The Yoga of Breath: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pranayama
10 best books like The Yoga of Breath: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pranayama (Richard Rosen): Dept. of Speculation, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, The River Why, Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, Light on Yoga
| Author | Jenny Offill |
| ISBN | 0385350813 |
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.
Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love...
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
| Author | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| ISBN | 0465026567 |
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of...
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
| Author | Patrick Radden Keefe |
| ISBN | 0385521316 |
From award-winning
New Yorker
staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast...
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
| Author | Lawrence Wright |
| ISBN | 0307700666 |
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack, the Looming Tower. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous...
| Author | David James Duncan |
| ISBN | 0553344862 |
This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young fly fisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a secluded cabin on a remote...
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
| Author | Mark Miodownik |
| ISBN | 0544236041 |
A New York Times Bestseller
An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science
Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave...
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
| Author | Roger McNamee |
| ISBN | 0525561358 |
The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.
If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself...
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
| Author | Stanley Fish |
| ISBN | 0061840548 |
In this entertaining and erudite New York Times bestseller, beloved professor Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it...
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying...
| Author | B.K.S. Iyengar |
| ISBN | 0805210318 |
Light on Yoga has become the bible for hundreds of thousands of people who practice Yoga daily with the Iyengar method, for exercise, meditation, or simply relaxation. With more than 600 photographs depicting all the postures and breathing exercises, it remains the fullest, most practical, and most...
Light on Prãnãyãma: The Yogic Art of Breathing
| Author | B.K.S. Iyengar |
| ISBN | 0824506863 |
This is B.K.S. Iyengar’s A-Z guide to breath and breathing exercises (pranayama.) It’s meant to do for pranayama practice what “Light on Yoga” did for asana (postural) practice. That is, it presents all the classic techniques, offers variants to meet individual needs, and provides the background...
The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga--yoga adapted to the needs of the individual.
• A contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher.
• This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya...
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
| Author | Andrea Dworkin |
| ISBN | 1635900808 |
Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.
Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within...
| Author | Mary Lefkowitz |
| ISBN | 0801883105 |
This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new...
| Author | Patañjali |
| ISBN | 0932040381 |
This valuable book provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. This new deluxe printing of these timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path. The classic...
| Author | Nischala Joy Devi |
| ISBN | 0307339696 |
Yoga is well known for its power to create a healthy body, but few realize the emotional and spiritual benefits. In The Secret Power of Yoga, world-renowned Yoga expert Nischala Joy Devi interprets Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the principles at the basis of Yoga practice, from a heart-centered, intuitive,...
| Author | Jonathan Evison |
| ISBN | 1565129520 |
At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to reclaim the woman...
| Author | Mira Silva |
| ISBN | 0679722874 |
Attractive, sound, and a good beginning
Such is the celebrity and influence of B.K.S. Iyengar as a teacher of yoga that a book with his name in the title virtually guarantees publishing success.
This book is a fine example of the phenomenon. It is an attractive, coffee table type yoga...
| Author | Erich Schiffmann |
| ISBN | 0671534807 |
Although I learned more from Schiffmann's DVD with Ali MacGraw which I practiced with for the longest time during the long Vermont winters several years ago, I also bought this book which was very helpful, because the explanations and reasons behind the poses was described in great detail. My favorite...
| Author | David Swenson |
| ISBN | 1891252089 |
Whether new to Ashtanga or an experienced student or teacher, readers will find this book to be invaluable. It contains over 650 photos and multiple variations for every asana in the primary and intermediate series plus three short forms. Its spiral binding assures easy use while practicing and the...
| Author | Penelope Quest |
| ISBN | 0749929723 |
This is an extremely thorough and helpful book for anyone who wants to heal themselves on all levels and learn to use Reiki in a variety of ways. The author provides specific exercises and insights into how we can heal ourselves on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level using Reiki techniques...
| Author | Roger Rosenblatt |
| ISBN | 0061965618 |
Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works—from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast. With Unless It Moves the Human Heart, the revered novelist,...
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.
The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...
| 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...
The Breath of Life: Integral Yoga Pranayama
| Author | Swami Satchidananda |
| ISBN | 0932040470 |
According to the yogic scriptures, "Breath is the life of beings and so is called 'the life of all.'" In Yoga, this intelligent, creative life force is known as prana. This booklet provides a clear and concise presentation of the proper role of breath control, or pranayama, in the practice of Yoga. It...
University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education
The dramatic expose of how the University of Oregon sold its soul to Nike, and what that means for the future of our public institutions and our society.
**A New York Post Best Book of the Year**
In the mid-1990s, facing severe cuts to its public funding, the University of Oregon—like...
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the...
IN 2020, BRITAIN IS AT BREAKING POINT...
In a country sorely divided, what happens to empathy and tolerance, to generosity of spirit? And can hope survive?
In 2020, years of economic turmoil, bitter debates over immigration, and anger at the political elites have created a maelstrom,...
De dood is een zware klus
De oude Syriër Abd al-Latief heeft een laatste wens: hij wil begraven worden in zijn geboortedorp. Op zijn sterfbed vraagt hij zijn zoon Boelboel hem daarheen te brengen. Voor Boelboel zit er niets anders op: samen met zijn broer Hoessein en zijn zus Fatima gaat hij na hun vaders dood op weg. In een busje,...
| Author | Matteo Righetto |
| ISBN | 1782274650 |
The first novel in a trilogy set on the border between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late 19th century. A young woman seeks the truth behind her father's disappearance.
Every year, Augusto De Boer undertakes a treacherous journey through the Italian Alps, smuggling his family's...
