Eastern category: 10105 books
Immortality and Reincarnation
Wisdom from the Forbidden Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Famed traveler and mystic Alexandra David-Neel, the first Western woman to see the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet, examines Eastern concepts of the afterlife in this classic study.
The question of what occurs to the individual personality after death is fundamental to the human experience....
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Ryszard Kapuscinski's last book, The Soccer War -a revelation of the contemporary experience of war -- prompted John le Carre to call the author "the conjurer extraordinary of modern reportage." Now, in Imperium, Kapuscinski gives us a work of equal emotional force and evocative power: a personal,...
Antisemitism in an Era of Transition
Continuities and Impact in Post-Communist Poland and Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The post-Communist transition in Eastern Central Europe has brought about democratic reform, liberalized economies and accession to the European Union, but also the emergence of political movements that revert to antisemitic rhetoric and arguments. This volume compares the genealogies and impact of...
by Richard Fenigsen, Antony Polonsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
"An extraordinary memoir.” Luba Vinogradova, co-author of A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist With the Red Army, 1941-1945
“An important contribution to our understanding of the Second World War in Eastern Europe, and also very funny, which I was not expecting.” Antony Polonsky,...
by Idries Shah
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 20, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 20, 2017
Pequeño pero impactante, Reflexiones de Idries Shah es una colección de fábulas, aforismos y afirmaciones que desafÃan a la mente condicionada.
El libro confronta al lector con perspectivas e ideas inusuales, en un intento de liberar la mente para ver las cosas como realmente son.
El...
Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe
The Russian, Czech and Slovak Fiction of the Changes 1988-98
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods. It focuses on the most innovative trend to emerge in this period, on those writers who, during and after the collapse of communism, characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature....
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and occupied the republic of Poland, dividing the country between them. Some two hundred thousand Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in Russian camps, which were often converted monasteries. In March 1940, Joseph Stalin approved a plan to...
Czernowitz at 100
The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust,...
Walking the Wisdom Path
Lectures in the Jnana Marga
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Swami Aseshananda lived and taught in America for some forty years; he was Sri Sarada Devi’s last living monastic disciple up until his passing in 1996. He imbibed both the transcendent viewpoint of Advaita Vedanta and the practical teachings of Christianity in his life, combining them into a transformative...
The Kuan Yin Chronicles
The Myths and Prophecies of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Kuan Yin is the most important, best-loved deity in the Chinese world. She is the living expression of compassion and the center of devotion in most Chinese homes and workplaces. Yet she is barely known in the West. The authors of The Kuan Yin Chronicles introduce Kuan Yin to Western readers, and...
by George A. Cobbold
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
It may well be questioned whether, in the course of a like period of
time, any country has ever undergone greater transitions, or made
more rapid strides along the path of civilization than has Japan
during the last quarter of a century. A group of numerous islands,
situated on the high-road and thoroughfare...
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah's Reflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind. The book confronts the reader with unaccustomed perspectives and ideas, in an attempt to set the mind free, to see how things really are. As the...
by Ramana Maharshi
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
The renowned Indian sage Ramana Maharshi is beloved by Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, and Taoists alike for the inspirational power of his teachings, which transcend all religious differences. Here is a collection of Sri Ramana's instructions and discourses culled from three works: Who Am I?, Spiritual...
Zen Effects
The Life of Alan Watts
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The first and only full-length biography of one of
the most charismatic spiritual innovators of the twentieth century.
Through his widely popular books and lectures, Alan Watts (1915-1973) did more to introduce Eastern philosophy and religion to Western minds than any figure before or since....