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"A vivid and insightful exploration of Middle Eastern ingredients with 75 recipes and stunning on-location photography, from the author of Mastering Spice From sumac to za'atar and sesame to silan, Lior Lev Sercarz brings home cooks on a fantastical journey to the Middle East to learn about the region's most coveted recipes via its most sought-after ingredients. Through seventy-five delicious recipes, historical ingredient research, essays on artisans...
2) Bratislava
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Bratislava es una bella e histórica ciudad que despertó del socialismo y, casi sin tiempo a reaccionar, se vio convertida en capital de un joven país, Eslovaquia. Dinámica y emprendedora, la ciudad vive un momento crucial que hace que se construya y se reconstruya constantemente. Aún así, conserva un centro histórico pleno de encanto, pequeño y recogido, con calles de adoquines y viejas casonas que testimonian un pasado de esplendor. En la...
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The Best Guide to Eastern Philosophy & Religion provides a thorough discussion of the most widely practiced belief systems of the East.
Author Diane Morgan understands how to direct the materialistic, linear way of Western thinking toward a comprehension of the cyclical, metaphysical essence of Eastern philosophy. With an emphasis on the tenets and customs that Western seekers find most compelling, this text is accessible to the novice yet sophisticated...
4) The New Tao
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Taoism is an ancient faith of China. It would begin with ancient philosophers like Chuang Chou, Lao Tzu, and others. It would create an idea called Tao. It can mean anything like the Way, Nature, order, life, God, the right way of things, and much more. Its idea underlies martial arts, Chinese philosophy, and indeed Chinese civilization. It is a fascinating word with rich meanings. Here in this book, we will study Tao through philosophical,...
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El feng shui se conoce en Occidente desde hace más de ciento cincuenta años, pero siempre se había considerado una forma primitiva de superstición. Tanto es así que, en época moderna, los sucesivos regímenes políticos de China han prohibido su práctica. Sin embargo, en las últimas décadas, el feng shui se ha convertido en una corriente espiritual a nivel mundial. Se han fundado numerosas asociaciones de profesionales, se han publicado miles...
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De la vida de Confucio, cuya filosofía ha conformado las vidas de millones de seres humanos durante más de dos milenios, lo desconocemos casi todo. Las reglas de conducta que nos legara perduran, pese a que apenas conservamos una breve compilación de aforismos y máximas llevada a cabo por sus discípulos directos, y algunas citas dispersas en textos posteriores. Y, sin embargo, sus enseñanzas acerca del gobierno y el desempeño de la función...
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Heinrich Zimmer (1890–1943) was an Indologist, linguist, and historian of South Asian art. Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) was the author of many books on comparative mythology, including The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God.
A Princeton Classics edition of an essential work of twentieth-century scholarship on India
Since its first publication, Philosophies of India has been considered a monumental exploration of the foundations...
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1159 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm
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Presents a travel guide to Central Europe, with recommendations for lodging, restaurants, events, tours, and sightseeing highlights, along with travel tips and cultural information. Includes fully updated comprehensive coverage on the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, and Slovakia, plus side trips to Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Romania.
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An anthology of poems dedicated to the people of Palestine and their long struggle for freedom"Poems for Palestine" was launched as a project aiming to collect together verse written by the people of Palestine, as a website open to all comers, all free to upload their work. The broad spectrum of the resulting talent displays a multitude of different poetic styles, subject matters, and emotions. The role of art, and poetry...
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Chechnya Diary is a story about "the story" of the war in Chechnya, the "rogue republic" that attempted to secede from the Russian Federation at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Specifically, it is the story of the Samashki Massacre, a symbol of the Russian brutality that was employed to crush Chechen resistance.
Thomas Goltz is a member of the exclusive journalistic cadre of compulsive, danger-addicted voyeurs who court death...
11) Damage
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When the young and naive D'Artagnan sets out on his quest to become a King's musketeer, he immediately encounters the dangerous femme fatale, Milady de Winter. After discovering that the musketeers have been disbanded, he makes it his mission to get them reinstated. But will his feud with Milady thwart him? And who the heck is she?
This riotous adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel by John Nicholson (Hound of the Baskervilles, Peepolykus was...
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Shimon Redlich draws on the historical record, his own childhood memories, and interviews with Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians who lived in the small eastern Polish town of Brzezany to construct this account of the changing relationships among the town's three ethnic groups before, during, and after World War II. He details the history of Brzezany from the prewar decades (when it was part of independent Poland and members of the three communities remember...
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In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote. Satirist, impressionist and dangerous comedian, friend of David Garrick and Dr Johnson, he is a bona fide celebrity in an age obsessed with fame. He even has the ear of the King.
But when Foote finds himself at the centre of a media storm-and under the surgeon's knife-there's only one question on everyone's lips: does fame make you mad?
Based on Ian Kelly's award-winning biography, Mr Foote's...
14) Budapest
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Esta guía de Budapest recopila lo mejor de la capital de Hungría para sacar el máximo provecho a una escapada de varios días. Se detallan los puntos de imprescindible visita, se proponen los mejores recorridos por la ciudad (con la posibilidad de seguir la ruta con Google Maps), se recomiendan restaurantes especialmente seleccionados para esta guía, así como tiendas de interés para el visitante y los principales eventos que tienen lugar en...
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Padraic Kenney is Professor of European History at the University of Colorado. He is the author of Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950.
This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers and famed intellectuals, not in decrepit economies--but in the whirlwind...
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Katherine Verdery is Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Among her books are Transylvanian Villagers and National Ideology under Socialism.
Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998" Derek Sayer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He is the author of several books, including (with Philip Corrigan) The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution.
In The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare gave the landlocked country of Bohemia a coastline-a famous and, to Czechs, typical example of foreigners' ignorance of the Czech homeland. Although...
18) The House
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Second Home by Charlotte Chimuanya explores the experiences of growing up mixed-race in twenty-first century Ireland. Naomi is trying to mend her broken heart. But will tackling grief and racism in a place she calls home prove to be the final betrayal?
Second Home was first staged at VAULT Festival, London, in 2020, and was selected for publication in Plays from VAULT 5, an anthology of five of the best plays from the festival, published by Nick Hern...
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Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945) is considered Japan's first and greatest modern philosopher. As founder of the Kyoto School, he began a rigorous philosophical engagement and dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, especially the work of G. W. F. Hegel. John W. M. Krummel explores the Buddhist roots of Nishida's thought and places him in connection with Hegel and other philosophers of the Continental tradition. Krummel develops notions of self-awareness,...
20) Asyeh
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In the nineteenth century, two villages in Iran, SHORCHEH and TIKKEN, were deeply entrenched in religious fanaticism and rigid traditions. Within this oppressive environment, a forbidden love affair takes root, further fueling an ongoing rivalry centered around a vital water well.
As the tensions escalate, Sattar, a young poet and the son of a powerful landlord named Assad Khan from Tikken, finds himself helplessly falling in love with Asyeh, the...
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