The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
10 best books like The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Robert E. Buswell Jr.): Tea: The Drink that Changed the World, Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography, The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory, Zen Poems, The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine, The Meghadūta of Kālidāsa, The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World (The Humanistic Tradition, #1), The Alhambra, Spices: A Global History
| Author | Laura C. Martin |
| ISBN | 0804837244 |
This book is a fascinating history of tea and the spreading of tea throughout the world.
Camellia sinensis, commonly known as tea, is grown in tea gardens and estates around the world. A simple beverage, served either hot or iced, tea has fascinated and driven us, calmed and awoken us, for well...
| Author | Diki Tsering |
| ISBN | 0670889059 |
Told in the first-person and accompanied by photographs from family archives, this autobiography follows Diki Tsering, a poor girl born in 1901, the Year of the Ox, to a peasant family, who eventually marries at age sixteen and gives birth to the future H.H. Dalai Lama. The story is told chronologically,...
| Author | J.M. Adovasio |
| ISBN | 0061170917 |
Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality.
The field...
| Author | Peter Harris |
| ISBN | 0375405526 |
The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China,...
| Author | Du Fu |
| ISBN | 0811211002 |
Tu Fu radically altered poetry as he found it in the High T’ang period. In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all aspects of public and private experience, thus becoming in the words of translator David Hinton,...
| Author | Barbara Tedlock |
| ISBN | 0553379712 |
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the...
| Author | Kālidāsa |
| ISBN | 8120804201 |
A poem of 111 stanzas, it is one of Kālidāsa's most famous works. The work is divided into two parts, Purva-megha and Uttara-megha. It recounts how a yakṣa, a subject of King Kubera (the god of wealth), after being exiled for a year to Central India for neglecting his duties, convinces a passing cloud...
| Author | Gloria K. Fiero |
| ISBN | 0072910127 |
""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful....
| Author | Robert Irwin |
| ISBN | 0674015681 |
A wonderfully irritable monograph, which is motivated primarily by Robert Irwin's annoyance over how other writers of poetry, fiction and guidebooks have treated the Alhambra: as a grand Romantic symbol, the pretext for a lot of ubi sunt wistfulness, and the setting of innumerable historical...
| Author | Fred Czarra |
| ISBN | 1861894260 |
The scent of oregano immediately conjures the comforts of Italian food, curry is synonymous with Indian flavor, and the fire of chili peppers ignites the cuisine of Latin America. Spices are often the overlooked essentials that define our greatest eating experiences. In this global history of spices,...
| Author | Greg Nagan |
| ISBN | 0684867672 |
Was Homer really blind, or was that just his shtick? Was Dante a righty or a lefty? Why aren't there any pictures of Jane Austen in a bikini? What made Oscar so Wilde? How much did Hemingway? These are just some of the many great questions of Western literature ignored in this book.
From the author of...
| Author | Helen Saberi |
| ISBN | 1861897766 |
From chai to oolong to sencha, tea is one of the world’s most popular beverages. Perhaps that is because it is a unique and adaptable drink, consumed in many different varieties by cultures across the globe and in many different settings, from the intricate traditions of Japanese teahouses to the...
| Author | Jeff Koehler |
| ISBN | 1620405121 |
Darjeeling's tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, in an area of northern India bound by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east, and Sikkim to the north, the linear rows of...
| Author | Alev Lytle Croutier |
| ISBN | 1558591591 |
I've been meaning to read this book for quite some time now as the idea of the harem has always set my imagination on fire.
Harem: The World Behind the Veil sets out to tell us the truth about The Great Harem and harems in general from the time of the ottoman sultans to the present.
We are told...
| Author | Robert A.F. Thurman |
| ISBN | 0785808728 |
An accessible introduction to this rich spiritual tradition through its own vibrant literature, much of it only recently available in the West. Here are teachings about the Buddha, subsequent Buddhas, and our Buddhist nature; prayer texts and meditation techniques; the stories of hermits and yogis;...
Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food & People
| Author | Linda Civitello |
| ISBN | 0471202800 |
An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets
Throughout history, food has played a critical and defining part in individual cultures and the overall development of civilization. Cuisine and Culture presents an engaging, informative, and amazing story of the interaction among history,...
The independence of Abouzeid's subtitle is both personal and national. A woman moves from marriage through a painful loss of place when her husband tells her their marriage is over and she will receive "whatever the law provides". It is also the chronicle of the Moroccan move toward independence and...
| Author | Helen Gardner |
| ISBN | 0534640958 |
The market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. With this book in hand, thousands of students have watched the story of art unfold in its...
| Author | John Bowker |
| ISBN | 0756617723 |
A refreshing approach to understanding different faiths. Detailed annotations to stunning illustrations provide intriguing insights into the world's most important religions--offering a deeper appreciation of the beliefs central to each.
World Religions looks at the beliefs and...
| Author | Derek Fagerstrom |
| ISBN | 0061662577 |
Show Me How is a revolutionary reimagining of the reference genre, one part how-to guide, one part graphic art showpiece, and one part pure inspiration. In a series of 500 nearly wordless, highly informative step-by-step procedurals, readers learn how to do hundreds of useful (and fascinating and...
Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
| Author | Michael Hamilton Morgan |
| ISBN | 1426200927 |
In an era when the relationship between Islam and the West seems mainly defined by mistrust and misunderstanding, we often forget that for centuries Muslim civilization was the envy of the world. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the major role played by the early Muslim world in influencing...
| Author | Joanna Macy |
| ISBN | 0938077279 |
The parts of this book that deal with Dependent (or Interdependent) Co-Arising, the history of Buddhism, and the parallels between Buddhism and Systems Theory are very good. Joanna Macy's approach to the problem of radioactive waste, however, suffers from her own admitted fear and despair of the...
| Author | George C. Herring |
| ISBN | 0072536187 |
Comprehensive yet concise, America�s Longest War provides a complete and balanced history of the Vietnam War. It is not mainly a military history, but seeks to integrate military, diplomatic, and political factors in order to clarify America�s involvement and ultimate failure...
| Author | Traleg Kyabgon |
| ISBN | 1590308883 |
A jargon-free explanation of two central teachings of the Buddha: karma and rebirth.
The Buddha’s teaching on karma (literally, “action”) is nothing other than his compassionate explanation of the way things are: our thoughts and actions determine our future, and therefore we ourselves...
