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  • How to Play Philosophy

    by Michael Picard ...
    Philosophy can transform your life. But the only philosophy that can save you is your own. Yet how do you find your own in an age of misinformation and unbridled spin, when truth is unfashionable and hype hyper-attractive. Where is the air needed to breathe the honest spirit of inquiry?How to Play Philosophy is a breezy array of lyrical, creative essays that explore timeless and timely ideas about ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Philosophical Praxis

    Origin, Relations, and Legacy

    by Gerd B. Achenbach ...
    Translated by Michael Picard ...
    Series series Philosophical Practice: Transformative Reflection on Life
    Gerd B. Achenbach’s Philosophical Praxis: Origin, Relations, and Legacy, translated by Michael Picard, offers unique insights into the compelling origin and development of what has been called a renaissance of philosophy: a storied trove of thought steeped in tradition, character, and experience, and redeployed in the service of understanding the individual life. Throughout this book, the author ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Intraprocedural Imaging of Cardiovascular Interventions

    Edited by Michael H. Picard, Jonathan J. Passeri, Jacob P. Dal-Bianco ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book teaches the key knowledge required for the use of ultrasound to guide many catheter based cardiac therapies. While live CME courses are now covering this material there are very few textbooks on this topic. A unique aspect of this book is that it has many images to illustrate the teaching points. The use of minimally invasive treatments of many cardiac diseases especially by catheter ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Tourism and the Power of Otherness

    Seductions of Difference

    Edited by David Picard, Michael A. Di Giovine ...
    Series Book 34 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book explores the paradoxes of Self–Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life. Drawing on a series of ethnographic case studies, the contributors investigate the production, socialisation and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Seductions of Pilgrimage

    Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition

    Edited by Michael A. Di Giovine, David Picard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
    The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It focuses on the varied discursive, imaginative, and practical mechanisms of seduction that draw individual pilgrims to a pilgrimage site; the objects, places, and paradigms that pilgrims leave behind as they embark on their hyper-meaningful travel experience ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Yemenite Children Affair

    Ethnic Tensions, Immigration, and Public Records in Israel

    by Motti Inbari, Dorit Weiss, Shifra Shvarts, Esther Meir-Glitzenstein, Dov Levitan, Adiya Shubi, Yechiel Michael Barilan, Yaacov Lozowick, Avi Picard, Nirit Ben Ari0, Roy Peled1 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
    This edited collection brings together leading scholars in their field to discuss the Yemenite Children Affair including the health crisis, the public demand for an investigation, and the public discourse surrounding it. The Yemenite Children Affair was a tragic health crisis in which about 1,000 babies and toddlers died between 1949 and 1954. In most cases, the parents did not witness the death ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language

    Emerging Trends

    by Dali Tan, Angela Gunder, Shaoyu Chi, Susan Picard, Yalun Zhou, Michael Wei, Pei-ni Causarano, Yan Gao, I-Ping P. Fu, Chiara Romagnoli, Xin Zhang, Wenying Zhou, Hsiao-Mei Tsai, I-Chiao Hung, Yan Xie, Lan Zhang, Hsiu-Jen Cheng, Hong Zhan, Xiaoshi Li, Justin Olmanson, Xianquan Liu, Christopher C. Heselton, Asha Srivastava, Sujane Wu, Yalin Chen ...
    Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language, edited by Ko-Yin Sung, addresses three emerging themes in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning. (1) Increasingly ubiquitous in all language learning and teaching, and for the learning of Chinese as a second language in particular, information and communication technology (ICT) can serve as an important and effective tool ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • The Book that Made Your World

    How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

    by Vishal Mangalwadi ...
    Understand where we came from.Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western civilization.Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his own study of the Bible and systematically illustrates how its precepts became the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A New Reformation

    Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity

    by Matthew Fox ...
    A modern-day theologian’s call for the radical transformation of Christianity• Echoes the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther in 1517• Addresses the corruption and authoritarian tendencies that distinguish today’s Christian institutions from the spiritual message upon which they are founded• Offers a new vision of Christianity that values the Earth, honors the feminine, and emphasizes spiritual ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • What is the Point of Being a Christian?

    by Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe ...
    WINNER OF THE MICHAEL RAMSEY PRIZE FOR THE BEST IN THEOLOGICAL WRITINGWinner of the Michael Ramsey prize for the best in theological writing. Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe is in demand the world over with Bishops, priests, lay people and above all young people. This book is his response.What is the Point of being a Christian? One is pointed to God, who is the point of everything. If one thinks of ... Read more

    $12.89 USD

  • The Rivers North of the Future

    by David Cayley, Charles Taylor ...
    In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel. Illich's view, which could be summed up as the corruption of the best is the worst, is that Jesus' call to love more abundantly became the basis for new forms of power in the hands of those who organized and administered this New Testament. Illich ... Read more

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  • Ritual : Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    by Catherine Bell ...
    From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet in many ways equally legitimate interpretations ritual seems to ... Read more

    $34.19 USD