Eastern category: 10105 books
The Bhagavad Gita
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
A fresh, new prose translation of the classic Indian poem, ideally focused for students and teachers and for yoga teacher training
The Bhagavad Gita, a small section of the massive Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, is one of the central texts of Indian culture and philosophy, and one of the great...
Wen-tzu
Understanding the Mysteries: Further Teachings of Lao Tzu
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 1992
Lao-tzu, the legendary sage of ancient China, is traditionally considered to be the author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the most popular classics of world literature. Now Lao-tzu's further teachings on the Tao, or Way, are presented here in the first English translation of the Chinese text known as...
The Tao Te Ching
81 Verses by Lao Tzu with Introduction and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Tao Te Ching translates very roughly as "the way of integrity". In its 81 verses it delivers a treatise on how to live in the world with goodness and integrity: an important kind of wisdom in a world where many people believe such a thing to be impossible. Taosim affirms that each human...
Faiths on Display
Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
By providing a unique perspective on China's changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continues to play in religious revival today. Over the past several decades, China has experienced a rapid expansion of religious spaces and activities. More...
The Essential Yoga Sutra
Ancient Wisdom for Your Yoga
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali is a classic Sanskrit treatise consisting of 195 “threads,” or aphorisms, describing the process of liberation through yoga. Although little is known about Patanjali (most scholars estimate that he lived in India circa 200–300 b.c.), his writings have long been recognized...
Feeding Your Demons
Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Tsultrim Allione brings an eleventh-century Tibetan woman's practice to the West for the first time with FEEDING YOUR DEMONS, an accessible and effective approach for dealing with negative emotions, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. Allione-one of only a few female Buddhist leaders in this...
True Happiness
The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Learn from the Master
Sri Ramana Maharshi is regarded as one of the most important Indian sages of all time. At the age of sixteen, he experienced a spiritual awakening and travelled to the holy mountain of Arunachala, where a community grew up around him. From there, he touched the lives of...
by Vincent Gagliano
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
The Art of War is one of the oldest and most widely read books on tactics and strategy ever written, but it can also be one of the most mystifying for modern readers to tackle. In order to complete this book, author Vincent Gagliano studied several different translations of The Art of War, in addition...
by Kuan Loong
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Feng Shui guide and Chinese Zodiac forecast for those born in the year of the Goat for the year of 2016. Get in depth analysis provided by Grand Master Kuan Loong on how you can take on this year and achieve your goals by catering to your strengths and weaknesses for the year. By applying Feng Shui...
Wandering Jew
The Search for Joseph Roth
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Joseph Roth, best known as the author of the novel *The Radetzky March *and the nonfiction work The Wandering Jews, was one of the most seductive, disturbing, and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1894 in the Habsburg Empire in what is now Ukraine and dying in Paris in 1939, he...
by Filip Springer, Sean Gasper Bye
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Winner of Asymptote Journal’s 2016 Close Approximations Translation Contest and Shortlisted for the Nike Literary Prize, the Gdynia Literary Prize, and the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize, History of a Disappearance is the fascinating true story of a small mining town in the southwest of Poland that,...
Arunachala Shiva
Commentaries on Sri Maharshi's Teachings, Who am I?
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Arunachala Shiva paints an intimate picture of Sri Ramana Maharshi’s life, taking us behind the scenes to moments with his closest disciples. Compelling commentaries offer new and unexpected insights into his teachings, challenging entrenched ideas and assisting a final realisation. Included...
by Trevor Royle
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle
The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in...
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa
A Postcolonial Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons,...