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Vietnam: Rising Dragon

March 25, 2015

The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society, booming cities swallowing up smaller villages, and the lure of modern living tugging at the […]
Creation and Completion: Essential Points of Tantric Meditation

March 25, 2015

Creation and Completion represents some of the most profound teachings of Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-99), one of the true spiritual and literary giants of Tibetan history. Though brief, it offers a lifetime of advice for all who wish to engage in-and deepen-the practice of tantric Buddhist meditation.The original text, beautifully translated and introduced by Sara Harding, […]
Kalacakra and the Tibetan Calendar (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences)

March 25, 2015

Kalacakra and the Tibetan Calender describes the contents of current Tibetan almanacs, from basic mathmatics to symbolic and historical information. Essential for understanding the Kalacakra Tantra’s first chapter, this book describes the origin of the calendrical systems in this Tantra and translates and elucidates the relevant sections from its famous commentary, the Vimalaprabha. The main […]
Bangkok: The Story of a City

March 25, 2015

A fluent and affectionate portrait not only of the city of Bangkok, known to the Thais as `the city of angels’, but also of the dynasty and culture that created it. Cutting through confusion and veiled mystery, Waugh unravels the plots, coups, wars, assassinations, invasions, and counter-coups of two hundred years of history as if […]
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Vintage Departures)

March 25, 2015

For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most singular figures of our […]
Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

March 25, 2015

THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ROSEWATER, DIRECTED BY JON STEWARTWhen Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would […]
A Peaceful Realm : The Rise And Fall of the Indus Civilization

March 25, 2015

Some 5000 years ago, civilized societies emerged in the valleys of four great rivers: the Nile, the Euphrates, the Yellow, and the Indus. Of these primary Old World civilizations, that of the Indus remains the least known and the most enigmatic, though, paradoxically, it has left perhaps the most lasting influence on the societies that […]
Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands

March 25, 2015

Nation-building and the construction of citizenship, so often conducted—or coerced—from the center, are all too commonly studied from the center as well. This book moves the view of cultural citizenship to the periphery—specifically to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sarawak, East Malaysia—to show that notions of nationhood and citizenship are […]
My Faraway Home: An American Family’s WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Philippines

March 25, 2015

A beautifully written, courageous memoir of a wartime childhood behind enemy lines. (SEE QUOTES. Use #2 if not too long.) Sale Price:$3.49 1585747238
Seven Pillars of Wisdom [Illustrated with Working TOC]

March 25, 2015

T. E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, have earned him international fame as […]

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