New York: Vintage Books, 1972. del Gaudio & Munson Design Group (cover design). First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. Vintage Books no. V-702 This book, compiled from basic Hindu writings, is an exploration of the essential meaning of the Hindu tradition, the way of thinking and acting that has dominated..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2018. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. No. 27 in the Loeb Classical Library series Edited and translated by Carolyn Hammond Augustinus (354–430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become..... More
Hoboken: Melville House, 2003. James X. Mitchell (tr.). First Edition. Hardcover. In a ground-breaking book that combines a novelist’s eye with riveting investigative journalism, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s most esteemed writers, retraces Pearl’s final steps through a murky Islamic underworld, suffused by “an odour of the apocalypse.” The..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Emil Antonucci (cover design). Reprint. Trade Paperback. A Galaxy Book. No. GB 7 About the author Charles Norris Cochrane (August 21, 1889 – November 23, 1945) was a Canadian historian and philosopher who taught at the University of Toronto. He is known for..... More
New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1994. First Edition (presumed). Forty Fifth Printing. Hardcover. More
New York: East Asia Program/ Cornell University, 2013. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. This is a partial translation of one of the most important texts produced by Motoori Norinaga. It covers a wide range of Norinaga's thought and provides a lens onto his philological methodology, as well as how he viewed..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Thinkers in Ming China turned to syncretism in their restlessness for new religious forms. A leader in this new trend was Lin Chao-en, a religious teacher of the sixteenth century, whose syncretic doctrine of the true Way was..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1982. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. No. 42 in the Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies series. More
Port Townsend: Process Media, 2016. Lissi Erwin/Splendid Corp. (design). Revised Edition. Softcover. "Louis Sahagun's gripping biography is an insightful look at the life and times of one of the last century's most important mystical thinkers."—The Fortean Times In 1919, a Canadian teenager with a sixth grade education arrived by..... More
St. Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1985. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Douglas Lancashire and Peter Hu Kuo-chen, S.J. Matteo Ricci, S.J. (1552-1610) pioneered the modern cultural and religious encounter between China and Europe. Jonathan Spence in his latest book The Memory Palace..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. J.S. Roberts (jacket design). Reprint. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Black cloth boards with green lettering to spine. Slightly toned and foxed. Prior owner's name on FFEP and top edge. A small stamp on lower right corner of FFEP. Clean and unmarked textbox. Binding..... More
New York: Living Age Books / Meridian Books, 1959. First Living Age Books Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. Rare edition. More
New York: Regan Books. First paperback edition. Softcover. New York Times bestseller. More
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Series : Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Translated by Ruth Ann Crowley and Kenneth R. Olson. More
London: Time Warner Paperbacks, 2003. Trade Paperback. Kuan Yin, the Compassionate One or literally 'the one who sees and hears the cries of the world' is the principal goddess in the eastern firmament. She is centuries older than the Christian Virgin Mary, but not unconnected with her in that in..... More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Second Edition, Second Printing. Trade Paperback. In the text Professor Rostow gives an account of economic growth based on a dynamic theory of production and interpreted in terms of actual societies. Five basic stages of economic growth are distinguished with detailed discussions of each..... More
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