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  • Memory and Memorials

    From the French Revolution to World War One

    by Jr. Shapiro, Jacqueline M. Labbe ...
    Focusing on the "long" nineteenth century, from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in this era of turbulent social change. Through investigation of science, literature, history and the visual arts, the authors explore theories of memory and the cultural and literary resonances of memorializing.Drawing on the work of many of the most ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Meditation

    Self-regulation Strategy and Altered State of Consciousness

    by Jr. Shapiro, Rosemary A. Stevens ...
    Despite the increase in meditation studies, the quality remains variable; many of them are trivial, and most remain unreplicated. Research on meditation has been plagued by insubstantial theorizing, global claims, and the substitution of belief systems for grounded hypotheses. Meditation punctures some of the myths about meditation, while retaining a place of value for mediation as a normal human ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Fantasy Sports and the Changing Sports Media Industry

    Media, Players, and Society

    by Shaun Anderson, Andrew Baerg, Steve Bien-Aimé, Andy Boyan, Joris Drayer, Brendan Dwyer, Christopher Gearhart, Mark Grabowski, Pamela Wicker, Grace Yan, Andrew Billings, Cody T. Havard, Shaughan A. Keaton, Renee M. Miller, Brody J. Ruihley, Stephen L. Shapiro, Emory S. Daniel Jr., Katherine L. Lavelle, Marie Hardin, Nicholas Watanabe, David Westerman ...
    This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often considered an isolated activity for the hardcore sports fan, fantasy sports play have since been incorporated into sports broadcasting and editorial coverage, sports marketing and promotions, and even into the very sports themselves with athletes and teams ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

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    George Mason

    The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights

    by William G. Hyland Jr. ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 27 min

    George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotton by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a convincing case that Mason belongs in the pantheon of honored Founding Fathers. Trained in the law, Mason was also a farmer, philosopher, botanist, and ... Read more

    $22.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

    Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being

    by Daniel J. Siegel ...
    Series series Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    A new framework for maintaining mental health and well-being.From the author of the internationally-acclaimed best-selling text The Developing Mind, and esteemed leader and educator in the field of mental health, comes the first book ever to integrate neuroscience research with the ancient art of mindfulness. The result is a groundbreaking approach to not simply mental health, but life in general, ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain

    How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

    by Sharon Begley ...
    Cutting-edge science and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism have come together to reveal that, contrary to popular belief, we have the power to literally change our brains by changing our minds.Recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity—the ability of the brain to change in response to experience—reveal that the brain is capable of altering its structure and function, and even of generating new ... Read more

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  • Romanticism

    by Aidan Day ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated second edition includes:Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Fully Present

    The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness

    by Susan L. Smalley, PhD, Diana Winston ...
    “Excellent. Fully Present **offers one of the clearest introductions to mindfulness in the field.” —**Library JournalMindfulness —the art of paying attention with an open and curious mind to present-moment experiences—has attracted ever-growing interest and tens of thousands of practitioners, who have come to the discipline from both within and outside the Buddhist tradition. In Fully Present, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Politics of Parody

    A Literary History of Caricature, 1760–1830

    by David Francis Taylor ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between literature and visual satire in this period, David Taylor's book explores how great texts, seen through ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Siddhartha's Brain

    Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment

    by James Kingsland ...
    Guardian science editor James Kingsland unlocks the ancient science of enlightenment through the journey of Siddhartha—better known as Buddha.In a lush grove on the banks of the Neranjara in northern India—400 years before the birth of Christ, when the foundations of western science and philosophy were being laid by the great minds of Ancient Greece—a prince turned ascetic wanderer sat beneath a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

    Edited by Craig Dionne, Steve Mentz ...
    "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression

    by Mark Williams, DPhil, John Teasdale, PhD, Zindel Segal, PhD ...
    This acclaimed work has introduced tens of thousands of clinicians to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for depression, an 8-week program with proven effectiveness. Step by step, the authors explain the "whys" and "how-tos" of conducting mindfulness practices and cognitive interventions that have been shown to bolster recovery from depression and prevent relapse. Clinicians are also ... Read more

    $57.59 CAD