1450 results for '"MEDITATION"'

Descartes thought that we could achieve absolute certainty by starting with radical doubt. He adopts this strategy in the Meditations on First Philosophy, where he raises sweeping doubts with the...

A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time.Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos...

An invitation to a joyful and sustainable relationship with all aspects of eating, including gardening, food shopping, preparing, serving, and even cleaning up after a meal. The second book in the...

Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, TIME.com, and KirkusA Millions Most Anticipated Book...

2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards FinalistA Buddhist master’s guide to cultivating dignity through meditation to live a meaningful and fulfilling life.The notion of dignity is crucial to the...

In Enter, poet Jim Moore navigates the public spaces of his neighborhood―parks, boardwalks, piazzas, even parking garages―and encounters people negotiating mortality in the pandemic age just as he is...

A new translation of the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness—and how it can help us to be less controlled by our emotions To feel is to suffer. But do we have to suffer as much as we do? Twenty-five...

Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance “the ten thousand things” that life is and is becoming, in contemporary Beijing and beyond. Coauthored by an...

“A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle...

Jennifer Lee Tsai’s first full-length poetry book explores family history, intergenerational trauma, love, loss and belonging through the perspective of a second-generation British Chinese identity...

Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitions and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory,...

Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theatre. Robert Burstein declared that "there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role." In The Cherry...

Authentic and practical teachings on what lies at the heart of Tibetan Buddhism, including karma, renunciation, bodhichitta, kindness, preparing for death, and much more.Perfect for practitioners,...

The eighteenth-century French philosophe Denis Diderot—the principal intelligence behind the Encyclopédie and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's...

Through a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, Daniel Arasse explores the originality of this artist in the context of seventeenth-century Dutch...

Pinocchio in Venice is a carnivalesque reemersion in the well-known fairy tale – as well as magic realism, Mann’s Death in Venice, and Nabokov’s Lolita – with the puppet, now an aged Nobel Prize...

A brilliant new translation of Kafka’s best-known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birthThis collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that...

Elegant, passionate, and filled with love for God’s creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication in 1951―and...

On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited...