Paris (Great Cities Through the Ages)

Travels to Britain's most unfashionable towns to uncover the nation's secret history. Starting on a green bus in Leeds, the city of his birth, and culminating atop the number 94 as it swooshes past Trafalgar Square, the author reclaims British towns from the embarrassment and neglect for which they are famed.

Paris is a city that has been at the heart of much of Europe's history - from the Middle Ages to the outbreak of the revolution, the empire of Napoleon and the ravages of world war in the twentieth century. Despite all this, it has retained uniqueness, a certain "je ne sais quoi" that makes the City ...

This unique anthology of Buddhist scripture traces the development of Buddhism through the ages, with translations from the original Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese.