Books from Anchor Press
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Country Wisdom
By Jerry Mack JohnsonAn almanac of rural lore, nature facts, and other "country wisdom" concerning the weather, moon, livestock, medicine, and other topics.
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The Way to Shambhala
By Edwin BernbaumInvestigates the myth of Shambhala, a Tibetan kingdom surrounded by mountains, where Buddhist priests preserve the best of art, literature, and science against a time when war will destroy the...
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The Parenting Advisor
By Princeton Center for Infancy and Early Childhood, Frank CaplanThe Parenting Advisor
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A Nation of Lords: The Autobiography of the Vice Lords
By David DawleyA Nation of Lords: The Autobiography of the Vice Lords
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German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages: An Anthology and a History
By Frederick GoldinGerman and English, or Italian and English, on facing pages. Bibliography: p. 437-438.
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World Art in American Museums: A Personal Guide
By Richard B. K. McLanathanWorld Art in American Museums: A Personal Guide
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The Small Towns Book: Show Me the Way to Go Home
By James Robertson, Carolyn RobertsonThe Small Towns Book: Show Me the Way to Go Home
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The Manipulators: America in the Media Age
By Robert SobelThe Manipulators: America in the Media Age
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Nine Days that Shook Britain: The 1926 General Strike
By Patrick RenshawNine Days that Shook Britain: The 1926 General Strike
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Vote Power; how to Work for the Person You Want Elected
By William T. Murphy, Edward V. SchneierVote Power; how to Work for the Person You Want Elected
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The Only Dance There is: Talks Given at the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, 1970, and at Spring Grove Hospital, Spring...
By Ram DassThis book is based on talks by Ram Dass at the Menninger Foundation in 1970 and at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland in 1972. The text grew out of...
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The New American Dream Machine: Toward a Simpler Lifestyle in an Environmental Age
By Robert L. SansomThe New American Dream Machine: Toward a Simpler Lifestyle in an Environmental Age
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Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry : a Critical History
By Eugene RedmondDrumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry : a Critical History
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The Politics of Cancer
By Samuel S. EpsteinA renowned expert on toxic and carcinogenic hazards due to chemical pollution voices concern that most human cancer is environmental in origin and points out that the barriers to reducing...
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The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
By Peter L. BergerAfter ten years of writing in other areas, Peter L. Berger returns to the problem of religion and modernity discussed in his earlier book A rumor of angels. In The...
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False Dawn: Women in the Age of the Sun King
By Louis AuchinclossTraces the history, culture, and society of seventeenth-century Europe through the lives of such outstanding women as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Madame de Maintenon, Queen Anne, Queen Mary II, Abigail,...
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The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment
By Philip KapleauThe Westerner is introduced to the basic teaching, practices, and religious character of Zen
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Ancient Greek Literature and Society
By Charles Rowan BeyeAncient Greek Literature and Society
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Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer
By William BarrettEver since Descartes saw nature as a vast, interlocking machine and science banished the soul, philosophers have been uncomfortable with this materialistic outlook. Barrett (Irrational Man here looks at the...
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Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer
By William BarrettTraces the development of philosophical thought from the seventeenth century to today, and explores why questions of the soul figure so little in the minds of present-day technocratic intellectuals