James Ford: 31 books
by Peter James Ford
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book is based on the authors experiences after a profound spiritual awakening and followed by even more profound spiritual experiences. The book basically describes the journey of another soul that has reawakened to his divinity in this present day. The magical little town of Newburyport was...
CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders
Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This meticulously edited collection contains a Pulitzer Prize awarded History of Civil War, as well as the memoirs of the two most important military commanders of the Union, Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, complete with biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Finally,...
Introduction to Zen Koans
Learning the Language of Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An indispensible guide to koans, teaching the reader about the importance of lineage, the practice of “just sitting,” and koan practice as paths to awakening.
“This marvelous book opens the treasure house of Zen and yet, happily, does not dispel its mystery*.* James Ford, an excellent...
by Julia Crane, Sophie Davis, Lizzy Ford
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Six of your favorite Bestselling authors come together to bring you After Twilight: Six Tales of First Loves, Extraordinary Heroines, and Daring Adventures! This special Limited-Edition boxed set includes not only six full-length novels, but also four brand new, never-before released companion stories.After...
If You're Lucky, Your Heart Will Break
Field Notes from a Zen Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Using vignettes and anecdotes from his own life - as well as quotations drawn from sources as varied as the Bible, Yiddish aphorisms, and stand-up comedy - Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford shares the gifts won over his lifetime of full-hearted engagement with the...
by James L. Ford
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
This is the first book-length study in any language of Jō kei (1155-1213), a prominent Buddhist cleric of the Hossō (Yog=ac=ara) school, whose life bridged the momentous transition from Heian (794-1185) to Kamakura (1185-1333) Japan. "Kamakura Buddhism" has drawn notable scholarly attention, largely...
by Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Jonathan Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition.
This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...
by Angela Ford, Laura Strickland, Talia James
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Angela Ford- Love on Tour
Andi Scott, Book Publicist, for a major New York publishing house knows everyone in the promotional world. Her only love in life is her career. When her brother Rick, Tour Manager, calls her in desperation; she decides to step away from book tours to take on the role...
Deserts of Fire
Speculative Fiction and the Modern War
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Speculative fiction stories that explore the ambiguities of war—from award-winning, bestselling authors Jeffrey Ford, Ken Liu, Kate Wilhelm, and others.
In the tradition of In the Field of Fire, a collection of stories with a Vietnam War theme, Deserts of Fire is a war-inspired anthology...
The Directors: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The filmmakers who defy convention and validate the legitimacy of the auteur theory are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From foreign masters of direction and style Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini to champions of independent film...
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Philosophy and Poetry
Continental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and...
Race and the Early Republic
Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the "white republic."
Race and the...
Urban God Talk
Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the way of religion and spirituality is false. From its beginning,...