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When Buddhists say 'things arise due to causes and conditions, ' they mean things come into being from a whole assembly of interrelated factors and events. We cannot trace a linear history or causal chain of events to their arising, they just come into being when the appropriate causes and conditions congregate at an appropriate time and place. When the causes and conditions that perpetuate or sustain the existence of that particular entity ce...

Traleg Kyabgon skillfully illustrates how to incorporate the whole human experience onto the Buddhist path. With mastery of Western concepts, the author explains how to integrate traditional Buddhist philosophies, psychology, and Tibetan medicine in the service of reducing suffering and developing all aspects of ones personhood to overcome the confinement of a limited sense of self.

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The Vicksburg Campaign, argues Timothy B. Smith, is the showcase of Ulysses S. Grant's military genius. Showing how and why Grant became such a successful general, Smith presents a fast-paced reexamination of the commander and the campaign. His analysis of Grant's decision-making process details the process of campaigning on military, political, administrative, and personal levels.

A Scientific Companion to Robert Frost represents the first systematic attempt to document all of the references to science and natural history in Frost's poetry. The book, which is organized chronologically, uses accessible language and includes illustrations and appendices that should make it a valuable resource for teachers and scholars"--

An in-depth analysis of TV culture in Pakistan since the liberalisation of the media.

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Selected from papers presented at the 2013 Artscapes conference in Canterbury, this collection of new essays explores the dynamic relationship between art and the city. Contributors discuss the everyday artistic use of public space around the world, from sculpture to graffiti to street photography.

This book studies Penelope Fitzgerald's writing and the compositional method behind it.

In the early 20th century Cairo was a vibrant and booming global metropolis. The integration of Egypt into the global market had led to rapid urban growth and increased migration. As occupational prospects for women outside the family were limited, sex work became a prominent feature of the new modern city. However, the economic and social changes in Egypt ignited national anxieties about racial degeneration, social disorder and imperial decad...

Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the 'Congress System' became the primary instrument of diplomacy in Europe. So central was the Austrian Chancellor Metternich to the political-legal Congress System that the period has often been referred to as the 'Age of Metternich'. In this book, Miroslav Sedivý analyses Metternich's policy towards the pre-united Italian states from 1830 to 1848. With an emphasis on geopolitics and international law...

Lace up your boots and choose from more than fifty of the best hiking trails in the Old Dominion. From an easy 3-mile outing in Shenandoah National Park to a 31-mile overnight trek near the Virginia-Kentucky border, Hiking Virginia features memorable routes for hikers of every stripe. Outdoor explorers and writers Bill and Mary Burnham cover every region of the state, taking you to such scenic hiking destinations as the nature preserves in Nor...

Theologian and public thinker Graham Ward explores the limits of mass imagination, discussing work by William Wordsworth, William Turner and Samuel Palmer to grapple changing ideas on metaphor, ultimacy and transcendence.

Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles interrogates Blackness and illustrates how it has been used as a basis to oppress, dismiss and exclude Blacks from societies and institutions in Europe, North America and South America. Employing uncharted analytical categories that tackle intriguing themes about borderless non-racial African ancestry, "traveling" identities and post-blackness, the essays provide new lenses for viewing the "Black" struggle wo...

The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world.

There exists a series of contemporary artists who continually defy the traditional role of the artist/author, including Art & Language, Guerrilla Girls, Bob and Roberta Smith, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Lucky PDF. In Death of the Artist, Nicola McCartney explores their work and uses previously unpublished interviews to provoke a vital and nuanced discussion about contemporary artistic authorship. How do emerging artists navigate intellectual pro...

For courses in principles of macroeconomics. Guide students through the economic principles that will influence their financial decisionsFoundations of Macroeconomics, 8th Edition introduces students to the economic principles they can use to navigate the financial decisions of their futures. Each chapter concentrates on a manageable number of ideas, usually 3 to 4, with each reinforced several times throughout the text. This patient approach ...

How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and secular forces in Turkey? Ayse Saktanber rejects approaches to this issue that ask what Islam means for the position of women or see Muslim women as the 'reverse' or the 'dark' side of modernity. She examines the experiences of women for whom the discourse of modernity has no relevance and looks at th...