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Embracing the East

Author : Mari Yoshihara
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019514533X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Embracing the East written by Mari Yoshihara and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction of Orientalism. Mari Yoshihara's study examines a wide range of white women who were attracted to Japan and China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and shows how, through their engagement with Asia, these women found new forms of expression, power, and freedom that were often denied to them in other realms of their lives in America. She demonstrates how white women's attraction to Asia shaped and was shaped by a complex mix of exoticism for the foreign, admiration for the refined, desire for power and control, and love and compassion for the people of Asia. Through concrete historical narratives and careful textual analysis, she examines the ideological context for America's changing discourse about Asia and interrogates the power and appeal--as well as the problems and limitations--of American Orientalism for white women's explorations of their identities. Combining the analysis of race and gender in the United States and the study of U.S.-Asian relations, Yoshihara's work represents the transnational direction of scholarship in American Studies and U.S. history. In addition, this interdisciplinary work brings together diverse materials and approaches, including cultural history, material culture, visual arts, performance studies, and literary analysis. Embracing the East was the winner of the 2003 Hiroshi Shimizu Award of the Japanese Association for American Studies (best book in American Studies by a junior member of the association).

Embracing the Divine

Author : Akram Fouad Khater
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650574
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Embracing the Divine written by Akram Fouad Khater and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hndiyya al-'Ujaimi, a young eighteenth-century nun whose faith was matched by her ambition and intellect, lies at the heart of this absorbing history of Middle Eastern Christianity. At the age of twenty-six, Hindiyya left her hometown of Aleppo to establish a convent in the mountains of Lebanon. Her order and her growing public profile as a visionary and living saint met with stiff opposition from Latin missionaries and with mistrust from the Vatican. Church authorities were suspicious of feminine spirituality and independent religious authority, eventually subjecting her to two Inquisitions by the Vatican. Sentenced to spend her entire life imprisoned, Hindiyya died in 1798 in her cell, leaving a legacy that shaped the church for many years to come. Compelling in its cinematic scope—resplendent with the requisite villains and mysterious events infused with sinister and sexual tensions, tragedy, and pathos—Hindiyya’s story holds within its folds a larger tale about the construction of a new Christianity in the Levant. Khater skillfully reveals what her story tells us about religious minorities in the Middle East, early modern cultural encounters between the West and the Middle East, and the relationship between gender, modernity, and religion.

Embracing Israel/Palestine

Author : Michael Lerner
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583943072
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Embracing Israel/Palestine written by Michael Lerner and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major modern conundrum is how the Arab/Israel conflict remains unresolved and, seemingly, unresolvable. In this inspirational book, Rabbi Michael Lerner suggests that a change in consciousness is crucial. With clarity and honesty, he examines how the mutual demonization and discounting of each sides’ legitimate needs drive the debate, and he points to new ways of thinking that can lead to a solution. Lerner emphasizes that this new approach to the issue requires giving primacy to love, kindness, and generosity. It calls for challenging the master narratives in both Israel and Palestine as well as the false idea that “homeland security” can be achieved through military, political, economic, or media domination. Lerner makes the case that a lasting peace must prioritize helping people on all sides (including Europe and the U.S.) and that real security is best achieved through an ethos of caring and generosity toward “the other.” As many spiritual leaders have taught, problems like these cannot be solved at the same level at which they originated—one must seek higher ground, and that becomes a central task for anyone who wants a sustainable peace. Embracing Israel/Palestine is written for those looking for positive, practical solutions to this ongoing dilemma.

Embracing the Infidel

Author : Behzad Yaghmaian
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0553382942
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Embracing the Infidel written by Behzad Yaghmaian and published by Delta. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama, Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to Paris. In this groundbreaking book, Iranian-American Behzad Yaghmaian has done what no other writer has managed to do–as he enters the world of Muslim migrants and tells their extraordinary stories of hope for a new life in the West. In a tent city in Greece, they huddle together. Men and women from Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, and other countries. Most have survived war and brutal imprisonment, political and social persecution. Some have faced each other in battle, and all share a powerful desire for freedom. Behzad Yaghmaian lived among them, listened to their hopes, dreams, and fears–and now he weaves together dozens of their stories of yearning, persecution, and unwavering faith. We meet Uncle Suleiman, an Iraqi veteran of the Iran-Iraq war; once imprisoned by Saddam Hussein, he is now a respected elder of a ramshackle tent city in Athens, offering comfort and community to his fellow travelers…Purya, who fled Iran only to fall into the clutches of human smugglers and survive beatings and torture in Bulgaria…and Shahroukh Khan, an Afghan teenager whose world at home was shattered twice–once by the Taliban and again by American bombs–but whose story turns on a single moment of awakening and love in the courtyard of a Turkish mosque. A chronicle of husbands separated from wives, children from parents, Embracing the Infidel is a portrait of men and women moving toward a promised land they may never reach–and away from a world to which they cannot return. It is an unforgettable tale of heartbreak and prejudice, courage, heroism, and hope.

The China Mystique

Author : Karen J. Leong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520244230
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The China Mystique written by Karen J. Leong and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three women, Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong & Mayling Soong, this book studies the shifting images of China in American culture, particularly during the 1930s & 40s.

Contested Embrace

Author : Jaeeun Kim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080479961X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Contested Embrace written by Jaeeun Kim and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and diasporas. Specifically, Jaeeun Kim analyzes disputes over the belonging of Koreans in Japan and China, focusing on their contested relationship with the colonial and postcolonial states in the Korean peninsula. Extending the constructivist approach to nationalisms and the culturalist view of the modern state to a transnational context, Contested Embrace illuminates the political and bureaucratic construction of ethno-national populations beyond the territorial boundary of the state. Through a comparative analysis of transborder membership politics in the colonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods, the book shows how the configuration of geopolitics, bureaucratic techniques, and actors' agency shapes the making, unmaking, and remaking of transborder ties. Kim demonstrates that being a "homeland" state or a member of the "transborder nation" is a precarious, arduous, and revocable political achievement.

Let Go Now

Author : Karen Casey
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642504483
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Let Go Now written by Karen Casey and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations and Reflections to Help End Codependence “In 200 short, straightforward daily lessons illustrating the many forms that detachment can take in one’s life. Casey’s latest is an easy reference guide for those seeking recovery or peace.” —Publishers Weekly #1 New Release in Personality Disorders and Twelve-Step Programs Do you ever feel like you might be giving other people too much power over your mood? Do you find yourself feeling immobilized by expectations and demands? The cure for facing codependence, says Karen Casey, is detachment. Control your life by letting go. When we remove codependent behavior from our lives, we discover a life of balance and freedom. Whether you find yourself tempted to become enmeshed in other people’s problems or rushing to their rescue, Casey reminds us to stop controlling behavior —that we cannot control anyone or anything beyond ourselves. What is codependency and detachment? Inside, you’ll find gems of insight for every stage of your codependence recovery journey. Through 200 recovery meditations and reflections, Casey explores how to set boundaries, control emotions, face attachment issues in adults, and more. Inspirational and easy to read, Let Go Now guides us away from taking care of others, and toward taking care of ourselves. If you’re looking for a codependent book or an attachment book —like Melody Beattie books,The Power of Letting Go Codependent No More, or TheLanguage of Letting Go book —you’ll love Let Go Now.

Embracing Contraries

Author : Peter Elbow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Embracing Contraries written by Peter Elbow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on twenty-five years of experience as a leading educational innovator, Elbow offers us this collection of twelve of his essays on the nature of learning and teaching, chosen to suggest a comprehensive philosophy of education. Containing four sections on the processes of learning, teaching, and evaluation, and on the nature of inquiry, this collection--both theoretical and down-to-earth--will appeal not only to teachers, administrators, and students, but also to anyone with a love of learning.

Fatal Embrace

Author : Mark Braverman
Publisher : BookPros, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0984076077
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Fatal Embrace written by Mark Braverman and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fatal Embrace, Braverman provocatively argues that Jewish exclusivism is being enacted in the colonial, expansionist nature of the State of Israel. He also contends that the attempts by Christians to atone for anti-Semitism have resulted in the suppression of honest interfaith dialogue on the issue, blocking progress toward a just peace. This book is a call to action directed at Christians and other Americans.

Embracing Defeat

Author : John W Dower
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320275
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Embracing Defeat written by John W Dower and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-07-04 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well as how the nation as a whole reacted to defeat and the end of a suicidal nationalism.

Orientalism

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804153868
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Orientalism written by Edward W. Said and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam and China

Author : Howard Malcolm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam and China written by Howard Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Embracing Mind

Author : B. Alan Wallace
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590304829
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Embracing Mind written by B. Alan Wallace and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both science and spirituality search for ultimate truths. But the human capacity for exploring these sources of truth--the one thing that unites science and spirituality--is often overlooked. "Embracing Mind" presents a viable science of the mind emanating from contemplative spirituality.

The Fall of Language in the Age of English

Author : Minae Mizumura
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538545
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Language in the Age of English written by Minae Mizumura and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in the globalized world of the Internet, English is fast becoming the sole common language of humanity. The process is unstoppable, and striving for total language equality is delusional—and yet, particular kinds of knowledge can be gained only through writings in specific languages. Mizumura calls these writings "texts" and their ultimate form "literature." Only through literature and, more fundamentally, through the diverse languages that give birth to a variety of literatures, can we nurture and enrich humanity. Incorporating her own experiences as a writer and a lover of language and embedding a parallel history of Japanese, Mizumura offers an intimate look at the phenomena of individual and national expression.

Travels in south-eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China; with a full account of the Burman empire

Author : Howard Malcom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Travels in south-eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China; with a full account of the Burman empire written by Howard Malcom and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eastern, Or Old World; Embracing Ancient and Modern History

Author : Henry Howard Brownell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Eastern, Or Old World; Embracing Ancient and Modern History written by Henry Howard Brownell and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Embracing the Best of East and West

Author : Geeta Rao
Publisher : Geeta Rao
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embracing the Best of East and West written by Geeta Rao and published by Geeta Rao. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interested in meditations that immediately bring peace of mind and relief from stress and anxiety? Would you like lasting forgiveness for yourself or others? Discover within this book methods of spiritual alchemy to heal yourself of past anger, pain and unforgiveness and ways to transform all that negative energy into love. Just like in Quantum Physics where there are many possible states of existence, so also can you internally shift from a state of fear to one of love. You will discover how inside this book! The author, a highly sensitive person and empath, had experiences from growing up that left ‘holes in her being’, so to speak. Right from her 20s, due to intense inner emotional and mental turmoil, she was filled with a burning desire to find lasting inner peace and forgiveness. This book contains methods that work from 11 years of her search for, and practice of, inner healing techniques. These have left her carefree and glowing from the inside-out! These methods are especially powerful if you find words to be healing and transforming. Just as one can utilize the Akashic Records for healing, one can use the techniques contained within for healing as well. The author has had the experience of all of these healing modalities and speaks from experience. This is a guidebook to spiritual healing methods based on the principle of oneness, that there is only one of us. You will discover: How to apply an ancient Hawai’ian forgiveness method called Ho’oponopono to forgive yourself or others. New Age meditations for lasting inner peace. These are non-denominational in nature, so they fit into the context of any religion you might be practicing (or not). Affirmations and methods such as Cutting the Ties that Bind to heal yourself of difficult and painful relationships. Along with New Age practices, the book also seamlessly discusses Hinduism and its practices as well as Hindu deities. It clearly explains the essence of the various philosophies behind Hinduism. It focuses on Advaita, the non-dualistic philosophy of the East which finds parallels with A Course in Miracles in the West and discusses the meaning and purpose of life according to Advaita or non-duality. Bonus: There is also a charming description of life in a real ancient orthodox Hindu village, in which the author’s mother grew up. It still exists today, and such villages are exceedingly rare to find even in India these days. You will be transported to another time and era! Buy this book to experience more peace, love and happiness today!