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Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History

Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History

Kiri Paramore

The book's outlook has since been enriched by conversations with Milinda Banerjee, Benjamin Elman, Matsuda Ko ̄ichiro ̄, Sugawara Hikaru, O ̄kubo Takeharu, Chen-Tao Shih, Barak Kushner, Hans Martin Krämer, Mark Teeuwen,  ...
Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity

Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity

Qin Shao

I wish to thank William Alfred, Robert Barnett, Clayton Dube, Benjamin Elman, Andrea Goldman, Henrietta Harrison, Michael Herzfeld, Jennifer Leaning, Miriam Lowi, Elizabeth Perry, Lynn T. White, III, Chuck Wooldridge, and Yun~ xiang Yan  ...
A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China

A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China

Benjamin A. Elman

See also James T. C. Liu, "How Did a Neo-Confucian School Become the State Orthodoxy?," pp. 483-505; and Tillman, Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy, passim. 164. John W. Haeger, "1126-27: Political Crisis and the Integrity ...
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China

A Cultural History of Modern Science in China

Benjamin A. Elman

See also Bridie Andrews, "Tuberculosis and the Assimilation of Germ Theory in China, 1895-1937," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 52, no . 1 (1997): 142-143. 19. Douglas Haynes, Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and  ...
Benjamin for Architects

Benjamin for Architects

Brian Elliott

This is a concise, coherent account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.
Walter Benjamin - Selected Writings, 1927-1930

Walter Benjamin - Selected Writings, 1927-1930

Walter Benjamin

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, Benjamin emerged as the most original public intellectual in the German-speaking world.
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin

BONUS: This edition contains a timeline, an interview with Melanie Benjamin, and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's Alice I Have Been.
Illuminations

Illuminations

Walter Benjamin

Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.
Illuminations

Illuminations

Walter Benjamin

The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) rank among the most quietly influential of the post-war era, though only since his death has Benjamin achieved the fame and critical currency outside his native Germany ...
Walter Benjamin and Romanticism

Walter Benjamin and Romanticism

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Through a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and H÷lderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings ...
Dorland Family Redwood

Dorland Family Redwood

Raymond Clyde Flesher

Roberta Belle BENJAMIN b. 20 Aug 1998 Arlington. 520. Ann Merrill BENJAMIN was born 30 May 1958 in New Orleans, LA and married Benjamin Charles ZURAW on 27 Aug 1983 in Greensboro, NC. He was an attorney before 2000. He was ...
Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings

Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings

Benjamin Franklin

Through Benjamin Franklin's own words, these writings present remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments as a writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician.
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire

The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire

Walter Benjamin

" Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. The introduction to this volume presents each of Benjamin's essays on Baudelaire in chronological order.
The Aviator's Wife: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin ...

The Aviator's Wife: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin ...

Trivion Books

Trivion Books. a. b. c. d. Question #1 Melanie Benjamin Melanie Hauser Melanie Murphy Melanie Gray a. ANSWER b Melanie Hauser Melanie Benjamin is a pen. What is the author's real name? Where was Melanie Benjamin born?
Pocahontas to Benjamin Bolling

Pocahontas to Benjamin Bolling

Oakley Dean Baldwin

So far no documents have been found that state definitely just who Benjamin’s parents were. Family folklore is that Major John Bolling and Elizabeth Blair are the parents of Benjamin, they descend from Pocahontas.
Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Esther Leslie

the Concept of History' (London, 2006) Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism; A Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno (Berkeley, CA, 1982) Laura Marcus and Lynda Nead, eds, The Actuality of Walter Benjamin (London, ...
Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary ...

Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary ...

Melissa Dinsman

See, for example, Lecia Rosenthal's recent book Radio Benjamin, translated by Jonathan Lutes (London: Verso, 2014). Texts in English written on Benjamin's broadcast work include: Graeme Gilloch, Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations  ...
The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin

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2. Art. forms. Jan Mieszkowski Film today articulates all problems of modern formgiving . . . Walter Benjamin, Arcades It is a foregone conclusion for me that there is no such thing as art history. Walter Benjamin, Letter to F. C. Rang Scarcely any ...
A Benjamin Franklin Reader

A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Benjamin Franklin

A companion volume to Benjamin Franklin: An American Life presents a definitive version of Franklin's Autobiography along with a selection of some of his most important writings, including "The Art of Conversation" and "Rules for Promoting ...
Cleansing Eden:

Cleansing Eden:

Benjamin Sobieck

Benjamin Sobieck has an inventive way with words. He writes with a voice that's strong and uniquely his.” – Debbi Mack, New York Times bestselling author of the Sam McRae series “Cleansing Eden by Benjamin Sobieck is a gripping story ...
Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the ...

Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the ...

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Directora—Benjamin Wise, Joseph Hewlett, James Geddes, Matthew A. Wilson, John H. Browning, George Brandon, Jacob Dunn, Benjamin Wilson, M. D., Samuel Thomson, Robert Boyd. Financial Uommittec.—George Brandon, Benjamin ...
Mischa Elman and the Romantic Style

Mischa Elman and the Romantic Style

Allan Kozinn

Among those who have held the chair since then'are Henryk Szeryng, Erica Morini, Jaime Laredo, Ruggiero Ricci, Josef Gingold, and Elmar Oli veira, each of whom has given a series of master classes at the Manhattan School. At the same  ...
The Chinese Chameleon Revisited: From the Jesuits to Zhang Yimou

The Chinese Chameleon Revisited: From the Jesuits to Zhang Yimou

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I am indebted to Ben Elman, who helped me come up with the book title, and Catherine Dossin, who helped me choose the cover image. As a team, I and the contributors would like to thank colleagues who also presented papers ...
Dinosaurs Should Have Gone To School

Dinosaurs Should Have Gone To School

Dale Benjamin Drakeford

Dale Benjamin Drakeford ... gone to school: a new theory on dinosaur extinction as easy as abcxyz as propositioned by mister peace, ph.d: the poop, the pageantry, the prose and the poetry/by Dale Benjamin Drakeford-1st edition. p. cm 1.
PREAMBLES

PREAMBLES

Dale Benjamin Drakeford

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Drakeford, Dale Benjamin Preambles/Dale Benjamin Drakeford p. cm. 1. Poetry. 2. Self-Help. 3. Spirituality. 4. Activities. 5. Public Domain and Keyboard Illustrations Case Wrap Edition ...
Understanding Brecht (New Edition)

Understanding Brecht (New Edition)

Walter Benjamin

Collection of Benjamin's writings on the poetic and dramatic work of his tutor and friend.
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades ...

The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades ...

Susan Buck-Morss

An English reconstruction and analysis of Benjamin's Passagen-Werk.
Walter Benjamin’s Concept of the Image

Walter Benjamin’s Concept of the Image

Alison Ross

In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin’s approach to the topic over the course of his career.

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