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Author : Sara Grimes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (552 download)
Download or read book West Lake Reflections written by Sara Grimes and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Leonbruno
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Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Lake George Reflections written by Frank Leonbruno and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rick Fields
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611804736
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)
Download or read book How the Swans Came to the Lake written by Rick Fields and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern classic unparalleled in scope, this sweeping history unfolds the story of Buddhism’s spread to the West. How the Swans Came to the Lake opens with the story of Asian Buddhism, including the life of the Buddha and the spread of his teachings from India to Southeast Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and elsewhere. Coming to the modern era, the book tracks how Western colonialism in Asia served as the catalyst for the first large-scale interactions between Buddhists and Westerners. Author Rick Fields discusses the development of Buddhism in the West through key moments such as Transcendentalist fascination with Eastern religions; immigration of Chinese and Japanese people to the United States; the writings of D. T. Suzuki, Alan Watts, and members of the Beat movement; the publication of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki; the arrival of Tibetan lamas in America and Europe; and the influence of Western feminist and social justice movements on Buddhist practice. This fortieth anniversary edition features both new and enhanced photographs as well as a new introduction by Fields’s nephew, Buddhist Studies scholar Benjamin Bogin, who reflects on the impact of this book since its initial publication and addresses the significant changes in Western Buddhist practice in recent decades.
Author : Xiaolin Duan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295747110
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Rise of West Lake written by Xiaolin Duan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China’s east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in poetry and painting. Hangzhou and West Lake have long served as icons of Chinese landscape appreciation, literary and artistic expression, and tourism. In the first in-depth English-language study of this picturesque locale, Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between human enterprise and the natural environment during the Song dynasty (960–1279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou, making the area the national political and cultural center. West Lake became a model for idealized nature, fashioned by the diverse activities of its visitors. Duan shows how engagements in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors’ conceptualization of nature and sparked the emergence of the lake as a tourist destination, highlighting how the natural landscape played a role in shaping social and cultural constructs. Incorporating evidence from miscellanies, local and temple gazetteers, paintings, maps, poems, and anecdotes, The Rise of West Lake explores the complexity of the lake as an interactive site where ecological and economic concerns contended and where spiritual pursuits overlapped with aesthetic ones.
Author : Anne Goodwin
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ISBN 13 : 9780981649924
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Come to the Lake written by Anne Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir reflecting on summer living in a 1920's cottage on Pleasant Lake in southeastern Wisconsin.
Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786468882
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Old West in Fact and Film written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best kind, harkening back to the days of the frontier. This work compares the reality of the Old West to its portrayal in movies, taking an historical approach to its consideration of the cowboys, Indians, gunmen, lawmen and others who populated the Old West in real life and on the silver screen. Starting with the Westerns of the early 1900s, it follows the evolution in look, style, and content as the films matured from short vignettes of good-versus-bad into modern plots.
Author : Sara Grimes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (552 download)
Download or read book West Lake Reflections written by Sara Grimes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis Hale
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ISBN 13 : 9780692009307
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Shipwrecked written by Dennis Hale and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myung W. Lee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book True-amplitude Processing Techniques for Marine, Crustal-reflection Seismic Data written by Myung W. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserving the relative true-amplitude of seismic traces provides significant advantages for deep crustal investigations, particularly for the identification and analysis of deep reflections originating near the crust-mantle boundary. Preserving lateraI variations along deep reflections is also important for resolving amplitude changes due to geologic causes rather than to artifacts from recording or source conditions. Three relative true-amplitude processing methods (automatic edit, single-trace equalization, and a common-depth-point gather equalization) were applied to the 20-second seismic data of the Great lakes Multidisciplinary Program on Crustal Evolution in order to evaluate the performance of the different techniques. Particular attention was paid to the improvement of signal-to-noise ratio and to the preservation of latera I continuity of the deep reflections. This study indicates that the automatic editing procedure based on the median amplitude of a common-depth-point gather provided substantial signal-to-noise ratio improvement of the seismic profiles. Post-stack amplitude balancing was commonly necessary to maintain the lateral continuity of the deep reflections and to reduce migration noise. The results from these processing strategies confirm the existence of large differences in crustal reflectivities and in the shape and geometry of crust-mantle transition beneath central and western lake Superior.
