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Shamar Rinpoche |
Creating a Transparent Democracy: A New Model |
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| It is generallybelieved that democracy, though not perfect, is yet the best form of government created by man. However, with all its merits, democracy leaves scope for betterment.
The present book is an attempt to point out and remove the defects of democracy. Political power and authority, to be effective, must be decentralised. Decentralisation is necessary for social justice and people's participation in decision making. People must be provided political... |
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John H. Crook |
World Crisis and Buddhist Humanism: End Games - Collapse or Renewal of Civilisation |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| A fascinating and eloquent exploration of Buddhist and evolutionary thinking that reveals the natural links between the two, and shows us how scientific thinking can – and should – both enrich and inform our entire lived experience. John Crook combines his deep and expert knowledge of evolutionary theory and Buddhist philosophy to present a fierce critique of current world views. |
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Richard Webster |
Magical Power of The Pendulum |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| This book teaches you how to use a pendulum to help you make choice, locate lost object, resolve health problems, communicate with spirits, explore past lives, identify self-imposed negativity, find a job, make decisions, set goals - and more. When you're ready for more advanced magic, in the twelfth chapter you will learn about Huna, the little-known methods practiced by the Hawaiian Kahunas to create magic and miracles. Table of Contents:Basic StuffHoning Your SkillsThe... |
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Captan W. Hollings |
The Baital pachisi |
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| These immortal tales of chivalry and skullduggery, wisdom and foolishness, honesty and deceit, are about Baital, a mythical wraith like figure accrediated with supernatural powers, and King Vikramaditya whose wisdom is matched only by King Solomon of the Biblical fame. |
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Bepin Behari |
Science, Culture and Man |
$7.95 $5.57 |
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| This volume contains thought-provoking essays, by distinguished
theosophists, and should be of considerable benefit to all those who are
interested in the healthy growth of mankind a one Brotherhood. |
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Stephen W. Hawking |
The Theory Of Everything |
$11.49 $8.04 |
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| Stephen Hawking is widely believed to be one of the world’s greatest minds: a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work helped to reconfigure models of the universe and to redefine what’s in it. Imagine sitting in a room listening to Hawking discuss these achievements and place them in historical context. It would be like hearing Christopher Columbus on the New World. Hawking presents a series of seven lectures covering everything from big bang to black holes to string theory... |
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S.R. Bhatt |
Vedic Wisdom, Cultural Inheritance and Contemporary Life |
$14.95 $10.47 |
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| The book contains papers pertaining to the Vedic wisdom and Indian culture both in classical and contemporary contexts. It is an outcome of the study of classical literature with a positive and constructive mind. At places, it is a creative interpretation and reconstruction of the traditional ideas with a view to restoring their pristine purity and removing the contamination they have suffered from perverting influences due to travesty of history.
But for all these exercises there is... |
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Rajendra Prasad |
Dharmakirti's Theory of Inference: Revaluation and Reconstruction |
$34.99 $24.49 |
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| Dharmakirti was a Buddhist logician of 640CE.
In this book, Rajendra Prasad uses the method of contemporary logic to clarify Dharmakirti's system of inference. Despite not being organized along the lines of formal logic, Dharmakirti's inference emerges as a theory of deductive inference with an economy of formulation. |
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V. Srinivasan |
New Age Mangement Philosophy from Ancient Indian Wisdom |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| Though management as a practice is very old, as a subject is has evolved in a big way only in the last fifty years.
Today there are a number of management gurus who have extensively studied this subject and evolved a number of theories relating to it. However, we do not find many ancient books which have codified thoughts pertaining to management. The Thirukural is an expection, despite being two thousand year old. Considered the Tamil Veda, the Thirukural is a treatise on the Art of... |
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Virendra Nath Sharma |
Sawai Jai Singh and His Astronomy |
$18.06 $12.64 |
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| Sawai Jai Singh the statesman astronomer of 18th century India designed astronomical instruments of masonry and stone, built observatories prepared a Zij or a text for astronomical calculations and sent a fact-finding scientific mission to Europe.
His high precision instruments were designed to measure time and angles to the very limit of naked eye observing.
About the Author:
Virendra Nath Sharma is a professor of Physics and Astronomy with the University of Wisconsin... |
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Sunita Pant Bansal |
Myths and Legends of the World |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| Myths are stories of the gods and of god-like heroes. They tell of
beginning and ends, creation and destruction, life and death. They explain the
how the why of life. Heroes are heroines, monsters and villains, all come
together in these tale of courage, daring and romance from all over the world.
Readers will meet popular heroes like Roland and Perseus, as well as the
lesser-known characters ssuch as Danko and Hine-Moa, in stories from countries
as far apart as New Zealand and... |
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Shoun Hino |
Three Mountains |
$79.95 $55.97 |
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| The Mountains and Seven Rivers is a collection of 56 essays to felicitate the sixtieth birthday of Doctor Musashi Tachikawa, professor at Aichi Gakuin University in Nagoya. The contributors are his students and friends, who are making research on various fields of Indian studies, which in turn are related to Prof. Tachikawa's fields of research in a way.
To felicitate Dr. Musashi Tachikawa on his sixtieth birthday this book presents a collection of fifty-six essays which are related to... |
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G.C. Pande |
Foundations of Indian Culture (2 Volumes) |
$41.99 $29.39 |
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| The Two volumes together may be described as search for the original ideational foundations of Indian Culture. In one way this work recalls the tradition of Coomaraswamy but seeks to join it to the mainstream of critical history. It argues that the living countinuity of Indian Culture is rooted in a unique spiritual vision and social experience.
The Foundations of Indian Culture comprises, under a single connecting title, the series of articles which originally appeared in the... |
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Baidyanath Saraswati |
Cultures and Cosmos |
$39.95 $27.97 |
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| The book is a pioneering attempt to explore the cosmic principle while integrating it with Anthropology and Sociology. It will help the reader to discern a crucial dimension of human self and organization.
The present volume, Cultures and Cosmos: The Cosmic Anthropological Principle is an endeavour to explore the numerous dimensions of the fundamental concepts in Cosmic Anthropology such as Nature, Sound, Space, Time, Mind, etc. This remarkable work reflects the importance of Cosmology... |
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K.P. Madhu |
Preventing Wars and Terrorism |
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| The study of complex dynamic systems provides an explanation for the rise and fall of civilizations, of war and peace, social upheavals and violence in the name of country, caste, creed, colour...And if the theory is ritght we may soon have a technology that ends wars forever.
Scientists of the last country provided the basis for fission and fusion bombs. And the technocrats made the buttons that fire missiles with warheads. Now it is time for the human society - scientists, technocrats... |
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F.H. Giddings |
The Principles of Sociology |
$37.00 $25.90 |
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| An early work by Giddings, designed as a basis for statistical studies which largely concentrated on the particular ethnic and racial characteristics of various national groups, this work was to prove his most important work. About the
Author:
Franklin Henry Giddings (1855-1931) was an American sociologist. In 1894 he
became professor of sociology at Columbia University, where he earned a
reputation as a brilliant teacher. His explanation of social phenomena was based... |
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Irfan habib |
India-Studies in the History of an Idea |
$27.99 $19.59 |
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| What India means may elicit different answers from people today. The answers that might have been given a thousand, two thousand or three thousand years ago would have been possibly quite different.
This volume explores how notions of India have grown: even as a geographical expression the notion (under whatever name) took time to form. Political factors and cultural diffusion both helped in the formation. Nor is the role of outsiders in looking at India as country with some identifiable... |
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D.P. Chattopadhyaya/R.Balasubramanian |
History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization (Vol-XI Part 4) |
$144.49 $101.14 |
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| The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India's heritage and present them in an interrelated way.
The jiva who lives in the world is the enworlded subjectivity. The concept of trhe "enworlded subjectivity" interrelates consciousness, science, society, value, and Yoga. Every individual who is placed in this world becomes an enworlded subjectivity encountering and experiencing three worlds as... |
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Rossiter Johnsan |
War Encyclopaedia |
$55.99 $39.19 |
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| In a world getting more and more globalized, war in any part of the world effects citizens of all nations, in one way or the other. It is, therefore, more important then ever before to understand the causes, reasons, and consequences of all wars.
The solemn duty of narrating the wars now devolves upon our journalists, and a few nears hence will tax the powers of the ablest historians that the world can produce.
An excerpt from the Author’s Introduction:
"This book is... |
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Kireet Joshi |
Alexander the Great |
$10.49 $7.34 |
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| A few glimpses of Alexander’s life. It shows us what the life-force in man can achieve under favorable circumstances and yet what failures attend unbridled adventure.
The story of Alexander is also a pointer to the fact that the human personality has far richer potentials than is normally suspected.
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Pt. Radhe Krishn Sharma |
Sudha Kalp |
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Nicolas Chorier |
Kites Eye View: India Between Earth and Sky |
$190.99 $133.69 |
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| Breathtaking images of India taken ingeniously by attaching a camera on a kite. Nicolas Chorier, one of the finest exponents of kite photography has spent the last 10 years traveling and photographing the length and breadth of India. Kite photography is unique, eco-friendly and gives a perspective that is not possible through other aerial means. |
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Robert H. Lowie |
Primitive Society |
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| "Robert Lowie belongs to that era of anthropology when the subject was beginning to identify itself as a 'scientific discipline'. The school of American cultural tradition, established by his mentor Franz Boas, who had introduced the concept of cultural relativism and the earlier school of evolutionism, was under severe criticism in as much as it graded human cultures. The term 'primitive' is borrowed from this earlier era although its philosophical meaning may not be the same."First... |
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G. Yazdani |
Bidar-Its History and Monuments |
$44.17 $30.92 |
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| Dr. Yazdani, who visited Bidar, which was the capital of Baihmani kings
during a hundred years from about the middle of the fifteenth century, for the
first time in 1915, drew up a comprehensive programme for the thorough repair
and conservation of the monuments at Bidar, and the work has been carried out
through the enlightened policy of the Nizam`s Government by whose authority the
present magnificently illustrated record has been made available. It surveys the
physical features,... |
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E. Jaiwant Paul |
Arms and Armour Traditional Weapons Of India |
$33.44 $23.41 |
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| A soldier values his sword almost as much as his life and a Rajput's most powerful and binding oath was by his sovereign's throne (gadi ki an) or by his arms (ya sil ki an) or by his sword and shield (dhal talwar ki an).Akbar's swords had names and ranks assigned to them and these were sent by rotation each night to his bed chamber. This book traces the development of the weapons of the Indian warrior, from the earliest to modern times, and also provides illustrations of a wide variety of the... |
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Dev Goswami Maharaj |
Affectionate Guidence |
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William D.P. Bliss |
Encyclopaedia of Social Reforms (3 Volumes) |
$249.00 $174.30 |
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| The New Encyclopaedia of Social Reforms was first published in 1908 under the chief editorship of William D.P. Bliss, an American clergyman and leading figure in the Christian socialist movement.
It contains a vast number of entries on virtually everything and everybody of interest in the liberal and radical thought of the day. Contributors range across the leftwing political spectrum from liberal democrats through Fabian socialist to early communists. They include H.H. Asquith, Henry... |
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Kireet Joshi |
The Siege of Troy |
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| An extract from the famous poem of Homer, the Iliad.
Through this epic, Homer presents the Greek world-view, a view of life where men are seen as a base metal beaten and shaped by the gods and fate until their inner golden nature is revealed.
He showed the Greeks more than just heroic deeds; his poetic genius drew aside the curtain of outer events and gave a vivid picture of the inner forces there at work.
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Laurie Baker |
Cost Reduction for Primary School Buildings |
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Kunal Verma |
Ocean to Sky: India from the Air |
$80.99 $56.69 |
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| This book, over eight years in the making, is a dramatic photo exploration of the Indian subcontinent from the air. The breathtaking visuals – many of them taken from over 30,000 feet from the cockpit of MiG fighter planes, and others from AN-32 aircraft and choppers – are a poetic mosaic of the stunning variety of India’s landscape, from ocean to sky.
A visual feast unlike any attempted before, the book extends from the southern tip of the Andaman Islands to the northernmost... |
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Braja Kishore Swain |
The Voice of Verdict: A study on Vyavahara-Dharma in Dharmasastra |
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| The books contains au analysis of ancient Indian law in twenty one chapters. From the first chapter to fourth chapter concept of law and legal procedure are vividly discussed. From the fifth chapter to seventeenth chapter various subjects relating to debt, adoption, trade and commerce, community organisation etc., are critically analysed. From the eighteenth chapter to twentieth chapter a comparitive study of law of inheritance according to Kautilya and Yajnavalkya is made. In the twenty first... |
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Gopal Bhargava |
Encyclopaedia of Art and Culture in India (27 vols.) |
$1,557.99 $1,090.59 |
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| This scientifically researched 27 volume Encyclopaedia of Art and Culture in India is a vast treasure of knowledge and information on 28 States and seven Union Territories.
Each volume contains an Introduction on the particular state describing its origin, history, geography, economy, and 23 chapters on topics ranging from the cultural change over period of time from the very early period of time from the very early period to the modern times to religion, pursuit of education, position of... |
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Belinda Whitworth |
New Age Encyclopedia |
$20.99 $14.69 |
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| New Age Encyclopedia brings a much-needed overview to a broad-ranging subject. Although aimed at the newcomers, it will be of interest to anyone looking for intelligent, clear-cut descriptions of some of today most fascinating and crucial terms - people, places, and themes. From acupressure to herbal medicine, Reiki to numerology, Druids to spirit guides.
This book explains a wide variety of important topics in the exciting mind, body, spirit movement. Each entry is presented in a... |
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Dr. Gadepalli Ravi Kiran Sastry |
Bio-diesel: Bio-degradable Alternative Fuel for Diesel Engines |
$29.49 $20.64 |
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| This is a well known fact that the resources of mineral oils are depleting day-by-day, and the cost of exploration of the remaining reserves is bound to escalate. Moreover, the burning of fossil fuels increases the level of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere causing the 'Green House' effect.
In this context, available and sustainable alternative fuel is necessary to cater to a large fleet of automobiles across the world. The advent of biodiesel has come to the rescue in such a warranting... |
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Dr. C. Baidjnath Misier |
Tsunami: Waves of Spirituality |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| About the Author:
The author was born in 1949 to parents of Indian origin in the district Nickerie of Suriname in South America. Dr. C. Baidjnath Misier is a self-made man, first as a teacher and later as a businessman and banker in the Netherlands. He has devoted more than half of his lifetime, however, to meditation. His devotion to reading and his search for knowledge has enabled him to ascend to a high level of spirituality, from which he writes persuasively and... |
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