Sayings of the Buddha
8 best books like Sayings of the Buddha (Rupert Gethin): Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Ringworld, The Souls of Black Folk, House of Suns, Food for Free (Collins Gem), Living Buddha, Living Christ, A Tale of a Tub, The King in Yellow
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0553351397 |
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0575077026 |
The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a...
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0575099127 |
Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line. Campion and Purslane — two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden...
Food for Free (Collins Gem)
| Author | Richard Mabey |
| ISBN | 0007183038 |
The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.
This is the perfect pocket guide for aspiring foragers. Over 100 edible plants are listed, fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating...
Living Buddha, Living Christ
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1573225681 |
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course...
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| ISBN | 0141018879 |
'A Tale of a Tub' was the first big work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity....
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5 Stars for the wonderful opening story "The Repairer of Reputations".
although i wonder if 'wonderful' is the correct word. after all, this is a story that opens with a bizarre, sometimes dire alterna-history leading up to a 1920s America where on-lookers gather to contemplate...
