Eastern category: 10105 books
by Sébastien Guillet
Language: French
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: February 1, 2018
À la pointe bretonne, dans un petit port battu par les vents frais et implacables de la côte du Finistère nord, un retraité jovial et facétieux arpente les plages à la recherche de bois flotté quand il ne fait pas la tournée des cafés. Qualifiée d’érotico-mystique par la presse locale,...
Where the Heart Beats
John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
A “heroic” and “fascinating” biography of John Cage showing how his work, and that of countless American artists, was transformed by Zen Buddhism (The New York Times)
Where the Heart Beats is the story of the tremendous changes sweeping through American culture following the Second...
The Tao of Willie
A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
Born in small-town Texas during the Great Depression, Willie Nelson was raised to believe in helping his neighbors and living without pretense. After many hardscrabble years as a poorly paid songwriter (often watching his work become a gold mine for other performers), Willie finally found his own...
by Heda Margolius Kovály
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály (68,000 words and 8 photographs)
"A story of the human spirit as its most indomitable... one of the outstanding autobiographies of the century." San Francisco Chronicle
"Once in a rare while we read...
In Search of the Lost Ones
German Soldiers of Transylvania in the Second World War and Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
A group of ethnic German people known as the Saxons lived in Transylvania, Romania. They migrated there in the 11th Century and stayed in Transylvania until near the end of the Second World War—1944. Then they were forced to evacuate to Germany or face deportation to Russia at the end of the Second...
Miyamoto Musashi
His Life and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Miyamoto Musashi, who lived in Japan in the fifteenth century, was a renowned samurai warrior. He has become a martial arts icon, known not just as an undefeated dueler, but also as a master of battlefield strategy. Kenji Tokitsu turns a critical eye on Musashi's life and writings, separating fact...
The Lone Samurai
The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Miyamoto Musashi (1584?1645) was the legendary samurai known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker, and author of the classic book on strategy, the Book of Five Rings. Over 350 years after his death, Musashi and his legacy still fascinate us and continue to inspire artists,...
Lost Years
Memories of my forgotten homeland
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Margarete traces her long journey from childhood in East Prussia, to the years in Russian prison camps, and her new beginning in Canada. A remarkable story of insight, courage, inspiration, love and forgiveness.
"I believe that you must have an understanding of the past...
Border Crossings
Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The captivating, tender memoir of Charles Novacek, a Czechoslovakian whose idyllic childhood exploring the Tatra Mountains was shattered by the Nazi occupation of his homeland. He spent his youth defending his neighbors, his family, and his country, first from the Nazi atrocities of World War II...
by Paramahansa Yogananda
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Autobiography of a Yogi is an immensely gratifying spiritual read that has altered and enriched the lives of millions across the world, since it was first published in 1946.
An originative text that tells the story of Paramhansa Yogananda, this book has been revered for its memorable, incisive and...
Narrow Road to the Interior
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
A beautiful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature.
Bashō (1644–1694)—a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is renowned in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the...
Kafka
The Torment of Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This is a study of Kafka’s tragic vision of life, his profoundly disturbing awareness of man’s utter loneliness in a pitiless universe, and his artistry in effecting a strange intimate fusion between symbolism and realism—between anguished poetic narration and the terrifying reality of an absurd...
by Eugene Schuyler
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This sketch of Tolstoy concentrates on the period of the later part of the 1860's, written twenty years after Schuyler, Tolstoy's first translator, met the Count. A good background piece.
Confucius
A Throneless King
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
An illuminating portrait of Confucius’s life and philosophical teachings
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Confucius is one of the most important figures in Chinese history, a man whose philosophies have shaped world culture. Often overlooked outside his native country, Confucius himself was a fascinating...