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Pocket Oxf Chinese Dict(Inc Cd-Rom) 3E P

A state-of-the-art CD-ROM, packaged along with the latest edition of the best-selling Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary. The unique CD-ROM offers a rapid-access Chinese-English dictionary, searchable by entering Chinese, pinyin, or English words and phrases, and instant assistance with reading Chinese documents. Moving the cursor over Chinese text in the Instant Translation window gives pop-up access …

Liberating Insight

This book introduces the reader to the psychology of Theravada Buddhism, the cradle of all later Buddhist schools and traditions. In simple and clear language Frits Koster describes the fundamental teachings of Buddhism, including the Four Noble Truths, karma and rebirth. He also introduces various forms of meditation, in particular vipassana or insight meditation. After …

Explorations in Mental Health- Fear and Primordial Trust

Fear and Primordial Trust explores fear as an existential phenomenon and how it can be overcome.

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De blauwe sjaal en andere verhalen

De blauwe sjaal is het titelverhaal van deze bundel korte verhalen die vanuit verschillende invalshoeken inzicht geven in het hedendaagse India. India, het land van de hechte familieverbanden, maar ook van echtscheidingen, religieuze tegenstellingen, jonge mensen die uit de dorpen naar de grote stad trekken en daar het hoofd boven water moeten houden. De schrijfster, …

The Life of Marpa the Translator

Marpa the Translator, the eleventh-century farmer, scholar, and teacher, is one of the most renowned saints in Tibetan Buddhist history. In the West, Marpa is best known through his teacher, the Indian yogin Nâropa, and through his closest disciple, Milarepa. This lucid and moving translation of a text composed by the author of The Life …

Becoming a Translator

Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. This fourth edition remains invaluable for students and teachers of Translation Studies, as well as those working in the field of translation.

The Iraqi Christ

From legends of the desert to horrors of the forest, Blasim's stories blend the fantastic with the everyday, the surreal with the all-too-real. Taking his cues from Kafka, his prose shines a dazzling light into the dark absurdities of Iraq's recent past and the torments of its countless refugees. The subject of this, his second …

The Absolute Gravedigger

The Absolute Gravedigger, published in 1937, is in many ways the culmination of Vítězslav Nezval’s work as an avant-garde poet, combining the Poetism of his earlier work and his turn to Surrealism in the 1930s with his political concerns in the years leading up to World War II. It is above all a collection of …

The Saga Of The Volsungs: With Excerpts From The Poetic Edda. Translated By Eirikr Magnusson And Morris William (Mobi Classics)

The Saga of the Volsungs. The Volsunga saga is a legendary saga, a late 13th century Icelandic prose rendition of the origin and decline of the Volsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and destruction of the Burgundians). It is largely based on epic poetry. The earliest known representation of this tradition is …