Product Description: An in-depth chronology of the life and times of the Buddha, and how his teachings developed into modern Buddhism

Product Description: .cs2654AE3A{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs566403DE{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .csC98BA9AD{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; } Now, more than at any other time in our history, the world is faced with a series of vicious and apparently insurmountable difficulties, chief among them unstable financial markets, rapidly diminishing resources and an eco-system that is becoming dangerously volatile...read more

Product Description: Buddhism is the fifth largest world belief system in the world today, with an estimated 350 million adherents. This richly illustrated book introduces and explains Buddhist history, philosophy and practice, from its very beginnings to the present time.

Product Description: The study of Cambodian religion has long been hampered by a lack of easily accessible scholarship. This impressive new work by Ian Harris thus fills a major gap and offers English-language scholars a book-length, up-to-date treatment of the religious aspects of Cambodian culture...read more

Product Description: Weber's claim that Buddhism is an otherworldly religion is only partially true. Early sources indicate that the Buddha was sometimes diverted from supramundane interests to dwell on a variety of politically-related matters. The significance of Asoka Maurya as a paradigm for later traditions of Buddhist kingship is also well-attested...read more

Product Description: Our classrooms are filled with the thinking citizens of tomorrow. How in touch are you with thinking skills and how central are they to your teaching? This booklet is designed to function in two ways: as an aide-memoire for those who are already familiar with the world of thinking skills; and as a simple overview for those to whom thinking skills is a new area...read more

Provides visual, auditory, and movement techniques to help students understand how to think.

Product Description: Information overload! That scary inability to cope with the amount of thought processing going on in our heads is not new, but the methods we can choose to manage our minds are new. Teach your students to process information and gain understanding while creating model maps...read more

Product Description: Think you can’t see someone’s thinking? Think again! This book reveals what happens when the abstract and invisible act of thinking is transformed into one that is concrete and visible. The trio of authors brings you a practical and relevant lexicon of visual tools that you can use to transform teaching and learning in your classroom...read more

Product Description: Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important--Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important--Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this study, a team of international scholars assess the manner in which Buddhist organizations and individuals have resisted, come to terms with, or in some cases allied themselves with the forces of war, modernity, westernization, nationalization. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: John Locke (1632SH1704) is a central figure in the history of liberal doctrine. His mind spanned questions concerning Christian worship, ethics, political economy, medicine, human understanding, revealed theology, and education. The effect of this study is both to show how the character of his wider concerns informed The Two Treatises of Government and to indicate how his political theory, in its turn, contributed to the further development of his vision...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is part eight of a 10-volume set (actually comprising 21 books) on the great political thinkers. It deals with the work of Hobbes. Other thinkers covered are: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, Aquinas, More, Grotius, Locke and Hume. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is part two of a 10-volume set (actually comprising 21 books) on the great political thinkers. It deals with the work of Aristotle. Other thinkers covered are: Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, More, Grotius, Hobbes, Locke and Hume. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is part ten of a 10-volume set (actually comprising 21 books) on the great political thinkers. It deals with the work of Hume. Other thinkers covered are: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, Aquinas, More, Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is part seven of a 10-volume set (actually comprising 21 books) on the great political thinkers. It deals with the work of Grotius. Other thinkers covered are: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, Aquinas, More, Hobbes, Locke and Hume.

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Product Description: This is part six of a 10-volume set (actually comprising 21 books) on the great political thinkers. It deals with the work of Thomas More. Other thinkers covered are: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, Aquinas, Grotius, Hobbes, Locke and Hume. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is part one of a 10-volume set (actually comprising 21 books) on the great political thinkers. It deals with the work of Plato. Other thinkers covered are: Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, More, Grotius, Hobbes, Locke and Hume. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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