<p>The current Western interest in Buddhism and other Eastern religions is--among other reasons--both the result of and the stimulation for an entire library of books purporting to bring the Wisdom of the East to an audience for whom the wisdom of the West has failed. This book is not an example of that genre. It is an attempt to interpret Buddhism in the light of some current theories about religion. As a work of scholarship, rather than a homiletic tract or an apologetic treatise, its aim is to understand Buddhism as one historical variant of the generic human attempt to find meaning and hope in a sacred order that transcends the mundane order of existence; its aime is not to encourage or discourage either a devotional or a soteriological interest in Buddhism.</p>

Buddhism and Society: Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes

Spiro, Melford E.

Religion & Spirituality

Allen Unwin, London

104p blue hardback, front and back of dustjacket are present but spine of jacket missing, condition otherwise very good, clean and fresh

Persian Sufis

RICE, CYPRIAN

Doing Sociological Research

bell & newby eds

The gift relationship: From human blood to social policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Titmuss, Richard Morris

Social Sciences

Based on personal experience of life in the Soviet Union Nove explains the phenomenon of Stalinism and its aftermath. In highly readable style, Professor Nove traces the origins of Stalinism, analyzes its nature and achievements, examines the process of destalinization which followed Stalin's death, and explores the evolution of the Soviet system under Krushchev and Brezhnev. Stalinism and After is not a biography; it is a study of the effect of the political personalities of one man and his successors on the development of Soviet history. It is within this context that Professor Nove examines the new thinking of Gorbachev and the now-familiar catchwords of his regime: perestroika, glasnost, demokratizatsiya, and uskoreniye.

Stalinism and after

Alec Nove

Environmental planning: A political and philosophical analysis (Studies in political science ; 9)

Science & Math

Lincoln Allison

Earth Sciences

Revised and updated throughout, this brilliant survey of European financial history from the earliest times to the present by internationally renowned scholar and author Charles P. Kindleberger offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of money in Western Europe, bimetallism and the emergence of the gold standard, the banking systems of the Continent and the British Isles, and overviews of foreign investment, regional and global financial integration, and private and public finance in Western Europe. The new edition features expanded coverage of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and important new material on recent developments in European monetary integration. This book is intended for undergraduate/graduate courses in European economic/financial history.

A Financial History of Western Europe.

Business & Money

Kindleberger, Charles Poor

Economics

The police revolution

EVANS, Peter

The Supportive Network: Coping with Old Age (National Institute of Social Services Library)

Wenger, G. Clare

<p>Text: English, French, Russian (translation)</p>

Makers of the Russian Revolution: Biographies of Bolshevik leaders

Haupt, Georges

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