An explanation and discussion of Zen Buddhism describing its techniques and the Zen way of life

Examines the techniques and concepts of animal phylogeny and evaluates current findings on animal evolution

Examines the cyclical nature of the history of the United States from the Colonial period to the 1980s

Black and beautiful Loop Garoo Kid performs lariat tricks in a circus, but when they arrive in Yellow Back Radio, they're surprised to find all the adults have been run out of town by the children (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book is about emptiness and silence—the mind-expanding emptiness of Zen painting, and the reverberating silence of haiku poetry. Through imaginative participation in the visions of painters and poets, its readers are led to the realization that, in the author's words, "emptiness, silence, is not nothingness, but fullness...read more

Examines the cyclical nature of the history of the United States from the Colonial period to the 1980s

Product Description: An interpretive history of the US from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes both political history with solid coverage of social history.

Traces the origin of Zen and discusses the Zen way of life against its historical and cultural background

Product Description: Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The wisdom found on these pages is deceptively simple yet infinitely useful. Aoyama cuts though to the essence of each topic she discusses. Her immense sense of calm and tranquility is transferable to the reader due to her eloquent writing style and choice of accentuating quotes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Conversations with a zen teacher and her students.

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Letters and journal entries describe O'Halloran's 1,000 days of Zen training and her life in Tokyo as a nun (view table of contents)

Product Description: More than thirteen centuries of clergy, laity, and social conditions interacted to mold Japan's Buddhism. Today's resulting characteristics, which distinguish it from its mainland sources, include a proliferation of independent sects, emphasis on religion for lay members, and de-emphasis of clerical codes...read more

American intelligence is again under intense scrutiny and its future role and organization uncertain. The past 20 years have yielded a wealth of information about spying. But when it comes to two key elements of intelligence, counterintelligence and covert action, our knowedge remains sketchy. Both are viewed with suspicion and distaste in the United States and other democratic societies. Are they "dirty tricks" as portrayed by fiction writers and polemicists? Or, as this book argues, "trump cards" that when well-played provide a winning edge? This book traces the evolution of covert action and counterintelligence through the last 50 years of US history: the successes and failures; the products and the processes; and the organizations. As the United States struggles to deal with rogue states, terrorists, drug barons, increasingly sophisticated financial criminals and a proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the need for effective counterintelligence and covert action becomes more pressing than ever. (view table of contents)

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Compiles talks from the late guiding teacher of the Cambridge Buddhist Association