The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day - The Complete Papyrus of Ani Featuring Integrated Text and Full-Color Images
10 best books like The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day - The Complete Papyrus of Ani Featuring Integrated Text and Full-Color Images (James Wasserman): Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy, Tao Te Ching, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, The Upanishads, Food for Free (Collins Gem), Letters to a Young Contrarian, Roots of Yoga, Yoga Anatomy
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Author | Dee Brown |
ISBN | 0805066691 |
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account...
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Author | Thomas Sowell |
ISBN | 0465081452 |
This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general public-without graphs, statistics, or jargon. In addition to being updated, Basic Economics has also become more internationalized by including economic problems from more countries around the world,...
Author | Lao Tzu |
ISBN | 0679724346 |
The Wisest Book Ever Written...
Complete on Audio...The Entire 81 Chapters (and Introduction to) Stephen Mitchell's exquisite new tradition of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way -- the classic manual on the art of living revered as one of the wonders of the world. Dating from the 6th century...
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Author | Black Elk |
ISBN | 0803283857 |
This is a haunting and moving transcription of interviews with the revered medicine man Black Elk of the Oglala band of the Lakota Sioux in 1930 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The editor, John Neihart, was a poet who was writing an epic poem about Messiah movement in the 1880’s among diverse...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Author | Jordan B. Peterson |
ISBN | 0415922224 |
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? Jordan Peterson offers a provocative new hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern...
Author | Anonymous |
ISBN | 0140441638 |
The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma...
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...
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Author | Christopher Hitchens |
ISBN | 0465030335 |
From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement
In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks,...
'Yoga is to be known through yoga. Yoga arises from yoga. One who is vigilant by means of yoga delights in yoga for a long time'Yoga is hugely popular around the world today, yet until now little has been known of its roots. This book collects, for the first time, core teachings of yoga in their original form,...
Author | Leslie Kaminoff |
ISBN | 0736062785 |
See inside every yoga pose! With clear, expert instruction and full-color, detailed anatomical drawings, Yoga Anatomy depicts the most common asanas to provide a deeper understanding of the structures and principles underlying each movement and of yoga itself.
From breathing to standing...
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
Author | Richard Tarnas |
ISBN | 0452288592 |
From a philosopher whose history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell & Huston Smith comes a book tracing the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience. Drawing on years of research & on thinkers from Plato to Jung, Tarnas explores the planetary...
Transgender: Fact or Fetish - Reality or Delusion?
“Quite frankly, my research on autogynephilia was biased.” This astonishing admission from trans-advocate, Felix Conrad, is prompted by an e-mail from a young reader who has fallen into clinical depression because she believes she is not transgender, but has ‘a fetish.’
Chasing...
A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance
Author | Rupert Sheldrake |
ISBN | 0892815353 |
This is a really important book. I've heard about Sheldrake and the morphogenic field for years, but never pursued it until now.
As other reviewers here note, this book is rather technical. Accessible if you have a good science education, otherwise I would suggest downloading one of the excellent...