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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. The extent to which this deadly network of sinister crimes is tightening its hold on the power resources of the world is frightening and a glance through the pages of this book will be an eye opener to those readers who are as yet unaware or only partially aware of the emerging nexus between international terrorism drugs and crime. What happens behind the scenes in the arena of the international games of power is a story which is both awe inspiring and gripping. How the innocuous looking white powder is grown processed smuggled and the money laundered How the deals are made What are the major acts of international terrorism accomplished till date Who are responsible These are some of the questions attempted to be answered through this well researched and exciting book. 246 pp.…

HARDCOVER. Etat : very good in worn dustwrapper. Etat de la jaquette : good. Reprint. 257pp octavo cloth.

Hardbound. Etat : As New. New. Contents 1. Prehuman elements in religion. 2. Brain in animal and man. 3. Man in the making. 4. Animal and human psychology. 5. Naturalism or Conception of power everywhere. 6. Animism or Conception of spirit everywhere. 7. Theories of the nature of spirit. 8. Spirits in inanimate things. 9. Fear a constant element in animism. 10. Absence of sequence in the objects of worship. 11. Absentee Gods. 12. Maleficent spirits. 13. Evolution of idea of benevolent Gods Earth mother. 14. Tree and animal worship. 15. Stone worship. 16. Water worship. 17. Deification and worship of ancestors. Bibliography. 100 pp.…

Hardbound. Etat : As New. Reprint. Contents 1. Saivism. 2. The Saiva philosophy in the Puranas. 3. Saiva philosophy in some of the important texts. 4. Literature of Southern Saivism. 5. Literature of Saivism. 6. Saivism. 7. The Saiva Acharyas. 8. Vira Saivism. Shaivas are devotees of the Hindu God Shiva. While Shaivism contains within it a number of traditions and theologies Shaivas will regard Shiva as the transcendent Lord who creates the cosmos maintains it and destroys it over and over again. He also conceals himself through his magical power (maya) and reveals himself through grace. Most Shaivas believe in the standard Hindu doctrine that the soul travels through many lifetimes in the cycle of reincarnation (Samsara) and that the kind of rebirth the soul experiences is determined by its action (karma). The ultimate goal of life is salvation or liberation (Moksha) from the cycle of reincarnation attained by a degree of effort but ultimately through Shiva's grace. The worship of Shiva is very ancient in India. Hymns to Rudra a name of Shiva are found in the Veda the earliest Hindu scriptures regarded as revelation (c. 1500 BCE) though worship of Shiva may have its origins in the Indus Valley civilisation (c. 2000 BCE). This is concise manual to initiate the reader before taking up the more sophisticated texts related to Saivism. 260 pp.…

Hardbound. Etat : As New. New. Contents General groundwork 1. Sphere of logical science. 2. The primary laws of thought. I. The doctrine of concepts 3. Intuitional and conceptual knowledge the formation of concepts. 4. The marks of concepts. 5. The quantity of concepts. 6. The relation of concepts. 7. The quality of concepts. 8. The definition and division of concepts. 9. General theory of sciences considered as knowledge by concepts historical realism nominalism conceptualism. II. The Doctrine of judgments 10. Definition and analysis of the judgment. 11. The categories and the predicables. 12. Quantity quality relation and modality of judgments. 13. The quantification of the predicate. 14. Logical analysis of propositions. III. The doctrine of immediate inference 15. Opposition. 16. Conversion. 17. Infinitation. IV. The doctrine of mediate inference or syllogism 18. The syllogism Its nature analysis and laws. 19. Figure and mood of the syllogism reduction. 20. The conditional syllogism. abbreviated and complex syllogisms. 21. Fallacies. 22. Thomsonian and Hamiltonian systems. 23. The Boole Jevons logic. V. Induction and method 24. Induction. 25. Method. Exercises i. On the concept. ii. On the judgment. iii. On immediate inference. iv. On the syllogism. This treatise presents an orderly accurate and intelligible presentation of the science. The handbook includes carefully selected illustrative examples wherever necessary together with the practical problems proposed to the students for solution. This treatise probably presents a more complete account of recent logical investigations and advances than any other one book which is quite apparent from the success the book has achieved since its publication. This is now the fourth edition of the book apart from several printings in several countries. It is thought that decided advantages will be discovered in the arrangement of the matter by those who have occasion to carefully analyse the contents in the class room. 320 pp. …

