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  • The Chaos Protocols

    Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality

    by Gordon White ...
    The years since the financial crash have seen the realization dawn that the great promise of modern civilization will go unfulfilled. Study hard, work hard, buy a house, retire happy. It's all a lie, spun for the benefit of a tiny elite. The richest eighty-five people on earth have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion. Each month, the numbers change but they never improve.Magical and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Chaos Protocols

    Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality

    by Gordon White ...
    The years since the financial crash have seen the realization dawn that the great promise of modern civilization will go unfulfilled. Study hard, work hard, buy a house, retire happy. It's all a lie, spun for the benefit of a tiny elite. The richest eighty-five people on earth have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion. Each month, the numbers change but they never improve.Magical and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Daemons Are Forever

    Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium

    by David Gordon White ...
    A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Dæmons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings—dæmons—and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of spirit beings: dæmonology. Since the time of the Indo-European migrations, and especially following the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kiss of the Yogini

    "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts

    by David Gordon White ...
    For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Alchemical Body

    Siddha Traditions in Medieval India

    by David Gordon White ...
    "[A] brilliant disquisition on . . . mostly unpublished texts for three allied systems of tantric thought and praxis (sexual, alchemical, and hatha yogic)." — The Journal of Asian StudiesThe Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. Working from previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

    by Abu Ray?an al-Biruni, Mario Kozah, David Gordon White ...
    Series series Library of Arabic Literature
    A brilliant cross-cultural interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophyThe Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy, used by millions of yoga practitioners and students worldwide. Written in a question-and-answer format, The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali deals with the theory and practice of yoga and the psychological question of the liberation of the soul from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali

    A Biography

    by David Gordon White ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    The rise, fall, and modern resurgence of an enigmatic book revered by yoga enthusiasts around the worldConsisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Yoga

    Immortality and Freedom

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A groundbreaking account of the theory and practice of yoga, from the Vedas to the twentieth centuryIn this landmark book, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Yoga in Practice

    Edited by David Gordon White ...
    Series series Princeton Readings in Religions
    Primary texts in yoga, from ancient times to todayYoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single religion, geographic region, or teaching lineage. In fact, over the centuries there have been many "yogas"—yogas of battlefield warriors, of itinerant minstrels and beggars, of religious reformers, and of course, the yogas of mind and body so popular ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Assimilation of Yogic Religions through Pop Culture

    by Paul G. Hackett, Rex Barnes, Joel Bordeaux, Albion M. Butters, Ken Derry, Nathan Faries, Anya P. Foxen, Jane Naomi Iwamura, Adam C. Krug, Samuel Thévoz0, Associate Professor Yuanfei Wang2, Dr. A. David Lewis3 ...
    The image of the meditating yogi has become a near-universal symbol for transcendent perfection used to market everything from perfume and jewelry to luxury resorts and sports cars, and popular culture has readily absorbed it along similar lines. Yet the religious traditions grounding such images are often readily abandoned or caricatured beyond recognition, or so it would seem. The essays ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Political Economy Of China's Financial Reforms

    Finance In Late Development

    by Paul Bowles, Gordon White ...
    THIS PATHBREAKING Work analyzes the evolution of China's financial reforms since 1979. China's reformers have stressed the construction of a more diverse, flexible, and competitive financial system as a crucial element of China's economic reform program. The authors assess the theory and practice of financial reform in light of China's specific characteristics as a large, developing country that ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Party and Professionals

    The Political Role of Teachers in Contemporary China

    by Gordon White ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1981, this study fits into a wider context of works analysing the impact of the social revolution on the structure of Chinese society since 1949. Party and Professionals focuses on the teaching profession in relation to social ranking. As a part of the intelligentsia, the socialist government has an ambiguous relationship with teachers of all levels and this work aims to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD