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Author : Richard Whittingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5559314161
Written by a respected sportswriter and boasting more than 200 photos, this is a glorious portrait of the great teams, players, plays and coaches in college football.
Author : Richard Whittingham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : College sports
ISBN : 9780743222198
Chronicles the history of college football from its first games in 1901 through the major tournaments of the twenty-first century.
Author : Joy Hendry
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415172677
First published in 1986 Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in its field. In this newly updated edition, the value of anthropological in understanding this ancient and complex nation are clearly demonstrated.
Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Falconers
ISBN : 1558214577
The highly acclaimed true story of a falconer and falcon and of the bonds among humans, animals, and the natural world. In 1986 Dan O'Brien spent the summer in the Rocky Mountains releasing young peregrine falcons on the cliffs. When one of his release sites was raided by a golden eagle, he managed to save a peregrine chick and decided to make an improbable two-thousand-mile trip with her from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, following the avian autumnal migration. His retention was to teach the bird to hunt as a wild falcon would, in the hopes of releasing her into the natural world. Along the way he was forced to confront the chasm that gulfs wildness and domesticity -- and the difficulty in finding an even tenuous balance between them. "The Rites of Autumn" is the account of this incredible journey. It is also a beautifully written portrait of the American West, and has gained a worldwide reputation as a powerful, important book of natural history.
Author : Cliff Schimmels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0896933342
Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780451493941
Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.
Author : Andrew R. Wright
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781640656734
The indispensable guide to curating resources for worship in the Episcopal Church. Newly revised and reorganized, this guide to liturgical planning in the Episcopal Church is organized around the seasons of the church year and the cycle of Sunday readings in the revised common lectionary. Structured as a series of three volumes—one for each year in the lectionary cycle—Planning for Rites and Rituals includes guidance for making seasonal choices among the church’s authorized worship resources, brief commentary on each Sunday’s readings, guidance in approaching the Prayers of the People, and suggestions for observing commemorations from the church’s calendar. New introductory material suggests approaches to curating liturgical resources. New editor Andrew Wright has applied his years of experience in planning liturgy at parishes across the Episcopal Church and mentoring clergy to this revision. Including contributions from throughout the church, this volume offers clergy and lay liturgical planners a framework for planning throughout the church year.
Author : Yinglin Wang,王應麟
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026528559
Author : Rūta Stanevičiūtė,Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781644698969
This volume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures in the Eastern Baltics—Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russia—at the end of the Cold War and in the early post-Communist period. Throughout the book, the contributors explore and conceptualize transnational musical collaboration and the diffusion of information, people, and ideas focusing on musical activity which shaped the moral and artistic outlook of several generations. The volume sheds light on the transformative power of politically and socially engaged music and offers a deeper understanding of the artistic potential of societies and its impact on social and political change.
Author : Su Li
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691171593
How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In The Constitution of Ancient China, Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which a series of fundamental institutions, rather than a supreme legal code upholding the laws of the land, evolved and coalesced into an effective constitution. Arguing that a constitution is an institutional response to a set of issues particular to a specific society, Su Li demonstrates how China unified a vast territory, diverse cultures, and elites from different backgrounds into a whole. He delves into such areas as uniform weights and measurements, the standardization of Chinese characters, and the building of the Great Wall. The book includes commentaries by four leading Chinese scholars in law, philosophy, and intellectual history—Wang Hui, Liu Han, Wu Fei, and Zhao Xiaoli—who share Su Li's ambition to explain the resilience of ancient China's political system but who contend that he overstates functionalist dimensions while downplaying the symbolic. Exploring why China has endured as one political entity for over two thousand years, The Constitution of Ancient China will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the institutional legacy of the Chinese empire.
Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691221298
Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present. Nowhere else in modern history do we find so pronounced an example of government sponsorship of a religion as in Japan's support of shinto. How did that sponsorship come about and how was it maintained? How was it dismantled after World War II? What attempts are being made today to reconstruct it? In answering these questions, Hardacre shows why State shinto symbols, such as the Yasukuni Shrine and its prefectural branches, are still the focus for bitter struggles over who will have the right to articulate their significance. Where previous studies have emphasized the state bureaucracy responsible for the administration of shinto, Hardacre goes to the periphery of Japanese society. She demonstrates that leaders and adherents of popular religious movements, independent religious entrepreneurs, women seeking to raise the prestige of their households, and men with political ambitions all found an association with shinto useful for self-promotion; local-level civil administrations and parish organizations have consistently patronized shinto as a way to raise the prospects of provincial communities. A conduit for access to the prestige of the state, shinto has increased not only the power of the center of society over the periphery but also the power of the periphery over the center.
Author : Joanna K. Miles,Perveez Mody,Rebecca Probert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782259657
Recent years have seen extensive discussion about the continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the right to marry from previously excluded groups, and the need to protect those who do not wish to marry from being forced to do so. At the same time, weddings are big business, couples are spending more than ever before on getting married, and marriage ceremonies are increasingly elaborate. It is therefore timely to reflect on the rites of marriage, as well as the right to marry (or not to marry), and the relationship between them. To this end, this new interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars from numerous fields, including law, sociology, anthropology, psychology, demography, theology and art and design. Focusing on England and Wales, it explores in depth the specific issues arising from this jurisdiction's Anglican heritage, demographic development, current laws and social practices.
Author : Jim Butcher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101146668
In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, Chicago's only professional wizard takes on a case for a vampire and becomes the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders. Harry Dresden has had worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Like fleeing a burning building full of enraged demon-monkeys, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there’s something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film’s producer believes he’s the target of a sinister curse—but it’s the women around him who are dying, in increasingly spectacular ways. Harry’s doubly frustrated because he only got involved with this bizarre mystery as a favor to Thomas—his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can’t quite figure out, until his investigation leads him straight to the vampire’s oversexed, bite-happy family. Now, Harry’s about to discover that Thomas’ family tree has been hiding a shocking secret: a revelation that will change Harry’s life forever.
Author : Miguel Hidalgo-Briceño
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:39000005904797
Author : Qitao Guo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804750327
Focusing on the Confucian transformation of Mulian opera, and especially on the interplay between the "civilizing" effect of ritual performance and the rise of gentrified mercantile lineages in sixteenth-century Huizhou prefecture, this book develops a radically novel interpretation of both Chinese popular culture and the Confucian tradition in late imperial China.