Eastern category: 10105 books
The Supreme Doctrine
Psychological Studies in Zen Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
(With an Introduction by Aldous Huxley)
In its Eastern aspects—Chinese, Hindu, and Japanese—Zen Buddhism has proved a puzzle, although a stimulating one, to the Western mind. Himself a Westerner, Dr. Benoit has approached it through an occidental manner of thinking. “For the first time,...
Buddhism For Beginners : Seven Steps To Enlightenment For All Beginners & Easy Steps To Achieve Them
Buddhism For Beginners : Seven Steps To Enlightenment For All Beginners & Easy Steps To Achieve Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Buddhism made EASY - Your Life Is About to Get Much, Much Better
Do you feel stressed? Are you overwhelmed by the daily demands of your life and wish to be more at peace and achieve mindfulness?
The Solution For You: Buddhism For Beginners - Seven Steps To Enlightenment...
China
A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
This highly readable history of the world's most populous country dates from the late nineteenth century, when its author, John Henry Gray, served as the Archdeacon of Hong Kong. His two-volume study, here bound into a single volume, begins with the earliest known legends of China as the "Middle Kingdom,"...
by Karima Hakimi
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Vegan diet is expanding & becoming a trend in the world. Vegan food is delicious & can be very nutritious. MEDITERRANEAN VEGAN specially MIDDLE EASTERN STYLE EATING is rich in flavor, very appetizing, and incredibly healthy. This plant-based diet is filled with a profusion of vitamin- and...
by James Newton
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
This is a comprehensive ecookbook on the Middle Eastern region, it covers recipes from Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, UAE and many more locations.
The recipes contained in this book are full of eastern flavour covering categories such as: Breads, Dips, Soups, Couscous, Salads,...
Spiritual Transmission
Paradoxes and Dilemmas on the Spiritual Path
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Most eastern religious traditions are based on the sacred bond between teacher or Guru and the student. This is one of the few books to delve deeply into the subject based on wide ranging interviews with both teachers and students.
The foreword by Ken Wilber, who is the foremost, widely recognized authority...
Aromas of Aleppo
The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
When the Aleppian Jewish community migrated from the ancient city of Aleppo in historic Syria and settled in New York and Latin American cities in the early 20th century, it brought its rich cuisine and vibrant culture. Most Syrian recipes and traditions, however, were not written down and existed...
Arabesque
A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
In the 1960s Claudia Roden introduced Americans to a new world of tastes in her classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food. Now, in her enchanting new book, Arabesque, she revisits the three countries with the most exciting cuisines today—Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Interweaving history, stories, and...
Lebanese Home Cooking
Simple, Delicious, Mostly Vegetarian Recipes from the Founder of Beirut's Souk El Tayeb Market
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Straight from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, chef and creator of the first farmers' market in Beirut, Kamal Mouzawak brings you healthy and inspiring dishes, featuring classic Lebanese ingredients. From one of the region's most rich and diverse cultures, learn to make food, not war. Lebanese...
by Dahlia & Marlène
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
New Edition.
Lebanese cuisine is perhaps one of the most typical expression of Middle Eastern cuisine, extremely diverse and heavily influenced by the Arab-Muslim tradition.
This is especially noticeable in the prevalence of the use of the lamb, the abundant use of nuts, especially almonds...
Another Hungary
The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Another Hungary tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals: an aristocrat, merchant, engineer, teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist, and writer. All eight came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Their biographies illuminate how the region's residents made sense of economic...
New Horizons in Eastern Humanism
Buddhism, Confucianism and the Quest for Global Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
China now attracts global attention and headlines that are directly proportionate to its increasing economic and geopolitical power. But for several millennia the philosophy that has guided and shaped the soul of China is not modern Communism, or even new forms of capitalism, but rather Confucianism....
Jewish People, Yiddish Nation
Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified...
by J. Krishnamurti
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2000
To Be Human presents Krishnamurti's radical vision of life in a new way. At the heart of this extraordinary collection are passages from the great teacher's talks that amplify and clarify the nature of truth and those obstacles that often prevent us from seeing it. Most of these core teachings have...