Crooked Cucumber: Life...Shunryu Suzuki by CHADWICK, DAVID
$55.00 AUD
Category: Zen Buddhism
Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing ...Show more
Iyengar: the Yoga Master by Kofi Busia
$49.95 AUD
Category: Hatha Yoga
In fifty essays, stories, and interviews, well-known contributors from the international yoga world celebrate the work of yoga pioneer B K S Iyengar. A revered Indian yoga master, Iyengar has been the single most influential person in spreading the practice of yoga throughout the world. B K S Iyengar wa ...Show more
Head That Won't Stand by Kavita Chandran
$28.95 AUD
Category: Hatha Yoga
A bunch of smart, enterprising women from different corners of the globe. What links them is a thirst for rediscovering themselves. What brings them together is a yoga shaala in Mysore run by a young, stringent and scrupulous guru. The book unravels the endearing stories of transformation of the yoginis ...Show more
Naked Witch by Fiona Horne
$29.95 AUD
Category: Wicca
Fiona Horne's extraordinary journey through a metaphysically laced material world has all the breathtaking twists, turns, perils, redemption, and enlightenment of a fantasy novel merged with Siddhartha and Entertainment Weekly. This is her autobiography. It's the late 70s and a 10-year-old girl builds ...Show more
Noodle Maker of Kalimpong by Gyalo Thondup
$35.00 AUD
Category: Tibetan Buddhism
For over half a century, noodlemaker Gyalo Thondup has been a familiar figure in the Himalayan hill town of Kalimpong. But it was not until 2010 that the townsfolk discovered his true identity: Gyalo Thondup is none other than the older brother of the Dalai Lama and his special envoy, a trusted interloc ...Show more
Life of Milarepa by Tsangnyon Heruka
$34.95 AUD
Category: Tibetan Buddhism | Series: Penguin Classics
A new translation of the classic biography of the most renowned saint in Tibetan Buddhist history. "The Life of Milarepa" is one of the most beloved stories of the Tibetan people and a great literary example of the contemplative life. This biography, a dramatic tale from a culture now in crisis, can be ...Show more
Dalai Lama - The Definitive Biography by Norman Alexander
$39.95 AUD
Category: Tibetan Buddhism
'Impressive in its clarity this biography is the most detailed and accurate to date. Written in an engaging prose, it ends with an insightful prediction of the legacy of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and a cleareyed assessment of the challenges that the fifteenth will face' The New York TimesThe Dalai Lama ...Show more
Still Point of the Turning World by WILSON, CAROL A
$38.00 AUD
Category: Taoism
Teacher, translator and Tai Ji master, Gia Fu-Feng is remembered for his colorful life in which he learned and taught alongside some of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers, including Jack Kerouac and Alan Watts. Through his life and work, he sought to bring the ancient wisdom of the Ta ...Show more
Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai by Ha Jin
$49.95 AUD
Category: Taoism
From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai--also known as Li Po In his own time (701-762), Li Bai's poems--shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life--were never give ...Show more
American Shaman by KOTTLER, JEFFRE
$33.00 AUD
Category: Shamanism
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Autobiographical Notes by EINSTEIN, ALBER
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science & New Science
Delivered with warmth, clarity, and humor, this brief work is the closest Einstein ever came to writing an autobiography. Although a very personal account, it is concerned solely with the development of his ideas, saying little about his private life or about the world-shaking events through which he li ...Show more
An Appetite for Wonder - The Making of a Scientist - A Memoir by Richard Dawkins
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science & New Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life and intellectual development? And who inspired him to become the pionee ...Show more