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  • An Introduction to Buddhism

    Teachings, History and Practices

    by Peter Harvey ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    In this new edition of the best-selling Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of the Buddhist tradition in both Asia and the West. Extensively revised and fully updated, this new edition draws on recent scholarship in the field, exploring the tensions and continuities between the different forms of Buddhism. Harvey critiques and corrects ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Buddhism and Monotheism

    by Peter Harvey ...
    Series series Elements in Religion and Monotheism
    Buddhism is a religion lacking the idea of a unique creator God. It is a kind of trans-polytheism that accepts many long-lived gods, but sees ultimate reality, Nirvana, as beyond these. It does, though, see Dhamma/Dharma as a Basic Pattern encompassing everything, with karma as a law-like principle ensuring that good and bad actions have appropriate natural results. This Element explores these ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Interventions for Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision

    Navigating Critical Praxis

    Edited by Harvey Charles Peters, Melissa Luke ...
    Interventions for Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision reimagines the current landscape of clinical supervision training and praxis by offering 50 transformative interventions grounded in the principles of anti-oppression.Designed for interdisciplinary mental health professionals across roles and contexts, it provides dynamic tools to dismantle systems of oppression and embrace liberatory, ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • The Selfless Mind

    Personality, Consciousness and Nirvana in Early Buddhism

    by Peter Harvey ...
    This careful analysis of early Buddhist thought opens out a perspective in which no permanent Self is accepted, but a rich analysis of changing and potent mental processes is developed. It explores issues relating to the not-Self teaching: self-development, moral responsibility, the between-lives period, and the 'undetermined questions' on the world, on the 'life principle' and on the liberated ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • They Called Me God

    The Best Umpire Who Ever Lived

    by Doug Harvey, Peter Golenbock ...
    The incredible memoir from the man voted one of the “Best Umpires of All Time” by the Society of American Baseball Research—filled with more than three decades of fascinating baseball stories.Doug Harvey was a California farm boy, a high school athlete who nevertheless knew that what he really wanted was to become an unsung hero—a major league umpire. Working his way through the minor leagues, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Sex and Violence

    The Psychology of Violence and Risk Assessment

    Edited by Penelope Harvey, Peter Gow ...
    Produced in response to the growing international demand for information, this book details the latest research in understanding and controlling violent and sexual offences. Increasing numbers of psychologists are now studying and working with offenders to the advancement of forensic psychology. Chapters cover contributions from ten different countries and are grouped into three sections dealing ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Little Dorrit

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Highly regarded today as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Little Dorrit presents both a scathing indictment of mid-Victorian England and a devastating insight into the human condition. Examining the many social and mental prisons which incarcerate men and women, the novel also considers the nature of true spiritual freedom. Against a background of administrative and financial ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Battles of St Albans

    by Peter Burley, Michael Elliott, Harvey Watson ...
    Series series Battleground Wars of the Roses
    St Albans is unique in having been the site of two pivotal battles during the Wars of the Roses, yet this is the first book-length account to have been published. It offers a gripping account of the fighting, and of the politics and intrigue that led to it, and it incorporates the results of the latest research. The authors also plot the events of over 500 years ago onto the twenty-first century ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthropology and Science

    Epistemologies in Practice

    Edited by Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey, Peter Wade ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic examples from across the world, and from the virtual and global 'places' created by new information technologies, Anthropology and Science presents ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Unknowing God

    Toward a Post-Abusive Theology

    by Nicholas Peter Harvey, Linda Woodhead ...
    This is a book about God and gods, Spirit and spirits, prayer and sacraments, ghosts and resurrection, Jesus and the church. It grows out of immersion in Catholic and Anglican traditions and acute awareness of abuses in their name. It is an honest and personal exploration of what still holds up and what has had to be discarded. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law

    Edited by Andrew Bartles-Smith, Kate Crosby, Peter Harvey, Asanga Tilakaratne, Daniel Ratheiser, Noel Maurer Trew, Stefania Travagnin, Elizabeth J. Harris, Mahinda Deegalle, Christina A. Kilby ...
    What guidance can Buddhism provide to those involved in armed conflict and to belligerents who must perhaps kill or be killed or defend their families, communities or countries from attack? How, moreover, does Buddhism compare with international humanitarian law (IHL) – otherwise known as the law of armed conflict – which protects non-combatants and restricts the means and methods of warfare to ... Read more

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  • Empire and Nations

    Essays in Honour of Frederic H. Soward

    Edited by Harvey Dyck, H. Peter Krosby ...
    Series series Heritage
    Empire and Nations was written in tribute to the accomplishments of Frederic Hubert Soward – teacher, scholar, and administrator – who for forty-two years served in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Throughout his career he has made significant contributions to international understanding and the study of international relations through his writings, public lectures, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD