Eastern category: 10105 books
Together and Apart in Brzezany
Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
... by reconstructing the history/experience of Brzezany in Jewish, Ukrainian, and Polish memories [Redlich] has produced a beautiful parallel narrative of a world that was lost three times over.... a truly wonderful achievement." —Jan T. Gross, author of Neighbors
Shimon Redlich draws on...
Code of the Samurai
A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Learn the ways of the Japanese Bushido Code with this very readable, modern translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu.
Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese Way of the Warrior. Bushido has played a major role in...
The Greatest Battle
Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II -- the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. From the time Hitler launched his assault on Moscow on September 30, 1941, to April 20, 1942, seven million...
by Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Genevieve Behrend
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
IMAGINE being the only pupil of the most advanced and brilliant thinker of your century. You could ask any question and get answers to life's toughest riddles. How to get more money, how to improve your relationships, how to improve your health — all answered simply and directly.
This is...
The Woman from Hamburg
and Other True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
From the time of its earliest sages in prehistoric China, Taoism has looked to the underlying Way of all things (the Tao) as a guide to thoughts and actions. For the Taoists, the patterns of nature revealed the answers to their deepest spiritual questions and provided the inspiration for their unique...
Heart of the Great Perfection
Dudjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The revelations of Düdjom Lingpa, a highly influential mystic of 19th century Tibet, translated by B. Alan Wallace, widely respected for his lucid and readable translations of Tibetan Buddhism.
Düdjom Lingpa (1835–1904) was one of the foremost tantric masters of his time. This new series...
Mind Power
Secret Strategies for the Martial Arts (Achieving Power by Understanding the Inner Workings of the Mind)
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Learn to harness your spiritual and mental energy to acquire the tools for survival and success in martial arts.
In Mind Power: Secret Strategies for the Martial Arts, Kazumi Tabata, Grandmaster in the Shotokan and Shorinji styles of Karate, offers his personal teachings as to how martial arts...
by Sokyo Ono Ph.D., William P. Woodard
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
"An excellently rounded introduction by an eminent Shinto scholar."—Library Journal
Shinto, the indigenous faith of the Japanese people, continues to fascinate and mystify both the casual visitor to Japan and the long-time resident. Relatively unknown among the religions of the...
Journey to Enlightenment
The Life of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
An inspiring portrait of one of the great spiritual leaders of the twentieth century, this book follows Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in his travels to Tibet, Bhutan, India, and Nepal, revisiting important places from his past. His birthplace in eastern Tibet, the monastery of Shechen that he entered at...
by Yoel Palgi, David Engel, Phyllis Palgi
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
In the spring of 1944, thirty-two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi-held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to organize rescue schemes thwarting deportations to the death camps. Linking up in Yugoslavia and impelled by the hope...
1915 Diary of S. An-sky
A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
S. An-sky was by the time of the First World War a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In 1915, An-sky took on the assignment of providing aid and relief to Jewish civilians trapped under Russian...
by Alfred J. Rieber
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
This is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and of the expansionist powers who renewed their struggle over the Eurasian borderlands through to the end of the Second World War. Surveying...
by Zygmunt Miloszewski
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Bestselling young star of Polish fiction, published for the first time in English. 2. The novel is the winner of “The High Calibre Award” for best Polish crime novel of 2007. 3. A well crafted novel full of dark humour with a world-weary hero suffering from bureaucratic exhaustion and marital ennui....