Описание: This book showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities, featuring case studies from Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sino-Indian borderlands.
Автор: Panigrahi Название: The Himalayas and India-China Relations ISBN: 1138191175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138191174 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book analyses China`s rise to power. With the Himalayas as a common entity between India and China, the book delineates differing world views of the two nations` strategic culture, defence mechanisms and architecture.
Описание: Diana Lange's patient investigations have, in this wonderful piece of detective work, solved the mysteries of six extraordinary panoramic maps of routes across Tibet and the Himalayas, clearly hand-drawn in the late 1850s by a local artist, known as the British Library's Wise Collection. Diana Lange now reveals not only the previously unknown identity of the Scottish colonial official who commissioned the maps from a Tibetan Buddhist lama, but also the story of how the Wise Collection came to be in the British Library. The result is both a spectacular illustrated ethnographic atlas and a unique compendium of knowledge concerning the mid-19th century Tibetan world, as well as a remarkable account of an academic journey of discovery. It will entertain and inform anyone with an interest in this fascinating region.This large format book is lavishly illustrated in colour and includes four separate large foldout maps.
Автор: Chopra V. L., Vats S. K. Название: Medicinal & Nutraceutical Plants from The Himalayas ISBN: 9387973751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789387973756 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31225.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In recent years, the cultivation of medicinal plants has gained momentum due to the growing interest in herbal medicines. As a result, there is a need for authoritative information on the cultivation and utilization of these valuable plants. The book Medicinal Plants provides comprehensive information on the current status of medicinal plants, including their phytochemistry, quality control, and good agricultural and manufacturing practices. The book also covers commercially grown medicinal plants, as well as those important in trade. In addition, the book includes information on botany, crop improvement, crop protection, crop production, post-harvest handling, chemical composition, chemical analyses, and uses of commercially grown crops. The systematic compilation of available information on 65 promising medicinal species in this book provides specific information on cultivation and utilization to farmers, academicians, students, and related industries. This documented information also highlights major research gaps and suggests appropriate research strategies for these crops.
Описание: 1 Introduction.- 2 Buddhist Ties in the Himalaya Region: Interactions, Impacts, and PolicyRecommendations.- 3 Sino-Indian Security Dilemma in the Himalayan Region and ItsMitigation Methods.- 4 China-South Asia Relations: Indian Perspectives.- 5 China's Growing Engagement in South Asia: Indian Perspectives.- 6 US and Japan's Engagement with South Asia-Chinese Perspectives.- 7 CPEC: A Gateway to Regional Connectivity.- 8 Sri Lanka amid Sino-Indian Himalayan Rivalry.- 9 Bangladesh's Quest for Development and Sino-Indian Contestation.- 10 Nepal Amid Sino-Indian Contestation.- 11 Budding Indo-Myanmar Relations: What It Means to China?.
Описание: Nepal is known for two things: Mount Everest and the legend of the Yeti. This book will not explore latter. Rather, it will focus on the geography of Nepal. The use of images and the cunning placement of texts will make it seem like you`re experiencing the Nepalese traditions and culture first-hand. Enjoy the wild ride to the mountains of
Описание: A ""Kriya Yogi's Kundalini Awakening in the Himalayas"" offers readers a deep trek not only to the Himalayas but to an extraordinary woman's spiritual awakening. Her initial aspiration to learn mountaineering had turned into a spiritual quest to attain enlightenment. She began reading books on quantum physics and metaphysics, and found no answers, before eventually stumbling upon Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), where she learned that the path of Kriya Yoga had been given to humanity to realize our immortality through self-realization and the evolution of consciousness and got initiated into this science by Baba Paramahamsa Hariharananda Giri, a direct disciple of Sri Yukteshwar and a peer to Yogananda. She experienced her final Awakening. where she became ONE with the Universe at the cave of Mahavatar Babaji that Yogananda cites in his book. She took the treacherous Siddhartha Road to Awakening that spanned over 25 years of her various spiritual practices
Автор: B?r?nice Guyot-R?chard Название: Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962 ISBN: 1316627241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316627242 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides both a fresh examination of Indian state-making and nation-building through the experience of the eastern Himalayas and an exploration of competition between China and India in the region from 1910 to the outbreak of open conflict in the Sino-Indian War of 1962 - a tension which still informs Sino-Indian relations today.
Автор: Bailey Название: Languages of the Northern Himalayas ISBN: 1108063772 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108063777 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This pioneering work on the dialects of the northern Himalayas by Thomas Grahame Bailey (1872-1942) was initially printed in individual parts in India between 1902 and 1906, then collected and published by the Royal Asiatic Society in London in 1908. It includes valuable notes on grammar, vocabulary and philology.
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