analysis of written characters, meteorological divination, the use of mediums (including spirit-writing), and dream ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China

    de John King Fairbank, Martha Henderson Coolidge, Richard J. Smith ...
    Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Negotiating Environment and Science

    An Insider's View of International Agreements, from Driftnets to the Space Station

    de Richard J. Smith ...
    In this thought-provoking new book, career U.S. State Department negotiator Richard J. Smith offers readers unprecedented access to the details about some of the most complex and politically charged international agreements of the late and immediate post Cold War era. During his nine years as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture

    de Richard J. Smith ...
    The Qing dynasty (1636–1912)—a crucial bridge between “traditional” and “modern” China—was remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural sophistication. This engaging and insightful history of Qing political, social, and cultural life traces the complex interaction between the Inner Asian traditions of the Manchus, who conquered China in 1644, and indigenous Chinese cultural traditions. Noted ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

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  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    de Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Leer más

    $69.29 USD

  • Imperial Twilight

    The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

    de Stephen R. Platt ...
    As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, ... Leer más

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  • The Companion to Development Studies

    Edición de Vandana Desai, Rob Potter ...
    The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

  • Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

    China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

    de Stephen R. Platt ...
    A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Reclaiming Indigenous Planning

    Edición de Ryan Walker, Ted Jojola ...
    Series Libro 70 - McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series
    Centuries-old community planning practices in Indigenous communities in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia have, in modern times, been eclipsed by ill-suited western approaches, mostly derived from colonial and neo-colonial traditions. Since planning outcomes have failed to reflect the rights and interests of Indigenous people, attempts to reclaim planning have become a priority ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD