Donald S : 142 books
The Dark Stuff
Stories from the Peatlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Donald S. Murray spent much of his childhood either playing or working on the moor, chasing sheep across empty acres and cutting and gathering peat for fuel.
The Dark Stuff is an examination of how this landscape affected him and others. Donald explores his early life on the Isle of Lewis together...
Thumper
The Memoirs of the Honourable Donald S. Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
"At a certain point in our lives we are left only with our close relationships and our clear recollections." So begins Thumper: The Memoirs of the Honourable Donald S. Macdonald. An early supporter of Pierre Trudeau for the Liberal Party leadership, Donald Macdonald has had a career in public...
Prisoners of Shangri-La
Tibetan Buddhism and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, Prisoners of Shangri-La provided the first cultural history of the strange encounter...
The Koreans
Contemporary Politics And Society, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
In this new edition, Donald Clark has thoroughly revised and updated Donald Macdonald's widely praised introduction to Korea, describing and assessing the volatile and dramatic developments on the peninsula over the last five years. Remaining true to Macdonald's original conception, Clark has reworked...
Herring Tales
How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with a dash of chilli pepper. Germans and the English enjoy their taste best when accompanied by pickle's bite and brine.
Throughout...
Fine Old High Priests
A Novel About Friendship, Family, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Told from the delightful viewpoint of a seasoned seventy-one-year-old high priest, this novel is certain to ring true with generations of Latter-day Saints as the narrator relives his life while watching a true and faithful friend slip to the other side. This novel is warm, wise, funny, lyrical, and...
All You Need to Know About the Music Business
10th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
“The industry bible” (Los Angeles Times), now updated, essential for anyone in the music business—musicians, songwriters, lawyers, agents, promoters, publishers, executives, and managers—trying to navigate the rapid transformation of the industry.
For more than twenty years, All You...
Hyecho's Journey
The World of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,...
Fighter Pilot's Heaven
Flight Testing the Early Jets
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Fighter Pilot's Heaven presents the dramatic inside story of the American military's transition into the jet age, as told by a flyer whose life depended on its success. With colorful anecdotes about fellow pilots as well as precise technical information, Donald S. Lopez describes how it was to be...
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines : Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
Books audiotapes and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years in fact. In the early part of the 20th century it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars...
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation : Or the Method of Realizing Nirvana through Knowing the Mind
Or the Method of Realizing Nirv=ana through Knowing the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954 speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path or Mahayana and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen as shown here by means of knowing...
"The Tibetan Book of the Dead"
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it, Timothy Leary redesigned it as a guidebook for an acid trip, and the Beatles quoted Leary's version...
From Stone to Flesh
A Short History of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings of nonviolence, and his practice of meditation....
by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This book tells the story of the Scientific Buddha, "born" in Europe in the 1800s but commonly confused with the Buddha born in India 2,500 years ago. The Scientific Buddha was sent into battle against Christian missionaries, who were proclaiming across Asia that Buddhism was a form of superstition....