Examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centureis AD, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world..
The Early Church
Mr. Vertigo
The author of Leviathan returns with a dazzling, picaresque, new novel in which Walter Claireborne Rawley, now an octogenarian, recounts his extraordinary vaudevillian adventures as ‘Walt the Wonder Boy’ in 1924. ‘One hears every page of this novel, and sees it as well’.–Washington Post..
The White Hotel
By turns a dream of electrifying eroticism recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud, and a horrifying yet calmly unsensational narrative of the Holocaust, this PEN Silver Pen winner is now recognized as a modern classic that reconciles the nightmarish with the transcendent..
The Portable Western Reader
The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as it is in its landforms, yet what has come to stand for ‘Western’ writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. This authoritative anthology assembled poems, essays, stories, and excepts–by Ken Kesey, Raymond Carver, Larry McMurtry, Ivan Doig, and many others–which transcend the myth and explore the vast range of Wetsern experience..
The Te of Piglet
Combining the irresistible charm of the A.A. Milne classic, the enduring wisdom of ancient teachings, and the contemporary appeal of its predecessor, this delightfully enlightening sequel to The Tao of Pooh is sure to captivate the legions of loyal readers who have found pleasure in walking the Path of Pooh. 51 line drawings..
One Continuous Mistake : Four Nobel Truths for Writers
Based on the Zen philosophy that we learn more from our failures than from our successes, ‘One Continuous Mistake’ teaches a refreshing new method for writing as spiritual practice..
If the Buddha Dated : A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
In this practical, playful, and spiritual guide, Dr. Kasl shows readers what it would be like to have the ancient wisdom of the Buddha to guide them through the dating process..
Ritual : Power, Healing and Community
In what Robert Bly calls’, the greatest and most detailed book about ritual that I have ever read’, Malidoma Patrice Some–who is well-versed in the languages of psychology and comparative literature, as well as ancient mythology, healing and divination–bridges paths between the ancient tribal world of the West African Dagara culture and modern Western society..
Golf in the Kingdom
When a young man en route to India stops in Scotland to play at the legendary Burningbush golf club, his life is transformed. Paired with a mysterious teacher named Shivas Irons, he is led through a round of phenomenal golf, swept into a world where extraordinary powers are unleashed in a backswing governed by ‘true gravity’. A night of adventure and revelation follows, and leads to a glimpse of Seamus MacDuff, the holy man who haunts a ravine off Burningbush’s thirteenth fairway – the one they call Lucifer’s Rug..
The Monks of War The Military Religious Orders
The military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom’s stormtroopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, devoted to charitable works. The Monks of War is the first general history of these orders to have appeared since the eighteenth century. The Templars, the Hospitallers (later Knights of Malta), the Teutonic Knights, and the Knights of the Spanish and Portuguese orders were ‘noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monastic life in convents which were at the same time barracks, waging war on the enemies of the Cross’. The first properly disciplined Western troops since Roman times, they played a major role in defending the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, in the ‘Baltic Crusades’ which created Prussia, in the long reconquest of Spain from the Moors, and in fighting the ‘Infidel’ right up to Napoleonic times. This celebrated book tells the whole enthralling story, recreating such epics as the sieges of Rhodes and Malta and the destruction of the Templars by the Inquisition. Acclaimed on publication, it has now been revised and updated, with a concluding chapter to take events into the 1990s..