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Muhammadisthe messenger of Islam.Born in Mecca in the year 570, Muhammad grew into a sensitive and thoughtful man who believed deeply in the worship of one true god.In his fortieth year, Muhammad...

Long ago in India, there lived a raja who believed that he was wise and fair. But every year he kept nearly all of the people's rice for himself. Then when famine came, the raja refused to share the...

When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.

When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.

A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy “A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”—The New...

A hallmark of scholarship in Great Britain, The Proceedings of the British Academy annually gathers together some of the finest lectures delivered in the previous year, sponsored by the Academy...

Volume 66 of the Proceedings of the British Academy.

A moving, thought-provoking, and emotional anthology of classical and contemporary poems from across the world that invites us to celebrate poetry’s power to capture the truths that really matter. ...

One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring...

Interrupting Cow meets a duck who knows more jokes than anyone on the farm.

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A hallmark of scholarship in Great Britain, The Proceedings of the British Academy annually gathers together some of the finest lectures delivered in the previous year, sponsored by the Academy...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York...

First Edition. Hardcover. 576 pages. With plates. Annual Volume of Speeches read at the British Academy in 1978 on philosophy, literature, economics, history and literary history. Contents: - The...

Clarifies the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine by explicating the original Pali text of the Tipitaka.