1402 results for '"MEDITATION"'

A provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily life Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies...

*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine...

Artist David Claerbout reflects for the first time in depth on his work of the past decade in relation to current discussions about photography, film and the virtual Publication accompanies the...

First published in 1929, The Gardener’s Bed-Book is a much beloved gardening classic by the renowned editor of House & Garden magazine in the 1920s and ’30s. Each of its 365 perfectly sized little...

Soigné! A recipe for survival. A juicy, sexy, and wise memoir from the “gifted essayist and meditative thinker” that captures the urgency of life at the age of ninety-eight (The New York Times)From...

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD "One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius." --The New York Review of Books Wildly suspenseful and unexpectedly hilarious, Operation Shylock is the...

The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu...

This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called...

"[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth." --His Holiness The Dalai LamaNominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat...

An exhilarating and far-ranging meditation on days and how we live in them in the twenty-first century, from the award-winning poet.Michael Dickman's intuitive, agile verse captures us in its unusual...

In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist...

In this nature connection and spiritual wellness tool, Dawn Nelson offers a new way of connecting with trees--and in turn the landscape and nature around us--through stories, lore, and sacred...

Cut through the busyness and anxieties of daily life to discover the simple happiness of living in the present moment, as taught by a world-renowned Zen monkIn this book, Thich Nhat Hanh—Zen monk,...

A longtime educator explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. Black history is under attack from powerful forces...

"In this final volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life, as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences...

An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Földényi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues...

A provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world’s most widely respected philosophers and writers on Buddhism and scienceBuddhism has become a uniquely...

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardTaking its title from Heraclitus's most famous...

A dazzling new double-bill about being alive these times, by Paul Killebrew, who John Ashbery said "plunges us into a world we inhabit but seldom notice, forcing its horror on us but also reminding...

The Revolutionary Nature of Art - from the groundbreaking author of Ways of SeeingJohn Berger is one of the most passionate and incisive writers on the relationship between art and politics. Whether...