Natl Book Network, November 2005. Trade Paperback. One of the Top 100 Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century. New Bonus Materials added to this edition include: the last chapter that Yogananda wrote covering the years 1946-1951 that was not available in the original edition, the eulogy that Yogananda wrote for... More
Wisdom Publications, April 1996. Trade Paperback. The Record of Transmitting the Light traces the inheritance of the Buddha's enlightenment through successive Buddhist masters. Written by a seminal figure in the Japanese Zen tradition, its significance as an historical and religious document is unquestionable. And ultimately, The Record of Transmitting the... More
Wisdom Publications, October 2008. Trade Paperback. Jan Willis is not Baptist or Buddhist. She is simply both. Dreaming Me is the story of her life, as a child growing up in the Jim Crow South, dealing with racism in an Ivy League college, and becoming involved with the Black Panther... More
Random House Inc, January 2001. Trade Paperback. A Brief History of Everything is an altogether friendly and accessible account of men and women's place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit, written by an author of whom New York Times reporter Tony Schwartz says: "No one has described the... More
Pantheon, August 2005. Trade Paperback. In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day," Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the continuation of her fascinating story... More
University of California Press, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Thirty years ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. "The Teachings of Don Juan" initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains... More
Arcade Publishing, June 2014. Trade Paperback. John Cage has been described as the most important composer of our time. He combined classical European training with Eastern spirituality to produce an American amalgam of such vitality and originality that it continues to define what we mean by avant-garde. His influence has... More
University of California Press, May 1998. Trade Paperback. As cultural revolutionary, media celebrity, Yippie, lost soul, and tragic suicide, Abbie Hoffman embodied the contradictions of his era. In this riveting new biography, Jonah Raskin draws on his own twenty-year relationship with Hoffman; hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, and... More
Ballantine Books, March 1993. Trade Paperback. This stunning work of research by Marilyn French, both a best-selling novelist and a leading feminist philosopher and theorist, constructs a powerful and convincing argument that there is, indeed, a war against women. Here, Marilyn French shows that negative attitudes toward women are not... More
Picador, April 2000. Trade Paperback. Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to... More
Grove Press, September 1987. Trade Paperback. Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual... More
North Atlantic Books, June 2016. Trade Paperback. Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and... More
State University of New York Press, October 1993. Trade Paperback. This book has three major goals in critically examining the historical and philosophical relation between the writings of Dogen and the Zen koan tradition. First, it introduces and evaluates recent Japanese scholarship concerning Dogen's two Shobogenzo texts, the Japanese (Kana)... More
Shambhala, April 2004. Trade Paperback. Spiritual practice is not some kind of striving to produce enlightenment, but an expression of the enlightenment already inherent in all things: Such is the Zen teaching of Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) whose profound writings have been studied and revered for more than seven hundred years... More
Ballantine Books, July 1996. Trade Paperback. "MY FAVORITE HISTORICAL NOVEL . . . A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant." --James M. McPherson, Author of Battle Cry of Freedom In the four... More
lulu.com, January 2010. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear. A couple of turned page corners. More
Dharma Communications, December 1992. Trade Paperback. More
SparkNotes, July 2003. Trade Paperback. Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear guide contains The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts the words into... More
Grove Press, Inc./Evergreen Black Cat, January 1970. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Shelf wear; underlining & marginal notes scattered through text. First printing. More
Agate Bolden, October 2014. Trade Paperback. Justice While Black is a must-read for every young black male in America--and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. This is a first-of-its-kind essential guide for African-American families about how to understand the criminal justice system, and about why that... More
Viking Adult, September 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. From the author of Enlightenment Now, a short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker. Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English... More
McSweeney's, Believer Books, September 2014. Trade Paperback. "How often do you begin reading a book that makes you--immediately, urgently, desperately--want to read more books?" ("Booklist"). Nick Hornby has managed to write just such a book in this hilarious, insightful, and infectious volume. "Ten Years in the Tub" chronicles Hornby's journey... More
Univ of Hawaii Pr, September 1989. Hardcover. The Emptiness of Emptiness presents the first English translation of the complete text of the Madhyamakavatara (Entry into the Middle Way) a sixth century Sanskrit Buddhist composition that was widely studied in Tibet and, presumably, in its native India as well. In his... More
Nan A. Talese, August 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage" (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered--and shadowed--by tragedy... More
