Most Popular Books by Kenneth Rose

''The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment'' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph ''Extremely entertaining'' Jane Ridley, Literary Review Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the establishment for over seventy years. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His impeccable social placement located him within the beating heart of the national elite for decades. He was capable of writing substantial history, such as his priceless material on the abdication crisis from conversations with both the Duke of Windsor and the Queen Mother. Yet he maintained sufficient distance to achieve impartial documentation while working among political, clerical, military, literary and aristocratic circles. Relentless observation and a self-confessed difficulty ''to let a good story pass me by'' made Rose a legendary social commentator, while his impressive breadth of interests was underpinned by tremendous respect for the subjects of his enquiry. Brilliantly equipped as Rose was to witness, detail and report, the first volume of his journals vividly portrays some of the most important events and people of the last century, from the bombing of London during the Second World War to the election of Margaret Thatcher, Britain''s first woman Prime Minister, in 1979.

Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His impeccable social placement located him within the beating heart of the national elite for decades. He was capable of writing substantial history, such as his priceless material on the abdication crisis from conversations with both the Duke of Windsor and the Queen Mother. Yet he maintained sufficient distance to achieve impartial documentation while working among political, clerical, military, literary and aristocratic circles. Relentless observation and a self-confessed difficulty ''to let a good story pass me by'' made Rose a legendary social commentator, while his impressive breadth of interests was underpinned by tremendous respect for the subjects of his enquiry. Brilliantly equipped as Rose was to witness, detail and report, the second volume of his journals vividly portrays some of the most important events and people of the last century, from the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979 to Kenneth Rose''s death in 2014.

Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more disruptive to the lives of Americans in the military and on the home front during World War II than is generally acknowledged. Issues of racial, labor unrest, juvenile delinquency, and marital infidelity were rampant, and the black market flourished. This book delves into both personal and national issues, calling into questions the dominant view of World War II as ‘The Good War’.

Calling for a revival of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant, Kenneth Rose overcomes the forgetfulness of being through contemplative ontology. Rose argues for the reinstatement of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant. His claim is not merely the conclusion of a thought-experiment or of an exercise in conceptual analysis. It is the result of the contemplative recognition of being with a meditatively concentrated intellect: nous in Greek and buddhi in Sanskrit. Recognizing intellectual intuition as a long-neglected faculty of philosophical insight, Rose shows how it can result in an immediate, intuitive discerning of being. He discusses how being parcels itself out into the intellectual forms providing the underlying nonphysical arrangement of the physical and mental worlds. By reviving the use of intellectual intuition in metaphysics, Rose draws upon historical sources across multiple Asian and Anglo-European philosophical schools. This is a work of contemplative constructive philosophy that breaks down divisions between science, philosophy, and religion and between diverse cultures and divergent worldviews.

The accomplishments and diversity of the interests of Victor, third Baron Rothschild were remarkable. A zoologist by choice and training, he also formed the finest collection of 18th-century English books in private hands. In World War II he was head of counter sabotage in MI5, also being responsible for ensuring that presents of food, drink and cigars to Winston Churchill contained no poison or bombs. He coordinated research for Shell, was the first director of Edward Heath''s creation, known as the Think Tank. He chaired the family business, N. M. Rothschild and Sons, and presided over the Royal Commission on Gambling. Then came the Blunt scandal. Ultimately declared innocent by Margaret Thatcher of having spied for Soviet Russia, Rothschild escaped prosecution for having breached the Official Secrets Act only after the humiliation of interrogation by Scotland Yard''s Serious Crimes Squad. Yet he was the victim of what Kenneth Rose, his biographer, sees as a cruel and relentless campaign of denigration that temporarily obscured his achievements.

This profile of one of the most popular sovereigns of recent British history chronicles his uninspired early life and his development into a competent and principled monarch.