Hardbound. Etat : As New. New. Cosmo Dictionary of Mass Communications presents an encyclopaedic source of all the essential terms and concepts currently used in the press print radio and TV broadcasting films advertising and contemporary mass communications research. Includes definitions for such terms as billboard closed circuit equal time motivational research ratings subliminal advertising videotapes and many hundreds more in alphabetically ordered entries ranging from a few words to signed articles by specialists on the subjects of greater importance. One complete section deals with the functions and implications of current study and research into Mass Communications phenomena. 378 pp.…

Hardcover. Etat : New. 1st Edition. In this little treatise an attempt has been made to give an account of the life and teachings of Mahavira, the last Tirthankara of the Jains, from the original Buddhist and Jain texts. A comparative study of both the texts helps greatly in elucidating some knotty points of his life and doctrine. We think that it will be found useful by all persons interested in the study of Jainism. (jacket).…

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Contents Note Introduction Translation I 1 The division of the Moslem Community II 1 Explanation of the idea 2 The division into sects III 1 The sects of the Rawafid 2 The sects of the Kharijiyah 3 The doctrines of the erring sects among the Mutazilite Kadariyah Bibliography IndexThe book starts with a chapter in explanation of the tradition transmitted to us concerning the division of the Moslem community into 73 sects This part treats of the manner in which this community has been divided into 73 It also contains an explanation of the sects which are collected under the general name of the Millat al-Islam There are two chapters in this part one deals with the explanation of the idea underlying the different sects included under the general name of Millat al-Islam; the second concerns the explanation of how the community has become divided and the enumeration of its 73 sects A chapter dealing with the shame that attaches to each one of the sects belonging to the erring heresies An explanation of the various opinions of the heretical sects and a detailed explanation of the heresies of each sect This chapter contains eight sections of which the following are the titles The sects of the Rafidah The sects of the Khawarij The sects of the Mutazilah and the Kadariyah The sects of the Dirariyah Bakrlyah and Jahmiyah The sect of the Karamiyah The opinions of the anthropomorphist found among the numerous sects A chapter on the sects that are akin to Islam but do not belong to it A chapter on the saving sect the confirmation of its sacredness and a statement concerning the beauty of its faith 224 pp.…

This book was written by Sir Thomas Aronol who lived and worked a professor of philosophy in Lahore India now Pakistan He was widely traveled in the Muslim world This book now roughly 100 years old is still relevant today perhaps more so now than everHe states his case that Islam was not spread by the sword as is so stereotypically thought by many; but through preaching and daily commerce While there has been military conquest by Islamic nations the actual conversions to the Islamic faith were not done by the sword This is a tough concept to grasp Considering that Islam is considered an entire way of life the military conquests are not outside of the realm of IslamThe division between religion and politics leads to the schizophrenia we see today in many a Western nation?s bumbling other countries most recently America in Iraq For the sake of analogy let us ask that if the citizens of Iraq were for example to convert to Christianity could we say that they were converted by the sword Or did the conversions come once the military maneuvering was done If a host of missionaries ride in one the coattails of the military would history lead us to believe that conversions were done by the sword Arnold makes his case that it was not the sword that led to the majority of conversions to Islam It was the strength of the faith of the ordinary individuals who lived it The book is not light reading and is very dense but it is interesting and it is definitely worth reading to get some balance on how the spread of Islam is viewed He is not naively glowing in his approach but is very balanced in his report Vital for those who really want to understand truth on their own terms 468 pp.…

