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by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Rosemary BorderYou are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building,...
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....
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...
Tibet's Great Yog=i Milarepa
A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsün-Kabbum or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, According to the Late L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2000
This life story of Milarepa--the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago--is part of a remarkable four-volume series on Tibetan Buddhism produced by the late W.Y. Evans-Wentz, all four of which are being published by Oxford in new editions. While there are many parochial differences...
by Sally McMillen
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable...
Reporting from Washington
The History of the Washington Press Corps
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
Donald Ritchie offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation's capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet. Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the sleepy capital, Ritchie highlights...
by Eric Posner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant...
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sage of the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2000
An influential justice who refused to bow to politics and devoted his keen mind to the U.S. Supreme Court until the age of 90, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) helped formulate some of the most progressive judicial thought in 20th-century American history. G. Edward White first sketches Holmes's early...
by Benjamin Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often...
Seduced by Logic
Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Newton's explanation of the natural law of universal gravity shattered the way mankind perceived the universe, and hence it was not immediately embraced. After all, how can anyone warm to a force that cannot be seen or touched? But for two women, separated by time and space but joined in their passion...
by Richard Lyman Bushman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Beginning with a handful of members in 1830, the church that Joseph Smith founded has grown into a world-wide organization with over 12 million adherents, playing prominent roles in politics, sports, entertainment, and business. Yet they are an oddity. They are considered wholesome, conservative,...
by Daniel K. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
To understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to dominate Chinese society, politics, economics, and ethics. In this Very Short Introduction, Daniel K. Gardner explores the major philosophical ideas...
by Richard M. Valelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims and counterclaims, there has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the...
by Mark Barisa
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The purpose of this text is to provide an overview of basic business principles and how they can be used to enhance the stability and fiscal responsibility of neuropsychological practice. The principles discussed are are defined and information is provided to guide practical application of the concepts....