Ai: 83 books

Our best teachers are inside ourselves. Ai Gvhdi Waya shares her own journey through Native American stories of her discovery — and how you can access the many teachers, too. Learn how to trust your own knowing and follow your heart. Walk the path of the mystic and understand how you can do that...

Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and cultural critic deeply engaged with European critical thought, Maeda was a brilliant, insightful theorist...

During more than twenty years of field research, Roderic Ai Camp built a monumental database of biographical information on more than 3,000 leading national figures in Mexico. In this major contribution to Mexican political history, he draws on that database to present a definitive account of the paths...

This book offers a comprehensive account of the great Neo-Confucian Master Cheng I (1033-1107), showing his philosophical ideas in a modern light. It systematically examines Cheng’s extensive literature and provides an ingenious interpretation of Cheng’s social and political views. The author,...

This book is a collection of prints and paintings by the artist Fiore Ai, who was inspired by the color-field and hard-edge geometric abstraction paintings of American art. The paintings depict translucent and prismatic light, with interplays of soft color gradations against hard edges and spatial...

Sanam Madhur, a modern-day archaeologist had always perceived her life in black and white. She meets Levi Taclay, a young and ambitious photographer, who had always lived within the colourful hues of humanity.  Her life will soon take a colourful spin when her work requires her to get...

Iniziato nel 2006 e chiuso d’autorità tre anni dopo, il blog dell’artista e architetto Ai Weiwei si è imposto all’attenzione internazionale come una delle testimonianze culturali e politiche più coraggiose della Cina contemporanea.

In his young life, Takeyuki has never really known hardship. The youngest son of a wealthy family, he has never had any difficulty getting anything he desired. Now, though, Takeyuki is enjoying his last month of freedom before he begins working at his fathers import company in Tokyo, and he has decided...

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A year in London pomes and drawing

When Major David Allans C-5 jumbo jet goes down in the Iraqi desert in 2003, he is the only survivor. Three months later, David awakes from a coma at the Walter Reed Medical Center his wife, Sherry, at his side. But nothing is how David remembers it; the hospital staff calls him Lieutenant, Sherry...

In 1890s Kyoto, Atsuka is a beautiful and elegant geisha in the district of Ponto-chō. Having lost her family and her childhood home, she has gained a measure of independence and respect in her profession, and her evenings are filled with mesmerizing stories, songs, and entertainment. During the...

Since Hajj is the Ultimate Goal. This is what inspired me to write this book to give you the procedures and other important information in making this final Goal which is Hajj. Surely we are from Allah, and surely we are returning.

Illegal. Unamerican. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of a drain. Grace Chang's vital account of immigrant women—who work as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing...