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Sound clean copy. Shin Buddhism 200pp.

Condition: clean copy.Content: This work is an adaptation from the Japanese work by Professor Ueda published as 'How to Understand Buddhism (1963). Adaptation, as the term indicates, is different from a literal translation; it is the result of continual modification and reworking of the original, arising from an on-going conversation between Professor Ueda and Taitesu Unno. regarding some central topics in Buddhism. The aim of this book is to develop and understanding of the teaching of Shin Buddhism within the broader context of religion in general and of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy in particular.70 pages.

Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of Charles Cleasby, a man unable to see himself separately from the hero - Lord Horatio Nelson - he mistakenly idolizes. But in his research he has come upon an incident of horrifying brutality in Nelson's career that stumps all attempts at glorification. Moreover, his new assistant, Miss Lily, render a steady assault on Nelson and on Cleasby's isolated life.

As the harsh winds hold the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis waiting to sail to Troy, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood of a young and innocent woman - blood that will appease the gods and allow the troops to set sail. In this retelling of ancient Greek myth, King Agamemnon's beloved daughter is brought to the coast expecting to be married to a leading warrior, not to meet her death. When a ceremonial knife is fashioned out of the finest and most precious materials, her fate seems sealed by the hands of men. But can a father really go to these lengths to secure political victory, and can a daughter willingly give up her life for the worldly ambitions of her father?

The hero of Updike's 'Rabbit, Run', ten years after the events described in 'Rabbit Redux', has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as chief sales representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. the time is 1979,. Skylab is falling, gas lines are long, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of nation confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last - until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's mid-life, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.

This is the journal of a 66-year-old man, Ben Turnbull...the wanderings of his wits....So what if he jumps from a United States in the next century, disintegrating after a war with China, to ancient Egypt, or to virtual reality? So what if characters appear and disappear like phantoms in a drewa?...Turnbull's journal is like Walden gone haywire...If Ben's ruthlessness is evenhanded, so is his alarming intelligence: it falls on every scene, person, object, and thought in the book, giving it an eerie ambiance. - The New York Times Book Review.

Terrorist is the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town he calls home. Turning to the words of the Holy Qur'an as expounded to him by the pedantic imam of a local mosque, Ahmad devotes himself fervently to God. But neither the world-weary guidance counselor at Ahmad's high school nor his mischievously seductive classmate Joryleen will succeed in deflecting him from his course, as the threads of an insidious plot gather around him.

Condition: clean copy.Content: The author has chosen four regions that are rich in nomadic culture: the Arabian peninsula with the Bedouin, the Sahara with the Moors, and Tuareg, the mountain ranges of southerner Iran with their migratory pastoral tribes, and the steppes of Central Asia with the Mongol horsemen and Tartar decedents. He has travelled with all of them and introduces the different sections of his book with a brief account of the special characteristics and history of each nomadic group.232 pages, select bibliography, index.

Ester O'Malley Robertson gazes out at Lake Ontario from her home for perhaps the last time. This house, highly charged with memories and history, is part of a landscape this is now being swallowed by industry. The story of her family's past has its beginnings in the 1840's off the northern coast of Ireland where a young woman embraced a semi-conscious sailor, who had washed in with the tide, and, later with her husband and young son, fled the famine for Canada, eventually settling in Ontario

A year after Andrew Woodman's body is found encased in ice on a remote island at the mouth of the St Lawrence River, Sylvia Bradley - a withdrawn, sheltered woman - finds herself in the unfamiliar city of Toronto in search of the young artist Jerome, who discovered Andrew's body. When she encounters Jerome, she shares with him the story of her unusual, insular childhood and of her devastating affair with Andrew, which changed her world forever. As they talk, Jerome is brought face to face with his own past.

Contents: Five Wheelchairs: Shoes, Dreams, Charity, Gift, The Drawing Master; Storm Glass; The Death of Robert Browning; Seven Confessions: Merry-go-round with Approaching Storm, Bossu, Her Golden Curls, The Boat, Artificial Ice, Venetian Glass, Hotel Verbano; John's Cottage; Italian Postcards. 127 Pages.

Condition: clean copy.Content: a collection of 8 short nautical stories and 4 short biographical sketches of the men who told the stories.164 pages, glossary of nautical terms, index.