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Adventures With the Buddha: A Personal Buddhism Readerby Jeffery PaineISBN 0393327469 (0-393-32746-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Angelsby Peter WilsonISBN 039451355X (0-394-51355-X)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Anil's Ghostby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0375724370 (0-375-72437-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anil's Ghost'Book summary:In his Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje explored the nature of love and betrayal in wartime. His fourth, Anil's Ghost, is also set during a war, but unlike in World War II, the enemy is difficult to identify in the bloody sectarian upheaval that ripped Sri Lanka apart in the 1980s and '90s. The protagonist, Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan, left her homeland at 18 and returns to it 15 years later only as part of an international human rights fact-finding mission. In the intervening years she has become a forensic anthropologist--a career that has landed her in the killing fields of Central America, digging up the victims of Guatemala's dirty war. Now she's come to Sri Lanka on a similar quest. But as she soon learns, there are fundamental differences between her previous assignment and this one:
The bodies turn up weekly now. The height of the terror was 'eighty-eight and 'eighty-nine, but of course it was going on long before that. Every side was killing and hiding the evidence. Every side. This is an unofficial war, no one wants to alienate the foreign powers. So it's secret gangs and squads. Not like Central America. The government was not the only one doing the killing.
In such a situation, it's difficult to know who to trust. Anil's colleague is one Sarath Diyasena, a Sri Lankan archaeologist whose political affiliations, if any, are murky. Together they uncover evidence of a government-sponsored murder in the shape of a skeleton they nickname Sailor. But as Anil begins her investigation into the events surrounding Sailor's death, she finds herself caught in a web of politics, paranoia, and tragedy.Like its predecessor, the novel explores that territory where the personal and the political intersect in the fulcrum of war. Its style, though, is more straightforward, less densely poetical. While many of Ondaatje's literary trademarks are present--frequent shifts in time, almost hallucinatory imagery, the gradual interweaving of characters' pasts with the present--the prose here is more accessible. This is not to say that the author has forgotten his poetic roots; subtle, evocative images abound. Consider, for example, this description of Anil at the end of the day, standing in a pool of water, "her toes among the white petals, her arms folded as she undressed the day, removing layers of events and incidents so they would no longer be within her." In Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje has crafted both a brutal examination of internecine warfare and an enduring meditation on identity, loyalty, and the unbreakable hold the past exerts over the present. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activismby Alice WalkerISBN 0345407962 (0-345-40796-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Appaloosa Risingby Gino SkyISBN 0385153872 (0-385-15387-2)
Softcover, Doubleday
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The Awakened Eye: A Companion Volume to the Zen of Seeing Seeing, Drawing As Meditationby Frederick FranckISBN 0394740211 (0-394-74021-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Awakening the Heart: East/West Approaches to Psychotherapy and the Healing Relationshipby John WelwoodISBN 0394721829 (0-394-72182-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religionby Alan WattsISBN 0394473418 (0-394-47341-8)
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Behold the Spirit; A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religionby Alan Wilson WattsISBN 0394717619 (0-394-71761-9)
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The Belly of the Wolfby R.A. MacAvoyISBN 0380710188 (0-380-71018-8)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Buddhaby Susan L. RothISBN 0385310722 (0-385-31072-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Buddha in the Palm of Your Handby Osel Tendzin, Donna HolmISBN 039470889X (0-394-70889-X)
Softcover, Shambhala
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Buddhismby David-NeelISBN 0380461854 (0-380-46185-4)
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Buddhism and Bioethicsby Damien KeownISBN 0333912802 (0-333-91280-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Buddhism and the Cosmosby Daisaku Ikeda, Masayoshi Kiguchi, Eiichi ShimuraISBN 0356107736 (0-356-10773-6)
Hardcover, Macdonald
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Buddhism: Its Doctrines and Its Methodsby Alexandra David-NeelISBN 0370300475 (0-370-30047-5)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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Buddhist Wisdom: Containing the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutraby Edward ConzeISBN 0375726004 (0-375-72600-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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East Asia: A New Historyby Rhoads MurpheyISBN 0321421418 (0-321-42141-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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End of Faith: Religion, Terror, And the Future of Reasonby Sam HarrisISBN 0393327655 (0-393-32765-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'End of Faith: Religion, Terror, And the Future of Reason'Book summary:Sam Harris cranks out blunt, hard-hitting chapters to make his case for why faith itself is the most dangerous element of modern life. And if the devil's in the details, then you'll find Satan waiting at the back of the book in the very substantial notes section where Harris saves his more esoteric discussions to avoid sidetracking the urgency of his message.
Interestingly, Harris is not just focused on debunking religious faith, though he makes his compelling arguments with verve and intellectual clarity. The End of Faith is also a bit of a philosophical Swiss Army knife. Once he has presented his arguments on why, in an age of Weapons of Mass Destruction, belief is now a hazard of great proportions, he focuses on proposing alternate approaches to the mysteries of life. Harris recognizes the truth of the human condition, that we fear death, and we often crave "something more" we cannot easily define, and which is not met by accumulating more material possessions. But by attempting to provide the cure for the ills it defines, the book bites off a bit more than it can comfortably chew in its modest page count (however the rich Bibliography provides more than enough background for an intrigued reader to follow up for months on any particular strand of the author' musings.)
Harris' heart is not as much in the latter chapters, though, but in presenting his main premise. Simply stated, any belief system that speaks with assurance about the hereafter has the potential to place far less value on the here and now. And thus the corollary -- when death is simply a door translating us from one existence to another, it loses its sting and finality. Harris pointedly asks us to consider that those who do not fear death for themselves, and who also revere ancient scriptures instructing them to mete it out generously to others, may soon have these weapons in their own hands. If thoughts along the same line haunt you, this is your book.--Ed Dobeas [via]
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Even Cowgirls Get the Bluesby Tom RobbinsISBN 0395245109 (0-395-24510-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutraby Thomas ClearyISBN 0394536908 (0-394-53690-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Garden: A Parableby Michael RoachISBN 038549789X (0-385-49789-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Gateby Francois Bizot, John Le CarreISBN 037572723X (0-375-72723-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gate'Book summary:French ethnologist Francois Bizot's The Gate offers a unique insight into the rise of the Khmer Rouge. In 1971 Bizot was studying ancient Buddhist traditions and living with his Khmer partner and daughter in a small village in the environs of the Angkor temple complex. The Khmer Rouge was fighting a guerilla war in rural Cambodia; during a routine visit to a nearby temple, Bizot and his two Khmer colleagues were captured by them and imprisoned deep in the jungle on suspicion of working for the CIA. On trial for his life, over the next three months Bizot developed a strong relationship with his captor, Comrade Douch, who would later become the Khmer Rouge's chief interrogator and commandant of the horrifying Tuol Sleng prison where thousands of captives were tortured prior to execution. The portrait Bizot gives of the young schoolteacher-turned revolutionary and their interaction is simultaneously fascinating and terrifying.
Finally freed after Douch had pleaded his case with the leadership, Bizot became the only Western captive of the Khmer Rouge ever to be released alive, but his story does not end there. On his return to Phnom Penh, due to his fluency in Khmer, he was appointed interpreter between the occupying forces and the remaining western nationals holed up in the French embassy. As the interlocutor at the eponymous gate, he relates with dreadful resignation the moment when the Khmer nationals in the compound were ordered out by the Khmer Rouge forces for "resettlement."
