Divided into five volumes, of which this novel is the fourth. It charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family. Over and above the novel hangs the constant reminder that there is another plane of existence a theme, which affirms the Buddhist belief in a supernatural scheme of things.
Das Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt fördert zeitgenössische Musik aller Bereiche und ihre pädagogische Vermittlung. Das thematische Spektrum reicht von der Tradition der kompositorischen Avantgarde über Klangkunst, Performance, Neue Medien und grenzüberschreitende Konzepte bis zur Improvisation, zum Jazz und zur Musik der Jugendkulturen.
The Varieties of Religious Experience is certainly the most notable of all books in the field of the psychology of religion and probably destined to be the most influential one written on religion in the twentieth century.'- Walter Houston Clark in Psychology Today
To make a revolution is to subvert the ancient state of our country, and no common reasons are called for to justify so violent a proceeding' Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for ...
On April 28, 1846, Francis Parkman left Saint Louis on his first expedition west. The Oregon Trail documents his adventures in the wilderness, sheds light on America's westward expansion, and celebrates the American spirit.
What Pindar catches is the joy beyond ordinary emotions as it transcends and transforms them' -C. M. BowraArguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B.C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece-a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in the Games was largely philosophical. Pindar's Epinician Odes-choral songs extolling victories in the Games at Olympia, D...
