Eastern category: 10105 books
Your Body Knows the Answer
Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change, and Liberate Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A manual for Mindful Focusing, a new integration of Eastern and Western techniques for accessing your inherent wisdom.Ever come up against one of those moments when life requires a response—and you feel clueless? We all have. But there’s good news: you have all the wisdom you need to respond to...
Convergence with Nature
A Daoist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Exploring our relationship to nature—to animals, to plants, and to natural places—this book asks how that relationship can be shaped into an appropriate one that contributes to the good of people's lives as a whole. Religions and philosophies have much to say about our relationship with nature,...
Butterflies on a Sea Wind
Beginning Zen
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Anne Rudloe was attracted to Zen as a college student. But it seemed premature for a 21-year-old to focus on the difficulties of life when she'd hardly begun to live. Twenty-five years later, she was ready to explore the spiritual discipline that originated in Asian monasteries more than a millennium...
The New Persian Kitchen
A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This luscious and contemporary take on the alluring cuisine of Iran featuring 75 recipes for both traditional Persian dishes and modern reinterpretations using Middle Eastern ingredients.
In The New Persian Kitchen, acclaimed chef and Lucid Food blogger Louisa Shafia explores her Iranian heritage...
All About Reiki
Your Beginner's Guide to Discovering What Reiki Is, Healing and Self Treatments, Attunements, Your Seven Chakras, Performing Aura Viewings, and the Reiki Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Are you searching for a quick and easy guide to get you started with Reiki?
Do you want to gain an understanding of Reiki, without having to visit a Reiki practitioner?
Are you looking to understand what chakras are, how you can make them work in your favor to increase motivation,...
In a Persian Kitchen
Favorite Recipes from the Near East
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Much more than just a Middle Eastern cookbook, In a Persian Kitchen offers a look at a rich culinary culture in delightful detail.
With colorful notes that reflect her family's traditions, Maideh Mazda offers readers the possibility of creating the delicate flavors of Persian cuisine. Maideh...
by Brian Hodgkinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
Vedanta is a philosophical system expressed in the Veda, a very important collection of Indian scriptures. Vedanta forms the philosophical basis for Hinduism, but its teaching is more essentially rational and universal, so it offers answers to most, if not all, of the questions found in any philosophical...
The Essence of Yoga
Essays on the Development of Yogic Philosophy from the Vedas to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
A collection of classic essays by two highly regarded scholars on the development of yoga and its rapport with other religious traditions.
Georg Feuerstein, one of the world's foremost scholars of yoga, and Jeanine Miller, long recognized for her insightful commentaries on the RgVeda, here pool their...
An Introduction to Mahāyāna Buddhism
With especial Reference to Chinese and Japanese Phases
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
William Montgomery McGovern’s Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience. It predates influential English language overviews of Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki, A. Watts, and W. Rahula. The author was born in New York City in 1897 and...
The Lotus Still Blooms
Sacred Buddhist Teachings for the Western Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
The Lotus Still Blooms is the ideal book for every reader who would like to understand Buddhist principles, but doesn’t know where to start. Eastern wisdom traditions are often baffling for Western minds – where to begin in uncovering the often complicated steps, precepts, concepts and ideas?...
Grace Unfolding
Psychotherapy in the Spirit of Tao-te ching
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
A sensible and compassionate book that will help those involved in any form of therapy make the best possible use of their time, effort, and money. "A fascinating blend of Eastern spirituality, Western psychotherapy, feminist consciousness, and real caring."--Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade 35 black-and-white photographs.
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
From the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Empires
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subject but social scientific in approach. It is also the first study to apply this comparative and social scientific method to the GDL.
In this book,...
Zahav
A World of Israeli Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
James Beard Award winner of Outstanding Restaurant (2019)
James Beard Award winner of Outstanding Chef (2017)
James Beard Book of the Year and Best International Cookbook (2016)
The James Beard Award–winning chef and co-owner of Philadelphia's Zahav restaurant reinterprets the glorious...
Food of Israel
Authentic Recipes from the Land of Milk and Honey
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Nowhere is the Israeli passion for life more pronounced than around their food tables at home and in their restaurants
The storied land of Israel is best known as the cradle of three great world religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Since ancient times, the rich interplay of cultures...