Bizot's is a touching and gripping account of one of the darkest moments in modern history and it is told with a unique voice. As a Cambodian resident, a lover of Cambodia and a fluent Khmer speaker, Bizot shows an understanding of the prevailing mood in the country that other Western commentators have failed to capture effectively, while as a Western academic he is able to see the forces at work and how Cambodia fits into the bigger picture of South East Asian conflict. What emerges is a tale of a land plunged into insanity and Bizot tells it like a eulogy for a dead friend and a confrontation of old demons. The Gate is a stunning book and a must for anyone interested in this grim period of Asian history. --Duncan Thomson [via]
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braidby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0394745027 (0-394-74502-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Gödel, Escher, Bach, a Pulitzer prize-winning treatise on genius, explores the workings of brilliant people's brains with the help of historical examples and brainteaser puzzles. Not for the dim or the lazy, this book shows you, more clearly than most any other, what it means to see symbols and patterns where others see only the universe. Touching on math, computers, literature, music, and artificial intelligence, Gödel, Escher, Bach is a challenging and potentially life-changing piece of writing. [via]
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Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healingsby Stephen LevineISBN 0385417373 (0-385-41737-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Healing Buddhaby Raoul BirnbaumISBN 0394737296 (0-394-73729-6)
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How to Meditate: A Guide to Self-Discoveryby Lawrence L. LeshanISBN 0316880620 (0-316-88062-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Meditate: A Guide to Self-Discovery'Book summary:Meditation "is an ageless human experience that has been discovered and explored and used in every period and every culture that we know about," writes Lawrence LeShan, a psychotherapist and scholar. LeShan discusses the psychological and physiological effects of meditation, why meditation has these effects, and different types (or "paths") of meditation. To get the feel of it, he suggests starting with 15 minutes of breath counting--harder than it sounds. "The road of meditation is not an easy one," says LeShan. "The first shock of surprise comes when we realize how undisciplined our mind really is; how it refuses to do the bidding of our will." He gives detailed instructions for several meditations of different types and guidelines for choosing a program and a teacher. This is not a snappy "five minutes to perfect meditations" or a promise of "read this book, achieve instant peace." Rather, How to Meditate is a serious, thoughtful book. "In this most serious area--inner development--we are interested in evolution, which is stable, rather than revolution, which is not," says LeShan. You will see changes, he promises, but gradually. This is the new edition of the classic that has been teaching people to meditate since 1974. How wonderful that How to Meditate has been reissued, giving another generation the benefit of LeShan's work and guidance. --Joan Price [via]
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The Hungry Tigress and Other Traditional Asian Talesby Rafe MartinISBN 0394723392 (0-394-72339-2)
Softcover, Shambhala
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In My Own Way: An Autobiographyby Alan Wilson WattsISBN 0394719514 (0-394-71951-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In My Own Way: An Autobiography, 1915-1965by Alan WattsISBN 0394469119 (0-394-46911-9)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Intellectual Foundations of Chinaby Frederick W. MoteISBN 039431042X (0-394-31042-X)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Intellectual Foundations of China: [Chung-Kuo Ssu Hsiang Chih Yuan Yuan]by Frederick W. MoteISBN 0394383389 (0-394-38338-9)
Hardcover, Knopf
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The Jesus Sutras : Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianityby Martin PalmerISBN 0345434242 (0-345-43424-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jesus Sutras : Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianity'Book summary:It's no secret that there were Christians in China as far back as the seventh century. But exactly what they believed has been difficult to discern. In his book The Jesus Sutras, translator and interfaith pioneer Martin Palmer begins to shed light on what he has come to call Taoist Christianity, referring to ancient texts found only a century ago and drawing on his own sleuthing in China. In a book of ambitious scope, Palmer recounts Christianity's spread eastward from Jerusalem, where it encountered and adapted to local cultures. One of those cultures was the most powerful and advanced civilization in the world--Tang China--but which was also steeped in a retro-shamanic faith known as Taoism. Just as the Chinese assimilated Buddhism by interpreting it in Taoist terms, a similarly fascinating fusion of beliefs appears to have taken place in China's Christian monasteries. Palmer takes us to the site of one of these sanctuaries, which was once the Taoist equivalent of Canterbury Cathedral and which the Chinese government is now excavating and restoring in earnest. He also offers full English translations of what he calls the Jesus Sutras, Christian tracts translated into Chinese from an unknown Eastern language. While bearing clear resemblance to traditional Christianity, differences, and what one may call advances, are also apparent--for instance, original sin becomes the goodness of original nature. The Jesus Sutras is a powerful combination of research, translation, and interpretation that not only brings the past to light but lights the way for future interfaith dialogue. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Jokeby Milan KunderaISBN 035602637X (0-356-02637-X)
Hardcover, Macdonald
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joke'Book summary:The first definitive, complete edition of the author's classic first novel presents a tale of love, politics, revenge, and the fate of individuals in contemporary society. By the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 15,000 first printing. National ad/promo. [via]
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Juicing: Words and Brushworkby Paul RepsISBN 0385132506 (0-385-13250-6)
Hardcover, Anchor Books
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The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyanaby Richard F. Burton, Called Mallanaga VatsyayanaISBN 0375759247 (0-375-75924-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana'Book summary:Sir Richard F. Burtons translation of The Kama Sutra remains one of the best English interpretations of this early Indian treatise on politics, social customs, love, and intimacy. Its crisp style set a new standard for Sanskrit translation.
