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  • Fridays with Bill

    Inside the Football Mind of Bill Belichick

    par John Powers ...
    Bill Belichick is a different man on Fridays. With preparations for Sunday's game essentially complete, and the media presence reduced to those regulars Belichick calls the "Friday Warriors," the normally terse coach is known to open up in provocative, entertaining, and expansive fashion. Fridays With Bill provides a rare glimpse inside one of history's greatest football minds, featuring insights ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Tantra for All

    The Path of Nath Tantrika

    par Denny Sargent, John Power ...
    Tantra is Magick. The practice of Tantra reaches back thousands of years. It is not a religion like Hinduism, though both share a sometimes uneasy coexistence. Hindus pray to and honor the gods at the direction of Brahmin priests, while every Tantric is a god doing his or her own will, and works with the gods and goddesses on an equal footing. Castes, taboos and proscribed sins are rejected by ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD

  • The Buddha Party

    How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism

    par John Powers ...
    The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad. The narrative they create is at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading but, John Powers argues, it is widely believed by Han Chinese. Most of China's leaders appear to deeply believe the official line regarding ... En savoir plus

    $43.19 CAD

  • Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture

    par John Powers ...
    The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact. Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture examines how the avant-garde embraced these material resources and invested them with meanings and ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism

    par John Powers ...
    Lucid and economical, this introductory text delivers a brisk, fast-moving survey of Tibetan Buddhism. For many years Powers's nearly 600-page Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism has served as the field's most authoritative and comprehensive overview of Tibet's distinctive Buddhist tradition. A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism explains the core Buddhist doctrines and the practices of ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • History As Propaganda

    Tibetan Exiles versus the People's Republic of China

    par John Powers ...
    Despite Chinese efforts to stop foreign countries from granting him visas, the Dalai Lama has become one of the most recognizable and best loved people on the planet, drawing enormous crowds wherever he goes. By contrast, China's charismatically-challenged leaders attract crowds of protestors waving Tibetan flags and shouting "Free Tibet!" whenever they visit foreign countries. By now most ... En savoir plus

    $67.99 CAD

  • Dignaga's Investigation of the Percept

    A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet

    par Douglas Duckworth, Malcolm David Eckel, Jay L. Garfield, John Powers, Yeshes Thabkhas, Sonam Thakchoe ...
    While a short work of only eight verses and a three-page autocommentary, the Investigation of the Percept has inspired epistemologists for centuries and has had a wide-ranging impact in India, Tibet, and China. Dignaga, one of the major figures in Buddhist epistemology, explores issues such as the relation between the mind and its percepts, the problems of idealism and realism, and the nature of ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Future of the Economy

    East-West Perspectives on Pathways Through Disruption

    par John Powers, Vikram Khanna ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    As the pace of economic change seems to only quicken, including rapid technological advance, today’s advanced economies face uncertainty from a number of directions, most of which have the potential to change established modes of thinking and the institutional arrangements that underpin basic economic organization. Labor-saving technological advances are accompanied by risks to jobs due to ... En savoir plus

    $48.08 CAD

  • Religion and Identity in the Indian Ocean World

    par Dr. Gregory Cameron, Dr. Him Chung, Namloyak Dhungser, Joshua Esler, Mark Fielding, Dr. Kathleen Gregory, Peter Ho, Ms. Angelica Jacob, Dr. Jonathan D. James0, Ms. Lovenein Kaur1, Dr. John J. Kinder2, Dr. Phillip Lieberman3, Ms. Anita Nadeem4, Dr. Matthew Ogilvie5, Dr. Nonja Peters6, John Powers7, Dr. Stephane Pradines8, Dr. Jennifer Skerritt9, Mr. Alexander Baky Tran0, Mr. Daniel Trihandarkha1, Dr. Tine Vekemans2, Dr. Leei Wong3, Mr. Yifan Zhang4, Augusto Zimmermann5 ...
    This is a ground-breaking volume on the role of religion as a major force of cohesion across the Indian Ocean region.A diverse range of experts present a case for conceptualizing religion as an enabler of not only shared religious identities throughout the Indian Ocean world, but multiple shared identities mediated through religion, particularly as religion intersects with other manifestations of ... En savoir plus

    $136.99 CAD

  • ARMY

    From Citizen to Soldier to Hippie to Patriot

    par John Powers ...
    January 1968-John Powers opens a letter no young man wants to see: "Greetings from the United States Army." Overnight, he's ripped from civilian life and thrown into the chaos of basic training, the scorching deserts of Texas, and eventually, the sweltering warzone of Vietnam.From dodging rattlesnakes at Fort Bliss to gripping an M60 as a helicopter door gunner over enemy territory, Powers ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Boston Handbook

    An Irreverent Guide to the Hub of the Universe

    par John Powers ...
    In this unique city, it’s less “Welcome to Boston” and more welcome Boston to you. From street names to driving customs to weather, nothing is as it is wherever you call home, and the locals are proud of it. Boston writer John Powers turned his experience of living in Boston for over fifty years into this fun yet practical guide which brings visitors into the real Boston. Fresh with Peter Wallace ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Destroying Mara Forever

    Buddhist Ethics Essays in Honor of Damien Keown

    Modifié par John Powers, Charles S. Prebish ...
    A thought-provoking collection of essays on Buddhist ethics by some of the leading thinkers in the field. The reader is provided with engaging explorations of central issues in Buddhist ethics, insightful analyses of the ways Buddhist ethical principles are being applied today in both Asian and Western countries, and groundbreaking proposals about how Buddhist perspectives might inform debates on ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD