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Product Description: This book offers a superb distillation of Buddhist belief, practice and art.  The book presents a fascinating kaleidoscope of all aspects of Buddhism, including Tantra, Zen and the Pure Land beliefs of Japan.  The emphasis throughout is on the wisdom, healing power and beauty of Buddhism and on its relevance to those who seek an alternative to secular materialism...read more

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9780785829775, titled "Buddhist Inspirations: Essential Philosophy, Truth and Enlightenment" | Reprint edition (Chartwell Books, February 4, 2013), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: This book offers a superb distillation of Buddhist belief, practice and art.
9781844831166 | Watkins Pub Ltd, December 30, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Colorfully illustrated, this survey of the practice, history, and visual representations of Buddhism covers Tantra, Zen, and 'Pure Land' Buddhism, among other elements of the religion, all the while focusing on the aspects of Buddhist thought that make it an alternative to materialistic culture.

Paperback:

9781907486937, titled "Buddhist Inspirations: Essential Philosophy, Truth and Enlightenment" | Reprint edition (Watkins Pub Ltd, March 1, 2011), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Buddhism originated in India more than 2,500 years ago, yet it speaks to the needs of our busy modern lives as if it were created yesterday.

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By Victoria James (contributor) and Tom Lowenstein

Hardcover:

9780785829799 | Chartwell Books, February 4, 2013, cover price $9.99
9781844833146 | Duncan Baird Pub, October 28, 2006, cover price $9.99

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Product Description: Buddhism has produced a cultural legacy more glorious than most great faiths. Initially spreading throughout Asia, over the centuries it triumphed not by the might of military conquest but by virtue of its revolutionary ideas and profound insights...read more

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9781448885015 | Rosen Pub Group, December 15, 2012, cover price $54.25 | About this edition: Buddhism has produced a cultural legacy more glorious than most great faiths.

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Product Description: The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Native Alaskans, commercial whalemen, and missionaries in Point Hope, charting the destabilizing elements of alcohol and disease among Native populations, as well as cultural collisions and the eventual mutual assimilation of the groups...read more

Hardcover:

9781602230279 | Univ of Alaska Pr, March 24, 2009, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century.

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9781602230385, titled "Ultimate Americans: Point Hope Alaska: 1826-1909" | Univ of Alaska Pr, February 15, 2010, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century.

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Product Description: A beautifully illustrated compendium of places, people, cultures, festivals, and beliefs, this is an homage to an often admired poetic form: the haiku. Embodying the spirit of ancient Japan, this volume includes translations of more than 50 haikus accompanied by photographs, lithographs, and prints of breathtaking landscapes...read more

Hardcover:

9788498011807 | Italian edition edition (Blume, April 1, 2008), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A beautifully illustrated compendium of places, people, cultures, festivals, and beliefs, this is an homage to an often admired poetic form: the haiku.

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Product Description: Poetry aficionados will appreciate this beautifully designed and illustrated collection of 200 haiku by the four most celebrated Japanese poets of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries: Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki, who modernized the form and coined the very term haiku...read more
By John Cleare (photographer) and Tom Lowenstein (editor)

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9781844834860 | Duncan Baird Pub, November 1, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poetry aficionados will appreciate this beautifully designed and illustrated collection of 200 haiku by the four most celebrated Japanese poets of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries: Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki, who modernized the form and coined the very term haiku.

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Product Description: Here is a photographic celebration of the greatest Buddhist art and monuments—all placed in a rich historical and cultural context. These beautifully presented sacred treasures and relics paint a vivid portrait of this venerable religion, from its point of origin in northern India and outward, through the different kingdoms and empires of central, southern, and eastern Asia...read more

Hardcover:

9781844833214 | Duncan Baird Pub, November 1, 2006, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Here is a photographic celebration of the greatest Buddhist art and monuments—all placed in a rich historical and cultural context.

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Product Description: Tom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume selects poetry from his whole career to date, concentrating on the faultline where his ethnographic concerns meet his poetic concerns...read more

Paperback:

9780907562740 | Shearsman Books, October 31, 2005, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Tom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly.

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A richly illustrated guide to the history and mythology of Buddhism introduces the range of beliefs and customs that have spread through Asia under the umbrella of this great religion. Original.

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9780007657254 | Thorsons Pub, January 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A richly illustrated guide to the history and mythology of Buddhism introduces the range of beliefs and customs that have spread through Asia under the umbrella of this great religion.

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Product Description: Book by Lowenstein, Tom

Hardcover:

9783822813447 | Taschen America Llc, January 1, 2001, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Book by Lowenstein, Tom

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Product Description: A richly illustrated, wide-ranging exploration of one of the world's great religions, this book traces the course of Buddhism--from its earliest days in ancient India to its place in Western society today--explaining its main themes and beliefs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9781900131193 | Duncan Baird Pub, September 1, 2000, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A richly illustrated, wide-ranging exploration of one of the world's great religions, this book traces the course of Buddhism--from its earliest days in ancient India to its place in Western society today--explaining its main themes and beliefs.

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Hardcover:

9780705435437 | Time Life Education, September 1, 1997, cover price $29.95

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A vivid guide to the history and legends of Buddhism traces its development and growth while explaining how the Buddha's ethical and spiritual teachings have influenced Western thought. Original.

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9780316534314 | Little Brown & Co, April 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A vivid guide to the history and legends of Buddhism traces its development and growth while explaining how the Buddha's ethical and spiritual teachings have influenced Western thought.

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Product Description: For the Tikigaq people of Point Hope, Alaska - the oldest continuously settled Native American site on the continent - the annual cycle culminating in the spring whale hunt shaped every aspect of life for more than fifteen hundred years...read more

Hardcover:

9780374104979 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A chronicle of the lives and culture of the Tikigaq people of Point Hope, Alaska, is based on a long series of poems that detail the ritual year and its stories

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9780865474888 | Reprint edition (North Point Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: For the Tikigaq people of Point Hope, Alaska - the oldest continuously settled Native American site on the continent - the annual cycle culminating in the spring whale hunt shaped every aspect of life for more than fifteen hundred years.

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