McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Purser Ronald)(Paperback)

McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Purser Ronald)(Paperback)

A lively and razor-sharp critique of mindfulness as it has been enthusiastically co-opted by corporations, public schools, and the US military. Mindfulness is now all the rage. From celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World

Sherlock Holmes - The Vanishing Man (Purser-Hallard Philip)(Paperback)

A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed author Philip Purser-Hallard. A Mysterious Disappearance It is 1896, and Sherlock Holmes is investigating a self-proclaimed psychic who disappeared from a locked room, in front of several witnesses. While attempting to prove the existence of

The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today (Deconick April)(Paperback)

Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality (Miller Donald)(Paperback)

The runaway New York Times bestseller that became a cornerstone of Christian nonfiction, Blue Like Jazz is a fresh and original perspective on life, love, and redemption.'I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve...Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can

The Student Guide to Mindfulness (Mair David)(Paperback)

Do you want to: Learn how to embed mindfulness in your everyday life? Understand how to manage feelings of anxiety or depression? Find a healthy balance between course work, job and social life? Face the future with a positive attitude? More than ever students are reporting high levels of

The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems (Siegel Ronald D.)(Paperback)

Mindfulness offers a path to well-being and tools for coping with life's inevitable hurdles. And though mindfulness may sound exotic, you can cultivate it--and reap its proven benefits--without special training or lots of spare time. Trusted therapist and mindfulness expert Dr. Ronald Siegel shows

The Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis (Hoberg George)(Paperback)

How organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure became a political force, and how this might affect the transition to renewable energy. Organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure, particularly conflicts over pipelines, has become a formidable political force in North America

The Reagan Diaries (Reagan Ronald)(Paperback)

#1 New York Times Bestseller'Reading these diaries, Americans will find it easier to understand how Reagan did what he did for so long . . . They paint a portrait of a president who was engaged by his job and had a healthy perspective on power.'--Jon Meacham, Newsweek During his two terms as the

How Jesus Became God (Ehrman Bart D.)(Paperback)

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed

Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats (Goodfellow Maya)(Paperback)

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politics As refugees drowned in the Mediterranean, the UK Government proudly announced that the aim of its immigration policy was to create a 'hostile environment' for undocumented immigrants. Despite study after study confirming that

Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism (Amadae S. M.)(Paperback)

In Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy, S. M. Amadae tells the remarkable story of how rational choice theory rose from obscurity to become the intellectual bulwark of capitalist democracy. Amadae roots Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy in the turbulent post-World War II era, showing how rational

The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Sassen Saskia)(Paperback)

This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which

A New History of Modern Computing (Haigh Thomas)(Paperback)

How the computer became universal. Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workhorse, remote from the experiences of ordinary people, to a diverse family of devices that billions rely on to play games, shop, stream music

Selfie - How the West Became Self-Obsessed (Storr Will)(Paperback / softback)

Selfie explains how the West became self-obsessed and reveals the danger of this modern obsession - a 'fascinating' (Guardian), 'brilliant' (Independent) and 'electrifying' (Financial Times)

Mindfulness (Langer Ellen J.)(Paperback)

The revolutionary book that showed how mindfulness can be applied to every aspect of our lives The highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard introduced a unique concept of mindfulness, adapted to contemporary life in the West

How Jesus Became Christian (Wilson Barrie)(Paperback)

In How Jesus Became Christian, Barrie Wilson Ph.D. confronts one of the simplest--yet undiscovered--questions of religious history: How did a young, well-respected rabbi become the head of a cult that bore his name, espoused a philosophy he wouldn't wholly understand, and possessed a clear streak

How I Became a Tree (Roy Sumana)(Pevná vazba)

An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek    “I was tired of speed. I wanted to live tree time.” So writes Sumana Roy at the

how the first sparks became visible (Atangana Bekono Simone)(Paperback / softback)

Sherlock Holmes - The Spider's Web (Purser-Hallard Philip)(Paperback)

Sherlock Holmes meets Oscar Wilde in this brand-new mystery inspired by The Importance of Being Earnest. It is 1897, and Sherlock Holmes is called in to investigate a mysterious death at a society ball, hosted by a family with a remarkable past. After an unidentified man pitches to his death from a

Spirituality in Photography - Taking pictures with deeper vision (Richter Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Spirituality in Photography explores how photography can offer unique perspectives on the self, the world and what we live by. Chapters encourage readers to take their photos more consciously, to reframe their gaze, allow themselves to become fully present in the moment and how best to enable

Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality (Metzl Jonathan M.)(Paperback)

Navigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourse You see someone smoking a cigarette and say, 'Smoking is bad for your health,' when what you mean is, 'You are a bad person because you smoke.' You encounter someone whose body

Neurodynamics: The Art of Mindfulness in Action (Dimon Theodore)(Paperback)

Neurodynamics combines the latest discoveries in science, anatomy, and mindfulness to form a new understanding of human awareness in action. What good does it do to stretch, relax, or strengthen muscles if we don't know how these muscles are actually designed to function? To be sound, any physical

How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (Batnitzky Leora)(Paperback)

A new approach to understanding Jewish thought since the eighteenth century Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since

DarkMarket - How Hackers Became the New Mafia (Glenny Misha)(Paperback / softback)

We live our lives online - banking, shopping, working, dating - but have we become