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Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book High-resolution, Shallow, Seismic Reflection Surveys of the Northwest Reelfoot Rift Boundary Near Marston, Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ho Sok Fong
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1846276926
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Lake Like a Mirror written by Ho Sok Fong and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By an author described by critics as 'the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop'. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanisation, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. In precise and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation centre for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics - a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses, surreal and utterly true.
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Total Pages : 958 pages
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Download or read book Special Scientific Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476618143
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Creation of the Cowboy Hero written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book's main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.
Author : David Clarke
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897413
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Water and Art written by David Clarke and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restless, protean, fluid, evanescent—despite being a challenge to represent visually, water has gained a striking significance in the art of the twentieth century. This may be due to the fact that it allows for a range of metaphorical meanings, many of which are particularly appropriate to the modern age. Water is not merely a subject of contemporary art, but also a material increasingly used in art-making, giving it a distinct dual presence. Water and Art probes the ways in which water has gained an unprecedented prominence in modern Western art and seeks to draw connections to its depiction in earlier art forms. David Clarke looks across cultures, finding parallels within contemporary Chinese art, which draws on a cultural tradition in which water has an essential presence and is used as both a subject and a medium. The book features a wealth of images by artists from East and West, including Fu Baoshi, Shi Tao, Wei Zixi, Fang Rending, Leonardo da Vinci, Bernini, Turner, Gericault, Klee, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Mondrian, and Kandinsky. Fast-paced, accessible, and comprehensive, Water and Art will appeal to the specialist and the general reader alike, offering fresh perspectives on familiar artists as well as an introduction to others who are less well-known.
Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486457
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Entertainment in the Old West written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of gold in 1848, and entertainers seeking to fill the demand for distraction from the workers' daily toil soon followed. Actors, actresses and traveling troupes crisscrossed the American frontier, performing in tents, saloons, fancy theaters, and the open air. This exploration of the heyday of popular theater in the Old West chronicles its emergence and growth from 1850 to the early twentieth century. Here is the story of the men and women who provided myriad types of entertainment in the Old West, and brought excitement, laughter and tears to generations of pioneers.
Author : Joanna Pettersson
Publisher : Europa Edizioni
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Alter written by Joanna Pettersson and published by Europa Edizioni. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alter is a story of courage, passion, and selflessness. In a world ruled by Gods, Goddesses and Fate, two Princes meet – perhaps it is better to say clash. Alter, The Chosen One, tells his memoirs at a breathtaking pace. Flashbacks, returns to the present, twists and turns set the pace for the writing of this compelling story. The son of the Gods and the son of Demons: what can happen when two opposing people, two worlds that have always fought each other, come together? Intrigue, kidnapping, revenge, and magic frame the meeting of two souls. The royal obligations of Alter and Malager only complicate the relationship between the two. Not even the help of all the Gods and Goddesses will prevent the Reader from getting involved in this overwhelming adventure. Joanna Pettersson (pen name) was born in Słupsk, in northern Poland. She received her MA in Scandinavian languages from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and achieved her PhD in linguistics at the University of Lund. Since then, she works as a university lecturer. Currently, she holds the position of professor of translation theory and intercultural communication at a university in Norway. In her free time, she writes fiction. She published two novels: Rozbita Tarcza (Broken Shield), 2018; and Alter, 2020; and collections of short stories: Opowieści z Nordponte (Tales from Nordponte), 2011; Szczęściarze (The Lucky Ones), 2012, and Potępieńcy (The Condemned Ones), 2013. The latter book was qualified for the Angelus Award (an award for Central European authors) in 2014. Two of her short stories: Wheatherby, 2016, and Dom pod północnym lasem (A House by the Northern Forest), 2021, were awarded in literary competitions.
Author : YouGuide Ltd
Publisher : YouGuide Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1837140537
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)
Download or read book The city guide for Yangzhou (??) written by YouGuide Ltd and published by YouGuide Ltd. This book was released on with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
