2018, ISBN: 9789385288661

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" Enter into a groundbreaking immersive experience, where ghosts and spirits come to life. Do you dare to step into this magical world? Welcome to SPRUNG, the Society for the Pursuit of t… Mehr…

" Enter into a groundbreaking immersive experience, where ghosts and spirits come to life. Do you dare to step into this magical world? Welcome to SPRUNG, the Society for the Pursuit of the Reputedly Undead, Namely Ghosts! Agamemnon White SPRUNG Ghostkeeper and child prodigy have gone missing. All that remains of him is his journal, which you now hold in your hands. Your task? To join SPRUNG, read Ag's journal, use the app to retrace his footsteps, and help rescue him. But beware: the moment you open this book, you will release the ghosts Ag trapped inside. It's up to you to recapture them and solve the mystery of his disappearance . . . without disappearing yourself! Powerful Augmented Reality effects include on- and off-page animations of text, illustrations, and characters, leading you through a gripping story that comes together as the book and game unfold.", Carlton Books, 2018, U.S.A.: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Name on flypagea nd initials embossed, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked.The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently - and Why. . Everyone knows that while different cultures may think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. Everyone knows that whatever the skin color, nationality, or religion, every human being uses the same tools for perception, for memory, and for reasoning. Everyone knows that a logically true statement is true in English, German, or Hindi. Everyone knows that when a Chinese and an American look at the same painting, they see the same painting.But what if everyone is wrong?When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment -- and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. For, as Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought, people actually think about -- and even see -- the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China and that have survived into the modern world. As a result, East Asian thought is "holistic" -- drawn to the perceptual field as a whole and to relations among objects and events within that field. By comparison to Western modes of reasoning, East Asian thought relies far less on categories or on formal logic; it is fundamentally dialectic, seeking a "middle way" between opposing thoughts. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to catergories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behavior. The Geography of Thought documents Professor Nisbett's groundbreaking international research in cultural psychology, a series of comparative studies both persuasive in their rigor and startling in their conclusions, addressing questions such as:? Why did the ancient Chinese excel at algebra and arithmetic, but not geometry, the brilliant achievement of such Greeks as Euclid?? Why do East Asians find it so difficult to disentangle an object from its surroundings?? Why do Western infants learn nouns more rapidly than verbs, when it is the other way around in East Asia?? What are the implications of these cognitive differences for the future of international politics? Do they support a Fukuyamaesque "end of history" scenario or a Huntingtonian "clash of civilizations"?From feng shui to metaphysics, from comparative linguistics to economic history, a gulf separates the children of Aristotle from the descendants of Confucius. At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that might be able to span it. ., Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2003, New York: Tauris, 2009. First printing. Fine condition in fine dust jacket.. Albert Einstein once remarked that behind all observable things lay something quite unknowable. And the motivation for his own work in physics stemmed from something as apparently innocuous as his father first showing him a compass when he was a boy. Yet the wonder and inspiration of that moment , which he never forgot, led ultimately to his own stupendous scientific breakthroughs. This book explores that special territory perceived by Einstein: where the unknown takes over from everything that is understandable, familiar, and explicable. And that interface between known and unknown is of the very greatest importance: it lies at the heart of the human quest to take knowledge beyond the boundaries of the known. It is what scientists do when they undertake their research, from the trajectories of comets to the replication of cells. But is is also what religious people do when they start to explore their relationship with what they perceive as the divine. Their mutual effort to "know the unknowable" is a profoundly important way in which human beings explore the limits of themselves, as well as of the universe. Bringing together distinguished contributors, both scientists and theologians (including Rowan Williams the current Archbishop of Canterbury), to explore the implications of what such an invitation means in practice, this groundbreaking book explores important topics like cosmological absence, negativity in Christian mysticism, and the "hiddenness" of God in Buddhism. 268 pages., Tauris, 2009, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd, 2012. Hardcover. New. Success is often just a moment-a goal fulfilled, soon to be replaced with new goals. But failure is the ambitious person`s constant companion, often dogging us for months, years or even decades before we finally reach our aim. In the groundbreaking book Why People Fail, Siimon Reynolds, one of the world`s most successful entrepreneurs, explores the main causes of failure, in any field, and reveals solutions for overcoming them and creating a successful personal and professional life. Why People Fail offers strategies and ideas for defeating the sixteen most common failure habits such as destructive thinking, low productivity, stress, fixed mindset, lack of daily rituals, and more. Printed Pages: 256., Wiley India Pvt. Ltd, 2012, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd, 2012. Hardcover. New. Success is often just a moment-a goal fulfilled, soon to be replaced with new goals. But failure is the ambitious person`s constant companion, often dogging us for months, years or even decades before we finally reach our aim. In the groundbreaking book Why People Fail, Siimon Reynolds, one of the world`s most successful entrepreneurs, explores the main causes of failure, in any field, and reveals solutions for overcoming them and creating a successful personal and professional life. Why People Fail offers strategies and ideas for defeating the sixteen most common failure habits such as destructive thinking, low productivity, stress, fixed mindset, lack of daily rituals, and more. Printed Pages: 256. NA, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd, 2012, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd, 2012. Hardcover. New. Success is often just a moment-a goal fulfilled, soon to be replaced with new goals. But failure is the ambitious person`s constant companion, often dogging us for months, years or even decades before we finally reach our aim. In the groundbreaking book Why People Fail, Siimon Reynolds, one of the world`s most successful entrepreneurs, explores the main causes of failure, in any field, and reveals solutions for overcoming them and creating a successful personal and professional life. Why People Fail offers strategies and ideas for defeating the sixteen most common failure habits such as destructive thinking, low productivity, stress, fixed mindset, lack of daily rituals, and more. Printed Pages: 256., Wiley India Pvt. Ltd, 2012, Speaking Tiger Books, 2015. First edition. Softcover. New. Spanning over six millennia, this monumental and thoroughly engrossing narrative account of Indian history and myth offers a new way of understanding one of the world‰Ûªs oldest and most fascinating religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its texts cannot be reliably dated even within a century; its central tenets‰ÛÓkarma and dharma, to name only two‰ÛÓarise at particular moments in Indian history and often differ in each era, between genders, and from region to region, caste to caste; and what is shared among Hindus is overwhelmingly outnumbered by the things that are unique to one group or another. Yet the greatness of Hinduism‰ÛÓits vitality, earthiness and vividness‰ÛÓlies precisely in many of these idiosyncratic qualities that continue to inspire debate and devotion today. With immense skill Wendy Doniger illuminates those moments within the Hindu tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon. She brings a multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant, creative‰ÛÓand often subversive‰ÛÓthinkers have kept Hinduism alive and dynamic through the ages. She reveals how Sanskrit and vernacular sources are rich in knowledge of and compassion toward women and the lower castes; how they debate tensions surrounding ritual, faith, violence and tolerance; and how animals are key to important shifts in attitudes toward different social classes. A groundbreaking work by one of the world‰Ûªs foremost scholars of Hinduism, already acclaimed for its extraordinary insight and analysis, The Hindus is destined to become a classic. Printed Pages: 779., Speaking Tiger Books, 2015<

2016, ISBN: 9789385288661

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Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2016. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Frederick Douglass's fluid, changeable sense of his own life … Mehr…

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2016. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Frederick Douglass's fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom. Nevertheless, when these differing self-presentations are put side by side and consideration is given individually to their rhetorical strategies and historical moment, what emerges is a fascinating collage of Robert S. Levine's elusive subject. The Lives of Frederick Douglass is revisionist biography at its best, offering new perspectives on Douglass the social reformer, orator, and writer. Out of print for a hundred years when it was reissued in 1960, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) has since become part of the canon of American literature and the primary lens through which scholars see Douglass's life and work. Levine argues that the disproportionate attention paid to the Narrative has distorted Douglass's larger autobiographical project. The Lives of Frederick Douglass focuses on a wide range of writings from the 1840s to the 1890s, particularly the neglected Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, 1892), revised and expanded only three years before Douglass's death. Levine provides fresh insights into Douglass's relationships with John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, and his former slave master Thomas Auld, and highlights Douglass's evolving positions on race, violence, and nation. Levine's portrait reveals that Douglass could be every bit as pragmatic as LincolnÑof whom he was sometimes fiercely criticalÑwhen it came to promoting his own work and goals. Robert S. Levine is Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. "Levine is very good at showing how Douglass modulated the stories he told about his life and times in order to serve his political and personal purpose of the moment."ÑAndrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books "[A] thoughtful, ground-setting bookÉ Levine scrutinizes not merely the times and the life-circumstances surrounding the generation of [the] three very different accounts Douglass wrote of himself but also the texts themselves, the tectonic changes running underneath them. It's a sustained performance of first-rate literary analysis on Levine's part."ÑSteve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly "Show[s] how Douglass' attention to his self-representation predates our modern malleability, and was part and parcel to his becoming one of the most famous and influential Americans of the 19th CenturyÉ Levine clearly shows how Douglass amplified some parts of his life and de-emphasized others in his writings and speeches as his views and purposes evolved over time."ÑMark Reynolds, PopMatters "Over the course of his life (1818-1895), Douglass published three autobiographies, continually revising and restructuring his life story as an ex-slave. Yet he is read and celebrated mostly for his first, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, published in 1845 under the aegis of William Lloyd Garrison's Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. In this finely delineated look at Douglass' writing, Levine urges new readings of his subject's other autobiographical works, as well as his 1853 novella, The Heroic Slave, in order to grasp a fuller understanding of how Douglass came into his own and began to move away from Garrison's 'moral suasion' to an advocacy of black militancy and beyondÉ Levine's exploration of the character of Madison Washington in The Heroic Slave as Douglass' alter ego and his views of John Brown and President Abraham Lincoln are especially elucidating. An astute, thorough literary study that will invite fresh readings of Douglass' writing."ÑKirkus Reviews "Levine offers a fascinating study of the most famous African American of the mid-19th century."ÑPatricia Ann Owens, Library Journal "A groundbreaking work of revisionary biography that reveals Douglass as a canny writer far ahead of his time."ÑJohn Stauffer, Harvard University "This is a richly detailed and nuanced portrait of the artist and social reformer as a 'compulsive revisionist.' Impressive in its reach and scope."ÑRobert Stepto, Yale University, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2016, Speaking Tiger Books, 2015. First edition. Softcover. New. Spanning over six millennia, this monumental and thoroughly engrossing narrative account of Indian history and myth offers a new way of understanding one of the world’s oldest and most fascinating religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its texts cannot be reliably dated even within a century; its central tenets—karma and dharma, to name only two—arise at particular moments in Indian history and often differ in each era, between genders, and from region to region, caste to caste; and what is shared among Hindus is overwhelmingly outnumbered by the things that are unique to one group or another. Yet the greatness of Hinduism—its vitality, earthiness and vividness—lies precisely in many of these idiosyncratic qualities that continue to inspire debate and devotion today. With immense skill Wendy Doniger illuminates those moments within the Hindu tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon. She brings a multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant, creative—and often subversive—thinkers have kept Hinduism alive and dynamic through the ages. She reveals how Sanskrit and vernacular sources are rich in knowledge of and compassion toward women and the lower castes; how they debate tensions surrounding ritual, faith, violence and tolerance; and how animals are key to important shifts in attitudes toward different social classes. A groundbreaking work by one of the world’s foremost scholars of Hinduism, already acclaimed for its extraordinary insight and analysis, The Hindus is destined to become a classic. Printed Pages: 779., Speaking Tiger Books, 2015<

2015, ISBN: 9789385288661

Taschenbuch

New York: Spiegel & Grau, pp. xiv 3 445. ""Not since Thomas L. Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle E… Mehr…

