Coming To Term

Download or read book Coming to Term written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coming to term written by William H. Woodwell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""And it proves," the author says, "that the smallest human beings can teach us the biggest lessons we will ever learn.""--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism written by Robert H. Sharf and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of sinification—the manner and extent to which Buddhism and Chinese culture were transformed through their mutual encounter and dialogue—has dominated the study of Chinese Buddhism for much of the past century. Robert Sharf opens this important and far-reaching book by raising a host of historical and hermeneutical problems with the encounter paradigm and the master narrative on which it is based. Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism is, among other things, an extended reflection on the theoretical foundations and conceptual categories that undergird the study of medieval Chinese Buddhism. Sharf draws his argument in part from a meticulous historical, philological, and philosophical analysis of the Treasure Store Treatise (Pao-tsang lun), an eighth-century Buddho-Taoist work apocryphally attributed to the fifth-century master Seng-chao (374–414). In the process of coming to terms with this recondite text, Sharf ventures into all manner of subjects bearing on our understanding of medieval Chinese Buddhism, from the evolution of T’ang "gentry Taoism" to the pivotal role of image veneration and the problematic status of Chinese Tantra. The volume includes a complete annotated translation of the Treasure Store Treatise, accompanied by the detailed exegesis of dozens of key terms and concepts.

Download or read book Coming to Terms written by Seymour Benjamin Chatman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coming to Terms with Chance written by Oscar H. Gandy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy. As a critical technology assessment, the ways in which bad luck early in life increase the probability that hardship and loss will accumulate across the life course are illustrated. Analysis shows the ways in which individual decisions, informed by statistical models, shape the opportunities people face in both market and non-market environments. Ultimately, this book challenges the actuarial logic and instrumental rationalism that drives public policy and emphasizes the role that the mass media play in justifying its expanded use. Although its arguments and examples take as their primary emphasis the ways in which these decision systems affect the life chances of African-Americans, the findings are also applicable to a broad range of groups burdened by discrimination.

Download or read book A Time for Healing written by Harold Ivan Smith and published by Lifeway Church Resources. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This six-unit course, with three optional units, offers insightful principles from God's Word to help you in your personal journey to recovery. The facilitator's guide provides administrative guidance and suggested activities for support-group study.

Download or read book Coming to Terms with the Nation written by Thomas Mullaney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies China's "Ethnic classification project" (minzu shibie) of 1954, conducted in Yunnan province.