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The greatest invention: a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts

by Silvia Ferrara
Paper Book, 2022
Tags
Alphabets and Decipherment, Hieroglyphics, Cuneiform, China, Easter Island
Collection
Don

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond; an Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory, Volume II

by Isabella L. Bird
Paperback, 2017
Tags
China, Shamanism, Chinese Folk Religion, Travelogues, Sze Chuan, Yangtze
Collection
Don

Atlas of the Ancient World: Exploring Great Civilizations (National Geographic Special - 2016-10-28)

by National Geographic
Magazine (paper), 2016
Tags
History, Atlas, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, India, China, Mesoamerica, Europe
Collection
Don

Atlas of the Ancient World: Exploring Great Civilizations (National Geographic Special - 2016-10-28)

by National Geographic
Magazine (paper), 2016
Tags
Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent, Atlas, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, India, China, Mesoamerica, Europe
Collection
Don

Searching for Guan Yin (Companions for the Journey, 23)

by Sarah E. Truman
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Chinese Religions, China, Asia, Quan Yin
Collection
Gifts

Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas: Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan (Fortress 104)

by Peter Harrison
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Tibet, Himalayas, Tibetan Culture, China, Architecture, Monasteries, Illustrated, Fortress 104
Collection
Don

Atlas of World History: The first civilizations to 500 BCE (series)

by Clare Collinson Editor
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Historical Atlases, History, Atlases, Prehistory, Europe, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, Rome, South Asia — 4 more, China, Peru, Central America, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Gifts

Visible language : inventions of writing in the ancient Middle East and beyond

by Christopher Woods
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Linguistics, Anthropology, Ancient Languages, Scripts, Anthologies, Illustrated, Cuneiform, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, Hieroglyphics — 4 more, Hieratic, Demotic, China, Mesoamerica
Collection
Whealton

Visible Language: Inventions writing in the ancient Middle East and Beyond

by Christopher E. Woods Editor
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Linguistics, Anthropology, Ancient Languages, Scripts, Anthologies, Illustrated, Cuneiform, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, Hieroglyphics — 5 more, Hieratic, Demotic, China, Mesoamerica, In Storage
Collections
Don, In Storage

The Grammar of the Ancient World: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Greatest Civilizations of Ancient Times

by Dominic Rathbone
Paperback, 2009
Tags
Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent, Everyday Life, Timelines, Egypt, Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Archaeology, Illustrated
Collection
Gifts

Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage

by James Cuno
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
Archaeology, Antiquities, Museums, Looting of Artifacts, Elgin Marbles, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, China, Italy, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Guide to the feng shui compass : a compendium of classical feng shui

by Stephen Skinner
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Feng Shui, Divination, Compass, Geomancy, China
Collection
Don

The history of the ancient world : from the earliest accounts to the fall of Rome

by Susan Wise Bauer
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
History, Ancient World, Ancient Mesopotamia, Assyria, Ancient Greece, Roman History, Sumer, Egypt, Fall of Rome, Roman Empire, China — 3 more, Celts, India, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Shadow of the Silk Road

by Colin Thubron
Paper Book, 2006
Tags
Central Asia and Silk Road, Travelogues, China, Tibet, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey
Collection
Gifts

Ancient China: Chinese Civilization From Its Origins To the Tang Dynasty

by Maurizio Scarpari
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
China, Chinese History, Illustrated, Photographs
Collection
Gifts

The Woman Radical: How the Chinese Language Defines Women

by Lorraine Huang
Paperback, 2006
Tags
China, Chinese Language, Ideograms, Feminism, Chinese History
Collection
Anna

The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine

by Barbara Tedlock
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
Shamanism, Indigenous Peoples, Feminism, Ojibwa Tribes, Cree, Mongol, China, Visions, Mayan, Herbalism, Peyote — 4 more, Huichol, Rituals, Native American, Magical Societies
Collection
Rowan

The Silk Road: from Xi'an to Kashgar

by Judy Bonavia
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
Central Asia and Silk Road, Guide Books, Illustrated, China, Taklamakan Desert, Kashgar
Collection
Gifts

To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

by Michael J. Puett
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Chinese Religions, China, Eastern Religion
Collection
Gifts

Li : dynamic form in nature

by David Wade
Paper Book, 2003
Tags
Wooden Books, Li, Nature, Sacred Geometry, China, Illustrated
Collection
Don

Chinese Practices and Beliefs

by Evelyn Lip
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
China, Chinese Myths, Yin-Yang, Five Elements, I Ching, Divination, Illustrated
Collection
Gifts

News from Tartary : a journey from Peking to Kashmir

by Peter Fleming
Paper Book, 1999
Tags
Central Asia and Silk Road, Travelogues, Tartary, China, Mongolia, India
Collection
Don

Imperial China, 900-1800 / F.W. Mote

by Frederick W. Mote, 1922-
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
China, Chinese History, Imperial China, 900-1800 AD, Dynasties, Liao, Song, Xi Xia, Jurchen, Jinn, Mongols — 3 more, Khublai Khan, Ming, Qing
Collection
Gus

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paper Book, 1999
Tags
History, Environmentalism, Cajamarca, Incas, Food Production, Disease, Colonialism, Domestication, Zoonoses, Australia, New Guinea — 4 more, Africa, China, Americas, Polynesia
Collection
Greg

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Environmentalism, Cajamarca, Incas, History, Food Production, Disease, Colonialism, Domestication, Zoonoses, Australia, New Guinea — 4 more, Africa, China, Americas, Polynesia
Collection
Gus

Understanding the I Ching

by Cyrille Javary
Paper Book, 1997
Tags
China, Divination
Collections
Glenn, Gifts

Feng-shui : the ancient wisdom of harmonious living for modern times

by Eva Wong
Paperback, 1996
Tags
China, Feng Shui, Divination
Collection
Gifts

Feng Shui in Singapore

by Sara Noble
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Feng Shui, Divination, Geomancy, China
Collections
Glenn, Gifts

Dragons, gods and spirits from Chinese mythology

by Tao Tao Liu Sanders
Paper Book, 1995
Tags
Series, World Mythologies, Mythology, China
Collection
Don

Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China

by Suzanne Cahill
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Taoism, Chinese Religions, Goddesses, Chinese, Taoist, Medieval, China, T'ang
Collection
Glenn

Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice

by Roger T. Ames
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Eastern Religion, China, Sociology, Pyschology, Philosophy, Personal Identity, Confucianism, Taoism, Gender, Self
Collection
Gus

China's buried kingdoms

Paper Book, 1993
Tags
Series, Lost Civilizations, China
Collection
Don

The Natural World (TimeFrame)

by Time-Life
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
Series, TimeFrame, Weapons, Religion, Slavery, Roman Empire, Population, Disease, Environment, Agriculture, Art — 8 more, China, Deforestation, Forests, Economics, Illustrated, New World, Warfare, Human Ecology
Collection
Gifts

The Elements of Feng Shui

by Joanne O'Brien
Paperback, 1991
Tags
China, Feng Shui, Divination, Chinese Religions, Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Occultism, Geomancy, I Ching, Tao Teh Ching, Tao Te Ching, Taoist Mystics — 4 more, Taoism, Taoist, Jade Emperor, Trigrams
Collection
Don

An anthology of I Ching

by Wallace A. Sherrill
Paper Book, 1989
Tags
I Ching, Divination, Hexagrams, China, Chinese Divination, Chinese Philosophy
Collections
Don, In Storage

Mastering the Art of War

by Sun Tzu
Paper Book, 1989
Tags
China, Chinese, Philosophy
Collection
Glenn

Empires Besieged: TimeFrame AD 200-600

by Time-Life
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
Series, TimeFrame, Warfare, Roman Empire, China, Architecture, Art, India, Illustrated, Rome
Collection
Gifts

From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi

by Puyi
Paperback, 1988
Tags
Biographies, China, Emperor
Collection
Gifts

Folk Customs at Traditional Chinese Festivities

by Qi Xing Compiler
Paperback, 1988
Tags
China, Folk Festivals, Customs
Collection
Gifts

LOST CITIES OF CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA AND INDIA

by DAVID HATCHER CHILDRESS
Paper Book, 1987
Tags
Speculative Archaeology, China, Central Asia, India
Collection
Don

The Fortune Teller's I Ching

by Martin Palmer
Paperback, 1987
Tags
I Ching, Divination, Trigrams, China
Collection
Don

Understanding Oriental Philosophy (Meridian)

by James K. Feibleman
Paperback, 1984
Tags
Eastern Religion, Philosophy, Vedic, Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, Jainism, Materialism, Biddhism, Hinduism, Gandhi, I Ching — 17 more, Divination, Confucius, Mo Tzu, Mencius, Hsun Tzu, Laoyse, Tao, Legalist, Chuang Tzu, Communism, Mao Tse-tung, India, China, Japan, Zen, Shinto, Empiricism
Collection
Anna

Tai chi : ten minutes to health

by Siew Pang Chia
Paper Book, 1983 First Edition;
Tags
China, T'ai Chi Chu'an, Healing Arts, Exercise, Chi
Collection
Anna

The Golden Oracle: The Ancient Chinese Way to Prosperity

by Khigh Dhiegh commentary
Hardcover, 1983
Tags
I Ching, Divination, Men Li Ming Yuen Bao Zhen, Hexagrams, China, Chinese Divination, Chinese Philosophy
Collection
Don

The alternative I Ching

by Derek Walters
Paper Book, 1983
Tags
I Ching, Divination, Tai Hsuan Ching, Hexagrams, China, Chinese Divination, Chinese Philosophy
Collection
Don

An Anthology of I Ching

by W. A. Sherrill
Paperback, 1983
Tags
I Ching, Divination, Hexagrams, China, Chinese Divination, Chinese Philosophy
Collection
Glenn

Religious Mythology and the Art of War: Comparative Religious Symbolisms of Military Violence (Contributions to the Studies of Religion Number 3)

by James A. Aho
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
Military History, Comparative Religion, Mythology, War, Symbolism, Symbols, Conflict, Military Ethic, Bushido, Flowery Wars, Art of War — 8 more, Sacrifice, Holy War, Just Cause, Reformation, Mexico, China, India, Hebrew

Taoism and Chinese religion

by Henri Maspero
Paper Book, 1981
Tags
Taoism, China, History, Mythology, Buddhism
Collection
Don

Oracles and Divination

by Michael Loewe
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Oracles and Omens, Ancient Mediterranean Magic, Divination, Tibet, China, Japan, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Facets of Taoism : essays in Chinese religion

by Holmes Welch
Paper Book, 1979
Tags
Taoism, China, Essays, Anthologies
Collection
Don
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