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James Heisig has spent his life traveling along many roads—living in Japan, Spain, England, and the United States, and listening to other religious traditions while remaining a Roman Catholic. In this book, Heisig draws from this worldly insight, and presents an invaluable dialogue between...

In Jesus’ Twin, a scholar shares his reflections into the Gospel of Thomas offering an accessible introduction into these ancient texts that have long stirred curiosity. James Heisig shows that the reasons for excluding the Gospel of Thomas from the Christian tradition are meaningless for...

Through revealing stories, this work aims to provoke reflection on the effects of incivility in our lives, becoming a concise guide on how to live better. We have many words to describe any act of incivility, but few to explain the opposite. The author...

There have been numerous translations and commentaries on the principal philosophers of the Kyoto School, but no evaluation of their thought has been available until now. This study collects the ideas of Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime, and Nishitani Keiji are presented both as a...

At long last the approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. Book 1 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the simplified Chinese writing...

This book is the second of two volumes designed to help students learn the meaning and writing of the 3,000 most frequently used traditional Chinese characters. The 1,500 characters introduced in Book 1 include the top 1,000 by frequency, plus another 500 best learned...

Kana is the first step of the Japanese learning ladder for all who decide to learn the language Kana to remember is divided into two distinct parts: Hiragana to remember and Katakana to remember. Undoubtedly, Kana to remember is the ideal tool to come...

The sixth edition of this popular text aims to provide students with a simple method for correlating the writing and the meaning of Japanese characters. It is intended not only for the beginner, but also for the more advanced student looking for some relief...

Following the first volume of Remembering the Kanji, this work provides tools for learning the pronunciation of the kanji. Behind the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China lie several coherent patterns. Identifying them and...

This book aims to facilitate a better understanding and assimilation of characters for Japanese students. This book is the third and final volume in the Kanji to Remember series. It contains 800 characters, added to those are the Kanji to Remember I and II,...

With Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, readers of English can now access in a single volume the richness and diversity of Japanese philosophy as it has developed throughout history. Leading scholars in the field have translated selections from the writings of more than a hundred philosophical thinkers...