Begins with a study of core Shinto rituals as revealed in ancient texts, which embody the deepest and oldest traditions of Shinto belief in divinity, national destiny and, above... Læs mere
Traces the history of herbs far back into antiquity and shows that the gods themselves were believed to be the original healers, not only by revealing the knowledge of... Læs mere
Few Westerners have succeeded in identifying themselves so completely with Arabian life as the author of this volume, which was first published in 1928. He went to Arabia for no political, humanitarian, or reasonable purpose but purely for the joy of it.
This book traces the root causes of the Sudanese conflict: the remnants of slave culture and the rift between North and South, exacerbated by a conflict of... Læs mere
Investigates changes in the Japanese ethnonational identity, as an outcome of the interplay among different processes in the transnational cultural flow, through a case study of the kikokushijo or 'returnees', children of expatriate parents who grew up abroad.
States that the many changes to the population, resource base and the management of the Badia's natural resources are the subject of the Jordan Badia Research and... Læs mere
A biography of Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, this work shows many of the family traditions and deeply-held principles that form the unwritten foundation of Saudi Arabia and its... Læs mere