Contents Preface Bibliography Biographical sketch 1 Sources of Hume?s sceptical philosophy 2 Brief exposition of Hume?s philosophy 3 Hume?s influence upon subsequent philosophic thought 4 The philosophy of Hume II Of ideas their origin composition connection abstraction etc Of the ideas of space and time The present sketch of the life philosophy and influence of Hume is based on well nigh a lifetime?s familiarity with the works of that author Orr?s introduction to Hume the person and his philosophy and his position among great contemporaries is straight forward compact and precise making the book an ideal launching pad to further and more complex studies to the complexities of the thought and writings of this giant among modern philosophers 170 pp.…

Contents Introduction 1 The Meccan Period 2 The Madina Period IndexFrom the Introduction This work does not profess to be a life of Muhammad It is a history of the development of the Quran showing how its gradual formation was determined by the events of the Prophet?s life Treated in this way the Quran reveals his change of position towards the various classes of persons with whom he was brought into contact and by the aptness of its injunctions its apologies its denunciations we are enabled to see how admirably this piecemeal revelation was fitted to meet the requirements of Islam as they arose 248 pp.…

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Hardcover. Etat : As New. "Little further advance can be made in the interpretation of the Qur'an or of the life of Muhammad, until an exhaustive study has been made of the vocabulary of the Qur'an. The Qur'an is the first Arabic book, for through there was earlier poetry, it was not written down till much later. For the interpretation of this first Arabic book, we have been content until recently to turn to the classical commentaries, but the tendency of the commentators is to interpret the book in the light of the Arabic language of their own day, and with few exceptions their philological lucubrations are of more interest for the study of the development of Muslim thought about the Qur'an, than they are for settling the meaning the words must have had for the prophet and for those who listened to his utterances. This present essay attempts to make a contribution to the subject by studying a number of the non-Arabic elements in the Qur'anic vocabulary. Emphasis has been placed in recent years on the too long forgotten fact that Arabia at the time of Muhammad was not isolated from the rest of the world. There was at that time full and constant contact with the surrounding peoples of Syria, Persia and Abyssinia and through intercourse there was a natural interchange of vocabulary. The book's essential focus is to place in the hands of students a list of these foreign words which are recognized as such by our modern scholarship, with an indication of their probable origin and of the sources to which the student may turn for fuller discussion." (jacket).…

Contents Introduction Selected bibliography I Sartre?s existentialist philosophy 1 Existence or being 2 Existence as being in world 3 The revelation of existence contingency absurdity anxiety 4 First critical intermezzo 5 How to overcome Nausea 6 Existence and essence 7 Being and nothingness 8 Freedom and anxiety choice and project 9 Freedom and values Sartre and Nietzsche 10 Second critical intermezzo 11 Literature and freedom 12 Existentialism and resistance 13 Our Being for Others and their Gaze II Sartre?s existentialist psychoanalysis 14 Choice and complex 15 How about Adler?s lifeplan 16 Existentialism is a personalism 17 The unconscious and bad faith 18 How free is our project 19 Sex and love in existentialist psychoanalysis 20 The philosophy and psychology of death 21 Man?s fundamental project to become God 22 The psychoanalysis of qualities and foods viscosity and Nausea 23 Existentialist psychoanalysis and ethics 24 Existentialism and psychiatry 25 Final critical consideration and conclusionThis book based on the exceptionally wide reading of a scholar equally at home in several modern European languages is the first to present the comparatively little known theories of existentialist psychoanalysis with the same thoroughness as the existentialist philosophy to which they are organically relatedIn the first part of the book the author critically examines all the basic concepts of Sartre?s philosophy endeavouring to show to which extent these concepts are Sartre?s own original creations formulated under the special conditions of the German occupation of France during World War II and to what extent they are developments of earlier trends in Western thought extending from Parmenides and Plato to Nietzsche Ibsen and Sartre?s more immediate progenitors Kierkegaard and HeideggerIn the second part Dr Stern analyzes the new type of psychoanalysis that has grown out of Sartre?s philosophy of value and explains the relationship of existentialist psychoanalysis to the doctrines of Freud Adler and others 282 pp.…

