Traditional Balinese culture;: Essays

Politics & Social Sciences

BELO (Jane) editor

Social Sciences

Columbia U.P.

The Faces of Power

Brown, Seyom

Politics & Government

Designed to help students build a theoretical foundation for their professional practice, this book highlights human and environmental diversity, and discusses the relationships among biological, psychological, social, and cultural systems that shape human behavior.

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: An Ecological View

Carel B. Germain

Martin Bloom

Rise and Fall of Civilization

SHEPARD BANCROFT CLOUGH

Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945, The (Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945)

Simon Gikandi

Literature & Fiction

Howard T. Odum possessed one of the most innovative minds of the twentieth century. He pioneered the fields of ecological engineering, ecological economics, and environmental accounting, working throughout his life to better understand the interrelationships of energy, environment, and society and their importance to the well-being of humanity and the planet.This volume is a major modernization of Odum's classic work on the significance of power and its role in society, bringing his approach and insight to a whole new generation of students and scholars. For this edition Odum refines his original theories and introduces two new measures: emergy and transformity. These concepts can be used to evaluate and compare systems and their transformation and use of resources by accounting for all the energies and materials that flow in and out and expressing them in equivalent ability to do work. Natural energies such as solar radiation and the cycling of water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen are diagrammed in terms of energy and emergy flow. Through this method Odum reveals the similarities between human economic and social systems and the ecosystems of the natural world. In the process, we discover that our survival and prosperity are regulated as much by the laws of energetics as are systems of the physical and chemical world.

Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century: The Hierarchy of Energy

Science & Math

Howard T. Odum

Biological Sciences

The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history. The Tales of the Heike focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-century Japanese clans-the Heike (Taira) and the Genji (Minamoto)-and the women with whom they were intimately connected.The Tales of the Heike provides a dramatic window onto the emerging world of the medieval samurai and recounts in absorbing detail the chaos of the battlefield, the intrigue of the imperial court, and the gradual loss of a courtly tradition. The book is also highly religious and Buddhist in its orientation, taking up such issues as impermanence, karmic retribution, attachment, and renunciation, which dominated the Japanese imagination in the medieval period.In this new, abridged translation, Burton Watson offers a gripping rendering of the work's most memorable episodes. Particular to this translation are the introduction by Haruo Shirane, the woodblock illustrations, a glossary of characters, and an extended bibliography.

Tales of the Heike, The

Classics

Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation

Ato Quayson

History & Criticism

Narrating Evil: A Post-metaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgement (New Directions in Critical Theory: Philosophies of Gender, Race, and Society S.)

Maria Pia Lara

Columbia History of Post-World War II America, The

History

Americas

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