Oxford University Press

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This book offers a new approach to understanding Buddhist lay and monastic practice by recognizing the crucial role that visual practices played in Indian Buddhism in the early centuries of the Common Era. In the genre of Indian Buddhist narratives known as avadana, most lay religious practice consists not of reading, praying, or meditating, but of...

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Business Groups are often criticized as premodern forms of economic organization,        and occasionally as symptomatic of corrupt 'crony capitalism', but many have shown        remarkable resilience, navigating and adjusting to economic and political        turbulence, international competition, and technological change. This...

The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about the virtually anonymous world of theatrical orchestrators and arrangers. Stocked with intriguing facts and juicy anecdotes, most of which have never before appeared in print, The Sound of Broadway Music brings fascinating and sometimes surprising new insight into the world of musical...

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