John L. Murphy PhD

“Whether new to Middle-Earth or a veteran pilgrim, anyone will learn much in this book.”

“The advantage Albinati may offer his perplexed or diligent critics may lie in his ability to explain and elaborate why and how his take on the sordid and sensationalized events of his teen

“For as Lynskey charts the admittedly astonishing reception of a narrative so adaptable as to be embraced by the Black Panthers and to be approved by the John Birch Society both, one wonder

“What remains not unsaid but unresolved is the team’s final question: Is religion potentially, latently, or equally dangerous?”

“This welcome debut collection of his Irish stories will find ready readers overseas.”

“In an age of dwindling attention spans for serious reflection and stimulating journalism, True Stories & Other Essays provides intelligence and verve.”

“From Italy’s agricultural heartland, largely an autodidact, Walter Ferranini doubts the sincerity of claims for the dignity accorded labor by ideological spokesmen for the post-war communist regim

This city has captured headlines again this past year. Turkey’s tumult reminds readers of the position it occupies between East and West.

“Rather than theological bickering or ‘irrelevant moral imperatives,’ Wathey reminds us of our humanism and our hubris.”

“If you enter a few chapters deep into this novel, you hear and think and feel akin to the farmers and churls who found their language, their loyalty, and their land wrench

“Price reveals Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s Killing Jesus as inconsistent and unsubstantiated.”

“His genial, heartfelt, but blunt tone may shake up those long wearied by gentler inspirational tales.”

“Alan Jacobs offers a handy introduction to the cultural and social effects . . . of this book . . .”

“Dr. Samuel comprehends our current, eternal difficulty with our common fate, unimaginable for many of us, always inevitable.”

We lack an ability to cope with death.

“Recommended for readers who prefer poetry and criticism to platitudes or self-help texts . . .”

“. . . will be welcomed by many capable of discerning wisdom within advanced argument—while undoubtedly opposed by certain powers that be.”

“. . . full of sly, scholarly challenges to the common wisdom peddled as dharma, karma, and nirvana.”

“. . . a parable for modernized, globalized, restless identity.”

Beggar’s Feast, by its title alone, introduces a wry tone.

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“Robert Kanigel knits together a handsome pattern as he traces the inherent drama within the destinies on the page—and in recollection by themselves and others—of the Blasket Islanders.

“Fourteen of the twenty people involved in these experiential accounts of WWI were in their twenties when the war broke out.

“Péter Nadás may infuriate readers accustomed to a Tolstoyan resolution of a series of interrelated stories and characters and times and settings.

“Combined with brief but practical exercises for meditation and actualization, Mr.

“Besides the deftly rendered plot to uncover a conspiracy—which may remind a few readers of another sexually adventurous girl who kicks over a hornet’s nest even if she lacks a dragon tatto

“For readers captivated by a masturbatory rapture turned into a corporate model so successful that it becomes law, part of an “amendment relating to Vending Machines and Workplace Stress Re

“[Dr. Kornfield] addresses an audience impatient with platitudes, one that understands that the Buddhist path offers no shortcuts.

“An astute, vigorous, and candid participant-observer who seeks to radicalize the conditions by which Arab men and women can find satisfying, secular, and sensible lives together.”

“Secrecy endures as the ultimate legacy of this mysterious movement, then as now.

“Friars’ Tales, intended for seminars on medieval religion and popular culture, may also benefit any reader eager to find out more about how men and women once may have conceived t

Bluntly, boldly, this book urges Buddhists to adapt its “radical teachings on forgiveness, compassion, and kindness.” Readers of Noah Levine’s streetwise memoir Dharma Punx (2004) will fin

Fluently translated by Sherab Chödzin Kohn from the 2008 French original, this primer introduces meditation to the non-Buddhist.

Expelled from Eden, wanderlust may have been one curse for Adam and Eve. In this survey of modern exiles, their yearning to go back to the Garden afflicts them with the same intensity.

This first of four volumes explores the replacement of chronological historiography with a more fluid, less rigid approach that investigates what is remembered from the Irish past.

Given 2,000 pages, 7 major texts, 32 dramatic pieces, plays, 30 poems, 3 early stories, an early story collection, 20 more stories to total 52, texts, novellas, 3 pieces of criticism: What can one

Many books endure by telling you about the Buddha, but this is one of the few telling you in his own words. Recorded by his followers, these discourses survived in the ancient Pali language.

Trungpa Rinpoche’s controversial “crazy wisdom” methods of cutting through “spiritual materialism” to penetrate the superficially captivated, shopping-mall mentality of his Western audiences with t

These verses come from the earliest surviving Buddhist texts.

This eminent English critic confronts those who would discard the modernist novel, whose heyday seems to have been from 1850 to 1950.

Can we strip a gilded statue or blow away incense?

If there may be no God that we can prove or deny, why be good?

Jason Siff advises “what to do when the instructions get in the way.” That is, for both beginning and experienced meditation students, he encourages practitioners to relax.

Can Irish sexuality free itself from the criminal evidence, the violent expression, the caricatured reaction?