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Leadership in Asia

Persuasive Communication in the Making of Nations, 1850-1950

By: Robert Tarbell Oliver

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Leadership in Asia

Persuasive Communication in the Making of Nations, 1850-1950

By: Robert Tarbell Oliver

An overview of the place of communications in the emergence of the fifteen major nations of Asia into modernism and independent nationalism from 1850 to 1950.

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284

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University of Delaware Press

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087413353X

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9780874133530

Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing

By: Jennifer H. Oliver

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Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing

By: Jennifer H. Oliver

In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration, and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted with political and religious, as well as poetic, significance; symbolism that reaches its height when ships—both real and symbolic—are threatened with disaster. The Direful Spectacle argues that, in the French Renaissance, shipwreck functions not only as an emblem or motif within writing, but as a part, or the whole, of a narrative, in which the dynamics of spectatorship and of co-operation are of constant concern. The possibility of ethical distance from shipwreck—imagined through the Lucretian suave mari magno commonplace—is constantly undermined, not least through a sustained focus on the corporeal. This book examines the ways in which the ship and the body are made analogous in Renaissance shipwreck writing; bodies are described and allegorized in nautical terms, and, conversely, ships themselves become animalized and humanized. Secondly, many texts anticipate that the description of shipwreck will have an affect not only on its victims, but on those too of spectators, listeners, and readers. This insistence on the physicality of shipwreck is also reflected in the dynamic of bricolage that informs the production of shipwreck texts in the Renaissance. The dramatic potential of both the disaster and the process of rebuilding is exploited throughout the century, culminating in a shipwreck tragedy. By the late Renaissance, shipwreck is not only the end, but often forms the beginning of a story.

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240

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Oxford University Press

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0192567543

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9780192567543

The Tithe Maps of England and Wales

A Cartographic Analysis and County-by-County Catalogue

By: Roger J. P. Kain,Richard R. Oliver

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The Tithe Maps of England and Wales

A Cartographic Analysis and County-by-County Catalogue

By: Roger J. P. Kain,Richard R. Oliver

A reference work on the tithe maps of England and Wales for historians, geographers and lawyers.

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1050

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Cambridge University Press

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0521441919

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9780521441919

Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings

By: Oliver Leaman

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Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings

By: Oliver Leaman

Through key readings from primary and secondary sources this book communicates at first hand the principal features of a remarkable range of Eastern thought - from Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism to Islam, Shinto, and Zoroastrianism. Passages from key texts guide the reader through over ninety major terms, from abhidharma to Zen. Material is drawn not only from such cornerstone texts as the Bhagavad-gita and the Lao-tzu, but also from modern writings on Eastern philosophy and religion.

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322

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Routledge

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1134689195

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9781134689194

Friendship East and West

Philosophical Perspectives

By: Oliver Leaman

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Friendship East and West

Philosophical Perspectives

By: Oliver Leaman

There has been renewed interest in the concept of friendship in contemporary philosophy. Many of the existing treatments of the topic have been limited to Western notions of friendship, yet there is a far wider perspective available to us through an examination of a more extended cultural examination of the topic. Cultures other than those in Christian Europe have had important and interesting observations to make on the nature of friendship, and in this collection there is treatment not only of Greek and Christian ideas of friendship, but also of Islamic, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese and Indian perspectives. A rich and extended view of the concept of friendship results from these various examinations.

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Routledge

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1136785329

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9781136785320

Book's by Oliver Chou

Leadership in Asia

Leadership in Asia

Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing

Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing

The Tithe Maps of England and Wales

The Tithe Maps of England and Wales

Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings

Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings

Friendship East and West

Friendship East and West

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