Author: Red Pine
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: sutra, diamond
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2002-11-18
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1582432562
ISBN-13: 9781582432564
No other text is as important to Buddhists, especially Zen Buddhists, and this translation includes commentary from major Chinese and Japanese historical sources. Zen Buddhism is often said to be a practice of "mind-to-mind transmission" without reliance on texts --in fact, some great teachers forbid their students to read or write. But Buddhism has also inspired some of the greatest philosophical writings of any religion, and two such works lie at the center of Zen: The Heart Sutra, which monks recite all over the world, and The Diamond Sutra, said to contain answers to all questions of delus
Author: Red Pine
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: sutra, heart
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-08-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1593760825
ISBN-13: 9781593760823
The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide-reaching influence of any text in Buddhism. This short text covers more of the Buddhas teachings than any other scripture, and it does so without being superficial or hurried. Although the original author is unknown, he was clearly someone with a deep realization of the Dharma. For this new English translation, Red Pine, award-winning translator of Chinese poetry and religious texts, has utilized various Sanskrit and Chinese versions, refining the teachings of dozens of ancient teachers together with his own com
Author: H. C. Bunner
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: stories, pine, zadoc
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $30.99
ISBN-10: 1110544553
ISBN-13: 9781110544554
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your u
Author: John Fox
Publisher: Book Jungle
Keywords: pine, lonesome, trail
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2008-07-28
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 160597952X
ISBN-13: 9781605979526
John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New York. A Mountain Europa was his first novel serialized in Century Magazine. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is set in the mountains of Kentucky where a young girl falls in love with an engineer from the north. The romance is complicated by a typical Kentucky family feud and an industrial boom.
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: barrens, pine
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 1978-05-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374514429
ISBN-13: 9780374514426
Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thous
Author: John Fox Jr
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: pine, lonesome, trail
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-11-15
List price: $17.90
ISBN-10: 1406882976
ISBN-13: 9781406882971
This is John Fox’s best-known work. The American journalist was a well-known short-story writer and novelist; he also found fame as a war correspondent.
Author: John C. Pine
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: management, emergency, technology
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-10-20
List price: $66.95
ISBN-10: 0471789739
ISBN-13: 9780471789734
Technology plays a vital role in the effectiveness of a management plan during an emergency. Emergency Management Technology not only provides a detailed overview of the technology used, it also clearly explains how the technology is applied in the field. Readers will learn how to utilize technology in emergency planning, response, recovery and mitigation efforts and they’ll uncover the key elements that must be in place for technology to enhance the emergency management process.