Contents 1 The beginnings of Indian colonization in Cambodia 2 The kingdom of Fu-Nan 3 The rise of Kambujadesa 4 The consolidation of the Kambuja Kingdom 5 The rise of Angkor 6 The Kambuja Empire List of inscriptions IndexFrom the Preface As inscriptions have been frequently referred to in the course of these lectures the author have added at the end a list of old Kambuja inscriptions arranged chronologically as far as possible The serial number is quoted in the text against each inscription to enable the reader to find out the necessary details by a reference to the list In some cases a short summary is given of the contents of the inscription in order to draw the attention of the reader either to its general importance or to certain special features to which it has not been possible to refer in the body of these lectures The list is not of course exhaustive the total number of Kambuja inscriptions so far discovered amounting to nearly 900 An it is needless to add that most of the inscriptions contain a great deal more than it has been possible to indicate in the short summaries of contents 166 pp.…

In presenting to the public this volume the execution of which in conformity with the comprehensive plan developed in this volume has been deemed by many impracticable the author cannot fail to be influenced by sentiments of a mingled character -- by a feeling of diffidence when he reflects on his unfitness for a task that may perchance be rightly deemed gigantic -- by a partial satisfaction accompanied by hope when he considers that he may have to some extent succeeded in an object which others of far greater ability but perhaps less patience have successively abandoned in that he should be the instrument however humble of describing the components of an empire that considered in any point of view is as unrivalled for its grandeur and fame as for the spirit of wisdom and justice by which its affairs are administered 410 pp.…

Hardbound. Etat : As New. New. From the Introduction This book The Divine Wisdom of the Dravida Saints is really a series of discourses on the Highest Mystery viz. Wisdom matured into Love of God. This in other words is no other than the fullest blooming of the lotus heart of man thirsting for spiritual communion with God. This again in other words means the infinite expansion or development of the consciousness of man so as to fully realise what it is for man to infinitely love his God and what it is for God to infinitely love His own creature or Divine love Filial and parental. This book treats of both these kinds of love. The present book may be taken as an interesting Prelude to the Bhagavad Vishayam from which in the shape of topics it is drawn and arranged. The plan followed is a division of the book into a number of short topics each complete and independent in itself and illustrated by conversations and anecdotes thus for the first time giving to the Western world an idea of this Eastern method of inculcating spiritual instruction. Another novel feature of this book consists in its having copious footnotes which are mostly correspondence selected from out of a wide range of works of Western Divines so as to show how religious ideas are found to have unity and universality how it may be seen that one raceless and countryless God indeed rules over all races and all countries and how the Highest Mystery of religion consists in the fervid over mastering intensity of rapt love to God which is the highest wisdom the highest mysticism and occultism leading to liberation and beatitude or communion with God. 216 pp.…

Hardbound. Etat : As New. Reprint. Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Youth and marriage. 3. Forest for throne. 4. Brotherly love. 5. The carrying off of Sita. 6. Sita's faith. 7. Struggle. 8. Triumph. The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are two books that stand out from the rest of Indian literature in a very marked way. The Vedas the Institutes of Manu are the great authorities for the learned and only through the learned for the mass of the people. But the Mahabharata and the Ramayana are wrought into the very life of every Indian man woman and child. Despite the influence wielded by these two books however their moulding power on life is not so great as once it was. If we could bring back their influence on character we should indeed life our Indian upwards. They hold up to us ideals of conduct virtues acted out on life's stage as practical examples for old and young alike for husbands and wives parents and children brothers and sister friends and enemies. As we study character after character the lessons each is meant to teach and their value to us in modern India. 188 pp.…

Hardbound. Etat : As New. New. From the Preface Froebel's opinions character and work grow so directly out of his life that we feel the best of his writing that a student of the Kindergarten system could begin with is the important autobiographical Letter to the Duke of Meiningen writt 168 pp.

