Traces the life of Keats, examines the development of his poetry, and describes the factors which influenced Keats as a poet

John Keats: The Making of a Poet

Ward, Aileen

Biographies & Memoirs

Octagon Press, Limited

Season of the Owl

Miles Wolff

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

Traditionally categorized as a form of mysticism largely centered in the Middle East, Sufism has intrigued Eastern and Western scholars for many centuries. Powerful traces of its ideas have been found in the ideas of such diverse people as Dante, the Troubadours, Shakespeare and Spinoza. Recently, however, attention has shifted to the literary and psychological heritage of the Sufis. Idries Shah has shown, to the widespread approval of modern scholars, the affinities of Sufi sages with the sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists of today. Based on lectures at the New School for Social Research, New York, and the University of California, San Francisco "Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study" deals with many of the problems of Sufi methods of study, especially those which militate against its effective progress in the modern world: notably the unrecognized assumptions which we make about ourselves and about learning and its processes. In this essential book, Shah examines the psychology of his readership - our demand for cults, the consumer society, and prevailing cultural responses, East and West. This book provides a companion to the twenty volumes of Sufi studies and literature which Shah has extracted from the literature and practice of Sufis over the past one thousand years.

IDRIES SHAH

History

Thinkers of the East

A collection of short stories to illustrate Sufism - the belief that deep intuition is the only real guide to knowledge.

The Alchemy of Happiness

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

A collection of entertaining anecdotes and "parables in action" illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern dervish teachers. Distilled from the teachings of more than one hundred sages in three continents, it offers an extraordinary variety of underlying themes, from "the inner significance of outward service" to "real and imagined desire". A book of enormous breath and depth it emphasizes experience over theory and it is this characteristic of Sufic study which provides its impact and vitality. Valuable as it is, this book's publication in the West has only recently become possible, because only recently has the West been able to accept the fluid thinking of the East and to reject the old rigid systems that have only appearance of wisdom. As a master teacher says in these pages, "The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained."

Politics & Social Sciences

SHAH, IDRIES

Philosophy

This is a treasury of traditional folklore by Amina Shah, one of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century. The collection includes tales from Central Asia and India, Arabia, Europe, and the Americas.

Tales from the Bazaars

Shah, Amina

Teen & Young Adult

Because what narrow thinkers imagine to be wisdom is often seen by the Sufis to be folly, the Sufis sometimes call themselves 'the Idiots.' 
The stories of these self-styled "idiots" are in fact skillfully designed exercises in which the movements of the characters portray psychological processes. The result is a working blueprint of the mind.

Wisdom of The Idiots

A collection of entertaining anecdotes and "parables in action" illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern dervish teachers. Distilled from the teachings of more than one hundred sages in three continents, it offers an extraordinary variety of underlying themes, from "the inner significance of outward service" to "real and imagined desire". 
A book of enormous breath and depth it emphasizes experience over theory and it is this characteristic of Sufic study which provides its impact and vitality. 
Valuable as it is, this book's publication in the West has only recently become possible, because only recently has the West been able to accept the fluid thinking of the East and to reject the old rigid systems that have only appearance of wisdom. As a master teacher says in these pages, "The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained."

Thinkers of the East: Studies in Experientialism

Goethe's Scientific Consciousness

Literature & Fiction

Henri Bortoft

Dramas & Plays

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John Keats: The Making of a Poet

Season of the Owl

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

Thinkers of the East

The Alchemy of Happiness

Thinkers of the East

Tales from the Bazaars

Wisdom of The Idiots

Thinkers of the East: Studies in Experientialism

Goethe's Scientific Consciousness