Eastern category: 10105 books
Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures
Literature, Cinema and Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of 'cultural...
The Tao of Craft
Fu Talismans and Casting Sigils in the Eastern Esoteric Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
For the first time in English, Benebell Wen reveals the rich history and theoretical principles underlying the ancient practice of crafting Fu talismans, or magical sigils, in the Chinese Taoist tradition and gives detailed instructions for modern practitioners who would like to craft their own Fu....
by Swami Vivekananda
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1953
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1953
Jnana Yoga describes the wisdom of the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita in the scientific manner of modern times. "Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature: external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy -- by one, or more, or all of these -- and be free."
Already Awake
Dialogues with Nathan Gill
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Nathan Gill is a rare voice in contemporary spirituality. Speaking with consistent clarity, he points out that all prescriptions for escape from the drama of separation instead serve as its reinforcement. Compiled from transcripts of one-to-one dialogues and group meetings, the talks featured in Already...
Oneness
East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
At the center of a constellation of key ideas in East Asian philosophical traditions, there lies a conception of oneness among human beings. Human beings are intricately and inextricably intertwined and share a common destiny with other people, creatures, and things. The ramifications of this idea...
Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry
The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature. Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted...
The Secret She Carried
A Perilous Odyssey Through the Time of Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
A young woman and her tiny Sudetenland German community grapple with survival in the period encompassing the world wars but find the apocalyptic peace that follows the Nazi defeat even more ruinous.
In this history-infused narrative, overwhelming events sweep up young Maria Hajek and...
by SoftTech
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Are You Looking For Ways to Receive More Wealth, Abundance and Peace of Mind?
Discover How Feng Shui Can Transform Your Life!
Feng Shui is starting to revolutionize people in ways never thought of before. This ancient Chinese secret can change the way you do things and provide you all...
The Economy of East Central Europe, 1815-1989
Stages of Transformation in a Peripheral Region
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
From a widely published expert in the field, this major survey reviews two centuries of modernization and examines the dramatic changes in the economies of Eastern Europe.
This is a new and comprehensive overview which incorporates fresh research and recent changes to the region to trace this...
Socialist Escapes
Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time spent free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life. The essays in this volume examine...
by Phillip Duke
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Karma is the moral force that determines the consequences of all your actions. Your Karma determines everything that happens to you. In life your Karmat determines all circumstances; good or bad luck is actually good or bad Karma in action. When you die your Karma determines whether...
by Bruce Cameron Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
We are souls and not the surface person, and every problem we say is ours, physical, mental or spiritual, is the result of the veil of Ignorance God placed over us, making us believe we are the surface person and its ego; and that veil will not be removed until we, the souls, have collected the required...
Memory Laws, Memory Wars
The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Laws against Holocaust denial are perhaps the best-known manifestation of the present-day politics of historical memory. In Memory Laws, Memory Wars, Nikolay Koposov examines the phenomenon of memory laws in Western and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia and exposes their very different purposes...
The Left Side of History
World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the...