Seckel David (5 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 638 pages; Description: xii, 638 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Subjects: Cosmology --Congresses. Astrophysics --Congresses. Particles (Nuclear physics) --Congresses. Series: Theoretical astrophysics. Notes: Proceedings of a conference hosted at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in May 1984. Includes bibliographies.Summary: Inner Space/Outer Space brings together much of the exciting work contributing to a new synthesis of modern physics. Particle physicists, concerned with the "inner space" of the atom, are making discoveries that their colleagues in astrophysics, studying outer space, can use to develop and test hypotheses about the events that occurred in the microseconds after the Big Bang and that shaped the universe as we know it today. The papers collected here, from scores of scientists, constitute the proceedings of the first major international conference on research at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics, held in May 1984. The editors have written introductions to each major section that draw out the central themes and elaborate on the primary implications of the papers that follow. 2 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 638 pages; Description: xii, 638 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Subjects: Cosmology --Congresses. Astrophysics --Congresses. Particles (Nuclear physics) --Congresses. Series: Theoretical astrophysics. Notes: Proceedings of a conference hosted at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in May 1984. Includes bibliographies.Summary: Inner Space/Outer Space brings together much of the exciting work contributing to a new synthesis of modern physics. Particle physicists, concerned with the "inner space" of the atom, are making discoveries that their colleagues in astrophysics, studying outer space, can use to develop and test hypotheses about the events that occurred in the microseconds after the Big Bang and that shaped the universe as we know it today. The papers collected here, from scores of scientists, constitute the proceedings of the first major international conference on research at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics, held in May 1984. The editors have written introductions to each major section that draw out the central themes and elaborate on the primary implications of the papers that follow. 2 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. London: Serindia Publications and Paris: UNESCO, 1978. Hardcover. Beige silk over boards with gilt lettering and decorations. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and sound. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 482 pages. Illustrated with 353 black and white and color photographs. Maps, Chronology, Glossary, and a 12-page Bibliography. Heavy item: extra charges for expedited or international shippoing. This massive and multidisciplinary work examines the images of the Buddha and of Buddhahood over 2500 years in many different parts of Asia. The authors situate the images within religious, national, spiritual, and anthopological contexts. Both rigorous and readable, this book helps one appreciate the beauty and power an image of a very early Indian Buddha but also seeks to explain why the Buddha appears so different in, say, Japan several centuries later. Contents: I. The first symbols of the Buddha. 1. The essential nature of a Buddha ; 2. Early Buddha symbols II. The Buddha in human form. 1. Cultural and historical background ; 2. The Ganges-Jumna (Ganga-Yamuna) Valley ; 3. Gandhara ; 4. Andhradesa (Krishna Valley) III. Maturity and efflorescence in India. 1. Cultural and historical background ; 2. The Ganges-Jumna (Ganga-Yamuna) Valley ; 3. Gandhara ; 4. Western India ; 5. Andhradera and South India IV. The Buddgah image in the rest of Asia. 1. Geographical and cultural considerations ; 2. Sri Lanka and South-East Asia up to the 10th Century A.D. 139 ; 3. Kashmir and Nepal ; 4. Afghanistan and Central Asia ; 5. China : growth and maturity ; 6. Korea ; 7. Japan V. Later variations and developments. 1. India : the last stages ; 2. Sri Lanka and South-East Asia (10th-19th Centuries) ; 3. Kashmir and Nepal ; 4. Tibet and Mongolia ; 5. Central Asia ; 6. China : the post-T'ang periods ; 7. Korea : the Koryo period (A.D. 918-1392) ; 8. Japan VI. The symbol as the ultimate Buddha image.…

Hardcover. Condition: New.