Family Style by Thien Pham | East Bay Booksellers

Family Style — Oakland Public Library

Family Style — Pham, Thien, — "Told through the lens of meaningful food and meals, this graphic novel chronicles the author's childhood immigration to America, where food takes on new meaning as he and his family search for belonging, for happiness and for the American dream."--

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Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon | East Bay Booksellers

New York Times Bestseller“A genuinely moving story about race and class, parenting and marriage. . . Chabon is inarguably one of the greatest prose stylists of all time.

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

A book that redefines both family and narrative for the…

Red Memory ebook by Tania Branigan - Rakuten Kobo

Read "Red Memory The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution" by Tania Branigan available from Rakuten Kobo. **Winner of the Cundill History Prize Shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Shortlisted for the Baillie Giffor...

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The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston | East Bay Booksellers

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From the National Book Award-winning author of China Men and The Woman Warrior comes a work weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.

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The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine

A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually anything else currently on offer in the United States.

13 books by Sadhguru that should be in your reading list – Himalayan Lust to Eternal Echoes

From self-realization to food, yoga to poetry, and relationships, Sadhguru offers something for every kind of book reader.

Cultural Computing with Context-Aware Application: ZENetic Computer

We offer Cultural Computing as a method for cultural translation that uses scientific methods to represent the essential aspects of culture. Including images that heretofore have not been the focus of computing, such as images of Eastern thought and Buddhism, and the Sansui paintings, poetry and kimono that evoke these images, we projected the style of communication developed by Zen schools over hundreds of years into a world for the user to explore – an exotic Eastern Sansui world. Through encounters with Zen Koans and haiku poetry, the user is constantly and sharply forced to confirm the whereabouts of his or her self-consciousness. However, there is no "right answer" to be found anywhere.