Contemplative experience is central to Hindu yoga traditions, Buddhist meditation practices, and Catholic mystical theology, and, despite doctrinal differences, it expresses itself in suggestively similar meditative landmarks in each of these three meditative systems. In Yoga, Meditation and Mysticism, Kenneth Rose shifts the dominant focus of contemporary religious studies away from tradition-specific studies of individual religious traditions, communities, and practices to examine the ''contemplative universals'' that arise globally in meditative experience. Through a comparative exploration of the itineraries detailed in the contemplative manuals of Theravada Buddhism, Patañjalian Yoga, and Catholic mystical theology, Rose identifies in each tradition a moment of sharply focused awareness that marks the threshold between immersion in mundane consciousness and contemplative insight. As concentration deepens, the meditator steps through this threshold onto a globally shared contemplative itinerary, which leads through a series of virtually identical stages to mental stillness and insight. Rose argues that these contemplative universals, familiar to experienced contemplatives in multiple traditions, point to a common spiritual, mental, and biological heritage. Pioneering the exploration of contemplative practice and experience with a comparative perspective that ranges over multiple religious traditions, religious studies, philosophy, neuroscience, and the cognitive science of religion, this book is a landmark contribution to the fields of contemplative practice and religious studies.

This advanced 1998 textbook on stellar astrophysics provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction for graduate students.

Modeling Microprocessor Performance focuses on the development of a design and evaluation tool, named RIPE (Rensselaer Interconnect Performance Estimator). This tool analyzes the impact on wireability, clock frequency, power dissipation, and the reliability of single chip CMOS microprocessors as a function of interconnect, device, circuit, design and architectural parameters. It can accurately predict the overall performance of existing microprocessor systems. For the three major microprocessor architectures, DEC, PowerPC and Intel, the results have shown agreement within 10% on key parameters. The models cover a broad range of issues that relate to the implementation and performance of single chip CMOS microprocessors. The book contains a detailed discussion of the various models and the underlying assumptions based on actual design practices. As such, RIPE and its models provide an insightful tool into single chip microprocessor design and its performance aspects. At the same time, it provides design and process engineers with the capability to model, evaluate, compare and optimize single chip microprocessor systems using advanced technology and design techniques at an early design stage without costly and time consuming implementation. RIPE and its models demonstrate the factors which must be considered when estimating tradeoffs in device and interconnect technology and architecture design on microprocessor performance.

Theology of religions has defaulted in the last two decades to an epicyclic inclusivism which seeks to undermine pluralism with claims that it is covertly triumphalistic and that it mirrors the logic of exclusivism. With the exception of pioneers in the field such as John Hick and Paul Knitter, most major figures in this theological field have retreated from pluralism and promote versions of particularism and inclusivism. Pluralism: The Future of Religion argues for an apophatic pluralism that is motivated by the insight that it is impossible to secure universal assent for changeable bodies of religious teachings. This insight implies the non-finality and consequent ''departicularization'' of all religious teachings and their inclusivistic defenses. These conclusions point us inevitably toward pluralism and lead us out of the inclusivistic impasse of contemporary theology in religions.

This book examines the experiences of Americans in Europe during the First World War prior to the U.S. declaration of war. Key groups include volunteer soldiers, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, reporters, diplomats, peace activists, charitable workers, and long-term American expatriate civilians. What these Americans wrote about the Great War, as published in contemporary books and periodicals, provides the core source material for this volume. Author Kenneth D. Rose argues that these writings served the critical function of preparing the American public for the declaration of war, one of the most important decisions of the twentieth century, and defined the threat and consequences of the European conflict for Americans and American interests at home and abroad.

