Asia
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Model of a Summer Camp [Paperback]
Dr Tatiana Argounova-Low(Author); Professor Alison K. Brown(Author); Dr Sushma Jansari(Author)
$12.00ISBN: 9780714124889
Published by : British Museum
Series: Object in Focus
The Model of a Summer Camp is an intriguing object with a range of stories to tell. Originating in the Sakha (Yakutia) region of far northeastern Russia, it depicts a yhyakh celebration – a festival of huge cultural importance to the region.... .... Learn More -
Resistance at the Edge of Empires: The Archaeology and History of the Bannu basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 [Hardback]
Cameron A. Petrie(Author); Peter Magee(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781785703034
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bannu Archaeological Project
Volume: 3
From 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now... .... Learn More -
Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives [Hardback]
Jeffrey D. Lerner(Editor); Yaohua Shi(Editor)
Regular Price: $90.00
Special Price: $67.50
ISBN: 9781789254709
Published by : Oxbow Books
In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its s... .... Learn More -
Masters of the Steppe: The Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia [Paperback]
Svetlana Pankova(Editor); St John Simpson(Editor)
$115.00ISBN: 9781789696479
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
This book consists of 45 papers presented at a major international conference held at the British Museum in 2017 on the occasion of the BP exhibition 'Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia', and like that exhibition, this conference was jo... .... Learn More -
Chinese Museums: Strategies and Promotion of Contemporary Chinese Art [Paperback]
Ornella De Nigris(Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9788869771439
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Art
Over the last 30 years, the Chinese system of art museums has enjoyed an unprecedented pace of development. Following a general and ongoing renovation of China’s entire system of national art institutions, there has been an impressive prolif... .... Learn More -
Kitarō Nishida’s Philosophy of Life: Thought that Resonates with Bergson and Deleuze [Paperback]
Tatsuya Higaki(Author)
$22.99ISBN: 9788869772689
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Asian Philosophical Texts
Nishida, who was active from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th, was one of the first generation of Japanese philosophers who attempted to develop an original philosophy under the influence of (and in response to) Western phi... .... Learn More -
Life Confucianism as A New Philosophy: Love and Thought [Hardback]
Huang Yushun(Author); Li Xuening(Author); Li Xuening(Translator); Meirong Yan(Translator); Prof. Yushun Huang(Author); Prof. Xuening Li(Translator)
$110.00ISBN: 9781626430068
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
Life itself has long gone unnoticed in Confucian texts since the Qin and Han dynasties, which is similar to the forgetting of Being, per se, in the Western philosophy after the Axial Period, according to Heidegger. Today, there is a philosophical ... .... Learn More -
The Spirit of Wang Yangming's Philosophy: The Realms of Being and Non-Being [Hardback]
Chen Lai(Author); Guoxing Chen(Translator); Prof. Lai Chen(Author)
$125.00ISBN: 9781626430655
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
The book provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of Wang’s philosophy at different stages throughout its maturation so as to sketch the essential character and grand picture of Wang’s philosophy. As a systematic study of Wang&rs... .... Learn More -
The Land of the Anka Bird: A journey through the Turkic heartland [Paperback]
Caroline Eden(Author); Ergun Çağatay(Photographer)
$35.00ISBN: 9780995756625
Published by : Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing
The Land of the Anka Bird: A journey through the Turkic heartland is a reflective visual essay introducing the powerful photographs of Ergun Çağatay. The book explores the cultural landscape and geography of the vast Turkic-spea... .... Learn More -
Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History [Hardback]
Dániel Balogh(Editor)
$140.00ISBN: 9789493194014
Published by : Barkhuis
This volume is a comprehensive compilation of primary textual sources pertaining to the history of Hunnic peoples in the vast area encompassing Central and South Asia. Sources in nearly a dozen languages have been carefully selected by scholars wi... .... Learn More
