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The Most Dangerous Art
Poetry, Politics, and Autobiography after the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
At a time in Russia's history when poets could be (and sometimes were) killed for a poem, the autobiographies of three prominent poets, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Boris Pasternak, became a courageous defense of poetry. The Most Dangerous Art shows how these autobiographies trace an emotional...
I Am John Galt
Today's Heroic Innovators Building the World and the Villainous Parasites Destroying It
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Inspired by Ayn Rand's characters in Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, penetrating profiles of both the innovators who move our world forward and those who seek to destroy the achievement of others
John Galt, the fictional character from Ayn Rand's bestselling novel, Atlas Shrugged, has...
by Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2004
New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. Residence on Earth is perhaps Neruda's...
Fishing in the Sky
The Education of Namory Keita
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
What distinguishes this remarkable narrative from other accounts of personal growth is not just its vivid and intimate picture of West African life, but the fact that its author embarked on his adventure at an age when most men and women are resigned to life in a rocking chair. At age sixty-six, after...
by Dr Donald Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own generation, his works remain incredibly popular and important today. Often seen as the quintessential Victorian novelist, his texts convey perhaps better than any others the drive for wealth and progress and...
The Clinton Charisma
A Legacy of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
It is often overlooked, but Bill Clinton assumed the presidency in one of the most difficult times in our nation's history. The country was in a deep recession, the end of the Cold War had created new threats to our national security, and our health care system was in shambles.
The country has now...
John Rawls
Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Donald Moon’s John Rawls: Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity adds an accessible biography of an indispensable political thinker to the Modernity and Political Thought Series, edited by profs. Kennan Ferguson and Morton Schoolman. By addressing the philosophical justifications and conditions...
by Donald Enz
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Mary M. Baker is only twenty-three years old when she begins her diary. Living in Orrington, Maine, which is located along the Penobscot River, she starts nearly every entry with some report of the weather conditions. She is living with her mother, father and a sister. There is also a relative's daughter...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead : Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that according to legend Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones lakes and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings....
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines : Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
Books audiotapes and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years in fact. In the early part of the 20th century it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars...
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation : Or the Method of Realizing Nirvana through Knowing the Mind
Or the Method of Realizing Nirv=ana through Knowing the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954 speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path or Mahayana and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen as shown here by means of knowing...
by Donald R. Miklich
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This essay is a non-economists’ (there’s not a bit of math in it) inquiry into the US employment losses which have been happening for about a half century. Businesses have been reducing workers and their pay in order to increase shareholder profits. Many ways have been used to do this, but more...
by Donald Healey
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
First-time traveler, experienced voyager, or armchair explorer this is a book for you! Tag along as your authors step out their door and are swept off to corners of the world synonymous with the thrill of discovery and exploration. Journey through: 5 continents, 18 countries, and 108 cities. Climb...
by Professor Donald M. MacRaild, Dr Avram Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
The expansion of social history that took place in the twentieth century has produced some of the most exciting works in the field of historical studies. As the range of the social historian's concerns has grown, so has the range of methodologies and theoretical approaches they employ. Historians have...