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  • A Testimony with a Difference

    by Elder Michael Mark Edwards ...
    A testimony with a difference is a book that will inspire a reader to know God can deliver no matter how great the problem.It will encourage christians to live closer to Jesus and deeper in their prayer life. It is written by a British born christain of a strong Jamaican background. You will have a taste of the real distresses follow young men of ethnic origin such as Michael. Michael share his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living with the Vinaya

    An Ethnography of Monasticism in Myanmar

    by Dr. Ryosuke Kuramoto, Mark Michael Rowe ...
    Series series Contemporary Buddhism
    Around the first century BCE, Buddhist monks formed monasteries and established relationships with kings and lay people. The rules monks live by, the Vinaya, are a pivotal source of meaning for them and their dealings with society and form the basis of multiple monasticisms across geographical regions and throughout history. The ways in which the Vinaya is understood and practiced, therefore, must ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Worldly Engagements

    Buddhist Monasticism and Masculinity among the Tai Lue of Southwest China

    by Dr. Roger Casas, Mark Michael Rowe ...
    Series series Contemporary Buddhism
    The Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in China’s southern Yunnan province, is the largest community of Theravada Buddhists in a country where the Mahayana tradition is dominant. In recent decades, and in light of ever-increasing global connectivity and visibility online, the public participation of Tai Lue novices and monks in practices such as eating in the afternoon, drinking alcohol, having ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Literature for Little Bodhisattvas

    Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan

    by Natasha Heller, Mark Michael Rowe ...
    Series series Contemporary Buddhism
    In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an emergent family Buddhism in Taiwan that fashions children as religious subjects through shared attention with adult readers.Surveying Taiwanese Buddhism from the ground up, Heller explores the changing ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Educating Monks

    Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border

    by Thomas A. Borchert, Mark Michael Rowe ...
    Series series Contemporary Buddhism
    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 these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate in both national and transnational Buddhist networks. Educating Monks makes visible the ways ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds

    Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China

    by Brian J. Nichols, Mark Michael Rowe ...
    Series series Contemporary Buddhism
    Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nichols’s pioneering book, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds, centers on a large Buddhist monastery in Quanzhou and combines ethnographic detail with stimulating analysis to examine religion in post-Mao China. Nichols conducted more than twenty-six months of field research over ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Library Book

    by Tom Chapin, Michael Mark ...
    Illustrated by Chuck Groenink ...
    What’s the best way to cure a gloomy day? A trip to the library! Based on the hit song by Tom Chapin and Michael Mark, here is an affectionate, exuberant, uproarious celebration of books, reading, and—SHHH!—libraries!The rain is pouring, Dad is snoring, and the same old stuff is on TV—boring.What is there to do today?Go to the library, of course!Who will we meet there? Let's find out! ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Buddhist Tourism in Asia

    by Mark Michael Rowe, David Geary, John Marston, John N. Miksic, Matthew Steven Mitchell, Brian J. Nichols, Ian Reader, Justin R. Ritzinger, Matthew J. Trew, Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg ...
    Series series Contemporary Buddhism
    This innovative collaborative work—the first to focus on Buddhist tourism—explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art history examine sacred places and religious monuments as they have been shaped and reshaped by socioeconomic and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Freak Inheritance

    Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

    Edited by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Michael Mark Chemers, Analola Santana ...
    The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond. This book explores the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • You, the Mentor

    by Phil Callahan, Michael Marks ...
    The resilience skills presented in this workbook are modeled from research for positive-coping and creating positive and less stressful outcomes. These are titled: Belief, Persistence, Strength, Trust, and Adaptability for learning. They serve as mental armor, a personal protective factor and to help sustain our social support systems. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Staging Monstrous Bodies

    Questioning Normative Orders

    Edited by Michael Mark Chemers, Ekaterina Trachsel, Gerald Siegmund ...
    Staging Monstrous Bodies: Questioning Normative Orders brings together global perspectives from leading and emerging scholars to explore the intersections of monster studies and performances studies.Divided into three parts, the volume explores the connection between monstrosity and performance, such as representations of violence, gender and sexuality contexts, disability studies perspectives, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Teaching to Learn

    by Phil Callahan, Michael Marks ...
    The learning-teaching course is a twist on the typical academic preparation-type courses in that this course looks at learning through the eyes of an educator – as you in the role of the instructor. As such, this course may be described as a process of "learning-to-teach-to-learn" where you will explore and practice the design and implementation of learning in a manner that encourages an ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus