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Digs and diggers: a book of world archaeology
By Leonard Cottrell. 1964
An introduction to the history of archaeology and the great archaeologists. The author discusses not only the well-known excavations in…
Egypt and the Near East, but also those in Russia, China, and the Western Hemisphere. 1964.La paix: un art, une pratique
By Thich Nhat Hanh, Francis Chauvet. 1991
Mystique et zen
By Thomas Merton, C Tunmer. 1972
Essais sur le Bouddhisme Zen ((Spiritualités vivantes. Bouddhisme ; 9-11).)
By Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, De Jean Herbert. 1972
Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa: à pied et en mendiant, de la Chine à l'Inde à travers le Thibet
By Alexandra David-Néel. 1985
En 1924, Alexandra David-Néel réalisait un fantastique exploit. Cette femme que rien n'arrêtait traversa à pied la Chine et tout…
le Tibet pour atteindre enfin Lhassa, la cité interdite, où elle fut la première Européenne à pénétrer et à séjourner. 1985.Zen et vie quotidienne: la pratique de la concentration (Maîtres et mystiques vivants)
By Taisen Deshimaru. 1985
Cet ouvrage est le fruit de la pratique de zen enseignée par Maitre Taisen Deshimaru, expérience fondamentale de connaissance de…
soi, des autres, du monde et du cosmos. Comment se concentrer pleinement instant après instant tout au long de la vie quotidienne. 1985.What the Buddha never taught
By Tim Ward. 1990
Tim Ward spent a season in the Theravada Buddhist monastery of Pan Nanachat in Thailand. He tells of his initiation…
into the monastery, where half of the members are western Caucasians, and his life there over the following months. 1993, c1990.The lost tomb
By Kent R Weeks. 1998
The personal account of an American Egyptologist's discovery and excavation of the largest tomb in the Valley of the Kings.…
Weeks describes his 1995 entry into a multi- chambered burial site that some consider the most important archaeological find of the twentieth century. He discusses the new revelations about the sons of Ramesses II, stressing that there is more to be explored. c1998.Three ways of Asian wisdom: Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen, and their significance for the West
By Nancy Wilson Ross. 1966
Based on years of study, this is an introduction to the background, history, beliefs, and significance of the three major…
religions of the Far East. The author includes a discussion of the influence of each faith on Eastern art, as well as an appraisal of their effects on Western culture. 1966.The secret oral teachings in Tibetan Buddhist sects
By Alexandra David-Néel. 1967
The Madhyamika (or "middle-way") School of Buddhism is a method of meditation and enlightenment developed between 150 and 250 A.D.…
by the Indian sage and pandit Nagarjuna. An introduction to Mahayana Buddhism and the Madhyamika School. 1967.The way of Zen
By Alan Watts. 1957
The walls of windy Troy: a biography of Heinrich Schliemann
By Marjorie Braymer. 1960
A biography of a poor boy who made money and educated himself to realize his dream of proving that Homer's…
Troy and Mycenae had once really existed. For junior and senior high readers. 1960.The new religions
By Jacob Needleman. 1972
The caves of the great hunters
By Hans Baumann. 1962
The discovery of the cave at Lascaux in 1940 by four boys and a dog is described by the author,…
who also tells of other picture caves discovered by boys and girls. For junior and senior high readers. 1962. Uniform title: Höhlen der grossen Jäger.Sunken history: the story of underwater archaeology
By Robert Silverberg. 1963
This introduction to a new phase of an old science describes major finds in ancient shipwrecks, submerged shore areas, sunken…
cities, and sacrificial wells. The author explains underwater techniques that have made these investigations possible. 1963.Secrets of Minos: Sir Arthur Evan's discoveries in Crete
By Alan Honour. 1961
Religions of Japan: many traditions within one sacred way (Religious traditions of the world)
By H. Byron Earhart. 1984
Shinto, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, the folk religions and the so-called New Religions are surveyed, both as individual traditions and as…
interrelating aspects within the whole of Japanese society and culture. 1984.The queen of Whale Cay
By Kate Summerscale. 1997
Joe Carstairs was renowned in the 1920s as an 'invert' who smoked cheroots and dressed as a man, as an…
heiress to the Standard Oil fortune and as the fastest female speedboat racer in the world. In 1934 she disappeared to create her own kingdom, founding and ruling a colony of 500 black Bahamians.Arrival of the gods: revealing the alien landing sites of Nazca
By Erich Von Däniken. 1998
Nazca, once only an isolated settlement in the midst of the Peruvian desert, is today a meeting place for archaeologists…
from around the world. Drawing on over thirty years study, Erich von Dääniken examines the various theories which attempt to explain the Nazca phenomena in terms of religious ritual, ancient roads and astrological symbols. He puts forward a startling revolutionary solution to one of archaeology's greatest enigmas.L'oeuvre complète de Tchouang-tseu
By Chuang-Tseu, Kia-Hway Liou. 1969