This new edition of this Azby Brown architecural classic contains a new preface by Brown, fully revised chapters, along 25% new photography and in color for the first time.An extraordinary and ambitious work of architectural reconstruction is underway in twenty-first century Nara. The Genius of...

1.Origin of the Aryans -- 2.Ancient History of the Indians, Russians, and Japanese -- 3.Ethics of the Aryans and Modern Sages of India -- 4.Ethics of Kautilya -- 5.Relationship between Ancient Greece and ancient India, and Christianity -- 6.Ethics of Buddhism -- 7.Ethics of Japanese Buddhism,...

This book, the first of two volumes, examines ancient civilizations to explore the ethical foundations of modern economic systems. The origin of ethical values is analyzed from a historical context and, through investigating the spread of the Aryan civilization from India into the rest of the...

1. History of study and points of controversy -- 2. The rise and decline of the Omiwa clan -- 3. The constitution of the Omiwa clan -- 4. The dispersal of the Omiwa clan -- 5. Characterizations of the Oimiwa god -- 6. The transition of religious services at Mt. Miwa -- 7. The legend of religious...

The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient...