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Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of …
Swift & Co.: An Intergalactic Rescue Mission
Thomas Swift, a retired Green Beret soldier is living a comfortable, but boring life. When he is asked by a group of entities-cloaked as famous fictional characters-to form a team …
Meditations Of A Layman
The essays in this book span a number of years and have one thing in common: they were written without being assigned or required. Some of them came from a realization of facts …
Blues Unlimited
British blues fan Mike Leadbitter launched the magazine Blues Unlimited in 1963. The groundbreaking publication fueled the then-nascent, now-legendary blues revival that reclaimed …
Federal Narcotics Laws and the War on Drugs
We’re losing the war on drugsbut the fight isn’t over yetFederal Narcotics Laws and the War on Drugs examines our current anti-drug programs and policies, explains why they have …
Educating Monks
Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of …
Sparkle Always
Ecology and Biomechanics
We live in a well-engineered universe. This engineering is present in every system and organism in existence, including in the actions and interactions of plants and animals. In …
New Wave Shakespeare on Screen
The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in ‘staging’ Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic …
Narrative and Culture
Narrative and Culture draws together fourteen essays in which leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety of media and genres, subjecting them to sustained …
The Gwithian Landscape: Molluscs and Archaeology on Cornish Sand Dunes
Gwithian, on the north coast of Cornwall, is a multiperiod archaeological site. Excavations by Charles Thomas in the mid-twentieth century provided evidence of human activity from …
Architects of Buddhist Leisure
Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. …