Renunciation and Longing. The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint, Paperback - Annabella Pitkin

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Annabella PitkinIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Buddhism and Moder...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Annabella PitkinIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 280Collection: Buddhism and Moder...

'Almost a prerequisite for any serious study of Sufism in European languages': this was the verdict of Seyyed Hossein Nasr in his review of the fir...

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The story of the famous painting by Picasso and its diverse meanings from its conception to the present day

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This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

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An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and paint...

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism, " except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, sh...

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"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began t...

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A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and d...

This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a tran...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history...

English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...

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My book begins with a brief consideration of what we mean by "English music" and what factors are involved. I explain the reasons behind my choice ...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rebecca BirrellNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 28Cover type: Paper...

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A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity,...

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By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday lif...

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Publisher: Yakhorn PressAuthor(s): SatyadasaNumber of pages: 294Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

This volume introduces a side of Margaret Mead that few people know. Coffman provides a fascinating account of Mead's life and reinterprets her wor...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 36Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Associate Pr...

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