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Autobiography of a Yogi

Autobiography of a Yogi


Paramhansa Yogananda



Autobiography of a Yogi...
Gordon Smith: Prince of Wingers

Gordon Smith: Prince of Wingers


Tony Smith



Tony Smith lives by the coast in East Lothian near the seaside town of North Berwick with his partne...
Edie

Edie


Jean Stein



Biography of Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) one of Andy Warhol's circle during the 1960's....
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens


Claire Tomalin



In a remarkable feat of biographical sleuthing, Tomalin offers the fullest account to date of Charle...
Wayne Gretzky's Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey

Wayne Gretzky's Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey


Roy Macgregor



NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Harper government should just go ahead and designate Roy MacGreg...
Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'

Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'


Iain Sinclair



Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Enco...
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression


Andrew Solomon



Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexper...
Fighting to Serve: Behind the Scenes in the War to Repeal

Fighting to Serve: Behind the Scenes in the War to Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"


Alexander Nicholson



"[Nicholson] stood on the frontline of this battle and his dedicated and unflinching service to our ...
Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary

Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary


Janet Gyatso



"Gyatso surveys this landscape from a host of perspectives, adding to her Buddhalogical expertise a ...
Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression

Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression


Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan



Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression...
Quantum Leaps

Quantum Leaps


Jon Balchin



Balchin has produced a compact, highly readable panorama of two and a half millennia of science -- S...
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds


Thomas Christensen, Julio Cortazar



Perhaps the most cosmopolitan of all Latin American writers, Cortazar drew his inspiration from such...
Abraham De Moivre: Setting the Stage for Classical Probability and Its Applications

Abraham De Moivre: Setting the Stage for Classical Probability and Its Applications


David R. Bellhouse



—Aleksandar M. Nikolić, Mathematical Reviews, 2012h —Rudi Penne and Paul Levrie,...
Masters of Meditation and Miracles: Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet

Masters of Meditation and Miracles: Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet


Tulku Thondup



Tulku Thondup Rinpoche was born in East Tibet and was recognized to be a tulku at age five. He studi...
Frederick Engels: A short biography

Frederick Engels: A short biography


Evgeniia Akimovna Stepanova



Text: English (translation) Original Language: Russian ...
Kieslowski on Kieslowski

Kieslowski on Kieslowski


Danusia Stok



"Kieslowski is frequently cryptic in his responses to journalists, refusing to respond to questions ...
Sulfur Removal and Recovery from Industrial Processes

Sulfur Removal and Recovery from Industrial Processes


Pfeiffer J.B.



Sulfur Removal and Recovery from Industrial Processes...
Life and Teaching of Naropa

Life and Teaching of Naropa


Herbert V. Guenther



Text: English, Tibetan (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edit...
Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons

Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons


Gerald Durrell



"'A renegade who was right...He was truly a man before his time' Sir David Attenborough 'This is not...
A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage

A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage


Sogyal Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorjé, Richard Barron Chökyi Nyima



Nyoshul Khenpo was a brilliant scholar and storyteller, reflected in his exhaustive historical resea...