The Kama Sutra stands uniquely as a work of psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, and sexology. It has been a celebrated classic of Indian literature for 1,700 years and a window for the West into the culture and mysticism of the East.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative text of Sir Richard F. Burtons 1883 translation. [via]More editions of The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana:
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Kimby Rudyard Kipling, Zohreh T. SullivanISBN 039396650X (0-393-96650-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Kim and Her Crazy Ideasby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0385073615 (0-385-07361-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Lambby Christopher MooreISBN 0380813815 (0-380-81381-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lamb'Book summary:While the Bible may be the word of God, transcribed by divinely inspired men, it does not provide a full (or even partial) account of the life of Jesus Christ. Lucky for us that Christopher Moore presents a funny, lighthearted satire of the life of Christ--from his childhood days up to his crucifixion--in Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. This clever novel is surely blasphemy to some, but to others it's a coming-of-age story of the highest order.
Joshua (a.k.a. Jesus) knows he is unique and quite alone in his calling, but what exactly does his Father want of him? Taking liberties with ancient history, Moore works up an adventure tale as Biff and Joshua seek out the three wise men so that Joshua can better understand what he is supposed to do as Messiah. Biff, a capable sinner, tags along and gives Joshua ample opportunities to know the failings and weaknesses of being truly human. With a wit similar to Douglas Adams, Moore pulls no punches: a young Biff has the hots for Joshua's mom, Mary, which doesn't amuse Josh much: "Don't let anyone ever tell you that the Prince of Peace never struck anyone." And the origin of the Easter Bunny is explained as a drunken Jesus gushes his affection for bunnies, declaring, "Henceforth and from now on, I decree that whenever something bad happens to me, there shall be bunnies around."
One small problem with the narrative is that Biff and Joshua often do not have distinct voices. A larger difficulty is that as the tone becomes more somber with Joshua's life drawing to its inevitable close, the one-liners, though not as numerous, seem forced. True to form, Lamb keeps the story of Joshua light, even after its darkest moments. --Michael Ferch [via]
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Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Palby Christopher MooreISBN 0380978407 (0-380-97840-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Joshua (a.k.a. Jesus) knows he is unique and quite alone in his calling, but what exactly does his Father want of him? Taking liberties with ancient history, Moore works up an adventure tale as Biff and Joshua seek out the three wise men so that Joshua can better understand what he is supposed to do as Messiah. Biff, a capable sinner, tags along and gives Joshua ample opportunities to know the failings and weaknesses of being truly human. With a wit similar to Douglas Adams, Moore pulls no punches: a young Biff has the hots for Joshua's mom, Mary, which doesn't amuse Josh much: "Don't let anyone ever tell you that the Prince of Peace never struck anyone." And the origin of the Easter Bunny is explained as a drunken Jesus gushes his affection for bunnies, declaring, "Henceforth and from now on, I decree that whenever something bad happens to me, there shall be bunnies around."
One small problem with the narrative is that Biff and Joshua often do not have distinct voices. A larger difficulty is that as the tone becomes more somber with Joshua's life drawing to its inevitable close, the one-liners, though not as numerous, seem forced. True to form, Lamb keeps the story of Joshua light, even after its darkest moments. --Michael Ferch [via]
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The Life and Teaching of Naropa: Translated from the Original Tibetan with a Philosophical Commentary Based on the Oral Transmissionby Herbert V. Guenther, NadapadaISBN 0394743792 (0-394-74379-2)
Softcover, Shambhala
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The Lotus of the Wonderful Law, or the Lotus of Gospel: Saddharma Pundarika Sutra Mao-Fa Lien Hua Chingby William Edward SoothillISBN 0391034650 (0-391-03465-0)
Softcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nunby Faith AdieleISBN 039332673X (0-393-32673-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Monkey and the Crocodileby Paul GaldoneISBN 0395288061 (0-395-28806-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Motherless Brooklynby Jonathan LethemISBN 0375724834 (0-375-72483-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Motherless Brooklyn'Book summary:Pop quiz. Please complete the following sentence: "There are days when I get up in the morning and stagger into the bathroom and begin running water and then I look up and I don't even recognize my own _." If you answered face, then your name is obviously not Jonathan Lethem. Instead of taking the easy out, the genre-busting novelist concludes this by-the-numbers string of words with toothbrush in the mirror.
This brilliant sentence and a lot of other really excellent ones compose Lethem's engaging fifth novel, Motherless Brooklyn. Lionel Essrog, a detective suffering from Tourette's syndrome, spins the narrative as he tracks down the killer of his boss, Frank Minna. Minna enlisted Lionel and his friends when they were teenagers living at Saint Vincent's Home for Boys, ostensibly to perform odd jobs (we're talking very odd) and over the years trained them to become a team of investigators. The Minna men face their most daunting case when they find their mentor in a Dumpster bleeding from stab wounds delivered by an assailant whose identity he refuses to reveal--even while he's dying on the way to the hospital.
Detectives? Brooklyn? Is this the same Lethem who danced the postapocalypso in Amnesia Moon? Incredibly, yes, and rarely has such a departure been pulled off with this much aplomb. As in the "toothbrush" passage above, Lethem sets himself up with the imposing task of making tired conventions new. Brooklyn accents? Fuggetaboutit. Lethem's dialogue is as light on its feet as a prize fighter. Lionel's Tourette's could have been an easy joke, but Lethem probes so convincingly into the disorder that you feel simultaneously rattled, sympathetic, and irritated by the guy. Sure, the story is a mystery, but Motherless Brooklyn could be about flower arranging, for all we care. What counts is Lionel's tic-ridden take on a world full of surprises, propelling this fiction forward at edgy, breakneck speed. --Ryan Boudinot [via]
The Nature of Buddhist Ethicsby Damien KeownISBN 0333913094 (0-333-91309-4)
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New World of Philosophyby Abraham D. KaplanISBN 0394702352 (0-394-70235-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New World of Philosophy'Book summary:Pragmatism Analytic Philosophy Existentialism Communism Zen Freud and Modern Philosophy Buddhism Chinese Philosophy Indian Philosophy "Abraham Kaplan achieves a triumph in these interpretive studies of some of the main movements of modern philosophic thought....The writing is marked by a wit and pungency unwonted in philosophic prose. "The scope of Mr. Kaplan's nine lectures ranges from pragmatism and analytic philosophy, considered as technical doctorines, through existentialism, communism and psychoanalysis, to four lectures on the philosophy and religion of the East-Buddhism, Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy and Zen." Sidney Hook, The New York Times. [via]
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Nothing Sacredby Elizabeth Ann ScarboroughISBN 0385415303 (0-385-41530-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing Sacred'Book summary:In a world where unemployment is obliterated by putting all jobless people in the military to maintain the endless ongoing warfare, Warrant Officer Viveka Vanachek finds herself in a weirder place yet. Captured, raped, and interrogated she is finally exiled to a remote snow-bound prison camp where she is placed in solitary confinement. It seems like the end of the world when she also becomes too sick to eat and starts seeing ghosts and hearing mysterious chanting within the noises of the camp. But her dreams tell her there is more to her prison than there seems to be and soon her delusions and reality start trading places. [via]
Oriental Mystics & Magiciansby Perle BessermanISBN 0385083432 (0-385-08343-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Power of Nothingnessby A. David-NeelISBN 0395315573 (0-395-31557-3)
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Psychotherapy East and Westby Alan W. WattsISBN 0394716094 (0-394-71609-4)
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0380977427 (0-380-97742-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch's message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke's early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-all before the year 1700.
In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza's lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.
