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  • Audiobook

    Progressive Calisthenics: The 20-Minute Dream Body with Bodyweight Exercises and Calisthenics

    by John Powers ...
    Narrated by Sherry Granader ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 36 min

    Do you dream of having a lean, mean, muscular body? Obliterate the old you and create the powerful, toned body you always wanted.Are you worried that you don't have enough time to lose weight? Are you sick of the pounds stacking on and covering up your muscles? John Powers is one of the country's foremost experts in personal training. With years of experience in grueling military workouts, high ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Inventing Chemistry

    Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

    Series series Synthesis
    The story of this little-known Dutch physician "will interest students and practitioners of history, chemistry, and philosophy of science" ( Choice).In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tenth Kisei Title Match

    Kobayashi Koichi vs. Cho Chikun, 1986

    by John Power ...
    Series series Kisei Title Matches
    The six games of the Tenth Kisei Title Match between Kobayashi Koichi and Cho Chikun, extensively commented, as originally appearing in Go World #344. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Eighth Kisei Title Match

    Cho Chikun vs. Rin Kaiho, 1984

    by John Power ...
    Series series Kisei Title Matches
    Detailed commentary on the six matches of the Eighth Kisei Title Match between Cho Chikun and Rin Kaiho, 1984, from Go World #36. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Concise Encyclopedia of Buddhism

    by John Powers ...
    Series series Concise Encyclopedias
    From bodhi to the true meaning of Zen, this comprehensive new encyclopedia captures the rich diversity of the Buddhist tradition.'Well presented, easy to use and authoritative.' Living TraditionsFrom the teachings of the early masters to the growth of the tradition in the West, this authoritative new reference tool contains over 900 entries supplying information on all the key doctrines, practices ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • ARMY

    From Citizen to Soldier to Hippie to Patriot

    by 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 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Tantra for All

    The Path of Nath Tantrika

    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Boston Handbook

    An Irreverent Guide to the Hub of the Universe

    by 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 ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Last Catholic In America

    It is fast-moving and often downright funny." New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment plus a touch of cynicism yet never with irreverence." Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled by just one nun. The agony and the ecstasy of Lent. The dubious honor of being declared the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • History As Propaganda

    Tibetan Exiles versus the People's Republic of China

    by 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 ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture

    by 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 ... Read more

    $27.99 USD