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Thank You and Ok!
An American Zen Failure in Japan
Written by David Chadwick
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-470-9 (1-59030-470-5)
David Chadwick began his Zen study under the legendary Japanese master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. Much later, Suzuki Roshi’s successor said of Chadwick: “Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste.”
In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial education. In THANK YOU... Read more >
An American Zen Failure in Japan
Written by David Chadwick
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-470-9 (1-59030-470-5)
David Chadwick began his Zen study under the legendary Japanese master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. Much later, Suzuki Roshi’s successor said of Chadwick: “Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste.”
In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial education. In THANK YOU... Read more >
Factory Girls
From Village to City in a Changing China
Written by Leslie T. Chang
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52018-8 (0-385-52018-2)
Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Award For Nonfiction, given by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction
A New York Times Notable Book of 2008
One of the Washington Post’s best books of 2008
A Seattle Times best nonfiction book of 2008
One of the Christian... Read more >
From Village to City in a Changing China
Written by Leslie T. Chang
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52018-8 (0-385-52018-2)
Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Award For Nonfiction, given by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction
A New York Times Notable Book of 2008
One of the Washington Post’s best books of 2008
A Seattle Times best nonfiction book of 2008
One of the Christian... Read more >
English, August
An Indian Story
Written by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Introduction by Akhil Sharma
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-179-0 (1-59017-179-9)
Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the IAS.
Agastya’s first assignment is to the... Read more >
An Indian Story
Written by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Introduction by Akhil Sharma
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-179-0 (1-59017-179-9)
Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the IAS.
Agastya’s first assignment is to the... Read more >
Brothers
A Novel
Written by Da Chen
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9729-6 (1-4000-9729-0)
At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Da Chen
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9729-6 (1-4000-9729-0)
At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments... Read more >
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Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic
Written by Mayank Chhaya
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-51945-8 (0-385-51945-1)
Written with the full cooperation of the Dalai Lama, this fascinating, up-to-date biography at once captures the public persona and enduring mystery behind one of the world’s most important spiritual leaders.
In 1997, the Indian journalist Mayank Chhaya was authorized by the Dalai Lama to write about his life and times. The... Read more >
Written by Mayank Chhaya
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-51945-8 (0-385-51945-1)
Written with the full cooperation of the Dalai Lama, this fascinating, up-to-date biography at once captures the public persona and enduring mystery behind one of the world’s most important spiritual leaders.
In 1997, the Indian journalist Mayank Chhaya was authorized by the Dalai Lama to write about his life and times. The... Read more >
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The Supreme Way
Inner Teachings of the Southern Mountain Tao
Written by Loy Ching-Yuen
Translated by Trevor Carolan and Du Liang
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: May 28, 1997
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-239-2 (1-55643-239-9)
Taoist Master Loy Ching-Yuen wrote The Supreme Way to give his students an understanding of how China’s three great religious traditions have co-existed for two thousand years. Occasionally breath-taking in its description of the process of higher Taoist meditation, The Supreme Way also delineates Buddhist compassion and Confucian humanism, and shows... Read more >
Inner Teachings of the Southern Mountain Tao
Written by Loy Ching-Yuen
Translated by Trevor Carolan and Du Liang
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: May 28, 1997
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-239-2 (1-55643-239-9)
Taoist Master Loy Ching-Yuen wrote The Supreme Way to give his students an understanding of how China’s three great religious traditions have co-existed for two thousand years. Occasionally breath-taking in its description of the process of higher Taoist meditation, The Supreme Way also delineates Buddhist compassion and Confucian humanism, and shows... Read more >
Japanese Street Slang
Written by Peter Constantine
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
Publisher: Weatherhill
On Sale: May 1, 1992
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8348-0250-6 (0-8348-0250-3)
Japanese Street Slang is the first and only exposé of the rough and ready, raw and down-dirty street language as it is used in Japan today. Here's how they really speak: The hustlers and high rollers, the teens and Tokyo yuppies, the gangsters and their ladies of the night. Witty mini-essays... Read more >
Written by Peter Constantine
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
Publisher: Weatherhill
On Sale: May 1, 1992
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8348-0250-6 (0-8348-0250-3)
Japanese Street Slang is the first and only exposé of the rough and ready, raw and down-dirty street language as it is used in Japan today. Here's how they really speak: The hustlers and high rollers, the teens and Tokyo yuppies, the gangsters and their ladies of the night. Witty mini-essays... Read more >
Treasury of Precious Qualities
A Commentary on the Root Text of Jigme Lingpa
Written by Longchen Yeshe Dorje and Kangyur
Translated by Padmakara Translation Group
Foreword by Dalai Lama and Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: September 25, 2001
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-57062-598-5 (1-57062-598-0)
This book is a commentary by a contemporary master (1897–1975) on a portion of an ancient Tibetan Buddhist teaching. In the Tibetan tradition, it is common for a meditation master to offer explanations and interpretations in this way, in order to share his understanding with students and to shed light on... Read more >
A Commentary on the Root Text of Jigme Lingpa
Written by Longchen Yeshe Dorje and Kangyur
Translated by Padmakara Translation Group
Foreword by Dalai Lama and Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: September 25, 2001
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-57062-598-5 (1-57062-598-0)
This book is a commentary by a contemporary master (1897–1975) on a portion of an ancient Tibetan Buddhist teaching. In the Tibetan tradition, it is common for a meditation master to offer explanations and interpretations in this way, in order to share his understanding with students and to shed light on... Read more >
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One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Written by Thomas Frank
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49504-2 (0-385-49504-8)
In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go ‘90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.
Frank’s target is “market populism”–the widely held belief that markets are a more... Read more >
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Written by Thomas Frank
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49504-2 (0-385-49504-8)
In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go ‘90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.
Frank’s target is “market populism”–the widely held belief that markets are a more... Read more >
China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7524-6 (0-8129-7524-3)
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7524-6 (0-8129-7524-3)
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >
China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6467-0 (1-4000-6467-8)
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6467-0 (1-4000-6467-8)
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >
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The Poetry of Zen
Translated by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-425-9 (1-59030-425-X)
A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen—and Zen has also had a profound... Read more >
Translated by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-425-9 (1-59030-425-X)
A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen—and Zen has also had a profound... Read more >
Tao Te Ching
A New Translation
Written by Sam Hamill
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59030-387-0 (1-59030-387-3)
Part poetry, part paradox, always stirring and profound, Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching has been inspiring readers since it was written over two thousand years ago. This masterpiece is also one of the most frequently translated books in all of history, in part because the multiple meanings of the Chinese characters... Read more >
A New Translation
Written by Sam Hamill
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59030-387-0 (1-59030-387-3)
Part poetry, part paradox, always stirring and profound, Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching has been inspiring readers since it was written over two thousand years ago. This masterpiece is also one of the most frequently translated books in all of history, in part because the multiple meanings of the Chinese characters... Read more >
Awakening to the Tao
Written by Lui I-Ming
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59030-344-3 (1-59030-344-X)
The Tao is the Way, the Way behind all ways, the principle underlying all principles, the fact underlying all facts. Taoism, in its broadest sense, is the search for truth and reality. In a narrower sense, it is the original knowledge tradition of China, yet Taoism has already in the last... Read more >
Written by Lui I-Ming
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59030-344-3 (1-59030-344-X)
The Tao is the Way, the Way behind all ways, the principle underlying all principles, the fact underlying all facts. Taoism, in its broadest sense, is the search for truth and reality. In a narrower sense, it is the original knowledge tradition of China, yet Taoism has already in the last... Read more >
Contemplating Reality
A Practitioner's Guide to the View in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Written by Andy Karr
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-429-7 (1-59030-429-2)
This book introduces the reader to contemplations that investigate a series of views of reality as they evolved in the Buddhist tradition. These views are explained in plain English, with contemporary metaphors and examples to bring out their meaning for modern Buddhists. Quotations from both historical and living meditation masters and... Read more >
A Practitioner's Guide to the View in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Written by Andy Karr
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-429-7 (1-59030-429-2)
This book introduces the reader to contemplations that investigate a series of views of reality as they evolved in the Buddhist tradition. These views are explained in plain English, with contemporary metaphors and examples to bring out their meaning for modern Buddhists. Quotations from both historical and living meditation masters and... Read more >
The Second World
How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Parag Khanna
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7984-8 (0-8129-7984-2)
In The Second World, scholar Parag Khanna, chosen as one of Esquire’s 75 Most Influential People of the Twenty-First Century, reveals how America’s future depends on its ability to compete with the European Union and China to forge relationships with the Second World, the pivotal regions of Eastern Europe, Central Asia... Read more >
How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Parag Khanna
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7984-8 (0-8129-7984-2)
In The Second World, scholar Parag Khanna, chosen as one of Esquire’s 75 Most Influential People of the Twenty-First Century, reveals how America’s future depends on its ability to compete with the European Union and China to forge relationships with the Second World, the pivotal regions of Eastern Europe, Central Asia... Read more >
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The Heart of Compassion
The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
Written by Dilgo Khyentse
Translated by Mattieu Ricard and Padmakara Translation Group
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-457-0 (1-59030-457-8)
The inspiring and eloquent verses found in The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva were composed by Gyalse Ngulchu Thogme (1295–1369), an ancient Tibetan master and legendary exemplar of generosity and kindness. This classical text—a concise and easy-to-memorize distillation of the teachings presented in Shantideva’s masterwork The Way of... Read more >
The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
Written by Dilgo Khyentse
Translated by Mattieu Ricard and Padmakara Translation Group
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-457-0 (1-59030-457-8)
The inspiring and eloquent verses found in The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva were composed by Gyalse Ngulchu Thogme (1295–1369), an ancient Tibetan master and legendary exemplar of generosity and kindness. This classical text—a concise and easy-to-memorize distillation of the teachings presented in Shantideva’s masterwork The Way of... Read more >
Among Flowers
A Walk in the Himalaya
Written by Jamaica Kincaid
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0096-0 (1-4262-0096-X)
In this delightful hybrid of a book—part memoir and part travel journal—the bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal with a trio of botanist friends in search of native Himalayan plants that will grow in her Vermont garden. Alighting from a plane in the dramatic Annapurna Valley, the... Read more >
A Walk in the Himalaya
Written by Jamaica Kincaid
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0096-0 (1-4262-0096-X)
In this delightful hybrid of a book—part memoir and part travel journal—the bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal with a trio of botanist friends in search of native Himalayan plants that will grow in her Vermont garden. Alighting from a plane in the dramatic Annapurna Valley, the... Read more >
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In Search of Zarathustra
Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet
Written by Paul Kriwaczek
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3142-9 (1-4000-3142-7)
A fascinating journey through time and across Europe and Central Asia, in search of the prophet Zarathustra (a.k.a. Zoroaster)—perhaps the greatest religious lawgiver of the ancient world—and his vast influence.
