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Author : Chi Chi Layor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000078531013
Author : Guida M. Jackson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781441558435
Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific presents biographical sketches of hundreds of women leaders from earliest recorded history down to the present time. It is the first of two volumes giving data on women leaders from every continent and island in the world; the second volume deals with Europe and countries of the Western Hemisphere. Each book is divided into two sections. Part I of this volume deals with African women leaders; Part II with Asian, Middle East and Pacific women. Within each section, which is introduced by an essay overview, entries are arranged alphabetically. Suggestions for further reading on the subject appear at the end of each entry. Not all entries are merely recitations of facts. Some women's lives do not lend themselves to being reduced to statistics. Many were much too colorful, or lusty, or bloodthirsty to fit into a neat categorical description. How do you easily characterize the rule of the African queen who hacked her servant to death after she was through using him as a chair just to intimidate her new Portuguese overlord? Who kept as many as thirty slaves as sexual partners, supposedly killing them off when she had finished with them? How do you gloss over the actions of the newly enthroned Persian queen who ordered her stepbrother strangled, then had gold and silver coins struck bearing her new title: "Purity of the earthly world and of the faith"? How do you describe nicely the actions of the Chinese queen who chopped off her own hand to make a point to a man she had just condemned to death? How do you ascribe feminine traits to a grandmother who tried to kill her own grandson to keep him from succeeding her on the throne she herself had stolen? On the other hand, how do you do justice to the Queen of Tonga without mention of her commanding size six feet two inches or her forty-seven-year devotion to matters far beyond mere governance but of more importance to her subjects: like establishing handicraft outlets to market the wares of her people? Or to the Queen of Thailand who acted as Regent while the King, a devout Buddhist, performed his meditations and duties as a monk? She directed much more than affairs of state; her concern for the common people led her to promote the export of hand-woven Thai silk and to establish a chain of shops selling native crafts. She also organized the Thai Red Cross for aid to refugees, orphans, wounded soldiers, and flood victims. These and dozens of stories like them make African, Asian, Middle East, and Pacific Women Leaders a unique treasure that is hard to put down. Although most of the entries in this volume deal with women rulers, a portion of the book is devoted to women in leadership roles other than those of queen, empress, prime minister, or chieftainess. Of these additional entries, the majority deals with contemporary women judges, secretaries of state, cabinet members, or legislators of unusual influence and power.
Author : Nancy Breen,Erika Kruse O'Connell
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1582974004
An indispensable tool for any poet interested in publishing work, this guide contains more than 1,800 market listings, advice from successful poets, and how-to articles.
Author : Nancy Breen,Erika Kruse
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1582972753
Presents a guide to publishing poetry, containing lists of entries with evaluations of poetry publishers and complete submission and contact information.
Author : Benebell Wen
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 955 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781623178741
Benebell Wen’s (Holistic Tarot and The Tao of Craft) historic new translation of the I Ching brings the power and mysticism of The Book of Changes to contemporary readers. Now in a beautiful hardcover format with a ribbon bookmark. Through in-depth annotations, cultural and historical references, and magical practices, Wen amplifies the wisdom—both profound and practical—of the 3,000-year old text. She includes aspects of the I Ching that have never before been translated into English, offering fresh perspectives on a classic work. Rooted in her experience and knowledge as a Taiwanese-American occultist and Buddhist with deep family ties to Taoist mysticism, Wen's groundbreaking translation is accompanied by a critical analysis of earlier I Ching transmissions. Readers will learn how to: Situate the I Ching within its historical and cultural context Interpret the hexagrams and utilize various divination methods, such as yarrow stalk, coin toss, cowrie shells, and rice grains Work with the I Ching for personal guidance and developing intuitive wisdom Understand correspondences of Taoist mystical tradition with other schools of metaphysics, including shamanism, faith healing, and soul retrieval Approach the Book of Changes as a grimoire and attain a foundational understanding of the eight trigrams and Wu Xing five alchemical phases Whether you’re new to the I Ching or an experienced occultist, I Ching, The Oracle will deepen your understanding of esoteric Taoism and the art and craft of divination. Highlighting the two main schools of interpretation—Image and Numbers and Meanings and Principles—and exploring Taoist cosmology, mysticism, ritual practice, and the shamanic origins of the I Ching, Wen provides you with everything you need to apply the I Ching for life guidance, spiritual practice, and ancestral connection.
Author : Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : HARVARD:32044037698214
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BN000641649
Author : Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OXFORD:302144686
Author : John Gardner Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10254670
Author : John Gardner Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBR:KBR0000116554
Author : R. W. Egerton Eastwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047083881
Author : Jerome Silbergeld,Eugene Y. Wang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824872564
China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communist government frequently referred to Nationalists as “running dogs,” and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both “the tigers” and “the flies.” Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this volume is a wide-ranging look at zoomorphic and anthropomorphic imagery in Chinese art. The contributors, leading scholars in Chinese art history and related fields, consider depictions of animals not as simple, one-for-one symbolic equivalents: they pursue in depth, in complexity, and in multiple dimensions the ways that Chinese have used animals from earliest times to the present day to represent and rhetorically stage complex ideas about the world around them, examining what this means about China, past and present. In each chapter, a specific example or theme based on real or mythic creatures is derived from religious, political, or other sources, providing the detailed and learned examination needed to understand the means by which such imagery was embedded in Chinese cultural life. Bronze Age taotie motifs, calendrical animals, zoomorphic modes in Tantric Buddhist art, Song dragons and their painters, animal rebuses, Heaven-sent auspicious horses and foreign-sent tribute giraffes, the fantastic specimens depicted in the Qing Manual of Sea Oddities, the weirdly indeterminate creatures found in the contemporary art of Huang Yong Ping—these and other notable examples reveal Chinese attitudes over time toward the animal realm, explore Chinese psychology and patterns of imagination, and explain some of the critical means and motives of Chinese visual culture. The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture will find a ready audience among East Asian art and visual culture specialists and those with an interest in literary or visual rhetoric. Contributors: Sarah Allan, Qianshen Bai, Susan Bush, Daniel Greenberg, Carmelita (Carma) Hinton, Judy Chungwa Ho, Kristina Kleutghen, Kathlyn Liscomb, Jennifer Purtle, Jerome Silbergeld, Henrik Sørensen, and Eugene Y. Wang.
Author : Milton S. Terry
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783849621780
This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the oracles in religion * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices THE Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl "who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods." The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these weird prophetesses, and much of what has been handed down to us is legendary. But whatever opinion one may hold respecting the various legends, there can be little doubt that a collection of Sibylline Oracles was at one time preserved at Rome. There are, moreover, various oracles, purporting to have been written by ancient Sibyls, found in the writings of Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, and in other Greek and Latin authors. Whether any of these citations formed a portion of the Sibylline books once kept in Rome we cannot now determine; but the Roman capitol was destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla (B. C. 84), and again in the time of Vespasian (A. D. 69), and whatever books were at those dates kept therein doubtless perished in the flames. It is said by some of the ancients that a subsequent collection of oracles was made, but, if so, there is now no certainty that any fragments of them remain.
Author : Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard,Eva Gillies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780198740292
An abridged version of the 1937 an-thropological study of the Azande of the southern Sudan, the theoretical insights of which have proven increasingly influential among both anthropologists and others
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1934-07
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : IOWA:31858046108266
