Saisetz Teitaro (D.T.) Suzuki was a Japanese professor of Buddhist philosophy who is credited with having spread interest in Zen Buddhism to the United States in the 1950s. A notable translator of classical works of Sanskrit, Chinese, and Japanese literature , Suzuki was also the author of several highly influential works explaining Zen philosophy to Western Audiences-in particular ESSAYS IN ZEN BUDDHISM, AN INTRODUCTION TO ZEN BUDDHISM, and MYSTICISM: CHRISTIAN AND BUDDHIST. In OUTLINES OF MAHAYANA BUDDHISM, Suzuki takes on the formidable task of providing comprehensive introduction to the thought of the Mahayana school of Buddhism. Drawing analogies with Western philosophy and literature, the text offers readers a lucid and engaging introduction to the major themes in Mahayana thought. Although Mahayana doctrines can often be difficult to understand, Suzuki writes in a way that is totally accessible to newcomers to Buddhist thought.

Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism

Suzuki, Daistez Teitaro

Religion & Spirituality

Schocken Books Inc.,U.S.

<p>The techniques of poetry, music, painting, and architecture are carefully and lucidly analyzed to demonstrate how precisely those techniques violate the profound demand of the mind for order. Order is man's freedom; but the rage for order creates its own limits on that freedom. Art, the author maintains, enables man to fight that rage, which destroys what it would create. Only the rage for chaos can balance the rage for order.</p>

Man's Rage for Chaos: Biology, Behavior, and the Arts

Peckham, Morse

This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the political scientist, sociologist, and economist, Mancur Olson examines the extent to which the individuals that share a common interest find it in their individual interest to bear the costs of the organizational effort.The theory shows that most organizations produce what the economist calls “public goods”―goods or services that are available to every member, whether or not he has borne any of the costs of providing them. Economists have long understood that defense, law and order were public goods that could not be marketed to individuals, and that taxation was necessary. They have not, however, taken account of the fact that private as well as governmental organizations produce public goods.The services the labor union provides for the worker it represents, or the benefits a lobby obtains for the group it represents, are public goods: they automatically go to every individual in the group, whether or not he helped bear the costs. It follows that, just as governments require compulsory taxation, many large private organizations require special (and sometimes coercive) devices to obtain the resources they need.This is not true of smaller organizations for, as this book shows, small and large organizations support themselves in entirely different ways. The theory indicates that, though small groups can act to further their interest much more easily than large ones, they will tend to devote too few resources to the satisfaction of their common interests, and that there is a surprising tendency for the “lesser” members of the small group to exploit the “greater” members by making them bear a disproportionate share of the burden of any group action.All of the theory in the book is in Chapter 1; the remaining chapters contain empirical and historical evidence of the theory’s relevance to labor unions, pressure groups, corporations, and Marxian class action.

Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Olson, Mancur

Psychology & Counseling

About writer like Sholom Halechem, Mendele and Singer.

Yiddish Literature: Its Scope and Major Writers

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Charles A. Madison

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Ireland's English Question: Anglo-Irish Relations 1534-1970

Patrick James O'Farrell

The Wheel of Health

Alternative Medicine

Peace Movements in America

Chatfield, Charles

<p>Number 3 in a series on survival techniques and projects.  This volume deals with Energy.</p>

Survival Scrapbook: Energy No. 3

Szcelkun, Stefan A.

The basic writings of Trotsky

L. Trotskii

Tradition

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