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  • A History of Humanity

    The Evolution of the Human System

    Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    NeuroWisdom

    The New Brain Science of Money, Happiness, and Success

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    From a course they created for professionals, Mark Waldman and Chris Manning adapted their lectures, and present simple brain exercises, based on the latest neuroscience research, to guide listeners on what makes us happy, wealthy, and wise.The promise of their original class—and now of this book—is to help people create more “wealth” in their lives, defined as the combination of money, happiness, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Be Still and Know

    Contemplative Practices for Christian Schools and Educators

    Discover how the Christian contemplative tradition can enhance teaching and learningThe goal of Christian education is distinctive: to help students develop into well-integrated human beings and faithful disciples. Yet Christian schools are beset by many of the same challenges that plague virtually all schools today—a culture of distraction and deteriorating mental health, the erosion of community ... Read more

    $31.17 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The African Diaspora

    A History Through Culture

    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories together, Manning shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Methods for Human History

    Studying Social, Cultural, and Biological Evolution

    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents a concise yet comprehensive survey of methods used in the expanding studies of human evolution, paying particular attention to new work on social evolution. The first part of the book presents principal methods for the study of biological, cultural, and social evolution, plus migration, group behavior, institutions, politics, and environment. The second part provides a ... Read more

    $34.59 CAD

  • Migration in World History

    Series series Themes in World History
    In this third edition of Migration in World History, Patrick Manning presents an expanded and newly coherent view of migratory processes, conveying new research and interpretation. The engaging narrative shows the continuity of migratory processes from the time of foragers who settled the earth to farmers opening new fields and merchants linking purchasers everywhere. In the last thousand years, ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • When Buddhists Attack

    The Curious Relationship Between Zen and the Martial Arts

    by Jeffrey Mann ...
    Uncover the historical truth about Buddhist warrior monks with this informative and enlightening book.Film, television and popular fiction have long exploited the image of the serene Buddhist monk who is master of the deadly craft of hand-to-hand combat. While these media overly romanticize the relationship between a philosophy of non-violence and the art of fighting, When Buddhists Attack: The ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Converting the Imagination

    Teaching to Recover Jesus’ Vision for Fullness of Life

    Series series Horizons in Religious Education
    For two thousand years countless people around the world viewed reality through a Christian lens that endowed their lives with meaning, purpose, and coherence. Today, in an era of unprecedented secularization, many have ceased to find meaning not only in Christianity but in life in general. In Converting the Imagination, Patrick Manning offers a probing analysis of this crisis of meaning, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knowledge in Translation

    Global Patterns of Scientific Exchange, 1000-1800 CE

    Edited by Patrick Manning, Abigail Owen ...
    In the second millennium CE, long before English became the language of science in the twentieth century, the act of translation was crucial for understanding and disseminating knowledge and information across linguistic and geographic boundaries. This volume considers the complexities of knowledge exchange through the practice of translation over the course of a millennium, across fields of ... Read more

    $73.59 CAD

  • Effective Men's Ministry

    The Indispensable Toolkit for Your Church

    by Zondervan ...
    Developing and fine-tuning a thriving men’s ministry takes perseverance, but it will pay huge dividends in the health of your church and its families. Effective Men’s Ministry gives you the tools you need to start smart and stay strong. Here is information you can really use--right away and in years to come. Created by the National Coalition of Men’s Ministries, this comprehensive handbook takes ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980

    Edited by Patrick Manning, Mat Savelli ...
    The second half of the twentieth century brought extraordinary transformations in knowledge and practice of the life sciences. In an era of decolonization, mass social welfare policies, and the formation of new international institutions such as UNESCO and the WHO, monumental advances were made in both theoretical and practical applications of the life sciences, including the discovery of life’s ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850

    Edited by Patrick Manning, Daniel Rood ...
    The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political landscape. Independence movements in Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world were catalysts for radical economic, social, and cultural reform. And it was during this age of revolutions—an era of rapidly expanding scientific ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD