harvard university press jul 2016 (6 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jonathan A. Silk provides the most comprehensive philological accounting of this fundamental work of Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu. The edition and translation of the Sanskrit text includes core verses and author commentary based directly on manuscript evidence, accompanied by texts from the Tibetan Tanjurs and a manuscript from Dunhuang.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 108 includes James Adams, 'The Latin of the Magerius Mosaic'; Lucia Floridi, 'The Construction of a Homoerotic Discourse in the Epigrams of Ausonius'; Benjamin Garstad, 'Rome in the Alexander Romance'; Christopher Jones, 'The Greek Letters Ascribed to Brutus'; and other essays.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Celestial Masters is the first book in any Western language devoted solely to the founding of Daoism. It traces the movement from the mid-second century CE through the sixth century, and provides a detailed analysis of ritual life within the movement, covering the roles of common believer or Daoist citizen, novice, and priest or libationer.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa studies landscape spaces created by and for Africans themselves, from the precolonial era to the present. Contributors explore how these landscapes were understood in the colonial era and how they are being recuperated today for nation building, identity formation, and cultural affirmation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Madhyamakahrdayakarika along with its auto-commentary, the Tarkajvala, is the earliest work to examine Sravaka, Yogacara, Samkhya, Vaisesika, Vedanta, and Mimamsa in detail. Olle Qvarnstr m provides a critical edition and English translation of the Samkhya and Vedanta chapters of this treatise and a historical introduction.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Volume 18 of the Papers of John Adams chronicles John Adams¿ tenure as minister to Great Britain and his joint commission, with Jefferson, to negotiate treaties with Europe and North Africa. Adams found it impossible to do ¿any Thing Satisfactory¿ with Britain, and the volume ends with his decision to resign his posts.