Títulos em Ásia

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The Art of War by Sun Tzu is much more than an ancient treatise on military strategy: it is a timeless guide on how to face challenges, make wise decisions, and win intelligently. This complete edition, translated into modern English and enriched with annotations and analyses, has been designed to make this masterpiece accessible and relevant in today’s world.

Shinto, the indigenous faith of the Japanese people, continues to fascinate and mystify both the casual visitor to Japan and the long-time resident. Relatively unknown among the religions of the world, Shinto: The Kami Way provides an enlightening window into this Japanese faith.

The Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travelers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and the Chinese Admiral, Zheng He. This story complements that of the land routes, showing how humans have been driven across thousands of years to create and maintain networks whatever the difficulties.

FOREWORD BY CHERIE WONG National security expert Dennis Molinaro reveals the shocking details of Beijing’s five-decades-long effort to influence and interfere in Canadian political life. From cultivating future political leaders at the end of the Cultural Revolution to the foreign-interference...

Alliance céleste, 14K, Sun Yee On, Bambou uni... derrière ces noms exotiques se cachent des organisations criminelles tentaculaires. À partir d’une vaste enquête et de rencontres avec des personnages hauts en couleur, Antoine Vitkine raconte l’histoire et les ambitions de la mafia chinoise, devenue la plus puissante au monde.Depuis près de deux siècles, les triades tissent leur toile. Elles ont fait tomber le dernier empereur de Chine, régné sur le Shanghai des années 1920 comme sur les salles de jeu de Macao. Sun Yat-sen, fondateur de la République de Chine, en fut même l’un des " parrains ".

Though it was one of the most advanced civilizations of its time and responsible for the most ancient prehistoric urban sites across the Indian subcontinent, the Indus Valley Civilization was forgotten for millennia, until 20th century archaeologists rediscovered and began excavations at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa.

Yoga as Embodied Resistance illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga. Bridging scholarship, history, and cultural analysis, yoga educator and practitioner Anjali Rao exposes how caste oppression, patriarchy, colonization, and the right-wing Hindutva movement impact contemporary practice and offers listeners radical ways to re-envision a yoga grounded in liberation, inquiry, discernment, and even dissent.

With all the narrative power and intellectual authority that have distinguished his earlier books, V.S. Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the ferment inside the nations of Islam–in a book that combines the fascinations of great travel literature with the insights of a uniquely sharp, original and idiosyncratic political mind.

歴代中国王朝が鋳造した数千億枚に上る銅銭．世界史上極めてユニークなこの小額通貨は，やがて海を越え，日本を含む中世東アジアの政治・経済・社会に大きなインパクトをもたらした．銅銭はなぜ，各国政府の保証なしに商取引の回路を成り立たせてきたのか．

シリーズ累計50万部!アマテラス、スサノオ、日本武尊、神武天皇、中大兄皇子、天武天皇…知れば知るほど凄いぶっ飛びのエピソードを、あの藤原不比等のナビで実況中継!

いくら天才作家だからって、ここまでやっていいものか――?誰もが知る文豪の「やばすぎる素顔」に迫る本。酒も女も、挫折も借金も……全部、「小説のネタ」だった!?

Historia de la India: Un apasionante recorrido por importantes civilizaciones, imperios, acontecimientos, personajes y religiones. Mitología de la India: Un acercamiento fascinante a los mitos, dioses, y diosas de la India

Now, the fruits of Chas Henry's exhaustive four-year, two-continent investigation provide insight into what many have called the United States Marine Corps' worst-ever peacetime disaster. Fuji Fire shares the compelling and intimate stories of heartbreak and inspiration forged by these events while bringing to light new, critical analyses of the incident's causes and effects.

初代・伊藤博文から、新総理大臣・石破茂まで。歴代日本の総理大臣を、似顔絵イラスト付きで、全員わかりやすく解説する。日本人なら知ってて当然、でも意外に知らない総理大臣をやさしく学び直し。近現代史の学習、入試の時事問題対策にもぴったり。

Spanning more than a century of Indian history, and decidedly transnational in reference, this audiobook offers rich resources for considering the threat of climate change today.

A Ásia é Logo Ali é um convite para embarcar em uma viagem cultural pelas principais festividades que iluminam e celebram a diversidade do continente asiático. Conheça de perto o vibrante Festival das Lanternas na China, o intenso Thaipusam na Malásia, o exótico Songkran na Tailândia e outras celebrações que refletem a rica herança cultural, os valores e a espiritualidade de cada país. Repleto de histórias, curiosidades e tradições, este livro é uma porta de entrada para se encantar e mergulhar nas cores, sabores e ritmos da fascinante cultura asiática.

「模擬内閣」の結論は「敗戦必至」。しかし、戦端は開かれた――。収録作の原題は『昭和16年夏の敗戦』（1983年8月世界文化社刊、1986年8月文春文庫、2010年6月中公文庫）。日米開戦の知られざる事実を掘り起こし、「記録する意思」を貫徹した、猪瀬直樹36歳、初期の力作。

Reader's Choice Award Winner. Throughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand how they have endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization, we must understand both their history and their theology. In this volume, key writings from the house church have been compiled, translated, and made accessible to English speakers.

Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India—which includes today’s India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan—and the people who have lived there.