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The Bhagavad Gita or the Bible? Krishna or Jesus? One way or many ways? These questions led Kenneth Rose on a journey of spiritual discovery to the Hare Krishna movement, a fundamentalist Bible college, a Trappist monastery, Harvard''s Center for the Study of World Religions, and India, where he had an audience with the Dalai Lama, a personal encounter with Papaji, and encountered the living presence of Sri Ramana Maharshi in his ashram in the shadow of the sacred mountain known as Arunachala. At each stop on this journey, he gained new insights into the spiritual life, but the radical differences between these spiritual traditions raised the question of which--if any--of these paths is ultimate.This question has never been more relevant than now because yogis and meditators often encounter evangelical and nondenominational Christians who claim to have the only true spirituality. Because some Christians feel uneasy or disloyal to Jesus and God when they practice yoga and meditation, they may stop practicing while others try to Christianize these practices. Still others blend traditions but feel uncertain about whether they really fit together.As a spiritual practitioner who has moved between the usually separate worlds of evangelical Christianity and Hindu and Buddhist spiritualities, Kenneth Rose tells in The Light of the Self: A Memoir of a Spiritual Awakening how the wisdom of teachers as diverse as Thomas Merton, Alan Watts, the Buddha, Joseph Campbell, Meister Eckhart, Dionysius the Areopagite, John of the Cross, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Patanjali, D. T. Suzuki, Osho, and Gopi Krishna pointed out the steps that led him from exclusivistic religion to the practice of nondual teachings in Hinduism, Buddhism, and mystical Christianity.In a book that is both a compelling spiritual memoir playing out on three continents and a skillful guide to mind-altering mystical teachings in Hinduism, Buddhism, and mystical Christianity, Kenneth Rose traces his personal spiritual pilgrimage and shares the teachings that transformed his life--and that can transform yours as well.Kenneth Rose, Ph.D., has been a professor of philosophy and religion for nearly three decades. His degrees include an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University. His books include Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism: Contemplative Universals (Bloomsbury Academic) and Meditative Landmarks and Pluralism: The Future of Religion (Bloomsbury Academic).https://anahatarose.com/[email protected]/author/kennethrose

Armin Thoms, a downhearted grad student, is drawn intuitively toward a hidden cave on a ridge behind a café where he has been working on his thesis. In the Cave of the Saints, he encounters mysteriously appearing saints and deities who initiate him into ancient spiritual practices like the Tree of the Heart, the Flame of Golden Light, Touching the Face of Brahman, Seeing the Divine Mother, Feeling with the Innermost Self, Becoming Eyeless While Seeing, the Purple Flame, and the Uncarved Stone. The shapeshifting spiritual adept Dona visits the cave to show Armin how to practice these visionary teachings. Through startling changes of perspective initiated by Dona and the divine beings, Armin overcomes his doubts and enters into the ancient spiritual wisdom of humanity. Join Armin Thoms and his guide Dona on this journey to self-awakening in the presence of the saints and deities who teach timeless spiritual practices in the Cave of the Saints.

This book is not linear, yet it has a goal-awakening to the mystical depth of life. My path to that depth has not been direct, since it has been marked by detours, backslidings, awakenings, disappointments, dark nights of the soul, and golden mountaintop mornings. I have responded to all of this with words: poems, journal entries, manifestos, aphorisms, and the first pages of numerous started but not finished articles and books (as well as published articles and books). This book is a gathering of many of these unpublished attempts to describe countless moments of elation, surprise, despair, or joy on the spiritual path.This book reflects my own journey, and it is not as straight and as methodical as some may desire. Although I sometimes imagine that I would have liked nothing more than to have been an ascetic in a Himalayan hermitage meditating calmly for a dozen hours a day for fifty years, this has not been the path that has unfolded karmically and dharmically before my feet. So I have taken my spiritual life as I could get it while I was on the run.These fragments of contemplation are news reports or dispatches from the ancient and unbroken spiritual heritage of humanity, which has come to me mostly through the study and practice of Hindu schools of yoga, Vedānta, and bhakti, Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhist meditation, and Christian mystical theology, east and west. My personal practice has long cycled through these traditions, ever and again, like the change of the seasons. If you would like to share this journey with me, you need not start at the beginning or at the end of this book. Just open the book on impulse or with a random intention and read a bit here and there until the wisdom that might help you on your own journey emerges. Then, you can put the book aside-until perhaps the next time you need a fragment of contemplation as you run through a hectic week.