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A BRIEF HISTORY OF JAPAN 2024 UPDATED EDITION

Explore the Incredible Story of the Land of Endless discovery with the aid of Maps and Stunning Pictures

by Jonathan M. Planet ...

A Brief History of Japan: 2024 Updated Edition offers readers an engaging and thorough exploration of Japan's rich history, tracing its development from ancient times to present-day global prominence. This updated edition includes new insights and recent scholarship, highlighting key events, cultural movements, and historical figures that have shaped the nation, with a special focus on ... Read more

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A Brief History of Japan: 2024 Updated Edition offers readers an engaging and thorough exploration of Japan's rich history, tracing its development from ancient times to present-day global prominence. This updated edition includes new insights and recent scholarship, highlighting key events, cultural movements, and historical figures that have shaped the nation, with a special focus on
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Shinto

A History

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Distinguished scholar of Japanese religions and culture Helen Hardacre offers the first comprehensive history of Shinto, the ancient and vibrant tradition whose colorful rituals are still practiced today. Under the ideal of Shinto, a divinely descended emperor governs through rituals offered to deities called Kami. These rituals are practiced in innumerable shrines across the realm, so that local ... Read more

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Distinguished scholar of Japanese religions and culture Helen Hardacre offers the first comprehensive history of Shinto, the ancient and vibrant tradition whose colorful rituals are still practiced today. Under the ideal of Shinto, a divinely descended emperor governs through rituals offered to deities called Kami. These rituals are practiced in innumerable shrines across the realm, so that local
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Japan's Cultural Code Words

Key Terms That Explain the Attitudes and Behavior of the Japanese

by Boye Lafayette De Mente ...

Japan's Cultural Code Words offers a study of Japanese society through analysis of key terms and concepts that define Japanese attitudes and behaviors.Japan's traditional culture is so powerful that it continues to be the prevailing force in molding and tuning the national character of the Japanese, resulting in a society that simultaneously emphasizes both the modern and the traditional.The best ... Read more

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Japan's Cultural Code Words offers a study of Japanese society through analysis of key terms and concepts that define Japanese attitudes and behaviors.Japan's traditional culture is so powerful that it continues to be the prevailing force in molding and tuning the national character of the Japanese, resulting in a society that simultaneously emphasizes both the modern and the traditional.The best
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Japan Unmasked

The Character & Culture of the Japanese

by Boye Lafayette De Mente ...

The growing globalization of world business, culture and communication—and Japan's increasingly important role as a leader in that world—makes understanding Japanese culture critical for business people, diplomats, students, educators and anyone else with an interest in Japan.Westerners have recognized—and analyzed—the many unique aspects of Japanese culture since they first set foot in Japan in ... Read more

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The growing globalization of world business, culture and communication—and Japan's increasingly important role as a leader in that world—makes understanding Japanese culture critical for business people, diplomats, students, educators and anyone else with an interest in Japan.Westerners have recognized—and analyzed—the many unique aspects of Japanese culture since they first set foot in Japan in
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Japanese Samurai Code

Classic Strategies for Success

by Boye Lafayette De Mente ...

This fascinating Japanese culture and business guide explains how bushido samurai culture has influenced modern Japanese behavior and business practices.Bushido, the ethical system of Japan's famous samurai class, which ruled the country from 1192 until 1868, eventually came to encompass every aspect of the lives of the people-their philosophical and spiritual beliefs, their etiquette, their ... Read more

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This fascinating Japanese culture and business guide explains how bushido samurai culture has influenced modern Japanese behavior and business practices.Bushido, the ethical system of Japan's famous samurai class, which ruled the country from 1192 until 1868, eventually came to encompass every aspect of the lives of the people-their philosophical and spiritual beliefs, their etiquette, their
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Coming Out as Dalit

A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System (Updated Edition)

by Yashica Dutt ...

