How do the Japanese about their native philosophy, Shinto, a decade and a half after its abolishment as a state religion by the Western Allies? // What is its relationship to Buddhism, and particul...więcej »
Gold in the Furnace is an ardent National Socialist's vivid account of life in occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War II, based on extensive travels and interviews conducted in ...więcej »
This book is written basically for Christians. The unsaved will not know these scriptures and stories I refer to. But even they can see them, and get curious enough to accept Christ. There are scri...więcej »
There is something that must be established at this point, something vital. In the writing of and in the reading of a work such as this, you, the reader, and R. A. Torrey, the writer, bring cert...więcej »
This is the first book of a multi-part series comparing the knowledge of orthodox religions with the sciences, the Gnostics, and esoteric sources. These subjects also compare aliens, Planet X,...więcej »
Mortimer Adler has always been ahead of his time. In 1982, before the current revival of interest in angels, Dr. Adler published "The Angels and Us", an engaging look at the various images and hier...więcej »
Moroccan Arabic was written by a dogged student of the language (and a natural teacher) and it was edited by a native speaker and equally wonderful teacher.
Finally, a straight-forward and ea...więcej »
This volume of the 5 Questions series is devoted to philosophical practice. Philosophical practice is rooted in the Greek understanding of philosophy as linked to the actual experience of man. It p...więcej »
Helena Blavatsky first wrote these letters in the late 19th century for amusement and with no intent for them to be used in scientific endeavors. The author says that the facts are true but she ma...więcej »
Stay humble. Be bold. Spread your wings. Own your destiny.Ladies, have you ever had a passion so great, it seemed that in order for you to fulfill it, you had to lose everything? Opportun...więcej »
This book is an exposition of the basic themes of the work of Miroslav Volf, the Yale ecumenical theologian who has written much about the ethics of embrace, life worth living and human flourishing...więcej »
Every war leaves an imprint in history, but few have had such a pervasive impact in so many respects as the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Politically, it fatally weakened the Russian Empire whil...więcej »
Walter Benjamin claimed that the notion of novelty took on unprecedented importance with the growth of high capitalism in the nineteenth century. In this book, Kristina Mendicino analyzes a selecti...więcej »
Step back to London, 1895.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories are full of references to everyday activities and events from Victorian times that make the twenty-first cen...więcej »
It takes more than just moxie to write good space opera these days. Readers have grown sophisticated (read: jaded) and will pick things apart for the slightest things.Further, ...więcej »
"Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries" (Volume 1) offers a fascinating record of conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky: Czeslaw Milosz, Roy Fisher, Lev Lo...więcej »
This volume lays out the charged, complicated beginnings of the independent Jewish state founded by the Maccabees in the second century BCE. Contributors offer focused analyses of the archa...więcej »