Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy
10 best books like Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy (Wolf-Dieter Storl): The Goddess in India: The Five Faces of the Eternal Feminine, The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, Stages of Meditation, Speaking of Siva, The Fox / The Captain's Doll / The Ladybird, If I Were You, The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary, Mistress of the Pearl, The Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awareness, The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
The Goddess in India: The Five Faces of the Eternal Feminine
| Author | Devdutt Pattanaik |
| ISBN | 0892818077 |
The first exhaustive collection of goddess mythologies from India.
•Explores the evolution of goddess worship in India over 4,000 years.
•Stunning color photographs illustrate many stories of goddess lore never before available in one collection.
In India it is...
| Author | Alexandra Harney |
| ISBN | 1594201579 |
A landmark eyewitness exposé of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future
In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly...
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 1559391979 |
The Dalai Lama explains the principles of meditation in a practice-oriented format especially suited to Westerners. Based upon the middle section of the Bhavanakrama by Kamalashila, a translation of which is included, this is the most extensive commentary given by the Dalai Lama on this concise...
| Author | A.K. Ramanujan |
| ISBN | 0140442707 |
Speaking of Siva is a selection of vacanas or free-verse sayings from the Virasaiva religious movement, dedicated to Siva as the supreme god. Written by four major saints, the greatest exponents of this poetic form, between the tenth and twelfth centuries, they are passionate lyrical expressions...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0141441836 |
These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel - and the devastating results of war. In The Fox, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 1558820582 |
‘If I Were You’ published in Wodehouse’s greatest age harks back to his earlier novels without the looseness of relying on his stock characters from the Drones club or the Blandings or Dolly the Dip sagas. Despite the more Edwardian feel to the novel it is a great Wodehouse yarn that underplays...
| Author | Chip Hartranft |
| ISBN | 1590300238 |
In just 196 short aphorisms, this classic work of Indian philosophy spells out succinctly how the mind works, and how it is possible to use the mind to attain liberation. Compiled in the second or third century CE, the Yoga-Sutra is a road map of human consciousness—and a particularly helpful guide...
| Author | Eric Van Lustbader |
| ISBN | 0812572351 |
Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman...
| Author | Gary Zukav |
| ISBN | 0743234960 |
New York Times mega-bestselling author of The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav takes a giant leap forward in his message, with this guide to the next level of spiritual growth.
"THE LONGEST JOURNEY YOU WILL MAKE IN YOUR LIFE IS FROM YOUR HEAD TO YOUR HEART."
With the rare combination of profound...
The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
| Author | Alain Daniélou |
| ISBN | 0892813547 |
The study of Hindu mythology explores the significance of the most prominent Hindu dieties as they are envisioned by the Hindus themselves. Referred to by its adherents as the "eternal religion," Hinduism recognizes for each age and each country a new form of revelation--and for each person, according...
| Author | Wendy Doniger |
| ISBN | 0195202503 |
Originally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between spiritual aspirations and human desires. The work examines hundreds of related myths and a wide range...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 1406503258 |
Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the book is the question 'What happened to the fifteen-year boys, and how did the lessons they learned at school apply to the world of warfare and imperial government?' These...
| Author | Andy Rooney |
| ISBN | 1586482009 |
I can take five minutes of Andy Rooney and not be too bothered by his crotchety befuddlement. These 150+ essays, however, are redundantly crammed with balderdash and misspellings (which made it through spell-check, but were—obviously—never eyeballed). One strikingly obtuse slice of balderdash,...
Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash
| Author | Ogden Nash |
| ISBN | 0233988920 |
Nash is the product of a literary age of dandies; those who came of age in the interwar years and always had a clever killer line in readiness. If it were a duel of wits their weapon would be superior to yours; not bigger, not better but sharper and aesthetically gorgeous.
It’s a style that palls...
The Flight from the Enchanter
| Author | Iris Murdoch |
| ISBN | 0099283697 |
Description: Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melancholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the...
Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science
| Author | Peter Atkins |
| ISBN | 0198609418 |
Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central ideas of contemporary science, Peter Atkins celebrates the effectiveness...
The Divine Romance: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life
| Author | Paramahansa Yogananda |
| ISBN | 0876122411 |
This is part of an anthology of collected talks by the beloved Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, which includes, The Divine Romance, Man's Eternal Quest and Journey to Self-Realization. They are beyond review. They are what I keep in my own nightstand and what I open during times of trouble. They are what...
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| ISBN | 0812516850 |
This second volume of Orson Scott Card's five-volume anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race. A fascistic government's capital punishment extends beyond death. Intellectually superior aliens from a doomed world choose Earth's dogs...
101 Places Not to See Before You Die
| Author | Catherine Price |
| ISBN | 0061787760 |
Irreverent and compulsively readable, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die highlights desitinations we can all live without - like Jupiter's Worst Moon, an Outdoor Wedding During the 2021 Reemergence of the Great Eastern Cicada Brood, and fan hours at the Las Vegas Porn Convention - while reminding...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0449213080 |
Murder at the ABA (1976) is a mystery novel by Isaac Asimov, following the adventures of a writer and amateur detective named Darius Just (whom Asimov modeled on his friend Harlan Ellison). While attending a convention of the American Booksellers Association, Just discovers the dead body of a friend...