The book courses with Stephenson's scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel's literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Radical Zen: The Sayings of Joshuby Yoel Hoffmann, Chao-ChouISBN 0394735129 (0-394-73512-9)
Hardcover, Autumn Press
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The Rain of Wisdom: The Essence of the Ocean of True Meaning ..., the Vajra Songs of the Kagyu Gurusby Chogyam Trungpa, Nalanda Translation CommitteeISBN 0394739728 (0-394-73972-8)
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymourby J. D. SalingerISBN 0316769576 (0-316-76957-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour'Book summary:The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction. [via]
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Rebirth: The Tibetan Game of Liberationby Mark Tatz, Jody KentISBN 0385114214 (0-385-11421-4)
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Seeing with the Mind's Eyeby Mike Samuels, Nancy H. SamuelsISBN 0394731131 (0-394-73113-1)
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Seeing With the Mind's Eye: The History, Techniques, and Uses of Visualizationby Mike Samuels, Nancy SamuelsISBN 0394497457 (0-394-49745-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot : The Classic of American Buddhismby Soyen Shaku, Taitetsu UnnoISBN 0385510489 (0-385-51048-9)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Soloistby Mark SalzmanISBN 0394570103 (0-394-57010-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soloist'Book summary:As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes on as a pupil a Korean boy whose brilliant musicianship reminds him of his own past.
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Subterraneansby Jack KerouacISBN 0394179528 (0-394-17952-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subterraneans'Book summary:In "Subterraneans" Leo and Mardou live amongst the Subterraneans who haunt the bars and clubs of San Fransisco and have a bittersweet love affair. In "Pic", on the road but not yet overawed, ten-year-old Pic tells the story in the Negro dialect of the North Carolina farm country. [via]
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Subtle Wisdom: Understanding Suffering, Cultivating Compassion Through Ch'an Buddhismby Sheng-YenISBN 0385480458 (0-385-48045-8)
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The Supreme Identityby Alan W. WattsISBN 0394718356 (0-394-71835-6)
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Tao: The Watercourse Wayby Al Chung-Liang Huang, Alan WattsISBN 0394489012 (0-394-48901-2)
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Tao: The Watercourse Wayby Alan WattsISBN 0394733118 (0-394-73311-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tao: The Watercourse Way'Book summary:Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature of Alan Watts. [via]
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Tassajara Cookingby Edward E. BrownISBN 0394741935 (0-394-74193-5)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, And Beyondby Pankaj MishraISBN 0374173214 (0-374-17321-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, And Beyond'Book summary:[via]A vivid, often surprising account of South Asia today by the author of An End to Suffering
In his new book, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on travels that are at once epic and personal. Traveling in the changing cultures of South Asia, Mishra sees the pressuresthe temptationsof Western-style modernity and prosperity, and teases out the paradoxes of globalization. A
visit to Allahabad, birthplace of Jawaharlal Nehru, occasions a brief history of the tumultuous post-independence politics Nehru set in motion. In Kashmir, just after the brutal killing of thirtyfive Sikhs, Mishra sees Muslim guerrillas playing with Sikh village children while the media ponder a (largely irrelevant) visit by President Clinton. And in Tibet Mishra exquisitely parses the situation whereby the Chinese governmentofficially atheist and strongly opposed to a free Tibethas discovered that Tibetan Buddhism can be packaged and sold to tourists.Temptations of the West is a book concerned with history still in the makingessential reading about a conflicted and rapidly changing region.More editions of Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, And Beyond:
The Tibetan Book of Yoga: Ancient Buddhist Teachings on the Philosophy and Practice of Yogaby Michael Roach, Geshe Michael RoachISBN 0385508379 (0-385-50837-9)
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Tibetan Folk Talesby Audrey Hyde-Chambers, Fredrick Hyde-Chambers, Kusho RallaISBN 0394748867 (0-394-74886-7)
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Tibetan Medicine: A Practical and Inspiration Guide to Diagnosing, Treating and Healing the Buddhist Wayby Gerti SamelISBN 0316858455 (0-316-85845-5)
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Tropic of Cancerby Henry Miller, Anais NinISBN 0394604350 (0-394-60435-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tropic of Cancer'Book summary:No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate American in Paris was deemed obscene and banned from publication in this country for years. When you read this, you see immediately how much modern writers owe Miller. [via]
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Undergroundby Alfred Birnbaum, Haruki Murakami, J. Philip Gabriel, Philip GabrielISBN 0375725806 (0-375-72580-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Underground'Book summary:From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.
