Category
Culture examines shared values, traditions, identity, and social meaning systems.
28 summaries
Paramahansa Yogananda's classic memoir of his spiritual journey from India to America, introducing Kriya Yoga to the West.
George Santayana's "Miscellaneous Papers" is a posthumous collection that gathers together various essays, fragments, and shorter writings that…
Published in 1961, the collection represents a mature phase in Senghor's poetic development.
Street conducts his own promenades chiefly by taxi a century later, carrying no gloomy thoughts about the decadence…
On Belief is a philosophical treatise by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, first published in 2001.
On the Nearest Things is a collection of short, feuilletonistic essays by Czech writer Karel Čapek reflecting on…
The work originated as an internal ideological handbook for the People's Liberation Army before becoming one of the…
The work was discovered in a chest at the Château de Montaigne by M. Prunis in 1774, long…
The Problem of China is a comprehensive analytical study of China's political, social, and cultural condition in the…
The text presented under the title 'The Centre of Indian Culture' is not, in fact, the work of…
Nagarjuna's Hindi poetry collection explores love, loss, and identity through ironic self-questioning and the fragility of existence.
This dictionary maps the living speech of everyday Egypt for European travelers and merchants.
A nineteenth-century dictionary legitimizing Egyptian colloquial Arabic as distinct from classical, essential for Europeans in Cairo.
