Michael Pye: 7 books

Book cover of Am Rand der Welt

Am Rand der Welt

Eine Geschichte der Nordsee und der Anfänge Europas

by Michael Pye
Language: German
Release Date: June 22, 2017

In ›Am Rand der Welt‹ erzählt Michael Pye anschaulich, farbig und unterhaltsam die reiche Geschichte der Nordsee.Die Nordsee ist das Meer der Wikinger und der Hanse. Aber sie ist noch viel mehr. Bereits im Mittelalter überquerten Heilige und Spione, Philosophen und Piraten, Künstler und Händler...
Book cover of The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe
by Michael Pye
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

*A New York Times Notable Book* An epic adventure ranging from the terror of the Vikings to the golden age of cities: Michael Pye tells the amazing story of how modernity emerged on the shores of the North Sea. Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals:...
Book cover of Aan de rand van de wereld

Aan de rand van de wereld

hoe de Noordzee ons vormde

by Michael Pye
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 29, 2014

DWDD-BOEK VAN DE MAAND NOVEMBER 2014 Dat de middeleeuwen geen lege donkerte tussen het Romeinse Rijk en de renaissance waren, wisten we al langer. Maar nooit slaagde iemand erin het rijke middeleeuwse leven zo dichtbij te brengen als Michael Pye. Hij beschrijft hoe volkeren rond de Noordzee...
Book cover of Skilful Means

Skilful Means

A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism

by Michael Pye
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

'Skilful Means' is the key principle of Mahayana, one of the great Buddhist traditions. First described in the Lotus Sutra, it originates in myths of the Buddha's compassionate plans for raising life from the ceaseless round of birth and death. His strategies or interventions are 'skilful means' -...
Book cover of Taking Lives
by Michael Pye
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Martin Arkenhout found his true calling on a lonely Florida highway -- with a sharp rock to the skull of an injured friend. He didn't just take the boy's life; he went on to live it. When that life became too risky, he found another, and another, changing his name, papers and style at will, until...
Book cover of The Pieces from Berlin
by Michael Pye
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

In the great disorder of wartime Berlin, Lucia Muller-Rossi was an unofficial star: mistress to an Ambassador, the whole world to her young son, and guardian of all the lovely things her Jewish friends were forced to leave behind as they took the trains tothe death camps. Sixty years later, one of...
Book cover of Der Buddhismus III

Der Buddhismus III

Ostasiatischer Buddhismus und Buddhismus im Westen

by Martin Baumann, Peter Antes, Stephan Bumbacher
Language: German
Release Date: December 19, 2018

Der abschließende Band des dreiteiligen Werkes zum Buddhismus behandelt detailliert die Mahayana-Richtungen in Ostasien. Dabei nimmt die Darstellung der Religion in China und Japan verständlicherweise großen Raum ein. Als Besonderheit ist hervorzuheben, dass auch die Formen des Buddhismus in Vietnam...
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