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As Latin is key to the study of Western classics, so Sanskrit is the language of ancient Indian literature. This guide begins with an introduction to the Sanskrit alphabet, followed by a treatment of the accent -- its changes in combination, inflection, and tone. Succeeding chapters discuss declension, conjugation, parts of speech, more.

Curry incorporated thoroughly engrossing material with a style that was truly elegant. This book by a "magician's magician" discloses the secrets behind a collection of close-up marvels -- including the author's "Out of the World, " reputed to be the best card trick of the past century.

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Im Mittelpunkt von Adam Zagajewskis poetischen Erkundungen steht Europa: europäische Musik und Philosophie, Europas Architektur und seine Landschaften, aber immer auch des Dichters eigene Geschichte. Er, den seine Ironie davor bewahrt, ein reiner Elegiker zu werden, verkörpert so tief wie kaum ein anderer das europäische Bewusstsein mit allen Ambivalenzen.

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over fifty books, including the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels and several collections of short stories, including The Girl Who Married a Lion and Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations. In 2003 he was the winner of the UK's principal award for humorous writing, the Saga Award, and in the same year he won the Glenfiddich Award for Writing. Alexander McCall Smith lives in Scotland.

Offers biographical information about the more than 1900 people mentioned in the correspondence and works of Erasmus who died after 1450 and were thus approximately his contemporaries.

The author of Meeting the Buddhas again invites us to enter the rich world of Buddhist symbolism. The vajra and the bell are important sacred objects used in Tantric ritual, and this colorful book lays before us an unexpected array of associations and images to enrich our understanding of these powerful and fascinating symbols. We discover that they embody all masculine and feminine qualities, transcendental compassion and wisdom, bliss, and e...

Temptation, indulgence, exploration and shortcuts. Love and compulsion. An ocean in Kansas, the Magic Lino, the real story behind the one told by Robert Louis Stevenson, a chef dying of ennui, gathering bluebirds, paying with candywrap. And the greatest story ever told--by Asher E. Treat, of course. The glorious chaos of singing, prancing, perfumed and stinking, the dead and the busy, tragic and achingly otherwise--life itself.

The teaching on Parting from the Four Attachments is universally regarded as one of the jewels of Tibetan Buddhism. Rinpoche leads the reader through a detailed and lucid exploration of the nature of mind, pointing out inevitable pitfalls in spiritual practice and showing how they can be avoided.

It is 1863. A Christian runaway mixed-breed woman, a lonely Union soldier, and a Shoshoni warrior meet in this poetry-prose narrative set against the true backdrop of the largest massacre of Native Americans in the Old West.