Product Description: Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015 Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation by sea...read more

Product Description: Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an extremely well informed and sensitive expositor of Mahayana Buddhism. As the American wife of the influential Zen Buddhist Suzuki Daisetsu, she lived in Japan for many years, becoming very familiar with the leading temples of various Buddhist schools especially in Ky to and Kamakura...read more

Product Description: Experts on the front lines of inquiry into the paranormal, strange, and unexplained share their stories and research from the field. Each title features a collection of original essays by the world's leading professionals and enthusiasts of unexplained phenomena...read more

Product Description: These previously scattered texts by Michael Pye are landmarks in the development of the study of religions, presented here as an international enterprise with roots in both European and East Asian culture. Following fundamental papers on method and theory in the first volume, this second volume uses case studies to explore a number of themes such as tradition, innovation, and syncretism...read more

Product Description: These previously scattered texts by Michael Pye are landmarks in the development of the study of religions, presented here as an international enterprise with roots in both European and East Asian culture. This first volume comprises fundamental papers on method and theory, while the second volume uses case studies to explore a number of themes such as tradition, innovation, and syncretism...read more

Product Description: In the early twentieth century, The Eastern Buddhist journal pioneered the presentation of Buddhism to the west and encouraged the west s engagement in interpretation. This interactive process increased dramatically in the post-war period, when dialogue between Buddhist and Christian thought began to take off in earnest...read more

Product Description: "Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio 
by which the dead outnumber the living."--Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space OdysseyWhat are ghosts, spirits, and other apparitions?Why do they visit, and what do they want from us?Are OBEs, NDEs, and PDEs real?Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings tackles these questions and more, as some of the world's best-known paranormal experts come together in a tour de force of investigative journalism...read more

In the wide range of Buddhist meditation and spirituality, a very special place is held by the practice of calling on the name of Amitabha, or in Japanese Amida Buddha, using the simplest of formulas, the nenbutsu. Japanese masters such as Honen, Shinran and others made this the core of a profound spiritual experience which has fascinated numberless followers ever since. The deeper meaning of the nenbutsu has therefore become a major topic in Buddhist thought which has been reflected on by various thinkers and teachers to this day, especially in the context of Shin Buddhism. In this book, which draws on classic articles first published in The Eastern Buddhist, major historic proponents and masters of the nenbutsu are introduced, in particular Shinran, Shoku, Ippen and Rennyo. Further contributions, which set the work of these masters into the wider context of Buddhist tradition, are in fact some of the earliest Buddhist "voices" to emerge from modern Japan into global view. Yet the presentations of writers such as Sasaki Gessho, Yamabe Shugaku and Sugihira Shizutoshi have a freshness and an immediacy which speaks to us today.

Product Description: It is crucial today to understand how religions can exist harmoniously in a shared environment, whether local or global. A reasoned approach to this question was sought by participants at an exciting conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) in a predominantly Muslim country, Indonesia...read more

Real and invented people and events are combined in this novel about the life of German cabaret singer Ingrid Caven, revealing the counterculture of the 1970s, infused with celebrity glitz and cocaine-fueled excesses. Winner of the Priz Goncourt 2000. Original.

Product Description: Martin Arkenhout found his true calling on a lonely Florida highway -- with a sharp rock to the skull of an injured friend. He didn't just take the boy's life; he went on to live it. When that life became too risky, he found another, and another, changing his name, papers and style at will, until he chose the wrong life -- a scholarly thief on the run from the determined and troubled John Costa...read more

Lucia Müller-Rossi, a respected, ninety-year-old antiques dealer in Zurich, finds her reputation on the line when Sarah Freeman discovers a table in her shop that Sarah and her husband had owned before the war, in a novel based on a real-life historical figure, a woman who made a fortune dealing in stolen art in wartime Berlin. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: 'Skilful Means' is the key principle of Mahayana, one of the great Buddhist traditions. First described in the Lotus Sutra, it originates in myths of the Buddha's compassionate plans for raising life from the ceaseless round of birth and death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'Skilful means' in the key principle of the great tradition of Mahayana Buddhism. First set out extensively in the Lotus Sutra, it originates in the Buddha's compassionate project for helping others to transcend the ceaseless round of birth and death...read more

Product Description: Salamandra. Barcelona. 2003. 23 cm. 333 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Colección '[Nueva narrativa]'. Pye, Michael 1946-. Traducción, Carme Camps Monfá. Traducción de: Taking lives. Nueva narrativa (Salamandra) ...read more

A blend of history, love story, and memoir, this novel set in 1642 recounts the story of Gretje Reyniers, a moneylender, pelt dealer, and town prostitute, who rises to fame and fortune in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: More than 5000 terms used in the world's religions."Will strengthen the religion section of any reference section". -- Booklist