Ed J. Paine
Jeffery Paine is the author of Father India: Westerners Under the Spell of an Ancient Culture. He is contributing editor, and was for many years literary editor, of the Wilson Quarterly. Jeffery Paine lives in Washington, D.C. [... more]
Harper Collins |
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners ...
 Caveat Emptor: Nisbett's book is intended to illustrate the apparent differences in ways of thinking between Westerners and East Asians. While the experiments and their results as documented in the book are interesting and fascinating, in the early [... more]
CDN$38.00
Amazon CA |
Taslima Nasrin
This groundbreaking book throws open a window on a world unknown to most Westerners. Taslima Nasrin revisits her early years - from her auspicious birth on a Muslim holy day to the threshold of womanhood at fourteen - in a small rural village ... [... more]
Random House |
Lesley Downer
Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini's Madame Butterfly to Arthur Golden's ... [... more]
Random House |
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari ... [... more]
Random House |
Awakening the Buddha Within
From Amazon.com: If you dropped the Buddha into a modern metropolis, would he come off sounding like a 16th-century morality play or more like a drive-time disc jockey? Lama Surya Das doesn't spin platters for a living, but he does have a hip delivery [... more]
CDN$35.95
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A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's ...
Saved from the backwaters of history: A Sense of the World makes me wonder how many more incredible characters have been lost to future generations. Much as the glorious objects of one generation have often been cast aside with disdain by the next, [... more]
CDN$18.95
Amazon CA |
Ayurvedic Cooking for Westerners: Familiar Western Food ...
There are better Ayurvedic cookbooks: I own this book (ACFW) and The Ayurvedic Cookbook (TAC) and I must say that I rarely open this one, while I use at least 3 recipes out of TAC every week. The problem is that while this book stays true to the [... more]
CDN$19.95
Amazon CA |
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners ...
Caveat Emptor: Nisbett's book is intended to illustrate the apparent differences in ways of thinking between Westerners and East Asians. While the experiments and their results as documented in the book are interesting and fascinating, in the early [... more]
CDN$16.00
Amazon CA |
Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS and Cultures of Blame ...
Author: Alexander Rodlach Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 306.461096891 EAN: 9781598740349 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1598740342 Number Of Pages: 247 Publication Date: 2006-10-01 [... more]
CDN$29.95
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House of Tears: Westerners' Adventures in Islamic Lands
Enjoy it for what it is ...: I think that this book, more than most, requires for its enjoyment a good understanding of what it is. This collection of traveler's tales is a set of captivating tales from a period further past than the years might indicate. [... more]
CDN$31.95
Amazon CA |
The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners
The captured essence of the Godýs Song: It is evident from the outset of this book that Jack Hawley is more concerned with delivering the spirit and meaning of the Bhagavad Gita than a scholarly translation. On my way to India I began reading this [... more]
CDN$22.50
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