This book combines French's clandestine and seemingly aborted (given Chinese surveillance) visit to Tibet in 1999 with a history and ...

This naturalist accompanied Peter Matthiessen on his trek chronicled in " The Snow Leopard ." What George Schaller adds to the a...

From Utopia via Shambha-La and Shangri-La, to Dharma-La, this visually and textually explores how Westerners conceive the Himalayan land, ...

This Wyoming-raised environmental activist turned Tibetan advocate interweaves his own near-decade pilgrimage and political action with th...

D'fhoghlaim mé faoi an scéal seo níos brónach sa Tiobáid. Bhí daoine dhóitear chun báis siadsan níos mó ná dhá dosean ansin. Chuir si...

"Incorrigably plural" in its diverse history, Ireland has never been as isolated as its geographical position may indicate. Dr. ...

This accessible, but academically grounded survey covers four centuries of patterns in eating and drinking. Although alcohol and potatoes ...

"It is not unusual to wake up in the middle of the night to the barking of dogs, the snoring of travelers in your chamber, and the un...

This sociologist of religion favors "divine accommodation" as his model: "God's revelations are always limited to the c...

Applying zero-sum theory to how religion matured as natural selection highlighted altruistic or selfish mechanisms, this surveys the growt...

Do we define God by faith or logic? Miracles or belief? Reason or inspiration? Open-minded yet skeptical, balanced while probing, this phi...

Slow going, but worth the mental exertion, this 1962 survey of philosophical approaches to religion is not theology. That is, it isn'...

Most "reviews" (of this textbook on Amazon) remarked briefly on its delivery, condition, or the student's course. A couple c...

Chonaic mé seo nuair ag lorg ar an líne. Ní mheas mé go raibh ró-dhrúisiúil. Ach, b'fhéidir duine eile go mbeadh n-aontaíonn. Sílim ...

Like the tango and ta-chi, tea brewing is practiced but never perfected. So the authors opine. They combine a "cultural history" w...