BKS Iyengar's translation and commentary on these ancient yoga sutras has been described as the „bible“ of yoga. This new edition of the classic text contains a new introduction by BKS Iyengar, as well as a foreword by Godfrey Devereux, author of Dyn ..

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life an ..

Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz§In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky – best known for his gifted and bestselling ..

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' „The Communist Manifesto“ is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in „Penguin Classics“. Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working ..

Veteran shoestring traveler Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent, curious spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel, once thought to be the sole province of students, counterculture dropouts, and the idle rich.

Everyday, millions of people roll out their yoga mats or sit on their meditation cushions in an effort to quiet the mind and heal the body. Some practice Iyengar yoga, while others practice vinyasa or restorative yoga-almost all who practice yoga have touc

„The definitive account“ (Saturday Review) of the battle that paved the way for American involvement in Vietnam

Based on the proven techniques of the national Debtors Anonymous program, thousands of people have used Mundis' book to get themselves out of debt–and stay that way. With updated information and an all-new Preface from the author, this book is indis ..

All the passions and intrigues of Bonaparte's court are seen through the eyes of a silk merchant's daughter from Marseilles, a young woman who became Napoleon's fiancee and, ultimately, the Queen of Sweden. 'An astonishing story told with verve and a ..

In The Ambitions of Curiosity, first published in 2002, one of the world's foremost philosophers of science explores the origins and growth of systematic inquiry in Greece, China, and Mesopotamia. Professor Lloyd examines which factors stimulated or ..

From the foremost teacher of Tibetan Bon in the United States comes a manual filled with descriptions of practices that enhance the quality of life and can change readers' perspectives about their relationships to the natural world and their own experiences.

Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.