Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India
By: Douglas Ober
4.44
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thi…
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1. A Tale for the Time Being
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more
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"Maketa,"-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Live. For Now. For the time being."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"True freedom comes from being unknown."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
2. Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
By: Sue Hamilton
3.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought, spanning some two and a hal… read more
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- buddhism
- history
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- religion
- nonfiction
3. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
5. Understanding a Photograph
By: Geoff Dyer , John Berger
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
6. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
By: Thomas Metzinger
3.71
Format: 101 pages,
We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or ar… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Buddha, Vol. 4: The Forest of Uruvela (Buddha, #4)
By: Osamu Tezuka
3.62
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The Eisner and Harvey WinnerIn this fourth volume of the award-winning graphic novel biography, Bud… read more
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- buddhism
- religion
8. Buddha, Vol. 1: Kapilavastu (Buddha #1)
By: Osamu Tezuka
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Osamu Tezuka's vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanit… read more
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9. In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Bhikkhu Bodhi
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
The works of the Buddha can feel vast, and it is sometimes difficult for even longtime students to … read more
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10. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
By: Nāgārjuna , Jay L. Garfield
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is u… read more
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11. Buddha, Vol. 5: Deer Park (Buddha, #5)
By: Osamu Tezuka , Yuji Oniki
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth installment of manga-godfather Osamu Tezuka's Buddha, engagement with death imparts th… read more
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12. Buddha, Vol. 3: Devadatta (Buddha, #3)
By: Osamu Tezuka
4.00
Format: 204 pages,
The Eisner and Harvey WinnerThe third volume of this epic graphic novel send Siddhartha further int… read more
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13. Buddha, Vol. 6: Ananda
By: Osamu Tezuka
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
In the sixth volume of manga visionary Osamu Tezuka's Buddha, the devil Mara possesses the bandit A… read more
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14. Buddha, Vol. 2: The Four Encounters (Buddha #2)
By: Osamu Tezuka
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Osamu Tezuka's vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanit… read more
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15. Buddha, Vol. 7: Prince Ajatasattu
By: Osamu Tezuka , Maya Rosewood
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Osamu Tezuka's vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanit… read more
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16. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
17. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
18. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
19. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
20. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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- history
21. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
22. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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23. American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
By: Duncan Ryūken Williams
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
This groundbreaking history tells the little-known story of how, in one of our country’s darkest ho… read more
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- buddhism
- history
- religion
24. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- religion
- history
25. The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded … read more
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- history
"Systems of faith are systems before they are places of faith. They are made by people and share the flaws of their builders."-Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
"People in the West need to know that most of the spiritual, intellectual, and cultural products of South Asia are tainted by Brahmanism. What may have offered you liberation and healing also causes c…"-Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
26. The Buddha and his Dhamma: A Critical Edition
By: Aakash Singh Rathore
4.44
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
B.R. Ambedkar's magnum opus, The Buddha and his Dhamma, was barely completed before his death and w… read more
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- history
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
"The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religi…"-Aakash Singh Rathore, The Buddha and his Dhamma: A Critical Edition
27. Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India
By: Douglas Ober
4.44
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thi… read more
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28. The Art of Listening: A Guide to the Early Teachings of Buddhism
By: Sarah Shaw
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
he Dīghanikāya or Long Discourses of the Buddha is one of the four major collections of teachings f… read more
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29. Guardian of a Dying Flame: Śāriputra (c. 1335–1426) and the End of Late Indian Buddhism (Harvard Oriental Series)
By: Arthur McKeown
5.00
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Arthur McKeown presents the first full-length analysis of the continuation of Buddhism in India aft… read more
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30. Jhāna Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience
By: Paul Dennison
4.67
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An interdisciplinary deep dive into Buddhist jhāna meditation and how it can transform our understa… read more
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31. Until Nirvana's Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia
By: Trent Walker
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A unique Buddhist tradition, accessible in English for the first time—translations of forty-five Ca… read more
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