Eastern category: 10105 books
Open Your Mind, Open Your Life
A Book of Eastern Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
"This book will enlighten and ennoble the reader." --Arun Gandhi, Gandhi Institute director and grandson of Mahatma GandhiOpen Your Mind, Open Your Life encourages and uplifts readers with more than 300 inspiring guideposts based on the timeless wisdom of Eastern thought. It's filled with sage...
Great Eastern Sun
The Wisdom of Shambhala
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
"In Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior Chögyam Trungpa offers an inspiring and practical guide to enlightened living based on the Shambhala journey of warriorship, a secular path taught internationally through the Shambhala Training program.
*Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala *is...
Breaking Breads
A New World of Israeli Baking--Flatbreads, Stuffed Breads, Challahs, Cookies, and the Legendary Chocolate Babka
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
**Named one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, The Washington Post, and more
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Israeli baking encompasses the influences of so many regions—Morocco, Yemen, Germany, and Georgia,...
by Arto der Haroutunian
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
“Peppered with anecdotes on life, food, and Middle Eastern culture, this book will provide real foodies with a classic they can enjoy for years to come” (The Oxford Time).
This wide-ranging treasury of recipes from the Middle East—with dishes from the plains of Georgia to Afghanistan,...
by Arto der Haroutunian
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Arto der Haroutunian’s “masterpiece . . . If you know nothing of Middle Eastern desserts and sweets, then you might feel transported to a different world” (Cooking by the Book).
From the renowned cookbook author comes Sweets & Desserts from the Middle East, widely regarded as the seminal...
Sankhya and Science
Applications of Vedic Philosophy to Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The dominantly materialist outlook of modern science leaves a lot unexplained. This includes the nature of sensation, concepts, beliefs and judgments, and an understanding of morality. Science was developed by evicting all aspects of the subject from its theories, and this has now become a hindrance...
Eastern Europe Since 1970
Decline of Socialism to Post-Communist Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
From the hardening grip of Soviet domination under Brezhnev to the collapse of communism and its aftermath, Bulent Gokay provides the essential introduction to Eastern Europe in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 spelt the end of reformist communism...
Historical Sociology and Eastern European Development
A Rokkanian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
An innovator in theoretical approaches in the social sciences, Stein Rokkan developed general models, developmental models, and conceptual maps that specified the main variables and important relationships in European political history. In Historical Sociology, Arne Kommisrud tests these general hypotheses...
Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe
Bridging Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state...
Retuning Culture
Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1996
As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition—and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This...
Hitler versus Stalin
The Eastern Front 1944–1945 - Warsaw to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In the fourth and final volume of Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front the defeat of the German army, the destruction and occupation of the cities in eastern Germany and the humiliation of the German people are shown in over 150 mostly unpublished wartime...
Tank Wrecks of the Eastern Front 1941–1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Four years of armored battle on the Eastern Front in the Second World War littered the battlefields with the wrecks of destroyed and disabled tanks, and Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic history is a fascinating guide to them. It provides a graphic record of the various types of tank deployed...
by Kevin Burns
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
An introduction to three great philosophical traditions, namely those of India, the Middle East and the Far East. Fifty eastern thinkers are covered. Each is placed within the context of his or her own tradition and key ideas are explored together with relevant biographical information. The book focuses...
The Near Abroad
Socialist Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine, 1956-1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
From the Soviet perspective, Eastern Europe was the near abroad – more accessible than the capitalist West, yet also unambiguously foreign. Observing their western neighbours, citizens of the USSR developed new ideas about the role of states, borders, and national identities in the Soviet empire.
In...