Authors:Catherine Despeux, Livia Kohn,
Publisher: Three Pines Press
Keywords: daoism, women
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1931483019
ISBN-13: 9781931483018

Author: Livia Kohn
Publisher: Three Pines Press
Keywords: philosophy, mystical, daoist
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 193148306X
ISBN-13: 9781931483063

Author: Livia Kohn
Publisher: Three Pines Press
Keywords: culture, chinese, daoism
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1931483000
ISBN-13: 9781931483001

Concise and comprehensive introduction to the Daoist religion, thematically divided into four parts: Ancient Thought, Religious Communities, Spiritual Practices, Modernity. The book offers an integrated vision of the tradition in its historical and cultural context, also placing it into a larger framework of comparative religion. Contains many original sources and useful references for further reading. Great for students, practitioners, and general audiences.

Author: Livia Kohn
Publisher: Three Pines Press
Keywords: contemporary, practices, models, traditional, cultivation, daoist
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 2006-05
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1931483051
ISBN-13: 9781931483056

Presented by a group of dedicated scholars and practitioners, this volume covers the key practices of medical healing, breathing techniques, diets and fasting, healing exercises, sexual practices, Qigong, and Taiji quan.

Authors:Kohn, Livia, Wang, Robin R.,  Livia Koh,
Publisher: Three Pines Pre
Keywords: alchemy, internal
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-01-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1931483116
ISBN-13: 9781931483117

Internal alchemy (neidan) has been the dominant system of Daoist spiritual practice since the Song dynasty, when it was defined as the complex integration of multiple forms of Daoist self-cultivation. Its practitioners transform body energies into subtle levels of spirit and pure cosmic being, hoping to find illumination by returning to the fundamental order of the cosmos and in the process reconcile physiological training with intellectual speculation. Bringing together the best work of leading scholars in the field, this book provides, for the first time in English, a thorough and easily acc

Authors:Patricia L. McCarney, Richard E. Stren,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, wilson, center, press, world, developing, ground, innovations, discontinuities, cities, governance
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801878519
ISBN-13: 9780801878510

Governance on the Ground shows people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment.This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a major 1990s research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientists. The topics these scholars cover include fiscal innovation, in

Authors:Sara Castro-Klarén, John Charles Chasteen,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, america, wilson, center, press, latin, century, reading, communities, writing, nation, nineteenth, imagined
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-12-23
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801878527
ISBN-13: 9780801878527

"Every Latin Americanist will welcome the insight provided by this book into Latin America’s complex heterogeneity."—Mario J. Valdés, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto How did the nationalisms of Latin America’s many countries—elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery—arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native, and African origins? Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, discards one answ