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Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in ...

Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in ...

Sarah Allan

Gil raz, The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition (London: routledge, 2012), 183–87; Donald Harper, Early Chinese Medical Literature (London: kegan Paul, 1998), 393–99; Han shu, juan 30, 1779. i would also like to thank Gil raz for  ...
Chinese Medicine and Healing

Chinese Medicine and Healing

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Gil Raz The Daoist lineages that appeared beginning in the late second century tended to eschew medical practices such as acupuncture and the ingestion of medicines, viewing these techniques as merely treating secondary symptoms.
Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader

Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader

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As Gil Raz says, Wangzi Qiao became heavily associated with Shangqing 上清( Supreme Clarity) meditation practices after having been identified with Yang Xiʹs 楊羲(330–386) revelations. Furthermore, “during the Five Dynasties, Wangzi ...
The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition

The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition

Gil Raz

This book presents the history of early Daoism, tracing the development of the tradition between the first and the fifth centuries CE. This was an era of political instability and social turmoil in China but it was also a period of cultural ...
Early Chinese Religion: The Period of Division (220-589 Ad)

Early Chinese Religion: The Period of Division (220-589 Ad)

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DAOIST SACRED GEOGRAPHY Gil Raz Those who study transcendence should widely travel the famous mountains, kneeling to invoke the celestial spirits in search of instructions from the unseen.1 Among the most common tropes in ...
The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition

The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition

Gil Raz

Skemer, DonC. BindingWords: Textual Amulets inthe Middle Ages. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press,2006. Smith, Kidder. “SimaTan andthe Invention of Daoism, 'Legalism,' et cetera,”JAS 62.1 (2003):129–156. Smith ...
What's Wrong with the Poor?: Psychiatry, Race, and the War ...

What's Wrong with the Poor?: Psychiatry, Race, and the War ...

Mical Raz

In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout the 1960s, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would ...
Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968

Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968

Dennis A. Doyle

I am indebted to the historian Mical Raz for helping me place the culture of poverty and cultural deprivation models in their proper chronology. 38. Scott, Contempt and Pity, 137–55; Raz, What's Wrong with the Poor; Herman, Romance of ...
Marybelle's message

Marybelle's message

Anne Miranda

Gil is the loudest boy in school and Juno sits beside him. When Gil uncovers some old letters written in code, the two work together with amazing results.
Evidential Uncertainty in Causation in Negligence

Evidential Uncertainty in Causation in Negligence

Gemma Turton

87 Donal Nolan, 'New Forms of Damage in Negligence' (2007) 70 Modern Law Review 59, 87. He notes that Raz makes a similar argument: Raz (n 85) 247. 88 Donal Nolan, 'Damage in the English Law of Negligence' (2013) 4 Journal of ...
13 French Street

13 French Street

Gil Brewer

Still another big printing of the high-octane novel that had all America talking and enthralled millions by Gil Brewer, author of Some Must Die and A Killer Is Loose.
Prayer

Prayer

Philip Kerr

Gil is asked to investigate a series of unexplained deaths of victims known for their liberal views. When a woman tells Gil that these men have been killed by prayer, he questions her sanity.
Play in Family Therapy

Play in Family Therapy

Eliana Gil

And who could fault them for it? The fact is that many family therapists either exclude young children or do not know how to involve them actively in family sessions.... "This is where Dr. Gil's new book succeeds so wonderfully.
Blood: A Critique of Christianity

Blood: A Critique of Christianity

Gil Anidjar

Blood, in Gil AnidjarÕs argument, maps the singular history of Christianity.
Play in Family Therapy, Second Edition

Play in Family Therapy, Second Edition

Eliana Gil

New to This Edition *Incorporates 20 years of clinical experience and the ongoing development of Gil's influential integrative approach. *All-new case material. *Discusses how current brain research can inform creative interventions. ...
Living Together:: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence ...

Living Together:: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence ...

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For an excellent commentary on the Abrahamic more broadly, see Gil Anidjar's “' Once More, Once More': Derrida, the Arab, the Jew,” in Acts ofReligion, ed. Gil Anidjar (New York: Routledge, 2002), 1-39. 13. Derrida, H.C. pour la vie, 90; H.C.  ...
The Kennedy Connection: A Gil Malloy Novel

The Kennedy Connection: A Gil Malloy Novel

R. G. Belsky

In this bold and entertaining thriller from a true media insider, discredited newspaper reporter Gil Malloy breaks the story of the link between seemingly unconnected murders—a Kennedy half dollar coin found at each of the crime scenes.
Developing Confidence and Personal Magnetism

Developing Confidence and Personal Magnetism

Gil Magno

The drills and exercises in this book are calculated to ressuscitate the True Being covered up with the lies.. Personal transformations take place daily as Gil Magno trains students using this book as the textbook; in person or on Skype.
Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories

Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories

Gil Brewer

A collection of Gil Brewer's noir short stories. This is a hell of a collection. Twenty-five hard-boiled gems, with each story wilder than the next. Dave Zeltserman, bestselling author of Small Crimes Immensely enjoyable.
The Midnight Hour: A Gil Malloy Novella

The Midnight Hour: A Gil Malloy Novella

R. G. Belsky

A Gil Malloy Novella R. G. Belsky. celebration ritual. I was just about to give up and go home when I saw Marilyn Staley coming out of her office with her purse and coat, presumably leaving for the night. “Hey, Marilyn,” I said, “you want to get a ...
Posttraumatic Play in Children: What Clinicians Need to Know

Posttraumatic Play in Children: What Clinicians Need to Know

Eliana Gil

From leading expert Eliana Gil, this book provides child clinicians with essential knowledge and tools for evaluating and working with posttraumatic play.
Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music

Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music

Stephanie Stein Crease

This Is Lucy Reed—Lucy Reed Lucy Reed (vcl), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Tommy Mitchell (btb), Romeo Penque (afl, enh), David Kurtzer (bas), Harry Lookofsky (tv) , Bill Pemberton (b), George Russell (dm), Gil Evans (p, arr). New York, January ...
Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation

Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation

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Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation Laura Gray-Rosendale, Gil Harootunian. FRACTURED FEMINISMS Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation edited by LAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE and GIL HAROOTUNIAN Published by State University of ...
Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the ...

Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the ...

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One of the rationales for such treatments was to ease the burden on mental hospitals, as the work of historians Jack D. Pressman and Mical Raz has demonstrated.37 Given that one of the chief objectives of military psychiatrists was to heal ...
Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of ...

Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of ...

Katja Guenther

See also Mical Raz, “Between the Ego and the Icepick: Psychosurgery, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatric Discourse,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82 (2008): 387–420, on the relations between somatic and dynamic approaches to mental ...

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