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Wave of Destruction: The Stories of Four Families and History’s Deadliest Tsunami

March 22, 2015

At just before 8:00 a.m. local time on December 26, 2004, a monstrously powerful earthquake erupted on the floor of the Indian Ocean. The quake roared across the seabed for a full ten minutes—most earthquakes last only a few seconds—and is estimated to have had a shocking magnitude of 9.15 on the Richter scale.The earthquake, […]
Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love

March 22, 2015

In a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their families by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else’s. Families Apart focuses on Filipino overseas workers in Canada to reveal what such arrangements mean for families on both sides of the global divide.The outcome of Geraldine Pratt’s collaboration with the […]
Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival

March 22, 2015

The secret war for Tibet, told by the CIA veteran who helped run American covert operations to support the Tibetan resistance and the Dalai Lama.. For decades, the United States ran covert operations into Tibet in an attempt to help Tibetan exiles take back their country from the Chinese. These operations have never been discloseduntil […]
Tara’s Enlightened Activity: An Oral Commentary On The Twenty-One Praises To Tara

March 22, 2015

The female Buddhist deity Tara is an object of devotional worship and meditative practice for Tibetan Buddhists everywhere, both male and female. She clears away fears, overpowers negative emotions, and enables all beings to reach enlightenment. She has special resonance as a source of female spiritual wisdom. Tibetans of all schools and traditions recite the […]
Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics)

March 22, 2015

Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western perspective. Villehardouin’s Conquest of Constantinople, distinguished by its simplicity and lucidity, recounts the controversial Fourth Crusade, which […]
Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun

March 22, 2015

Himalayan Hermitess is a vivid account of the life and times of a Buddhist nun living on the borderlands of Tibetan culture. Orgyan Chokyi (1675-1729) spent her life in Dolpo, the highest inhabited region of the Nepal Himalayas. Illiterate and expressly forbidden by her master to write her own life story, Orgyan Chokyi received divine […]
The Revolution in Constantinople and Turkey: A diary

March 22, 2015

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1909 edition by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Sale Price:$15.42 1402188773
Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri’s Mission to Tibet

March 22, 2015

Jesuit on the Roof of the World is the first full-length study in any language of Ippolito Desideri (1684-1733), a Jesuit explorer and missionary who traveled in Tibet from 1715 to 1721. Based on close readings of a wide range of primary sources in Tibetan, Italian, and Latin, Jesuit on the Roof of the World […]
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

March 22, 2015

“Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes.”—Max Rodenbeck, New York Review of Books Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr has become one of America’s leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, admired and welcomed by both media and government for his “concise and coherent” analysis (Wall Street Journal, front-page profile). In this “remarkable […]
Deadly Secrets: The Singapore Raids 1942-45

March 22, 2015

A sobering aspect of many of the special operations carried out by Australian forces during World War II is that many fine men who volunteered for hazardous service died while carrying out missions that were politically, rather than militarily, motivated. In telling the story of both these raids, author Lynette Silver reveals a number of […]

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