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Andrew Bernstein

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History & Criticism

Hungry Minds

Cliffsnotes on Rand's the Fountainhead

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When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

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What to do with the dead? In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funerals, burials, and other mortuary rites had developed over the centuries with the aim of building continuity in the face of loss. As Japanese coped with the economic, political, and social changes that radically remade their lives in the decades after the Meiji Restoration (1868), they clung to local customs and Buddhist rituals such as sutra readings and incense offerings that for generations had given meaning to death. Yet death, as this highly original study shows, was not impervious to nationalism, capitalism, and the other isms that constituted and still constitute modernity. As Japan changed, so did its handling of the inevitable. Following an overview of the early development of funerary rituals in Japan,Andrew Bernstein demonstrates how diverse premodern practices from different regions and social strata were homogenized with those generated by middle-class city dwellers to create the form of funerary practice dominant today. He describes the controversy over cremation, explaining how and why it became the accepted manner of disposing of the dead. He also explores the conflict-filled process of remaking burial practices, which gave rise, in part, to the suburban "soul parks" now prevalent throughout Japan; the (largely failed) attempt by nativists to replace Buddhist death rites with Shinto ones; and the rise and fall of the funeral procession. In the process, Bernstein shows how today’s "traditional" funeral is in fact an early twentieth-century invention and traces the social and political factors that led to this development. These include a government wanting to separate itself from religion even while propagating State Shinto, the appearance of a new middle class, and new forms of transportation. As these and other developments created new contexts for old rituals, Japanese faced the problem of how to fit them all together. What to do with the dead? is thus a question tied to a still broader one that haunts all societies experiencing rapid change: What to do with the past? Modern Passings is an impressive and far-reaching exploration of Japan’s efforts to solve this puzzle, one that is at the heart of the modern experience.

Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, And Social Change in Imperial Japan

Parenting & Relationships

University of Hawaii Press

Breaking the Stress Cycle: 7 Steps to Greater Resilience, Happiness, and Peace of Mind

Atria Books

U.S. Paperback edition of The Myth of Stress, by Atria books

The Myth of Stress: Where Stress Really Comes From and How to Live a Happier and Healthier Life

Atria

This fast-paced fictional work tells the story of Bulgarian freedom fighters during Communism's final years, of their valiant attempts to smuggle dissidents to freedom in the West, and of their desperate battles with the Durjavna Sigurnost, the Bulgarian secret police who seek to kill them. It tells also of a parallel conflict, of one of the freedom fighters-a member of the tiny band, an émigré, a writer living in New York City-who engages in the story's fiercest struggle, seeking to publish serious stories about these dauntless men in a Western literary culture that rejects heroism for anti-heroism. Published by ARCS's partner institution in the United States ARCB Inc.

A Dearth of Eagles

You should not miss the Myth of Stress written by Andrew Bernstein if you have been tortured to fret by these things: failed investment, unfortunate marriage, being discriminated by others, even traffic jam or obesity... The author has personally experienced all sorts of difficulties, setbacks, and pains but he has been firm and persistent to move forward; after several years of study and creation, he has finally extracted a set of simple and clear ""seven-step"" exercises to help people to face the challenges in work and life.

The Myth of Stress: Where Stress Really Comes From and How to Live a Happier and Healthier Life (Chinese Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

China Federation of Industry & Commerce Press

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