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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different...
by Matthieu Ricard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Why meditate? On what? And how? In his latest book ***Why Meditate?***—an instant bestseller in the author’s native France—Matthieu Ricard aims to answer these very questions.
As a molecular geneticist turned Buddhist monk, Ricard brings a wholly unique perspective to the practice of...
Tropics of Vienna
Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably...
by Bianca Arden
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Between the two concepts of past life regression and reincarnation, most people are probably more familiar with the latter. However, what few realize is that these two concepts are essentially linked with each other. Reincarnation has to do with the rebirth of a soul. If you believe that you will...
by Zachary Karabashliev
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
CO-WINNER OF THE 2012 CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN WRITERS CONTEST
Distraught over the sudden disappearance of his wife Stella, Zack tries to drown his grief in Tijuana, where he encounters a violent scene, and trying to save a stranger's life, nearly loses his own. Escaping with the van of his attackers,...
The Heart of the Revolution
The Buddha's Radical Teachings of Forgiveness, Compassion, and Kindness
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“The Buddha’s teachings are not a philosophy or a religion; they are a call to action and invitation to revolution.”
Noah Levine, author of the national bestseller Dharma Punx and Against the Stream, is the leader of the youth movement for a new American Buddhism. In Heart of the Revolution,...
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobo Genzo, in Japanese) is a monumental work, considered to be one of the profoundest expressions of Zen wisdom ever put on paper, and also the most outstanding literary and philosophical work of Japan. It is a collection of essays by Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder...
Sacred World
The Shambhala Way to Gentleness, Bravery, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
"This is the first book to offer step-by-step instruction in Shambhala warriorship. Combining Buddhist mindfulness practice and pre-Buddhist shamanic teachings, Shambhala warriorship training teaches ways to call on powerful, natural energies for personal and collective transformation. It shows us how to use everyday situations to unite mind, body, and emotions in a harmonious whole.
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The largest-selling edition of the Gita in the Western world, Bhagavad-gita As It Is is more than a book. It is alive with knowledge and devotion; thus it has the power to change your life for the better.
Bhagavad-gita is knowledge of five basic truths and the relationship of each truth...
Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War
Reconciliation, comradeship, confrontation, 1953-1957
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book provides a comprehensive insight into one of the key episodes of the Cold War – the process of reconciliation between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
At the time, this process had shocked the World as much as the violent break-up of their relations did in 1948. This book provides...
I Wish It Were Fiction
Holocaust Memories - 1938–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
The writer of this memoir, Aaron Starkman, was barely 20 years old, when he was driven in into the Nazi Hitler hell. He decided to keep a diary, where he made notes of everything that was happening. He did not know whether he would survive. When he was liberated, he gathered all the notes and deposited...
My Tao Te Ching
A Workbook for Interpreting the Teachings and Poems in Tao Te Ching
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Tao Te Ching is the cornerstone of the Philosophical Taoism, and is one of the defining books to both, the Chinese Buddhism and Religious Taoism. This workbook contains all the teachings and poems in this classic without the numbers that were added only after the creation of the original Tao Te Ching...
The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China
A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trülku...
by Hesham A. Hassaballa, Kabir Helminski
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This concise introduction to Islam offers a sophisticated and informative exploration of the history, beliefs, tenets, and practices of the second-largest religion in the world.
There are 1.3 billion Muslims in the world today, yet Islam remains a misunderstood faith. In this day and age, when...