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  • an Trodai: Scolai

    by John Breen Wren ...
    A raiding Norse pirate rapes a young girl in 9th century Connacht, Ireland and leaves her for dead. Shamed by her pregnancy and wanting a life without the label of Norse for her child, Ceara makes her way south to Ceann Coradh. She is befriended by a couple who run an inn and recently lost their only son in a battle with the Dublin Norse and treat her as they would their own daughter. Ceara tells ... Read more

    $3.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • River of Blood

    Tales of the Waiatoto

    by John Breen ...
    Epic adventures, survival and tragedy in New Zealand's own 'Wild West' frontier, the Waiatoto Valley. Deep into the heart of the Waiatoto Valley on the savage West Coast is New Zealand's own Wild West: a place which may never really be ‘won’. Its pioneers, musterers, hunters and pilots of South Westland’s Haast District have had to face isolation, rugged geography and atrocious weather that's ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • an Trodai

    by John Breen Wren ...
    A raiding Norse pirate rapes a young girl in 9th century Connacht, Ireland, and leaves her for dead. Shamed by her pregnancy and wanting a life without the label of Norse for her child, Ceara makes her way south to Ceann Coradh. On her journey, she has a dream about Scathach, a mythical warrior woman. Ceara dies giving life to her son, Scolai, and the story of her dream will follow her son and his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Kyoto’s Renaissance

    Ancient Capital for Modern Japan

    Edited by John Breen, Takagi Maruyama Hiroshi ...
    Draws on archive of material, a first in English to take an in-depth look at Kyoto’s modern transformation – its reinvention after ‘collapse’ (Meiji Restoration) and relocation of the imperial court to Tokyo. Includes: introduction, chapters on notable historical elements that sustain Kyoto as a quintessentially modern ‘ancient capital’ today. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Social History of the Ise Shrines

    Divine Capital

    by Mark Teeuwen, John Breen ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Shinto Studies
    The Ise shrine complex is among Japan's most enduring national symbols, and A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital is the first book to trace the history of the shrines from their beginnings in the seventh century until the present day. Ise enshrines the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, the imperial ancestress and the most prominent among kami deities, and has played a vital role in Japan's ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A New History of Shinto

    by John Breen, Mark Teeuwen ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
    This accessible guide to the development of Japan’s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto’s enduring religious identity.Offers a unique new approach to Shinto history that combines critical analysis with original researchExamines key evolutionary moments in the long ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • The Perdone Collision

    by John Breen Wren ...
    It's the year 2245, and an alien civilization on the planet Dar'Wan is threatened with annihilation as their Dwarf galaxy, the Perdone, is on course to collide with an arm of the Milky Way in 500 years. Their prime target for the safe relocation of the Dar'Wannian population? Earth!The nations of Earth are offered a choice-relocate to a new planet or be driven off Earth by the Dar'Wannians. The ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Beyond Zen

    D. T. Suzuki and the Modern Transformation of Buddhism

    Edited by John Breen, Fumihiko Sueki, Shōji Yamada ...
    Beyond Zen: D. T. Suzuki and the Modern Transformation of Buddhism is an accessible collection of multidisciplinary essays, which offer a genuinely new appraisal of the great Zen scholar-practitioner, D. T. Suzuki (1870–1966). Suzuki’s writings and lectures continue to exert a profound influence on how Zen, Buddhism more broadly, and indeed Japanese culture as a whole, are understood in the United ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Shinto in History

    Ways of the Kami

    by John Breen, Mark Teeuwen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Religion
    This is the only book to date offering a critical overview of Shinto from early times to the modern era, and evaluating Shinto's place in Japanese religious culture. In recent years, a few books on medieval Shinto have appeared, but none has attempted to depict the broader picture, to examine critically Shinto's origins and its subsequent development through the medieval, pre-modern and modern ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Shinto

    A Short History

    Edited by Nobutaka Inoue, Endo Jun, Mori Mizue, Ito Satoshi ...
    Shinto - A Short History provides an introductory outline of the historical development of Shinto from the ancient period of Japanese history until the present day.Shinto does not offer a readily identifiable set of teachings, rituals or beliefs; individual shrines and kami deities have led their own lives, not within the confines of a narrowly defined Shinto, but rather as participants in a ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

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    The Temple (Unabridged)

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    by Alfred Edersheim ...
    Narrated by John Breen, Gail Throneberry, Lisa Story, Therese Crain ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    It has been my wish in this book, to take the reader back eighteen centuries; to show him Jerusalem as it was, when our Lord passed through its streets, and the Sanctuary, when He taught in its porches and courts; to portray, not only the appearance and structure of the Temple, but to describe its ordinances and worshippers, the ministry of its priesthood, and the ritual of its services. In so ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Japanese Culture

    The Religious and Philosophical Foundations

    by Roger J. Davies ...
    Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that ... Read more

    $12.29 USD