For readers of Caste, the coming-of-age story of a Dalit individual that illuminates systemic injustice in India and its growing impact on US society“A moving personal story and a useful educational examination of persistent discrimination”—Kirkus ReviewsWinner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar, 2020Born into a “formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India,” Yashica Dutt ... Read more

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For readers of Caste, the coming-of-age story of a Dalit individual that illuminates systemic injustice in India and its growing impact on US society“A moving personal story and a useful educational examination of persistent discrimination”—Kirkus ReviewsWinner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar, 2020Born into a “formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India,” Yashica Dutt
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Contradictions In Bhagavad Gita

by Sri Sri Ravishankar ...

Truth is contradictory; if it is not contradictory, then it is not truth! The Bhagavad Gita is full of contradictions. You can understand it only if you see it in totality. ... Read more

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Truth is contradictory; if it is not contradictory, then it is not truth! The Bhagavad Gita is full of contradictions. You can understand it only if you see it in totality.
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Tamil Brahmans

The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

by C. J. Fuller, Haripriya Narasimhan ...

" An impressive biography. . . . [A] standard reference in the scholarship of Tamil Nadu and the conundrum of caste and class." — American AnthropologistA cruise along the streets of Chennai—or Silicon Valley—filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a global visibility of rapid economic advancement and ... Read more

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" An impressive biography. . . . [A] standard reference in the scholarship of Tamil Nadu and the conundrum of caste and class." — American AnthropologistA cruise along the streets of Chennai—or Silicon Valley—filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a global visibility of rapid economic advancement and
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Middle of Diamond India

National Renaissance through Participation and Enterprise

by Shashank Mani ...

Middle of Diamond India proposes a revolutionary idea - that India has long ignored its largest and most talented segment, citizens in the Tier 2 and Tier 3 districts, its Middle. The book reveals the hidden stories of those in its Middle who have been ignored owing to their location and language. By examining India's revolutionary past, its culture, its citizens, its innovators, and its spirit, ... Read more

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Middle of Diamond India proposes a revolutionary idea - that India has long ignored its largest and most talented segment, citizens in the Tier 2 and Tier 3 districts, its Middle. The book reveals the hidden stories of those in its Middle who have been ignored owing to their location and language. By examining India's revolutionary past, its culture, its citizens, its innovators, and its spirit,
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The Architect of the New BJP

How Narendra Modi Transformed the Party

by Ajay Singh ...

In less than forty years of its existence, the Bharatiya Janata Party has become the world's largest political party and continues to go from strength to strength in Indian politics. Although its historic rise may seem organic to some, there is much internal deliberation and planning that has aided the growth of this 180-million-member organization. The Architect of the New BJP uses in-depth ... Read more

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In less than forty years of its existence, the Bharatiya Janata Party has become the world's largest political party and continues to go from strength to strength in Indian politics. Although its historic rise may seem organic to some, there is much internal deliberation and planning that has aided the growth of this 180-million-member organization. The Architect of the New BJP uses in-depth
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Bonds of the Dead

Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

by Mark Michael Rowe ...

Series series Buddhism and Modernity
Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and economic base has long been in mortuary services—a base now threatened by public debate over the status, treatment, and location of the dead. Bonds of the Dead explores the crisis brought on by this debate and ... Read more

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Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and economic base has long been in mortuary services—a base now threatened by public debate over the status, treatment, and location of the dead. Bonds of the Dead explores the crisis brought on by this debate and
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Religions in South Africa, Vol.3: Buddhism

by Independent Forum for Faith and Media ...

This series of e-booklets was commissioned by the IFFM to provide media professionals with quick reference material on the religious traditions in South Africa. They will be published in the order in which we receive them from the representatives of the faith traditions. This does not imply that it is limited to South Africans, or to media professionals! Indeed, anyone interested in the major ... Read more

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This series of e-booklets was commissioned by the IFFM to provide media professionals with quick reference material on the religious traditions in South Africa. They will be published in the order in which we receive them from the representatives of the faith traditions. This does not imply that it is limited to South Africans, or to media professionals! Indeed, anyone interested in the major
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