In seventh-century China a young girl from the humble Wu clan entered the imperial gynaecium, housing ten thousand concubines. Inside the Forbidden City, she witnessed seductions, plots, murders, and brazen acts of treason - but shrewdly masterminded her way to the ultimate position of power. From there she instigated positive reforms in ...
"The Life Divine" explores for the modern mind the great streams of Indian metaphysical thought, reconciling the truths behind each, and, from this synthesis, extends in terms of consciousness the concept of evolution.
Set in Japanese occupied Manchuria in the 1930s, The Girl Who Played Go is harsher, more shocking than Balzac, a timeless tale of love and war reflected in the age-old game of go. In the Place of a Thousand Winds, snow falls as a sixteen-year-old Chinese girl beats all-comers at the game of go. One of her opponents is a young Japanese officer of ...
The creation, fall, and salvation of man are among the themes treated in this storybook for children, written in a way that will be comprehensible and appealing to their young minds.
Who will overthrow the Imam? Who will defeat the oppression, the tyranny, the injustice and the killings?...Then, who is the Imam? Is he the man, the male, the father, the husband, the ruler, the leader? Bint Allah (the Daughter of God), a beautiful illegitimate girl, a child of sin, looked down upon by those around her, is falsely accused by the ...
Important small work dealing with the action of the Divine powers in the world and practice of yoga of Sri Aurobindo. Revelatory, inspired writing, frequently called the "Matri Upanishad."
Beginning with Alexander's childhood in Macedonia with his abusive father, tyrannical King Philip and his overbearing mother Olympias - educated by Aristotle and trained in the military training - he develops the fierce character, strength, and ambition to overthrow his abusive father and take the crown. Meanwhile, in the wilds of the Siberian ...
Celebrate the gift of love with poems by Butcher and Steele and the winsome Precious Moments waifs. Tender sentiments and wide-eyed wonder combine to make this little book a gentle reminder of the joy of love. Full-color illustrations.
The global economy is changing business practices: organizations now fail or succeed based upon their ability to respond quickly to changing customer demands and to utilize new technological innovations. The advantage goes to the firm that can offer greater varieties of new products with higher performance and greater overall appeal. To be ...
Contained here are selected daily teachings that were originally circulated among the members of the Lotus Sangha of World Social Buddhism - a community of several thousand practisioners living and working primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia - and of which Great Dharma Master Ji Kwang is the "Chung Chong", or Supreme Matriarch. These daily ...
This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender. Throughout this lively and accessible text, Sorensen engages with the question of how gender is materially constituted, and examines the intersection of social ...
"Like all folk tales they mirror the child life of the world. There is in them a note of wild, strange music...I have read them with exquisite pleasure." - Helen Keller. "The legends are told in an easy, engaging style with a certain dramatic power." - Agnes M. Picotte, University of South Dakota. Early in the century a magnificent Sioux woman ...
In the 19th century conditions of rural life in the Middle East were revolutionized. But the traditional preoccupation in Muslim societies with urban culture means that the study of rural life has been comparatively neglected. In this book, available in paperback for the first time, Raouf Sa'd Abujaber does much to redress the balance. He ...
Whatever the celebration, whatever the day, whatever the event, whatever the occasion, poet Helen Steiner Rice possessed the ability to express the appropriate feeling for that particular moment in time. Here is a collection of her best-loved poems about mothers.
Contains Sri Aurobindo's writing "The Mother" plus his answers on numerous aspects of the Mother's work and powers. The Mother and the working of the Ashram. Also Aspects and powers along with Lights and Visions of the Mother.
An unprecedented wealth of data is being generated by genome sequencing projects and other experimental efforts to determine the structure and function of biological molecules. The demands and opportunities for interpreting these data are expanding rapidly. Bioinformatics is the development and application of computer methods for management, ...
"Routledge Performance Practitioners" is a series of introductory guides to the key theater-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Robert Lepage is one of Canada's most foremost playwrights and directors. His company, Ex ...
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