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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 Second Macmillan anthology
By John Metcalf, Leon Rooke. 1989
A collection of short stories, poetry, literary criticism, and memoirs by Canadian authors such as Alice Munro, Carol Shields, Patricia…
Young and Al Purdy. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.The way of Zen
By Alan Watts. 1957
The house of fiction: an anthology of the short story, with commentary
By Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon. 1960
The new religions
By Jacob Needleman. 1972
Reading like a writer: a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them
By Francine Prose. 2006
Novelist, professor, and author of "A Changed Man" offers lessons on close reading to heighten literary appreciation and improve creative…
writing skills. Discusses sentence and paragraph structure, characterization, plot, and dialog, using examples from such authors as Austen, Fitzgerald, Roth, and Woolf. Includes list of recommended books. 2006.Selected poetry
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Harold Bloom. 1951
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.Qui dit je en nous?: une histoire subjective de l'identité
By Claude Arnaud. 2006
Réflexion sur le thème de l'identité. L'auteur aborde quelques cas d'imposteurs (dont le fameux Martin Guerre), d'agents doubles, d'êtres à…
identités floues (tel Michael Jackson) et de victimes du syndrome de la personnalité multiple, vus à travers le prisme d'auteurs clefs tels que Pessoa et Pirandello. 2006.Pourquoi lire les classiques ((La Librairie du XXe siècle))
By Italo Calvino, Jean-Paul Manganaro. 1993
Where the words come from: Canadian poets in conversation
By Tim Bowling. 2002
A comprehensive gathering of 17 interviews with and by many of Canada's most exciting poetic talents. In each of them,…
a younger and/or less widely known poet questions an older, more celebrated peer on a wide range of issues. 2002.The glass air: selected poems
By P. K Page. 1985
Les grands drames
By A. B Routhier. 1889
L'oeuvre complète de Tchouang-tseu
By Chuang-Tseu, Kia-Hway Liou. 1969
Offers an urgent and mesmerizing account of the creative and destructive power of great art. In 2015 Will Aitken journeyed…
to Luxembourg for the rehearsals and premiere of Anne Carson's translation of Sophokles' 5th-century BCE tragedy Antigone, starring Juliette Binoche and directed by theatrical sensation Ivo van Hove. In repeatedly watching the play, he became awestruck with the plight of the young woman at the centre of the action. "Look at what these men are doing to me," Antigone cries, expressing the predicament of the dispossessed throughout time. Transfixed by the strange and uncanny power of the play, he finds himself haunted by its protagonist, finally resulting in his own suicidal breakdown. With a backstage view of the action, Aitken illuminates the creative process of Carson, Binoche, and Van Hove and offers a rare glimpse into collaborative genius in action. He also investigates the response to the play by Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Judith Butler, and others who, like him, were moved by its timeless protest against injustice. 2018.Think comic books can't feature strong female protagonists? Think again! You'll meet the most fascinating exemplars of the powerful, compelling,…
entertaining, and heroic female characters who've populated comic books from the very beginning. This spectacular sisterhood includes costumed crimebusters like Miss Fury, super-spies like Tiffany Sinn, sci-fi pioneers like Gale Allen, and even kid troublemakers like Little Lulu. With vintage art, publication details, a decade-by-decade survey of industry trends and women's roles in comics, and spotlights on iconic favorites like Wonder Woman and Ms. Marvel, Nicholson proves that not only do strong female protagonists belong in comics, they've always been there.Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
By Meghan Daum. 2019
From "one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time" (Cheryl Strayed,…
author of Wild) comes a seminal new book that reaches surprising truths about feminism, the Trump era, and the Resistance movement. You won't be able to stop thinking about it and talking about it. In the fall of 2016, acclaimed author Meghan Daum began working on a book about the excesses of contemporary feminism. With Hillary Clinton soon to be elected, she figured even the most fiercely liberal of her friends and readers could take the criticisms in stride. But after the election, she knew she needed to do more, and her nearly completed manuscript went in the trash. What came out in its place is the most sharply-observed, all-encompassing, and unputdownable book of her career. In this gripping new work, Meghan examines our country's most intractable problems with clear-eyed honesty instead of exaggerated outrage. With passion, humor, and most importantly nuance, she tries to make sense of the current landscape-from Donald Trump's presidency to the #MeToo movement and beyond. In the process, she wades into the waters of identity politics and intersectionality, thinks deeply about the gender wage gap, and tests a theory about the divide between Gen Xers and millennials. This signature work may well be the first book to capture the essence of this era in all its nuances and contradictions. No matter where you stand on its issues, this book will strike a chord.Year of the Monkey
By Patti Smith. 2019
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams…
and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs-including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith-inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing-the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.Refuse: CanLit in ruins /
By Julie Rak, Erin Wunker, Hannah McGregor. 2018
CanLit--the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry--has been at the heart of…
several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique. Topics such as literary celebrity, white power, appropriation, class, rape culture, and the ongoing impact of settler colonialism are addressed by a diverse gathering of writers from across Canada. This volume works to avoid a single metanarrative response to these issues, but rather brings together a cacophonous and ruinous multitude of voices. 2018.