Hardbound. Etat : As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Life of Friedrich Froebel up to 1816. 2. Froebel's School at Keilhau 1817 1831. 3. The Helba Scheme. 4. The Education of Man. 5. The Education of Man The School and the family. 6. Froebel in Switzerland. 7. Blankenburg. 8. Pedagogics 156 pp.

Hardbound. Etat : As New. Reprint. Contents Preface. 1. The two views. A New Year's meditation. 2. Play of an institution for fostering the impulse to creative activity. 3. Child life. The first action of the child. 4. The ball The first plaything of childhood. 5. The seed corn and the child. A comparison. 6. The play and playing of the child in harmony with his development and with the totality of the relations of his life. 7. The sphere and the cube the second plaything of the child. 8. First review of the play or the means of fostering the child's impulse to employ himself. 9. The third play of the child and a cradle song. 10. The continued development of the child and the self unfolding play with the ball. 11. The fourth play of the child. 12. Second review of plays a fragment. 13. The fifth gift. The cube divided equally twice in each dimension and with obliquely divided component cubes. Evolution of this gift from the preceding gifts and from the nature of the child and his environment. 14. Movement plays. 15. How Lina learned to write and read. 338 pp.…

Contents 1 History of the growth of the Muhammadan Legal system 2 Science of law law and classification of laws 3 Sources of Law 4 Acts Rights and Obligations 5 Legal capacity 6 Ownership 7 Acquisition of ownership 8 Family Law 9 Torts and Crimes 10 Procedure and evidence 11 Constitutional law and administrative law 12 The law regulating relations between Muslims and non-Muslims IndexIn modern times the most significant contribution to the subject has been made by the late sir Abdur Rahim He was one President of the Indian Legislative Assembly Later he went over to Pakistan At the invitation of the University of Calcutta while he was a judge at the High Court of Madras he gave a series of lectures which were subsequently published under the title Principles of Muhammadan Jurisprudent He has made a little innovation in this field He has dealt with the subject as discussed in the old books on the principles of jurisprudence and he has dilated upon the new books on philosophy and law published in recent times in Europe He has tried to compare the two ie the Islamic and the European principles of jurisprudenceSir Abdur Rahim?s Muhammadan Jurisprudence opens a new chapter in our study of the classical books on the subject For we come across a few factors which are not to be found in the old books For example the first question raised in the old books relates to the sources of law The answer would be the Qur?an the Hadith consensus and personal reasoning They would not deal with subjects or categories such as worship worldly matters like criminal law and the law of inheritance constitutional and commercial law etc Our classical books on jurisprudence do not take into account of these categories Sir Abdur Rahim has treated legal subjects in the manner they are treated in modern legal works It is his achievement that has combined the classical and modern learning in his comparative work Jacket 444 pp.…

The Lawaih is a treatise on Sufi theology or theosophy as distinguished from the religious emotions experienced by all Sufis learned and unlearned alike Catholic authorities have drawn this distinction between experimental and doctrinal mysticism and it is a great help towards clear thinking on this subject The religious emotion common to all mankind is so to speak raised to its nth power in the mystics They are overwhelmed by the sense of the Divine omnipresence and of their own dependence on God Hey are dominated and intoxicated by their vivid sense of the close relation subsisting between the soul and God They conceive themselves as being in touch with God feeling His motions in their souls and at times rising to direct vision of Him by the ?inner light? vouchsafed to them These religious experiences were the rough material out of which the doctrinal reasoned system set out in treatises like the Lawaih was built up Psychologists have advanced various theories as to the genesis of these experiences With these we are not at present concerned But as to the origin of the philosophical ideas and terms employed in the Lawaih and similar works to formulate the Sufi theology there can be little doubt The source of Sufi theology was Neoplatonism 126 pp.…

