Zen Buddhism and Hasidism: A Comparative Study

In this work Jacob Yuroh Teshima juxtaposes two religions whose origins are completely different: Zen Buddhism and Hasidic Judaism. The purpose of this comparative study is not to determine which religion is superior, but rather to compare their functional equivalents. After presenting backgrounds of the two religions, Dr. Teshima examines the Zen Buddhist practice of zazen and Hasidism's devequth, or meditation on God. He then discusses how each religion comes to terms with the major obstacle in the practice of comtemplation: distracting thoughts. Teshima compares conceptions of man offered by the two religions, making clear their fundamental differences concerning the nature of selfhood and source of fulfillment. The study concludes with an examination of how the two religions come to terms with the insecurity of life and what it is that gives life meaning and significance.Contents: Introduction to Zen Buddhism and Hasidism; Zazen and Devequth; The Problem of "Strange Thoughts"; Annihilating Selfhood and Attaining Ecstasy; The Concept of Man; Insecurity of Life: The Hasidic Approach to Exile and the Zen Approach to Birth and Death.

Politics & Social Sciences

Teshima, Jacob

Sociology

The Canadian Health Care System: Lessons for the United States

In response to the need for an objective and value-free document, this volume was completed following a conference on the Canadian health care system, held April 2, 1993, on the campus of the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center in Fort Worth. The purpose of the conference was to examine the Canadian health care system to determine if there were lessons that the U.S. could learn from the Canadian experience as the United States began to undertake its first serious attempt at health care reform since 1965. The conference participants included a diverse group of health care professionals, health care policy-makers and behavioral and social scientists from the U.S. and Canada.

Brown Eve, Susan

Havens, Betty J.

Ingman, Stanley R.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

From a time shortly after the revolutionary war, paper was manufactured in the nation's capital until 1950. In this book the history and associated drama of that industry come to life with the background of events that shaped our magnificent capital. Over 70 photographs and prints, many rare and unpublished, bring excitement to the story told in this book. For the student of paper technology who becomes lost in the maze of arcane nomenclature, chemistry, and plumbing here is a framework with which to make the interesting complexities of paper manufacturing more understandable.

Paper Mills and a Nation's Capital

Business & Money

Harrigan, Robert E.

Economics

This volume is a supplement to the editor's earlier A Documentary Survey of Napoleonic France (UPA, 1994) and contains 25 additional letters, laws, decrees, treaties, and miscellaneous policy statements illustrative of administrative and governing norms and methods in the Napoleonic dictatorship. Inspired by John Hall Stewart's A Documentary Survey of the French Revolution, this book will appeal to English-speaking undergraduate and graduate students of Napoleonic France, professors with specialties or interests in that area, and general Napoleonic "buffs."

A Documentary Survey of Napoleonic France: A Supplement (Studies in Romance Languages; 39)

History

Arnold, Eric A.

Europe

The Burden of Victory: France, Britain and the Enforcement of the Versailles 1919-1925

In The Burden of Victory, author Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt discusses French-British relations in the period following the First World War. He looks at how the fear of German power fostered an Anglo-French cooperation that lasted until the end of World War I. With this background, discussions focus on the post-war domestic pressures and tensions that affected the Anglo-French association and contributed to its decline. The Burden of Victory is an incomparable one-volume treatment of such a topic, a topic that has particular relevance in the light of recent Anglo-French concern about Germany's role in Europe after its reunification.Contents: Illustrations; Preface; Prologue: The Formation of an Alliance; Versailles, 28 June 1991; Security is Everything; Reducing the Causes of Exasperation; The Grand Design; Somebody Has to Pay; To Get Some Coal; The End of Passive Resistance; Getting the French to Leave; The Berlin Initiative; The Moderator; The Meeting at Lake Magyar; A Marriage of Convenience; The Locarno Spirit; Epilogue: Tea Time; Appendices; Biobliography; Index.

Kleine-Ahlbrandt, Wm. Laird

This original and thought-provoking volume examines organic life as subjective activity. It shows that organic life operates differently from objective thought and truth. The volume considers topics such as: the origin of life, the absorption of food, the operation of heredity, and the possible control of further evolutionary development. Contents:; Preface: Activity in Perspective; Acknowledgement; Activity as a Presupposition; Limitations of Objective Thought for Organic Control; The Greek Development of Objective Knowledge: Parmenides and Plato; Aristotle's Natural Entities and Their Limitations; Dualism and the Development of Subjective Thought; Berkeley and Knowing Other Subjects; Knowing Organisms as Subject; A Plan for Examining Organisms as Active Agents; The Origin of Life from the Inorganic; Organisms and their Food; Heredity; The Mode of Evolutionary Change; The Control of Evolution; Conclusion; Index.

