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Contains two titles - "The Essentials of the Eight Traditions" that offers concise explanations of the eight major schools of Japanese Buddhism, and "The Candle of the Latter Dharma" that discusses the state of monastic practice in the Age of the Latter Dharma.

Join the adventurous cuzzies - Little Pai and Cutie Pai - as they go in search of the rainbow's end, and find a lot more than they expected. In this, the first of the Cuzzies books, Tommy Kapai introduces a big-hearted, fun-loving whânau.

Examines the peace settlement and veterans' programmes after Zimbabwe's guerrilla war of independence.

This is the first book-length biography in English of Andres Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual.

Proust's involvement with fin-de-siecle 'hysteria', and its impact on the writing of his great novel.

Rather than focusing on why the states did not contribute to the national government under the Articles of Confederation, Collective Action Under the Articles of Confederation asks why they, in fact, did - even when they should not have been expected to contribute. Why did states pay large portions of their requisitions to the federal government when problems of collective action and the lack of governmental incentives suggest that they should...

The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the development of a new musical genre, Viennese operetta, and no composer was better suited than Johann Strauss to express his native city's pride and anxiety during this period. Camille Crittenden provides an overview of Viennese operetta, then takes Strauss's works as a series of case studies in the interaction between stage works an...

Byzantium's Balkan Frontier is the first narrative history in English of the northern Balkans in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Where previous histories have been concerned principally with the medieval history of distinct and autonomous Balkan nations, this study regards Byzantine political authority as a unifying factor in the various lands which formed the empire's frontier in the north and west. It takes as its central concern Byzantine r...

Zhang sheds new light on the sources of China's modernization.

Explores the 'picturesque' in the music of Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven.

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Tracing the central role played by cosmology in the formation of China's early empires.

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Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Drawing on evidence of theatrical fictions, visual representations and popular culture's assimilation of the sculptural image, as well as theatrical productions, she examines some of the manifestatio...