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A Treatise on Efficacy

Author : François Jullien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on Efficacy written by François Jullien and published by . This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, François Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy. He shows how Western and Chinese strategies work in several domains (the battlefield, for example) and analyzes two resulting acts of war. The Chinese strategist manipulates his own troops and the enemy to win a battle without waging war and to bring about victory effortlessly. Efficacity in China is thus conceived of in terms of transformation (as opposed to action) and manipulation, making it closer to what is understood as efficacy in the West. Jullien’s brilliant interpretations of an array of recondite texts are key to understanding our own conceptions of action, time, and reality in this foray into the world of Chinese thought. In its clear and penetrating characterization of two contrasting views of reality from a heretofore unexplored perspective, A Treatise on Efficacy will be of central importance in the intellectual debate between East and West.

A Treatise on Efficacy

Author : François Jullien
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824843142
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on Efficacy written by François Jullien and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, François Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy. He shows how Western and Chinese strategies work in several domains (the battlefield, for example) and analyzes two resulting acts of war. The Chinese strategist manipulates his own troops and the enemy to win a battle without waging war and to bring about victory effortlessly. Efficacity in China is thus conceived of in terms of transformation (as opposed to action) and manipulation, making it closer to what is understood as efficacy in the West. Jullien’s brilliant interpretations of an array of recondite texts are key to understanding our own conceptions of action, time, and reality in this foray into the world of Chinese thought. In its clear and penetrating characterization of two contrasting views of reality from a heretofore unexplored perspective, A Treatise on Efficacy will be of central importance in the intellectual debate between East and West.

In Praise of Blandness

Author : François Jullien
Publisher : Zone Books (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781890951429
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Blandness written by François Jullien and published by Zone Books (NY). This book was released on 2007 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consideration of blandness not as the absence of defining qualities but as the harmonious union of all potential values--an infinite opening into human experience.

Scarcity

Author : Sendhil Mullainathan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805092641
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Scarcity written by Sendhil Mullainathan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture

Vital Nourishment

Author : François Jullien
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1890951218
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Vital Nourishment written by François Jullien and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical inquiry into how to "feed life," or nourish it, draws from early Chinese thinker Zhuanghi to explore notions of breath, energy, and immanence.

China's Use of Military Force

Author : Andrew Scobell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521525855
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book China's Use of Military Force written by Andrew Scobell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique study of China s militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995 1996) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Debunking the view that China has become increasingly belligerent in recent years because of the growing influence of soldiers, Scobell concludes that China s strategic culture has remained unchanged for decades. Nevertheless, the author uncovers the existence of a Cult of Defense in Chinese strategic culture. The author warns that this Cult of Defense disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive, while changes in the People s Liberation Army s doctrine and capabilities over the past two decades suggest that China s twenty-first century leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors.

The Great Image Has No Form, Or On the Nonobject Through Painting

Author : François Jullien
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226415317
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Great Image Has No Form, Or On the Nonobject Through Painting written by François Jullien and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In premodern China, painters used imagery not to mirror the world, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering this art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this book explores the 'nonobject', a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.

The Propensity of Things

Author : François Jullien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942299953
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Propensity of Things written by François Jullien and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, his first to appear in English, French sinologist François Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi--meaning disposition or circumstance, power or potential--as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking.

Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies

Author : Albert Bandura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521586962
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies written by Albert Bandura and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume addresses important issues of human adaptation and change.

Efficacy of Raja Yoga

Author : Ram Chandra
Publisher : The Heartfulness Store
ISBN 13 : 9388095596
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Efficacy of Raja Yoga written by Ram Chandra and published by The Heartfulness Store. This book was released on 1901 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efficacy of Raja Yoga was written in the 1940s, today it is still a pioneering treatise for any seeker of the Truth. Ram Chandra brings Raja Yoga into the modern world through the simple practices of Sahaj Marg, and explains the central role of meditation in human evolution. For the first time in written history we find precise and scientific explanations of the three aspects of human existence: the Heart Region, which relates to life in this physical plane; the Mind Region, which relates to our subtle existence, especially the process of transcending ego; and the Central Region, which goes beyond the mind to the realm of the soul. Efficacy of Raja Yoga is a book to re-read along with one’s spiritual practice, as with each reading it as if another layer of ignorance has been peeled off, revealing more of our potential.

The Book of Woe

Author : Gary Greenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101621109
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Woe written by Gary Greenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gary Greenberg has become the Dante of our psychiatric age, and the DSM-5 is his Inferno.” —Errol Morris Since its debut in 1952, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has set down the “official” view on what constitutes mental illness. Homosexuality, for instance, was a mental illness until 1973. Each revision has created controversy, but the DSM-5 has taken fire for encouraging doctors to diagnose more illnesses—and to prescribe sometimes unnecessary or harmful medications. Respected author and practicing psychotherapist Gary Greenberg embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition, and returned with an unsettling tale. Exposing the deeply flawed process behind the DSM-5’s compilation, The Book of Woe reveals how the manual turns suffering into a commodity—and made the APA its own biggest beneficiary.

A Treatise on Political Economy

Author : Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (conde)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865978126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on Political Economy written by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (conde) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Treatise on Political Economy"by Antonie Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) is a foundational text of nineteenth-century, free-market economic thought and remains one of the classics of nineteenth-century French economic liberalism. Destutt de Tracy was one of the founders of the classical liberal republican group known as the Ideologues, which included Benjamin Constant, Jean-Baptiste Say, Marquis de Condorcet, and Madame de Stael.In this volume, Destutt de Tracy provides one of the clearest statements of the economic principles of the Ideologues. Breaking with the physiocratic orthodoxy of the eighteenth century, Destutt de Tracy denies that land is the source of all productive labor and focuses his attention upon manufacturing and manufacturers as the producers of utility and, therefore, of value and of wealth. Placing the entrepreneur at the center of his view of economic activty, he argues against luxurious consumption of the idle rich and recommends a market economy with low taxation and minimum state intervention.Destutt de Tracy sent the text of "A Treatise on Political Economy "to Thomas Jefferson in hopes of securing its translation in the United States. It was met with enthusiastic approval. Jefferson wrote to the publisher, "The merit of this work will, I hope, place it in the hands of every reader in our country." Jeremy Jennings isProfessor of Political Theory at Queen Mary, University of London."

Command Of The Air

Author : General Giulio Douhet
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898522
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.

Why Civil Resistance Works

Author : Erica Chenoweth
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231527489
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Why Civil Resistance Works written by Erica Chenoweth and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment. Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.

Classical Chinese Medicine

Author : Liu Lihong
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9882370578
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Classical Chinese Medicine written by Liu Lihong and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English edition of Liu Lihong’s milestone work is a sublime beacon for the profession of Chinese medicine in the 21st century. Classical Chinese Medicine delivers a straightforward critique of the politically motivated “integration” of traditional Chinese wisdom with Western science during the last sixty years, and represents an ardent appeal for the recognition of Chinese medicine as a science in its own right. Professor Liu’s candid presentation has made this book a bestseller in China, treasured not only by medical students and doctors, but by vast numbers of non-professionals who long for a state of health and well-being that is founded in a deeper sense of cultural identity. Oriental medicine education has made great strides in the West since the 1970s, but clear guidelines regarding the “traditional” nature of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) remain undefined. Classical Chinese Medicine not only delineates the educational and clinical problems faced by the profession in both East and West, but transmits concrete and inspiring guidance on how to effectively engage with ancient texts and designs in the postmodern age. Using the example of the Shanghanlun (Treatise on Cold Damage), one of the most important Chinese medicine classics, Liu Lihong develops a compelling roadmap for holistic medical thinking that links the human body to nature and the universe at large.

Living Off Landscape

Author : Francois Jullien
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178660339X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Living Off Landscape written by Francois Jullien and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it only through vision that we can perceive a landscape? Is the space opened by the landscape truly an expanse cut off by the horizon? Do we observe a landscape in the way that we watch a 'show'? What, ultimately, does it mean to 'look'? In this important new book, one of France's most influential living theorists argues that the first civilization to truly consider landscape was China. In giving landscape the name 'mountain(s)-water(s)', the Chinese language provides a powerful alternative to Western biases. The Chinese conception speaks of a correlation between high and low, between the still and the motile, between what has form and what is formless, between what we see and what we hear. No longer a matter of 'vision', landscape becomes a matter of living. Francois Jullien invites the reader to explore reason's unthought choices, and to take a fresh look at our more basic involvement in the world.

Medical Nihilism

Author : Jacob Stegenga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198747047
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Medical Nihilism written by Jacob Stegenga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This book argues that medical nihilism is a compelling view of modern medicine. If we consider the frequency of failed medical interventions, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods in medicine, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions ought to be low" --