World Wisdom: 168 books
Children of the Tipi
Life in the Buffalo Days
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Children of the Tipi brings to life the experiences of American Indian children growing up on the great plains of North America before the coming of the white settlers. In a world without computers, fast-food, and television, how did these children live, learn, and play? Simple passages from Native American...
Children of the Tipi
Life in the Buffalo Days
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
What was it like to grow up in the world of the pre-reservation Plains Indians before the coming of the white settlers? Prior to our modern era of television, video games, and computers how did American Indian children live, learn, and play? In this beautifully illustrated book, award-winning author,...
The Image Taker
The Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward S. Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Featuring nearly 200 rarely seen photographs from Edward S. Curtis’ masterpiece, The North American Indian, The Image Taker combines the little known histories and stories from 26 Indian tribes, transporting the reader to a lost age.
The Cheyenne Indians
Their History and Lifeways, Edited and Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
This beautiful book takes George Bird Grinnell’s classic work on the Cheyenne Indians and trims it into 240 fully-illustrated pages of his most essential writings. Grinnell was the long-time editor of Field & Stream magazine and helped to establish both the Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. During...
The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian
Commemorative Edition with Letters while Living with Black Elk
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
The writings of Joseph Epes Brown are considered amongst the most important studies on the North American Indian undertaken in the twentieth century. His works have been translated into numerous languages and are helping to re-ignite interest in the American Indian religious tradition. The Spiritual...
by Ernest Thompson Seton, Julia M. Seton
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
This commemorative edition contains for the first time Seton's drawings of American Indian motifs, a selection of photographs illustrating his life, information about his role as founder of the Boys Scouts of America.
The Destruction of the Christian Tradition, Updated and Revised
Updated and Revised
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
Concentrating on the post-Vatican II revisions of its teachings, this book tells the story of the destruction of the Roman Catholic tradition, a defining event of the twentieth century.
by Titus Burckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
The art historian and philosopher of religion, Titus Burckhardt (1908-1984), was one of the 20th century’s most renowned experts on sacred art. The reader is drawn into a pilgrimage through the history of Christian art to architecture, iconography, and illumination; always returning to the fundamental...
by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
A new collection of essays by the great traditionalist/perennialist Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. This collection has been edited by his son, Rama Coomaraswamy, who is well known for his writings on the Christian tradition. The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy contains 21 essays on topics reflecting the...
Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?
The Traditional View of Art, Revised Edition with Previously Author's Unpublished Notes
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2007
This new edition of Coomaraswamy's classic book, considered his most important work on the philosophy of art, includes all of the revisions Coomaraswamy had wanted to add to the original edition.
A Christian Pilgrim in India
The Spiritual Journey of Swami Abhishiktananda (Henri Le Saux)
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
This book provides a biographical account of the remarkable Benedictine monk, Henri Le Saux (1910-1973), who spent the last two-and-a-half decades of his life in India where he immersed himself in Hindu spirituality. It traces the central themes of his prolific writings on religious and mystical topics
Ye Shall Know the Truth
Christianity and the Perennial Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Contains essays on mysticism, prayer, sacred art, the relationship between Christianity and other religious.
Honen The Buddhist Saint
Essential Writings and Official Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
Honen Shonin (1133-1212 A.D.) founded the largest Buddhist sect in Japan (Pure Land, or Shin). This edited biography contains an Introduction by renowned Buddhist scholar, Alfred Bloom.
by Swami Ramdas, Susunaga Weeraperuma
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
In simple and eloquent language, Ramdas writes directly and from the heart and his message of certain deliverance through the unswerving remembrance of God is meant for all serious seekers of all religions.