Xuanzang's Si-yu-ki is a record of his travels to Buddhist kingdoms in the Western World, documenting sacred sites…
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Culture
Culture examines shared values, traditions, identity, and social meaning systems.
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Management is the most important innovation of the twentieth century, yet it is the least understood.
Prigogine announces the collapse of the classical scientific worldview and the need for a new paradigm incorporating time…
Francis Fukuyama's "Social Capital and Civil Society" is a substantial essay that examines the relationship between social capital…
The book argues that Indian culture is not a static inheritance but a continuous act of transformation, constantly…
Autobiography of a Yogi is the life story of Paramahansa Yogananda, an Indian yogi and monk who carried…
George Santayana's "Miscellaneous Papers" is a posthumous collection that gathers together various essays, fragments, and shorter writings that…
Published in 1961, the collection represents a mature phase in Senghor's poetic development.
The entry is structured as a chronological narrative, detailing his family background, his early musical efforts, and his…
On Belief is a philosophical treatise by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, first published in 2001.
On the Nearest Things is a collection of short, feuilletonistic essays by Czech writer Karel Čapek reflecting on…
The work originated as an internal ideological handbook for the People's Liberation Army before becoming one of the…
The work was discovered in a chest at the Château de Montaigne by M. Prunis in 1774, long…
The Problem of China is a comprehensive analytical study of China's political, social, and cultural condition in the…
The text presented under the title 'The Centre of Indian Culture' is not, in fact, the work of…