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A History of Chinese Civilization

By: Jacques Gernet

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A History of Chinese Civilization

By: Jacques Gernet

When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep of China's past.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521497817

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Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276

By: Jacques Gernet

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Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276

By: Jacques Gernet

Describes the occupations, pleasures, clothes, food, art, and social and civic life of the people in the city of Hangchow.

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Stanford University Press

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0804707200

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Buddhism in Chinese Society

An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries

By: Jacques Gernet

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Buddhism in Chinese Society

An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries

By: Jacques Gernet

Translated and revised by respected scholar of Chinese religions Franciscus Verellen, who has worked closely with Gernet, this edition includes new references, an extensive, up-to-date bibliography, and a comprehensive index.

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Columbia University Press

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0231114117

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When China Rules the World

The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order: Second Edition

By: Martin Jacques

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When China Rules the World

The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order: Second Edition

By: Martin Jacques

Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power Soon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western. Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years since the first edition was published, When China Rules the World has proved to be a remarkably prescient book, transforming the nature of the debate on China. Now, in this greatly expanded and fully updated edition, boasting nearly 300 pages of new material, and backed up by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China’s ascendancy, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, changing the world as we know it. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order has sold a quarter of a million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major literary awards, and is the subject of an immensely popular TED talk.

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Penguin

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1101151455

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History and Memory

By: Jacques Le Goff

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History and Memory

By: Jacques Le Goff

In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

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Columbia University Press

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0231075901

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Of Grammatology

By: Jacques Derrida

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Of Grammatology

By: Jacques Derrida

The deconstruction bombshell that rocked the Anglophone world. Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy—called deconstruction—changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that these disciplines would have previously considered improper. Forty years after Of Grammatology first appeared in English, Derrida still ignites controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s careful translation, which attempted to capture the richness and complexity of the original. This fortieth anniversary edition, where a mature Spivak retranslates with greater awareness of Derrida’s legacy, also includes a new afterword by her which supplements her influential original preface. Judith Butler has added an introduction. All references in the work have been updated. One of contemporary criticism’s most indispensable works, Of Grammatology is made even more accessible and usable by this new release.

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JHU Press

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1421419955

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A History of Chinese Civilization

By: Jacques Gernet

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A History of Chinese Civilization

By: Jacques Gernet

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Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism

Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy

By: Jacques Richard,Alexandre Rambaud

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Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism

Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy

By: Jacques Richard,Alexandre Rambaud

Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the underpinning systems of accounting. This book draws attention to this lacuna, focusing specifically on the concept of capital: a major concept that dominates all teaching and practice in both economics and management. It is argued that while for the practitioners of capitalism – in accounting and business – the capital in their accounts is a debt to be repaid (or a thing to be kept), for economists, it has been considered a means (or even a resource or an asset) intended to be worn out. This category error has led to economists failing to comprehend the true nature of capitalism. On this basis, this book proposes a new definition of capitalism that brings about considerable changes in the attitude to be had towards this economic system, in particular, the means to bring about its replacement. This book will be of significant interest to readers of political economy, history of economic thought, critical accounting and heterodox economics.

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Routledge

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100048405X

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9781000484052

Revival: Prehistoric Man (1924)

A General Outline of Prehistory

By: Jacques De Morgan

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Revival: Prehistoric Man (1924)

A General Outline of Prehistory

By: Jacques De Morgan

The subject of the present volume, in essence is the hand and hand's extensions. We cannot insist too strongly that in the evolution of life the "decisive moment" arrived when a living being – who became man – adopted the erect attitude, thus freeing his hands, and when the industrious activity was inauguarted which this freedom made possible. In the use of the hand as an instrument, we have the manifestation of an important physical progress and the promise of further progress.

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1351347039

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The Invention of Cuneiform

Writing in Sumer

By: Jean-Jacques Glassner

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The Invention of Cuneiform

Writing in Sumer

By: Jean-Jacques Glassner

In "The Invention of Cuneiform" Jean-Jacques Glassner offers a compelling introduction to a seminal era in human history. Returning to early Mesopotamian texts that have been little studied or poorly understood, he traces the development of writing from the earliest attempts to the sophisticated system of roughly 640 signs that constituted the Sumerian repertory by about 3200 B.C.

