Oxford University Press Usa imprint: 199 books
The Tibetan Book of the Dead : Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that according to legend Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones lakes and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings....
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...
Jazz Anecdotes:Second Time Around
Second Time Around
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2005
When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has....
by Renee Levine Packer
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
This Life of Sounds portrays an important and previously unexplored corner of the history of new music in America: the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the State University of New York at Buffalo. Composers Lukas Foss (the Center's founder), Lejaren Hiller, and Morton Feldman were the...
German : Biography of a Language
Biography of a Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2010
Thousands of years ago seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic anthropological and historical research Sanders presents a brilliant...
The Man Behind the Microchip : Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor a leading entrepreneur and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now in The Man Behind the Microchip Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful...
Fanny Brice : The Original Funny Girl
The Original Funny Girl
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1992
I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man" Fanny Brice once boasted. "I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted...
Crossing Hitler:The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage (the transcription...
by William E. Gienapp
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America historian William Gienapp provides a remarkably concise up-to-date and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early...
by Lawrence E. Susskind;Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees boards church groups and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. Whether they are aware of it or not the procedures that most such groups rely on to reach decisions were first...
Beyond Talent : Creating a Successful Career in Music
Creating a Successful Career in Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
The first edition of Beyond Talent quickly became a favorite among classical and jazz musicians and has been used in courses at scores of conservatories and universities. This expanded second edition provides updated user-friendly advice inspiring examples and practical tools to advance a career in...
by Hersh Shefrin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Even the best Wall Street investors make mistakes. No matter how savvy or experienced, all financial practitioners eventually let bias, overconfidence, and emotion cloud their judgement and misguide their actions. Yet most financial decision-making models fail to factor in these fundamentals of human...
by Mark R. McNeilly
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1996
To hand down the wisdom he had gained from years of battles more than two millennia ago the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote the classic work on military strategy The Art of War. Because business like warfare is dynamic fast-paced and requires an effective and efficient use of scarce resources modern...
by Tim Harford
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover Economist is for anyone who's wondered why the...