Asian history

Una crónica sobre el terreno de la guerra en Ucrania que nos lleva hasta el origen, cuando Ucrania y Rusia eran el mismo reino medieval.

Entre los libros escritos por Meher Baba se encuentra esta pequeña joya.

The year 2015 is the Chinese Year of the Goat - what will this mean for you?

Dieses Buch soll als Arbeitsbuch dienen - es sieht sich als einführender und einfacher Beitrag zum Verständnis der 99 Göttlichen Namen des Sufismus.

Dieses Buch soll als Arbeitsbuch dienen - es sieht sich als einführender und einfacher Beitrag zum Verständnis der 99 Göttlichen Namen des Sufismus.

»Dieses Buch erzählt Erfahrungen, die ich während der spirituellen Forschung gemacht habe, die in meinem Buch ›Michaelisches Yoga – Sich selbst einen neuen ätherischen Leib und ätherische Individualität schaffen‹ veröffentlicht wurde.

Das Herzstück dieses Buches ist eine existenzielle Frage.

Ein Begleitbuch mit Reflexionen, Übungen und Gebete für jeden Tag des Ramadan.

Ein Begleitbuch mit Reflexionen, Übungen und Gebete für jeden Tag des Ramadan.

Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon zeigt in den vorliegenden Vorträgen auf, dass die Michael-Bewegung auf der Suche nach kreativen, mutigen und enthusiastischen Seelen ist, um eine starke Gemeinschaft zu fördern, die sich von einem Jahrzehnt zum nächsten als ein lebendiger Organismus entwickelt.

La estrategia bélica explicada a través de metáforas y eficaces ejemplos, convierte a El arte de la guerra en uno de los más vigorosos libros de psicología aplicada jamás escrito.

Explosive SAS action in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.

A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern IndiaViolent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India.

Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present.

The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time.

Full of facts and trivia for every day of the yearDo you know when the Duke of Albemarle arranged Britain's first boxing match, between his butler and his butcher?

Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages.

'Vivid, atmospheric, packed with brilliant story-telling' - Humphrey Hawksley, former BBC Beijing, Hong Kong and Asia Correspondent'[An] entertaining guide, rich in anecdote and understanding for an early globalised world that has gone' - Michael Sheridan, Sunday Times'Illuminating' - Thomas Dyja, New York Times Book ReviewA timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis-and whose freedoms are endangered today.

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.

With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, 1983) and The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton, 1989).

What is a shogun?

The river-dwelling monster Sha Wujing was once the Curtain Raising Captain, but was banished from heaven by the Yellow Emperor for breaking an extremely valuable cup during a drunken visit to the Peach Festival.

Gesund, lecker, vielfältig so revolutionieren Smoothies unsere Küche.

The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world.

Die Welt erlebt eine Zeitenwende.

An incredible source of information about the Chinese language and China's minority languagesIn this accessible and informative book, S.

A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.

Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal explorationof Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corruptofficials to warlords and child brides and beyond.

"El mundo al revés, de Yang Jisheng, es la historia definitiva de la Revolución Cultural, con un detalle demoledor y desgarrador.

Das Anliegen der Ontosophie besteht darin, evolutionär und kulturell verzerrte Vorstellungen von dem, was Denken und Realität seien, herauszustellen und sie via Bewusstwerdung zu durchschauen.

Das Anliegen der Ontosophie besteht darin, evolutionär und kulturell verzerrte Vorstellungen von dem, was Denken und Realität seien, herauszustellen und sie via Bewusstwerdung zu durchschauen.

Aus der Geschichte lernen, kann man nur, wenn die Geschichte richtig erzählt wird.

Bushido - neue Übersetzung ins Deutsche:: Die Seele Japans ist zusammen mit Hagakure von Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659-1719) eine Studie über den Weg der Samurai.

The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence.

Based on his observations over three decades, Henry Kamm, Pulitzer Prize-winning NEW YORK TIMES Southeast Asia correspondent, unravels the complexities of Cambodia.

Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years laterafter a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der Geishas!

The year 2015 is the Chinese Year of the Goat - what will this mean for you?

Discover the major events and artists who have shaped the history of modern manga, with this deluxe expanded volume.

Isidre Ambrós, corresponsal de La Vanguardia en Pekín y Hong Kong durante una década, se sumerge en una sociedad muy reservada ante los extranjeros, como es la china, para narrar el perfil menos conocido del pais que aspira a desbancar a Estados Unidos del liderazgo planetario.

The monk Tangseng and his disciple, the short-tempered Monkey King Sun Wukong, begin their multi-year journey to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from Thunderclap Mountain in India.

The pig-man Zhu Bajie becomes Tangseng's second disciple.

This fascinating work profiles Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), the foremost Islamic scholar and mystic of the medieval period.

This new edition of Coomaraswamy's classic book, considered his most important work on the philosophy of art, includes all of the revisions Coomaraswamy had wanted to add to the original edition.

Behind the clamorous headlines of militant and political Islam lies a more serene and cultivated form of traditional Islam.

At the very heart of Islam lies the spiritual way of Sufism.

Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order of ';Whirling Dervishes,' is the best-selling poet in America today.

A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle-not over land but over human subjectsTraditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula.

A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural RevolutionA Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural Revolution.