Eastern category: 10105 books
The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies
The Cases of East-Central Europe, Russia, and Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
One of the most unexpected outcomes of the Soviet bloc's transition out of communism has been the divergent but important paths followed by once ruling communist parties. In Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania those parties transformed themselves into pro-Western free market center leftists who have won...
An Uncanny Era
Conversations between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who “plotted” democracy, and designed an effective peaceful...
In the Shade of the Golden Palace
Alaol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. The book maps the genres, structures, and themes of Alaol's works, paying special attention...
by J.M. Rodwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
A guide to daily life, the Koran is considered the finest work of Arabic prose in existence. This accessible translation restores the traditional ordering of the chapters, which deal with God as creator, the role of Muhammad as God's messenger, as well as legal, social, and ethical issues.
The Histories of the Latin American Church
A Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The story of Latin American Christianity is too often appended to the end of larger narratives and is rarely given the full consideration it deserves. And yet, the rich stories of Christianity in Latin America deserve our full attention. With this brief, engaging, and helpful overview, Joel M. Cruz...
Sincerity after Communism
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A compelling study of “new sincerity” as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows The global cultural practice of a “new sincerity” in literature, media, art, design, fashion, film, and architecture grew steadily...
Buddhist Revivalist Movements
Comparing Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This text provides a comparative investigation of the affinities and differences of two of the most dynamic currents in World Buddhism: Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement. Defying differences in denomination, culture, and historical epochs, these schools revived an unfettered quest for enlightenment...
by Claudia Yaghoobi
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Adopting an empirical and systematic approach, this interdisciplinary study of medieval Persian Sufi tradition and ʿAttār (1145-1221) opens up a new space of comparison for reading and understanding medieval Persian and European literatures. The book invites us on an intellectual journey that reveals...
by Dirk Matthias Dalberg, Leonid Luks, Ewelina Klimczak
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The history of Soviet nonconformism and, more broadly, of East European dissent has been written as a history of ideas, the subject of which is the transfer, internalization, and the subversive force of liberal values in socialist societies. In this sense, the nonconformist subconscious of totalitarian...
TRATADO ESOTÉRICO DE ASTROLOGÍA HERMÉTICA
El Despertar de la Conciencia de Cada Uno de Los Doce Signos Zodiacales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Existe la Astrología Científica o Numérica que requiere extensos estudios para su aprendizaje, con ella los Astrólogos de todos los tiempos han hecho predicciones sobre acontecimientos de importancia. También se han valido de esos conocimientos grandes personajes como el caso de Hitler en Alemania...
VOLUNTAD CRISTO
La Quinta Serpiente de Fuego y la Creacion del Cuerpo Causal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Samael Aun Weor escribió este libro para instruir a aquellos que han completado las primeras cuatro iniciaciones de Misterios Mayores y están listos para comenzar la quinta, la creación del Cuerpo Causal.
Este libro divino es el hombre y los siete sellos, son las siete Serpientes Sagradas...
From Stalin to Mao
Albania and the Socialist World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe’s longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli’s unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism...
by Hajime Tanabe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Written in the closing months of World War II, Philosophy as Metanoetics seeks to respond to the failure of Japan's philosophical tradition to face up to the political and cultural realities that had landed the country in the war. It calls for nothing less than a complete and radical rethinking of...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Passed along for centuries through oral tradition by the followers of Buddhism, “The Dhammapada” is a collection of sayings by Buddha which concisely presents the religion’s core philosophies. Widely recognized as one of the most accessible works of all the Buddhist scriptures, the verses of the...