In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds of interviews with the people involved, from the survivors to the perpetrators to the relatives of those who died, and Underground is their story in their own voices. Concerned with the fundamental issues that led to the attack as well as these personal accounts, Underground is a document of what happened in Tokyo as well as a warning of what could happen anywhere. This is an enthralling and unique work of nonfiction that is timely and vital and as wonderfully executed as Murakamis brilliant novels. [via]More editions of Underground:
Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death: Buddhism in the Contemporary Worldby Daisaku IkedaISBN 035615498X (0-356-15498-X)
Hardcover, Macdonald
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Walking on Airby Pierre DelattreISBN 0395291194 (0-395-29119-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
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Wheel of Life and Deathby Roshi P. KapleauISBN 0385234139 (0-385-23413-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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White Monkey King: A Chinese Fableby Ronni Solbert, Sally Hovey Wriggins, Cheng-En WuISBN 039483450X (0-394-83450-X)
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The Winds of Sinhalaby Colin De SilvaISBN 0385159528 (0-385-15952-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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World of the Buddha: An Introduction to Buddhist Literatureby Lucien StrykISBN 0394179749 (0-394-17974-9)
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Zen and Zen Classics: Selections from R. H. Blythby Frederick Franck, Reginald Horace BlythISBN 0394724895 (0-394-72489-5)
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Zen for Catsby Henry BeardISBN 0375500340 (0-375-50034-0)
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Zen: Merging of East and Westby Philip Kapleau, Roshi Philip KapleauISBN 0385261047 (0-385-26104-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen: Merging of East and West'Book summary:In this companion volume to The Three Pillars of Zen, Kapleau establishes guidelines for Western practitioners of Zen Buddhism, offering appealing, simple answers to the questions Westerners most often ask. Among the topics discussed in this informative, user-friendly book: "Transcendental Meditation: Who Transcends What?", "Can I Practice Zen and Be a Good Jew (or Catholic)?", "Reading About Enlightenment Is Like Scratching an Itchy Foot Through Your Shoe," and "Meditation Is an Escape--What Are You Doing to Help Society?" Kapleau's eloquence, humor, and authority make this an indispensible handbook for understanding Zen in the Western world. [via]
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Zen Poems of China & Japanby Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto, Taigan TakayamaISBN 0385046243 (0-385-04624-3)
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Tao Speaks : Lao-Tzu's Whispers of Wisdomby Brian Bruya, Tsai Chih ChungISBN 0385472595 (0-385-47259-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tao Speaks : Lao-Tzu's Whispers of Wisdom'Book summary:The centuries-old wisdom of the Tao, as told through the profoundly wise and delightfully entertaining illustrations of Tsai Chih Chung.
In The Tao Speaks, Tsai Chih Chung brilliantly retells, through his enchanting and irreverently humorous cartoon panels, the two thousand-year-old text of Tao Te Ching, the inspiring classic upon which Taoism is based.
Attributed to the great Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, the Tao Te Ching has attracted generations of followers from across the world to its simple tenets of modesty, peace, and realism. According to Lao-tzu, "If we are at peace with ourselves and the world around us, success will come unsought." Advocating poise, serenity, and complete assurance, Lao-tzu teaches men and women to work with nature rather than resist it.
The Tao Speaks offers the centuries-old wisdom of the Tao to modern readers searching for new ways to bring meaning to life. As with Tsai Chih Chung's previous books, the original Chinese notes are contained in the margins of each page as an aid to scholars and Chinese-speaking readers.
"Tsai Chih Chung's books are awe-inspiring. his line is elegant; his characters are sharply drawn; his humor is sly and appropriate; and his subject is profound. This is cartooning of the highest order." -- Larry Gonick, author of The Cartoon History Of The Universe, Volumes I and II. [via]More editions of Tao Speaks : Lao-Tzu's Whispers of Wisdom:
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