For close to a thousand years Amida’s Pure Land, a paradise of perfect ease and equality, was the most powerful image of shared happiness circulating in the Japanese imagination. In the late nineteenth century, some Buddhist thinkers sought to reinterpret the Pure Land in ways that would allow it speak to modern Japan. Their efforts succeeded in ways they could not have predicted. During the war years, economist Kawakami Hajime, philosopher Miki Kiyoshi, and historian Ienaga Saburō—left-leaning thinkers with no special training in doctrinal studies and no strong connection to any Buddhist institution—seized upon modernized images of Shinran in exile and a transcendent Western Paradise to resist the demands of a state that was bearing down on its citizens with increasing force. Pure Land, Real World treats the religious thought of these three major figures in English for the first time. Kawakami turned to religion after being imprisoned for his involvement with the Japanese Communist Party, borrowing the Shinshū image of the two truths to assert that Buddhist law and Marxist social science should reinforce each other, like the two wings of a bird. Miki, a member of the Kyoto School who went from prison to the crown prince’s think tank and back again, identified Shinran’s religion as belonging to the proletariat: For him, following Shinran and working toward building a buddha land on earth were akin to realizing social revolution. And Ienaga’s understanding of the Pure Land—as the crystallization of a logic of negation that undermined every real power structure—fueled his battle against the state censorship system, just as he believed it had enabled Shinran to confront the world’s suffering head on. Such readings of the Pure Land tradition are idiosyncratic—perhaps even heretical—but they hum with the same vibrancy that characterized medieval Pure Land belief. Innovative and refreshingly accessible, Pure Land, Real World shows that the Pure Land tradition informed twentieth-century Japanese thought in profound and surprising ways and suggests that it might do the same for twenty-first-century thinkers. The critical power of Pure Land utopianism has yet to be exhausted.
Focusing her attention on the audience, Diana Owen investigates the way people process media messages during campaigns. This study examines the role of ads, news stories, poll results, and debates in presidential elections. Based on surveys fielded during the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns, Owen compares these four message categories to determine their relative importance to voters. In addition she investigates how individuals make use of messages in establishing their perception of candidates and issues. Mass communication's uses and gratifications approach provides this study's theoretical foundation. The book is designed for researchers and students in communications and mass media, voting behavior, and public opinion. Using surveys conducted during the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns, Diana Owen first addresses two basic research questions. How do media messages transmitted during presidential elections shape voter attitudes toward and perceptions of candidates and campaign issues? Do different types of media messages influence voters' feelings about candidates and elections in different ways? Focusing on candidate advertisements, newspaper and television news stories, poll results, and presidential debates, she also ties voters' general media use habits to the way they receive and process media messages.
The book captures the history, as well as the meaning and the value of the on-going partnership between the French state and the Walt Disney Company, remembering that it involved from the start more than a tourism project. It examines how the combined aspirations of the French state and the American Company transformed Val d’Europe as the sole potential location in Europe for the Company’s theme parks while allowing the state to retain its egalitarian ideals. Most critics believed the French state had caved into every demand of the Company. No one ever mentioned profits of the state that it would then invest to support other projects. The first part of the book investigates the encounter between the partners and the reasons why a welfarist state encouraged penetration by a capitalist enterprise, alongside the Company’s reasoning. The second section reveals the continued cooperation between the two entities in the management of the urbanization of Val d’Europe from the opening of the first Park and the start of a new major tourism development, in spite of criticisms and fluctuating attendance in the parks. The third part highlights more recent actions of the partners to create a formidable urban tourism pole that will attract ever more visitors, while still critically examining their effectiveness and sustainability.
Part of the Illustrated Series, this text offers a quick, visual, step-by-step approach for learning basic to intermediate features of Microsoft Word 2000.
Part of the Illustrated Series, this text offers a quick, visual, step-by-step approach for learning how to create, edit, and format documents using Microsoft Word 2000.
Part of the Illustrated Series, this text offers a quick, visual way to build Microsoft Office 97 skills. Covers intermediate skills for each Office 97 application.
Through instructor-led or self-paced step-by-step instruction, individuals learn how to work with styles and graphics, merge documents, share Word document information with other programs, and use Word to create a Web site.
Designed for students with basic Word 2000 skills, this highly visual, step-by-step text is perfect for people who want more in-depth coverage of Word 2000. This text covers graphics, merging documents and creating styles. World Wide Web exercises take advantage of the new Web integration.
This comprehensive guide to both the core and expert MOUS objectives explains basic and advanced features of Microsoft Word 2000. Using a step-by-step approach to hands-on training, this book is an ideal companion to "Microsoft Word 2000 Exam Cram, " and also serves as a useful on-the-job reference guide. The CD-ROM provides a way to practice skills without having to create documents.
Part of the Illustrated Series, this concise text offers a quick, visual, step-by-step approach for learning the basics of e-mail using Microsoft Outlook 2000.
Instructor's Resource Kit(Electronic Instructor's Manual with lecture notes, Teaching Tips, Upgradeer's Guide, Sample Syllabus, Extra Independent Challenges and solutions, Figure Files, Solution Files, Course Test Manager and Testbank, Learning Microsoft Outlook 2000 E-Mail): ISBN 0-7600-6112-2; Review Pack (Project Files, Learning Microsoft Outlook E-Mail): ISBN 0-7600-6113-0; Faculty and Student Online Companions
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