In this powerful book, Dr. K. Edwin Bryant confronts difficult conversations to help non-blacks reinterpret public responses to oppression imposed on and experienced by the black community. Dr. Bryant offers a real-life characterization of how justice disrupts the organization of power along racial lines and the final analysis needed to pull Black people apart from reliance on the 'double consciousness. This is a lifeline and safe place for people who benefit from privilege to openly admit...

"What I Saw in California" by Edwin Bryant is a captivating travel narrative that chronicles the author's experiences during the California Gold Rush. Bryant, a keen observer, provides vivid descriptions of the landscapes, the diverse population, and the burgeoning settlements that characterized California during this transformative period. His firsthand accounts offer readers a glimpse into the challenges and triumphs faced by those who ventured westward in search of fortune and adventure...

One Man's account of the overland journey of the pioneers who traveled west to California.Upper California was discovered in 1548, by Cabrillo, a Spanish navigator. In 1578, the northern portion of it was visited by Sir Francis Drake, who called it New Albion. It was first colonized by the Spaniards, in 1768, and formed a province of Mexico until after the revolution in that country. There have been numerous revolutions and civil wars in California within the last twenty years; but...

In "What I Saw in California," Edwin Bryant presents a vivid and engaging account of his travels during the California Gold Rush. Written in the mid-nineteenth century, this travel narrative combines personal experience with astute observations of the diverse landscapes, burgeoning communities, and myriad characters encountered along the way. Bryant's prose showcases a candid literary style, reflecting both the excitement and the challenges of life during this transformative period in Amer...

What I Saw in California is a vivid mid-nineteenth-century travel narrative chronicling Edwin Bryant's 1846 overland journey to the Pacific and his observations of California during the turbulent years of American expansion. Written in a clear, empirical, and often practical prose style, the book combines diary, geographic report, political commentary, and frontier adventure. Its literary context lies among the great American westward narratives, but it is distinguished by its immediacy: B...

Western scholars have argued that Indian civilization was the joint product of an invading Indo-European people--the "Indo-Aryans"--and indigenous non-Indo European peoples. Although Indian scholars reject this European reconstruction of their country's history, Western scholarship gives little heed to their argument. In this book, Edwin Bryant explores the nature and origins of this fascinating debate.

A landmark new translation and editionWritten almost two millennia ago, Patañjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the technique of meditation, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India and, more recently, in the West.Edwin F. Bryant...

A landmark new translation and editionWritten almost two millennia ago, Patañjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the technique of meditation, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India and, more recently, in the West.Edwin F. Bryant...

In the West Krishna is primarily known as the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. But it is the stories of Krishna's childhood and his later exploits that have provided some of the most important and widespread sources of religious narrative in the Hindu religious landscape. This volume brings together new translations of representative samples of Krishna religious literature from a variety of genres -- classical, popular, regional, sectarian, poetic, literary, and philosophical.

Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume brings together for the first time studies of the major traditions of Asian meditation as well as material on scientific approaches to meditation. It delves deeply into the individual traditions while viewing each of them from a global per...

Dive into the rugged and transformative landscape of the American West with "Memoirs of the 1840s Trailblazers – 4 Classic Western Travelogues." This anthology assembles an array of journeys, stylistically varied yet remarkably cohesive in their portrayal of exploration and discovery during a formative decade. Amid the natural grandeur and formidable challenges of the frontier, these narratives provide a kaleidoscopic view of adventure, endurance, and the American pioneering spirit. With e...

This valuable book provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. This new deluxe printing of these timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path. The classic Sutras (thought-threads), at least 4,000 years old, cover the yogic teachings on ethics, meditation, and physical postures, and provide directions for dealing with situations in daily life.