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Just Us
Finding Intimacy With God and With Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Marriages have a better opportunity of thriving when couples spend time together with God. In Just Us, David and Jan Stoop provide just what couples need to make the most of the precious time they spend together seeking God. Each week's devotions revolve around a specific theme. In just a few minutes...
Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c. 150-250 CE) was the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Path) school of Mahayana Buddhism and arguably the most influential Buddhist thinker after Buddha himself. Indeed, in the Tibetan and East Asian traditions, Nagarjuna is often referred to as the "second...
The Dispeller of Disputes
Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is an essential work of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical literature. Written in an accessible question-and-answer style, it contains Nagarjuna's replies to criticisms of his philosophy of the "Middle Way." The Vigrahavyavartani has been widely cited both in...
SMART Love
How Improving Your Emotional Intelligence Will Transform Your Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
The principles of emotional intelligence have long been applied to the business world with remarkable results. But what would happen if they were applied to that most important of relationships--marriage?
SMART Love is a system for understanding emotions--both your own and your spouse's--managing...
Yoga for Real People
A Year of Classes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
For anyone intimidated by crowded yoga classes, complicated textbooks, headstands, or simply touching their toes, Yoga for Real People offers a year of classes that progress from beginning to intermediate to advanced levels of practice. A down-to-earth guide for yoga teachers and students alike, this...
Your Amazing Itty Bitty Have More Sex Book
15 Secrets to Satisfying Your Partner and Having Her Come Back for More!
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The Have More Sex Book for Men How to Bring Out a Woman’s Natural Sexuality and Satisfy Her Completely with 15 Secrets That Will Keep Her Coming Back for More! You’ve been lied to. Women LOVE sex! The problem is, what works for most men is opposite of what works for most women. In this revolutionary...
Rain on a Strange Roof
A Southern Literary Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of searching for her family in rural Appalachia. A testament to the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit, Rain on a Strange Roof unflinchingly explores...
Freud and Monotheism
Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious...
by Jan Stanek
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
10 Years Younger, launched in April 2004, was the first lifestyle series on British television to feature cosmetic surgery. Since then, increased acceptability, availability and affordability have prompted a massive rise in the number of cosmetic procedures carried out each year in the UK, with that...
Mindfulness on the Go
Simple Meditation Practices You Can Do Anywhere
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
If you’ve heard about the many benefits of mindfulness practice but think you don’t have time for it in your busy life, prepare to be proven delightfully wrong. Mindfulness is available every moment, including right now, as Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays shows with these twenty-five mindfulness exercises...
Ethnicities and Global Multiculture
Pants for an Octopus
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Arguing that ethnicity and multiculturalism are essential for understanding globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse offers one of the first sustained treatments of the reach of these key forces beyond a limited national context. He shows that multiethnicity preceded the nation-state by millennia; but...
Appreciative Inquiry
Research for Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Appreciative Inquiry: Research for Change is the first book to explore in depth the issues that arise when appreciative inquiry is used as a research framework, rather than an organizational development tool. Author Jan Reed draws upon her own experience of using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a research...
Learning To Counsel, 3rd Edition
How to develop the skills, insight and knowledge to counsel others
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Drawing on their numerous years experience as counsellors, tutors, and writers, Jan Sutton and William Stewart introduce readers to the basic principles that underpin counselling practice. Written in a clear, concise and jargon-free style, and with its wealth of case studies, examples of skills in...
Durkheim and the Internet
On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social theory. In this book, Jan Blommaert uses contemporary sociolinguistic insights to develop a new sociological...