Authors:Lamar Waldron, Thom Hartmann,
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: assassination, jfk, shadow, secrecy, legacy
Number of Pages: 864
Published: 2008-11-10
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 1582434220
ISBN-13: 9781582434223

John F. Kennedy’s assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions by Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and other top officials to hide the fact that in November 1963 the United States was on the brink of invading Cuba, as part of a JFK-authorized coup. The coup plan’s exposure could have led to a nuclear confrontation with Russia, but the cover-up prevented a full investigation into Kennedy’s assassination, a legacy of secrecy that would impact American politics and foreign policy for the next 45 years. It also allowed

Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: berry, wendell, poems, selected
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1582430373
ISBN-13: 9781582430379

This rich volume reflects the development of Berry’s poetic sensibility. "The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry makes available cartloads and heaps of clear and fluent work from Berry’s fourteen books of poetry and four decades of writing, closely documenting the inner and the visible lives Berry sees and feels in agriculture and in nature." -Publishers Weekly

Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: novel, kevin, need
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1582432678
ISBN-13: 9781582432670

A stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family, for readers of Rosellen Brown’s Before and After and Jane Hamilton’s A Map of the World. That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child’s character is self-evident. But such generalizations provide cold comfort when it’s your own son who’s just opened fire on his fellow students and whose class photograph--with its unseemly grin--is blown up on the national news. The question of who’s to blame for teenage atrocity tortures our narrator, Eva Khatchadour

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 Buddha’s 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

Authors:Confucius, David Hinto,
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: analects
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-09-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1582430381
ISBN-13: 9781582430386

From the literary community’s most talented translator of Chinese, a compelling, contemporary rendition of Ancient China’s most significant work "Breathtaking" --Publishers Weekly Confucius failed in his lifetime to rescue a crumbling civilization with his teachings, but he was to become the most influential sage in human history. His thought, still remarkably current, survives here in The Analects-a collection of brief aphoristic sayings that has had a deeper impact on more people’s lives over a longer period of time than any other book in human history. Highly regarded for

Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: poetry, translations, prose, reader, snyder, gary
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1582430799
ISBN-13: 9781582430799

This monumental collection gathers essays, travel journals, letters, poems, and translations from one of the most influential literary voices of the twentieth century Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades-prize-winning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, and reluctant counterculture guru. Having expanded far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye, Snyder has produced a wide-ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture, his commitment to the environment, and his concepts of humanity&#