Buddha For Beginners

The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha

Buddhism, Booze, and the Four Noble Truths

Monty Python and Philosophy: Nudge Nudge, Think Think!

From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones,

Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums

The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together. But as Stephen Asma shows in Stuffed A

On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears

Hailed as "a feast" (Washington Post) and "a modern-day bestiary" (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what

Why I Am a Buddhist: No-Nonsense Buddhism with Red Meat and Whiskey

Profound and amusing, this book provides a viable approach to answering the perennial questions: Who am I? Why am I here? How can I live a meaningful life? For Asma, the answers are to be found in Buddhism.There have been a lot of books that have made the