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5 reviews
Michael Pye

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997

Good adventure - great read
An excellent adventure story with a wealth of small details that actually make the historical period come alive, like being transported through time. Literary and sophisticated, worth a reader's time

The Pieces from Berlin

7 reviews
Michael Pye

Vintage, 2004

A lot to think about.
Michael Pye's book had the surprising ability to make me think about the Holocaust in some new ways. I say surprising because this moral ground has been well traveled in literature, theater and film. In the service of remembrance, we have all read or seen a vast litany of Nazi atrocities, with the unintended and unfortunate effect of making us numb to the horror. But Pye does a remarkable job ...

A Long Finish; Circles of Confusion; Taking Lives (The Detective Book Club, 641)
April Henry, Michael Pye Michael Dibdin

The Detective Book Club, 2000

The Detective Book Club series #641

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, June-September 1974 (Formerly Contemporary Religions in Japan) - ...
Michael Pye, Joseph M. Kitagawa, ...

International Institute Study Religions, 1974

Contents: Michael Pye, "Problems of Method in the Interpretation of Religion"; Joseph M. Kitagawa, "One of Many Faces of China: Maoism as a Quasi-Religion"; Thomas W. Burkman, "The Urakami Incidents and the Struggle for Religious Toleration in Early Meiji Japan"; Charles H. Hambrick, "Tradition and Modernity in the New Religious Movements of Japan"; David Reid, review of Sezoku shakai no shukyo by Ikado.

Ingrid Caven: A Novel
Jean-Jacques Schuhl

City Lights Publishers, 2004

A novel about the life of German cabaret singer and film actress Ingrid Caven, who was once director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's star, and his wife, muse to Yves Saint Laurent, and a protg of Pierre Berg. Consisting of memories, mixing real and invented people and events, Ingrid Caven reveals the cold heart of the European counterculture of the 1970s, an era of celebrity glitz, cocaine-fueled excess, gay bathhouses, and young ...

Destins volés
Michael Pye

Seuil, 2000

Skilful Means

Taylor & Francis, 2007

"Skilful means" is the key principle of the great tradition of Mahayana Buddhism. First set out extensively in the Lotus Sutra, it originates in the Buddha's compassionate project for helping others to transcend the ceaseless round of birth and death. His strategies or interventions are "skilful means" - devices which lead into enlightenment and nirvana. Michael Pye's clear and engaging introductory guide presents the meaning of skilful means in ...

TAKING LIVES

24 reviews
MICHAEL PYE

PHOENIX PRESS, 1999

Unusual and Rewarding
Taking Lives is the first Michael Pye book I've read. Based on an unusual, but plausible premise, it is an engrossing read. Pye writes very well and does a great job of putting you in the scene. The story starts off and finishes off well, but sags a bit in the middle. Despite this, Taking Lives is worth reading if you like this genre.