As David White explains in the Introduction to "Tantra in Practice", Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in...
The play premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in February 2018 to coincide with the seventieth anniversaries of both the Nakba or 'catastrophe' - the mass dispossession of the...
Featuring 234 color plates, and more than 950 color maps, this book helps identify East Asia's bird species. It covers major islands including Japan and Taiwan, as well as the Asian continent...
One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a...
Norman Gash's magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel - "Mr Secretary Peel" (1961) and "Sir Robert Peel" (1972) - is the standard work on the great statesman, and is...
Alsace 1944: Mathilde follows the soldier she loves home to Morocco. Suffocated aby the climate, loneliness, and a mistrust of foreigners, she grows restless. Relations between settlers and natives...
Louise would give anything - anything - for a good night's sleep. Forget the girls running errant in the garden and bothering the neighbours. Forget her husband who seems oblivious to it all....
First published in 1913, Holbrook Jackson's "The Eighteen Nineties" is without doubt the authoritative work on the raffish, scandalous and tempestuous "Yellow Nineties" of...
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this...
The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first complete biography of Ernst...
Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and...
Nelson Handwriting is a widely used handwriting scheme in schools throughout the UK. It provides a clear, practical framework for implementing and developing a whole school handwriting policy. The...
Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam. A new uprising...
With this second volume, we enter the intriguing world of complex analysis. From the first theorems on, the elegance and sweep of the results is evident. The starting point is the simple idea of...
This first volume, a three-part introduction to the subject, is intended for students with a beginning knowledge of mathematical analysis who are motivated to discover the ideas that shape Fourier...
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work...
Tarkovsky's diaries were widely reviewed and considered to be a valuable addition to the Tarkovsky canon. The diaries cover his work in the Soviet Union and the increasing difficulties he...
The screenplay of the award-winning picture from the director Wes Anderson, at once tender and probing, mindful of New York and its special mixture of grit and glory.
In "The Axe and the Oath", one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced żeby ordinary people....
Transports the action to contemporary London and follows the debauched protagonist's final adventures. This edition of the text incorporates revisions made for the play's revival at...
Unraveling the controversies surrounding the Dead Sea ScrollsSince they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and...