This entertaining account gives an insider's view of some of the persons and events in the Chinese art market during the past two decades.

The Emperor's Jade Suit

Sam Bernstein

Orchid Press

A grand photographic essay on one of the most picturesque, and least known, countries of Southeast Asia.

Visions of Myanmar

Travel

Asia

Why can so many women form wonderfully close connections with each other while some intentionally hurt other women? Why are girls so mean to other girls? What motivates them to betray, backstab, trash-talk, and humiliate one another? Why does this same hurtful behavior continue between women well into adulthood? What can women do to have closer and more authentic connections with one another? Mean Girls, Meaner Women, written by Dr. Erika Holiday and Dr. Joan I. Rosenberg, two well-known psychologists long involved in women's issues, provide answers about this baffling behavior. They take a look at hurtful behavior between women from the perspective of both the target and the victim. The authors use groundbreaking brain research to explain why being the target of a woman's hurtful behavior and being socially excluded can be so excruciatingly painful to women. Holiday and Rosenberg offer compelling information for understanding the hidden dynamics (psychological, biological, social and media influences) that lead women to hurt or oppress women and that comprimise authentic female relationships. Mean Girls, Meaner Women is a riveting read for females interested in understanding women's relationships, building closer and more collaborative bonds with each other, and living authentically. Questions designed to help girls and women increase self awareness and add strength and depth to their relationships with each other are found throughout the book. Readers will also discover: how the female brain is wired to be more relatinal and suffer more hurt; the emotional cost of countless "no-win" situations including the "Original Sin of Being Female", the "Paradox of the Healthy Adult", and "Beauty and the Bind"; the role angry and competitive feelings between women has on authentic and deep connections; how being "different" could make you the target of hurtful behavior; how the media supports and reinforces hostile behavior through the "Money Shot"; behavior that catches the attention of the "Gender Police"; what women can learn from men about communicating with each other; and critical steps for healing and creating closer connections with women.

Mean Girls, Meaner Women: Understanding Why Women Backstab, Betray, and Trash-Talk Each Other and How to Heal

Holiday, Dr. Erika

Rosenberg, Dr. Joan

Parenting & Relationships

A definitive survey of the rich legacy of some 360 Buddhist architectural structures and remains in and around the Kathmandu Valley, including both the urban centers of Kathmandu, Patan and Baktapur, as well as surrounding villages. The study examines, for each site, its history, extant sacred images, details of tora&#7751;a, caitya and other architectural features, as well as the overall ma&#7751;&#7693;ala represented in the monastery structure. The author also records a myriad of ethnographic details of Nepalese monastic life, such as daily and annual rituals, initiations, lineage deities, monastic governing structure and economics. First published in 1985 in a local Nepalese imprint, this newly edited volume, including some additional illustrations, benefits from modern scanning technology, revealing for the first time the high quality of the historic photographs.

Buddhist Monasteries of Nepal: A Survey of the Bāhās and Bahīs of the Kathmandu Valley

Arts & Photography

Locke, John K

History & Criticism

Originally published in a four-volume edition now virtually unobtainable, this work, by one of the foremost Asian scholars of the last century, re mains the most comprehensive treatise on Chinese Buddhist sculpture in any western language. In this monumental study, Siren commences with a comprehensive introduction and survey of the genre

Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to Fourteenth

Sirén, Osvald

This important, profusely-illustrated monograph by the eminent Sinologist, Alfred Salmony, traces the migration and evolution of animal style art, from its Scythian origins in the steppes region of the ancient Near East through the shamanistic, nom adic tribes of Siberia to feudal China. Salmony illustrates and describes some 300 bronze objects

Sino-Siberian Art in the collection of C.T. Loo

SALMONY, Alfred

In the present volume, first published in 1948 and long out of print, Andrews records and provides insightful analysis of the range of Buddhist wall paintings recovered by Stein at various sites, on the perimeter of the Taklamakan Desert (now in Xinjiang, China), which had served as waystations along the southern and nothern branches of the

Wall Paintings from Ancient Shrines in Central Asia: Collected by Aurel Stein and kept in the Delhi Ar

Andrews, F. H.

A new edition of Tucci's seminal work on Tibetan Buddhist painting, first published in 1949, origin al copies of which have long been unobtainable. Based on his prodigious linguistic skills and pion eering...

Tibetan Painted Scrolls

Tucci, Giuseppe

A important technical study and reference work on the textiles found during Sven Hedin's 1934 exped ition into Chinese Turkistan (now Xinjiang Provinc e, China). The materials were found at Lou-Lan, in the southwestern quadrant of the Taklamakan Desert, on the southern silk road route - the dat ing of the Lou-Lan site is still a matter of deb

Woolen Textiles From Lou-Lan: Reports from the Scientific Expedition to the North

Sylwan, Vivi

The Excavations of Hadda (Memiors of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan)

Barthoux, Jules J.

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