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  • NILPOTENT ORBITS IN SEMISIMPLE LIE ALGEBRA
    DAVID .H. COLLINGWOOD / WILLIAM .M. MCGOVERN
    Through the 1990s, a circle of ideas emerged relating three very different kinds of objects associated to a complex semisimple Lie algebra: nilpotent orbits, representations of a Weyl group, and primitive ideals in an enveloping algebra. The principal aim of this book is to collect together the important results concerning the classification and properties of nilpotent orbits, ...

    $7,400.00

  • ALCOHOL PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES
    THOMAS F MCGOVERN / WILLIAM WHITE
    Alcohol Problems in the United States: Twenty Years of Treatment Perspective presents an overview of trends in the treatment of alcohol problems over a 20-year period from three vantage points: broader treatment perspectives, experienced views from the field, and personal perspectives. Some of the field's foremost experts, including Alcoholics Anonymous historian Dr. Ernest Kur...

    $1,200.00

  • TO LHASA IN DISGUISE
    WILLIAM MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN
    First published in 2004. A secret traveller to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the author of this unusual volume was forced to live, dress and behave as a Tibetan in order to remain undetected. Because of his unique perspective, he is able to provide an excellent description of the diplomatic, political, military and industrial situation of the country in the 1920s. His account o...

    $1,320.00

  • A MANUAL OF BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY
    WILLIAM MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN
    This is Volume VIII of sixteen in a collection on Buddhism. Originally published in 1923, this volume looks at cosmology. All forms of Buddhism, however divergent, claim to have but three objects of worship: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.. The first is the founder of the faith, the second the teaching which he gave, and the third the order which he founded. Regarding e...

    $1,100.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO MAHĀYĀNA BUDDHISM
    WILLIAM MCGOVERN
    William Montgomery McGovern’s Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience. It predates influential English language overviews of Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki, A. Watts, and W. Rahula. The author was born in New York City in 1897 and spent his latter teenage years (1914-1917) training at the Nishi Hongwanji Mahayan...

    $1,420.00