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JHU Press

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0801873894

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9780801873898

Questioning Judaism

Interviews by Elisabeth Weber

By: Jacques Derrida,Elisabeth Weber

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Questioning Judaism

Interviews by Elisabeth Weber

By: Jacques Derrida,Elisabeth Weber

This volume presents the meditations of seven well-known French thinkers on the special relations of their own intellectual pursuit to Judaism.

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Stanford University Press

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0804742200

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Can Common People Govern?

Political Parties, Movements, and Uprisings

By: Jacques Bidet

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Can Common People Govern?

Political Parties, Movements, and Uprisings

By: Jacques Bidet

In Can Common People Govern?, the renowned French social theorist, philosopher, and historian Jacques Bidet offers a theoretical and political exploration of political parties, movements, and uprisings as forms of popular political organization. He highlights the contradictions of the party-form and the movement-form through a critical analysis of Lenin, Xi Jinping, Gramsci, Althusser, and the theorists of left-wing populism, Laclau and Mouffe. Popular political organization, he argues, must be related to the structure of modern society, in which the popular class is opposed in a “triangular duel” against a dominant class that includes two poles in conflictual connivance, “capitalpower” and “competence-power” (or “elite”). This duality offers the common people an angle of attack for a risky alliance with this elite against capital. This class confrontation is put in the context of the ongoing ecological disaster and popular uprisings. In the age of disaster, environmentalism and social emancipation must be conceived as one and the same thing. Can Common People Govern? is relevant to students of Marxism as well as wider readership interested in political thought and action.

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Taylor & Francis

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104025487X

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China and the Christian Impact

A Conflict of Cultures

By: Jacques Gernet

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China and the Christian Impact

A Conflict of Cultures

By: Jacques Gernet

Jacques Gernet's invigorating book turns the tables on traditional approaches to the history of Christianity in China, presenting a coherent analysis of the impact of Christianity in the seventeenth century from the Chinese point of view. The aim is to reveal what the Chinese said and wrote about the Jesuit missionaries and to ask a profound general question: to what extent do the reactions of the Chinese at the time of their first contacts with the 'doctrine of the Master of Heaven' reveal fundamental differences between Western and Chinese conceptions of the world? For the missionaries themselves, the Chinese were men like any other, but corrupted by superstition and unfortunate enough to have remained in ignorance of the Revelations. Professor Gernet shows, the missionaries, just like the Chinese literary elite, were the unconscious bearers of a whole civilisation. The problems they encountered were generated by different languages and logic and by very different visions of the world and of man.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521266815

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9780521266819

Aspects Économiques Du Bouddhisme Dans la Société Chinoise Du Ve Au Xe Siècle

By: Jacques Gernet

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Aspects Économiques Du Bouddhisme Dans la Société Chinoise Du Ve Au Xe Siècle

By: Jacques Gernet

First published in French in 1956, this classic work integrates the study of Buddhist doctrine with that of Chinese society from the fifth to the tenth centuries.

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0231073801

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A History of Chinese Civilization

A History of Chinese Civilization

Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276

Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276

Buddhism in Chinese Society

Buddhism in Chinese Society

When China Rules the World

When China Rules the World

History and Memory

History and Memory

Of Grammatology

Of Grammatology

A History of Chinese Civilization

A History of Chinese Civilization

Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism

Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism

Revival: Prehistoric Man (1924)

Revival: Prehistoric Man (1924)

The Invention of Cuneiform

The Invention of Cuneiform

Questioning Judaism

Questioning Judaism

Can Common People Govern?

Can Common People Govern?

China and the Christian Impact

China and the Christian Impact

Aspects Économiques Du Bouddhisme Dans la Société Chinoise Du Ve Au Xe Siècle

Aspects Économiques Du Bouddhisme Dans la Société Chinoise Du Ve Au Xe Siècle

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