Malcolm X-The Autobiography

Malcolm X-The Autobiography

By: Alex Haley

When My Mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of Hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night. Surrounding the house, brandishing their shotguns and rifles, they shouted for My Father to  come out. My Mother went to the front door and opened it. Standing where they could see her pregnant condition, she told them that she was alone with three small children, and that my father was away, preaching, in Milwaukee. The Klansmen shouted threaths and warning at her that we had better get out of town because “the good Christian white people” were not going to stand for my father’s “spreading trouble” among the “good” Negroes of Omaha with the “Back to Africa” preachings of Marcus Garvey.  [download]

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Yo Yo Ma-A Biography

Yo Yo Ma-A Biography

By: Jim Whiting

As the final notes of the opening selection fade away, the audience at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall applauds enthusiastically. Moments later, one of the musicians strides to the front of the stage and addresses the capacity throng, providing background to what they have just heard as well he might. Benaroya Hall is the home venue of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. It normally features music by such well-known classical composers as Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. But on this night March 12, 2007 few in the audience have heard any of the music that is on the program. Nor are they familiar with any of the composers’ names. There is another difference between this performance and the ones to which most members of the audience are accustomed. [download]

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Mother Teresa-A Biography

Mother Teresa-A Biography 

By: Meg Greene  

Modern popular culture promotes celebrity: people who are well known for being well known. Stirring up controversy or scandal and then talking or writing about it enhances celebrity status. Yet, the cult of celebrity does not and cannot adequately explain the hold that a tiny nun from Albania had, and retains, on the conscience of the world. For a woman who neither sought nor expected recognition, Mother Teresa has exercised an enormous influence around the world. Her missionary work on behalf of the poorest of the poor in India was larger than life, giving rise to questions about how her own experiences prepared her to carry it out and to accomplish all that she did. By all accounts, Mother Teresa was intelligent but passive and self effacing. [download]

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Vivekananda-A Biography

Vivekananda-A Biography 

By: Swami Nikhilananda

America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt into fame at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893, at which he represented Hinduism. His vast knowledge of Eastern and Western culture as well as his deep spiritual insight, fervid eloquence, brilliant conversation, broad human sympathy, colourful personality, and handsome figure made an irresistible appeal to the many types of Americans who came in contact with him. People who saw or heard Vivekananda even once still cherish his memory after a lapse of more than half a century. In America Vivekananda’s mission was the interpretation of India’s spiritual culture, especially in its Vedantic setting. He also tried to enrich the religious consciousness of the Americans through the rational and humanistic teachings of the Vedanta philosophy. [download]

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The Zahiris-Brill Classics in Islam

The Zahiris-Brill Classics in Islam 

By: Dr. Ignaz Goldziher

This reprint of the English translation of Ignaz Goldziher’s monograph on the Zahiri or literalist school of law is indicative of the lasting interest in the oeuvre of this grand master of oriental studies on the one hand, and a renewed interest in the Zahihirs on the other. Ignaz Goldziher (1850–1921) was somewhat of a legend already in his own lifetime, and the interest in his work and his person has never waned. Regarded by many as the one who almost single-handedly laid the foundations of the study of Islam as an independent academic discipline, he wrote a series of ground breaking works covering virtually all aspects of that religion, such as law, exegesis, theology, sectarianism, and relations with other faiths, besides Arabic language and literature. [download]

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Economics-Making Sense of The Modern Economy

Economics-Making Sense of The Modern Economy 

Edited By: Simon Cox

Economists attract ridicule and resentment in equal measure. People mock them, in the same way they poke fun at all eggheads and number-crunchers. But for everyone who scoffs, there is someone (perhaps the same person) who secretly fears that economists are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, purveyors of dangerous ideas that are filling the heads and turning the minds of the political leaders who claim to be in charge. If only. Protectionism, populism and paternalism still hold great sway over human affairs, their appeal seemingly impervious to centuries of economic logic. The Economist was founded in 1843 in opposition to an infamous piece of protectionist folly, Britain’s Corn Laws, which propped up the price of wheat to the great benefit of landlords and the severe detriment of anyone trying to buy a loaf of bread. [download]

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