Malleable Māra Dr Marcelo HatanakaAnalyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Mra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities. 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title This is the first book to examine the development of the figure of Mra, who appears across Buddhist traditions as a personification of death and desire. Portrayed as a combination of god and demon, Mra serves as a key
the transformations and continuities of the late Sasanid state and with authority and armies in the early Muslim state
Malady and Genius examines the recurring theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries
this book complicates social views of literacy with depictions of a solitude held in dynamic relation to a not-only-human community
Studies of apprenticeship in both craft occupations and supernatural specializations in Africa
each specializing in a distinct complex of economic enterprises
Ellis Amdur's writing on martial arts is ground-breaking
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Southern China and Southern Japan in the north to Northern Australia in the south and the islands in the western Pacific Ocean
methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies – the sociologies of science
the king marries the widow
Seoul Searching provides an original contribution to film studies and expands the developing area of Korean studies
It begins by reviewing research on how agricultural traffic affects soil compaction as well as ways of measuring soil compaction and its effects