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Contents Introduction 1 The Expression of Human Life in Art 2 The Interpretation of Human Life in Art 3 Primitive Source of Art 4 Defining Forces Behind Art The Artist 5 The Development of the Artist as Revealed in art 6 Defining Forces Behind Art The Epoch 7 Defining Forces Behind Art The Race 8 The Unique Function of each fine Art 9 The Meaning and function of Sculpture 10 The Meaning and function of Painting 11 The Meaning and function of Music 12 Music and the Spirit 13 The Meaning and Function of Poetry The Relation of poetry to Sculpture and Painting 14 The Meaning and Function of Poetry The relation of poetry to Music 15 The Unity of The Arts 16 The Dangers of Art 17 Beauty and the life of appreciation 18 The study of Beauty in nature and art 19 Art of life?s Sake IndexThere are three underlying questions in the study here undertaken first what is Art Second What does Art do to the artist who creates Third What does Art do to the student who appreciates The study deals primarily with the four great ideal types of art sculpture painting music and poetry Architecture so largely conditioned by utility will be considered in comparison as will the composite arts sing opera dramatic portrayal This book is not a review of philosophy and criticism of art but a study of selected masterpieces in each field asking what these do to our senses emotions imagination and intellect This is merely applying to the realm of art the method universally insisted upon in all natural science namely first finding the facts and then seeking to discover what these mean This work offers the condensed result of twenty-five year?s study of works of art in each of the four fieldsThe book is designed to serve as a companion to the study and teaching of the Philosophy of Art Jacket 348 pp.…

Fifth Edition, Revised. Contents 1 Introduction I The Material of Music 2 The Phenomena of sound in general 3 Special characteristics of musical sounds 4 Theoretical nature of the sounds of musical instrumentsTaking the word philosophy in its broadest sense a philosophical study of music must include an investigation of the means by which musical sounds are produced and propagated in other words the science of acoustics which is a branch of physics of the means by which music is heard by the human ear which is a question of anatomy and physiology of the mental impressions produced by music which in the first place is part of the study of experimental psychology and lastly of the principles which have guided musicians in the pursuit of musical composition and musical performance as an artDr Pole?s book was written with the object of instituting a philosophical inquiry into the general structure of music in order to ascertain how far it was based on physical data or how far it had been the result of aesthetic or artistic consideration He arrives at the conclusion that although the fabric of music has its foundations laid in natural phenomena yet its superstructure is almost entirely a work of artDr Pole?s book is therefore occupied to a large extent with purely physical investigations He bases himself on the results obtained by Helmholtz whose object it was to discover a physical and physiological basis for the theory of musicIt is a very remarkable fact that this book which bears the impress of its original date on almost every page should still be readable with pleasure and with profit half a century after it was written What makes it readable literary style and the invariably skeptical and scientific temper of the author?s mindPole sets a valuable example to any one who might set out to write a philosophy of music from the standpoint of the present day Jacket 332 pp.…

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In the year 1905 Ellsworth Huntington undertook a journey Chinese Turkestan from India to Siberia across the Central Asian land mass which was yet unmarked by the footprint of any western traveler. These pages bring to life a description of that historic journey of the culture and way of life of peoples hitherto unknown to the rest of the world. It contains some of the earliest and most interesting ethnographic details of the peoples living across the Sind Kashmir valley Himalayas and the Chinese plateau. With tremendous descriptive skill the author has etched out the minutest details of a bygone civilization bringing out vividly all aspects of life including material culture mythology pre history rituals and social practices of those times. 416 pp.…

Hardbound. Etat : As New. Reprint. Covering essential areas in international money accounting finance investment and banking the Concise Encyclopaedia of Banking is more than a glossary more than a dictionary of terms and definitions it is a working guide that helps the reader quickly pinpoint problems and find solutions. It contains in depth analyses and strategies practical examples illustrations guidelines measures rules graphs diagrams and tables that aid comprehension. Anyone involved in business international business finance and banking will need to have this book in their library for daily reference. An encyclopedic quick reference of international and finance banking information. Covers such topics as money investments financial planning financial economics and banking. Encyclopedic comments on banking and financial practice are accompanied by definitions of complex terms such as poison pills and bills of exchange. 746 pp.…