Eastern category: 10105 books
Goddess and the Guru
A Spiritual Biography of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Nearly four decades ago, an intense series of spiritual visions led one of India's top nuclear physicists, until then a religious skeptic and man of science, to walk away from his prestigious post at the heart of the country's missile-defense complex. Retreating into the remote jungles of eastern...
by T. W. Rhys Davids
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
The Questions of King Milinda - Part I of II
T. W. Rhys Davids
The Milinda Pañha (also Milindapanha, Milindapañha, or MilindapañhÄ; abbrev., Mil) (Pali trans. "Questions of Milinda") is a Buddhist text which dates from approximately 100 BCE. It is sometimes included in the Pali...
Essence of Mind
An Approach to Dzogchen
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
This handbook to spirituality gathers together Danish meditation teacher Jes Bertelsen's advice on training the mind through wordless prayer and meditation to realize the essence of consciousness. Bertelsen has been teaching philosophy and meditation since the early 1970s; in 1989, he met the Tibetan...
The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism
Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism cuts to the heart of two very different yet remarkably similar traditions. The author touches on many of their major ideas: the collective unconscious and karma, archetypes and deities, the analyst and the spiritual friend, and mandalas. Within...
The Art of Living and Dying
Celebrating Life and Celebrating Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Why are we afraid of death? What is acceptance in the face of cancer? How do I decide whose advice to take? How to relax in the certainty of death? Ought we to tell someone when they are dying or not? Is the theory of reincarnation true? What is happening around the dying? How best to support a dying...
Rainbow Body and Resurrection
Spiritual Attainment, the Dissolution of the Material Body, and the Case of Khenpo A Chö
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Francis V. Tiso, a noted authority on the rainbow body, explores this manifestation of spiritual realization in a wide-ranging and deeply informed study of the transformation of the material body into a body of light. Seeking evidence on the boundary between physical science and deep spirituality...
Empowering Revolution
America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
*As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s, both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence over Poland's politically tumultuous...
The Haunted Land
Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Bosnia's Million Bones
Solving the World's Greatest Forensic Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The extraordinary story of how a team of international forensic scientists pioneered ground-breaking DNA technology to identify the bodies of thousands of victims of the Yugoslav Wars, and how their work is now giving justice to families from Iraq to Bosnia
What would it be like to be tasked...
De-Centering Cold War History
Local and Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
De-Centering Cold War History challenges the Cold War master narratives that focus on super-power politics by shifting our analytical perspective to include local-level experiences and regional initiatives that were crucial to the making of a Cold War world. Cold War histories are often told as stories...
by Neal Ascherson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
What has happened in Poland? Poland has erupted four times in the last twenty five years, but only the events of 1980 have had comprehensive media coverage. As a result, many questions have been raised in the minds of Western observers. How were such changes possible? What forces lay behind them?...
Sasha, pour one more!
With love and vodka through 25 years in Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
It was a balancing act between two worlds, the safe, secure life in Germany on the one hand and the magical attraction of a foreign country on the other. With time, for the German journalist and author, Brigitte Schulze, Ukraine became a second home. She lived and worked there for more than twenty-five...
Lost Kingdom
The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe, a new history of Russian imperialism
In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long...
Melchior Wankowicz
Poland’s Master of the Written Word
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In Melchior Wankowicz: Poland’s Master of the Written Word, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm examines the life and writing of famous Polish writer Melchior Wankowicz, author of legendary work “The Battle of Monte Cassino”.
Acclaimed by his readers and critics alike, Melchior Wankowicz was...