New York: Spiegel & Grau, pp. xiv 3 445. ""Not since Thomas L. Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on… 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo., Spiegel & Grau, U.S.A.: TokyoPop, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A tight, unmarked and clean copy. First Edition- First Printing with full number line.Confidential Confessions is a shocking new manga series that deals with many of the hard-hitting issues that teens face today. Using emotionally moving storylines and multi-dimensional characters, each groundbreaking volume tackles such topics as teen prostitution, rape, HIV, stalkers, suicide, and sexual harassment. Enlightening without being preachy, Confidential Confessions is like a modern-day manga version of the After School Special! Confidential Confessions is a series of stand alone stories that deal with suicide, rape, drug abuse, sexual abuse, prostitution and other serious issues. Volume Three has two stories. One deals with a young teen named Kyoko who has immense pressure put on herself to do well academically because her father is a Tokyo University alum and in charge of a prominent school. After a spur of the moment decision to take speed, she suddenly finds the energy to do all her work and get grades that please her father. The drugs also have the side effect of helping her use weight. Not seeing the downside to drug usage she slowly becomes addicted. Kyoko's story is personal for me in the way that my father was very strict about grades, but unlike Kyoko I instead did less work than more., TokyoPop, 2003, New Delhi, India: Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2015. Spanning over six millennia, this monumental and thoroughly engrossing narrative account of Indian history and myth offers a new way of understanding one of the world?s oldest and most fascinating religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its texts cannot be reliably dated even within a century; its central tenets karma and dharma, to name only two - arise at particular moments in Indian history and often differ in each era, between genders, and from region to region, caste to caste; and what is shared among Hindus is overwhelmingly outnumbered by the things that are unique to one group or another. Yet the greatness of Hinduism - its vitality, earthiness and vividness - lies precisely in many of these idiosyncratic qualities that continue to inspire debate and devotion today. With immense skill Wendy Doniger illuminates those moments within the Hindu tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon. She brings a multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant, creative - and often subversive - thinkers have kept Hinduism alive and dynamic through the ages. She reveals how Sanskrit and vernacular sources are rich in knowledge of and compassion toward women and the lower castes, how they debate tensions surrounding ritual, faith, violence and tolerance; and how animals are key to important shifts in attitudes toward different social classes. A groundbreaking work by one of the world?s foremost scholars of Hinduism, already acclaimed for its extraordinary insight and analysis, The Hindus is destined to become a classic. Printed Pages: 779 with 4 maps.. Softcover. New. 15 x 23 Cm., Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2015<

2015, ISBN: 9789385288661

New Delhi, India: Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2015. Spanning over six millennia, this monumental and thoroughly engrossing narrative account of Indian history and myth offers a n… Mehr…

New Delhi, India: Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2015. Spanning over six millennia, this monumental and thoroughly engrossing narrative account of Indian history and myth offers a new way of understanding one of the world?s oldest and most fascinating religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its texts cannot be reliably dated even within a century; its central tenets karma and dharma, to name only two - arise at particular moments in Indian history and often differ in each era, between genders, and from region to region, caste to caste; and what is shared among Hindus is overwhelmingly outnumbered by the things that are unique to one group or another. Yet the greatness of Hinduism - its vitality, earthiness and vividness - lies precisely in many of these idiosyncratic qualities that continue to inspire debate and devotion today. With immense skill Wendy Doniger illuminates those moments within the Hindu tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon. She brings a multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant, creative - and often subversive - thinkers have kept Hinduism alive and dynamic through the ages. She reveals how Sanskrit and vernacular sources are rich in knowledge of and compassion toward women and the lower castes, how they debate tensions surrounding ritual, faith, violence and tolerance; and how animals are key to important shifts in attitudes toward different social classes. A groundbreaking work by one of the world?s foremost scholars of Hinduism, already acclaimed for its extraordinary insight and analysis, The Hindus is destined to become a classic. Printed Pages: 779 with 4 maps.. Softcover. New. 15 x 23 Cm., Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2015<