In Persia more than three thousand years ago, Zarathustra spoke of a single universal god, the battle between good and evil, the... Read more >
Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet
Written by Paul Kriwaczek
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3142-9 (1-4000-3142-7)
A fascinating journey through time and across Europe and Central Asia, in search of the prophet Zarathustra (a.k.a. Zoroaster)—perhaps the greatest religious lawgiver of the ancient world—and his vast influence.
In Persia more than three thousand years ago, Zarathustra spoke of a single universal god, the battle between good and evil, the... Read more >
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Essential Teachings
Written by Dalai Lama
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: March 16, 1995
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-192-0 (1-55643-192-9)
Essential Teachings presents the first English translation og a series of talks given in 1974 by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India--the site of the Buddha's enlightenment--to a gathering of Tibetan refugees and Western Buddhists. His precise and eloquent commentary on the "Path of the Bodhisattva," one of the most... Read more >
Written by Dalai Lama
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: March 16, 1995
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-192-0 (1-55643-192-9)
Essential Teachings presents the first English translation og a series of talks given in 1974 by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India--the site of the Buddha's enlightenment--to a gathering of Tibetan refugees and Western Buddhists. His precise and eloquent commentary on the "Path of the Bodhisattva," one of the most... Read more >
The Blue Notebook
A Novel
Written by James Levine, MD
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52871-9 (0-385-52871-X)
A haunting yet astonishingly hopeful story of a young Indian prostitute who uses writing and imagination to transcend her reality.
An unforgettable, deeply affecting tribute to the powers of imagination and the resilience of childhood, The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious 15-year-old girl from rural India who was... Read more >
A Novel
Written by James Levine, MD
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52871-9 (0-385-52871-X)
A haunting yet astonishingly hopeful story of a young Indian prostitute who uses writing and imagination to transcend her reality.
An unforgettable, deeply affecting tribute to the powers of imagination and the resilience of childhood, The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious 15-year-old girl from rural India who was... Read more >
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Invoking Reality
Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen
Written by John Daido Loori
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-459-4 (1-59030-459-4)
There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains the ethical precepts of Zen... Read more >
Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen
Written by John Daido Loori
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-459-4 (1-59030-459-4)
There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains the ethical precepts of Zen... Read more >
The Road of Lost Innocence
The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
Written by Somaly Mam
Foreword by Nicholas D. Kristof
Introduction by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52622-7 (0-385-52622-9)
A riveting and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope–by a woman named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For... Read more >
The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
Written by Somaly Mam
Foreword by Nicholas D. Kristof
Introduction by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52622-7 (0-385-52622-9)
A riveting and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope–by a woman named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For... Read more >
Ruling Your World
Ancient Strategies For Modern Life
Written by Sakyong Mipham
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2065-0 (0-7679-2065-1)
You’re stuck in the airport security line, late for a flight. The line isn’t moving. You’re angry at the security personnel for taking so long, you’re irritated at the other passengers for having so much stuff, you’re mad at your boss for sending you on this trip in the first place... Read more >
Ancient Strategies For Modern Life
Written by Sakyong Mipham
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2065-0 (0-7679-2065-1)
You’re stuck in the airport security line, late for a flight. The line isn’t moving. You’re angry at the security personnel for taking so long, you’re irritated at the other passengers for having so much stuff, you’re mad at your boss for sending you on this trip in the first place... Read more >
Bushido
The Spirit of the Samurai
Written by Inazo Nitobe
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-290-3 (1-59030-290-7)
First published in 1900, Bushido is the work of a Japanese scholar and educator—and a Quaker—writing in English for a Western audience to explain the virtues most admired by the Japanese: rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty, and self-control. The author's approach is twofold. First, he delves into Japan's ancient... Read more >
The Spirit of the Samurai
Written by Inazo Nitobe
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-290-3 (1-59030-290-7)
First published in 1900, Bushido is the work of a Japanese scholar and educator—and a Quaker—writing in English for a Western audience to explain the virtues most admired by the Japanese: rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty, and self-control. The author's approach is twofold. First, he delves into Japan's ancient... Read more >
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