A Subjective Theory of Organism

Diefenbeck, James A.

Philosophy

Much has been written about the 'Taiwan miracle'―referring to the extremely successful, widely praised and often emulated economic development of the Republic of China. Less has been written about Taiwan's political development, which in the past dozen or so years has been even more dramatic in many ways. In just three to four decades, the Republic of China's polity has been transformed from an authoritarian, closed system to a democracy. It did this without a contributing colonial experience and while living under the threat of invasion. This book assesses Taiwan's political modernization during a period when political change in Taiwan was remarkable both for its pace and for its impact on Taiwan's polity. During this time Taiwan became a paradigm for success in political modernization. Internal political reform was the most salient part of the modernization process. Elections likewise played an essential role. Finally, an effective foreign policy facilitated the process and vice versa. Students of the process of political development can and should learn much from Taiwan's experiences.

The Taiwan Political Miracle: Essays on Political Development, Elections and Foreign Relations

Copper, John Franklin

Social Sciences

Restoring Vision: An Ethical Perspective on Doctors Curing Blindness Around the World

This book explores what motivates eye doctors to heal among the world's poor, and why this kind of service strikes us so deeply. It combines the topics of medicine, public health, and medical ethics across cultures, including Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, India, China, Pakistan, and the United States. The first chapter, "Charity, an extended definition" is a discussion of contemporary and traditional notions of charity in the religious and cultural settings where the doctors are serving. "Caring and curing: The physician in the community" explores how medicine has traditionally served a community and the problems Western, particularly American doctors perceive in maintaining that tradition. "The eye" is a tribute to the marvel and complexity of the eye, including its physiological, clinical, and metaphorical aspects. The "Exempla" section is the bulk of the book, containing personal stories of ophthalmologists in eight countries who are treating the poor, medical data on each country, descriptions of the physical and cultural settings that color their work, and the author's own reactions. There is a wide range of physicians here―missionaries, those in private practice including some from privileged backgrounds, survivors of the Cultural Revolution in China, a distinguished Hindu family in India. This book offers excellent reading for a variety of medical school classes, public health programs, courses in international medicine and courses in medical ethics. Restoring Vision will also appeal to physicians in private practice and trainees for foreign service.

Zasloff, Tela

Diseases & Physical Ailments

U.S. and Japanese Nonproliferation Export Controls: Theory, Description and Analysis

The editors of this book have gathered writings from various contributors who discuss American and Japanese views of nonproliferation export controls. Readers will see the U.S.'s perspective and the Japanese perspective on controlling the export of dual-use items for military security reasons and trading these items for economic benefits. The book provides an analysis of issues ranging from technology control to democratization to the different interests and preferences of policy-makers. It also examines the possibility of a multilateral export control arrangement through the cooperation of Japan and the U.S. This examination includes identifying policy implication, opportunities, risks and constraints that influence and create an agenda for future nonproliferation export control research between Japan and the U.S. This book will enlighten readers to the potential of a balanced and durable global partnership. The book will make a significant contribution to the on-going discussion on the development of export controls in the post-Cold War era. It will appeal to students and teachers of foreign policy, international relations, comparative foreign policy, comparative political economy and Japanese area studies. It will also interest the policy-making community.

Cupitt, Richard T.

Bertsch, Gary K.

Yamamoto, Takehiko

International

This volume contains some of Louis Halle's most memorable historical and political essays. Contents: On Push-Button War; The Berlin Wall; Mr. Spaak and the Doctrine of Collective Guilt; On a Certain Impatience with Latin America; The Davies Case; Goodness is Not Enough; The Making of Foreign Policy in a Democracy; The Evolution of World Politics; On Understanding Politics; Argentina and the Formulation of American Foreign Policy; Explaining Vietnam; Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process: The American Experience; The Concept of Sovereign Equality; R. W. Livingstone and the Nature of History; Herbert Butterfield: The Historian as Philosopher; De Gaulle and the Politics of Bismarck; The Conceptual Roots of War and Genocide; Lessons of the Nuclear Age; A Hopeful Future for Humankind; The World of George Kennan; The Identification of the Enemy; Does War Have a Future?

The Elements of World Order: Essays on International Politics (Miller Center Series on a New World Order, 5)

Halle, Louis J.

Politics & Government

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