John Powers: 23 books
The Buddha Party
How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad. The narrative they create is at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading but, John Powers argues, it is widely believed...
History As Propaganda
Tibetan Exiles versus the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Despite Chinese efforts to stop foreign countries from granting him visas, the Dalai Lama has become one of the most recognizable and best loved people on the planet, drawing enormous crowds wherever he goes. By contrast, China's charismatically-challenged leaders attract crowds of protestors waving...
Sore Winners
American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other Strange Species in George Bush's America
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2005
Politics and culture, culture and politics. They’ve never been normal in America, but today they’re weirder than ever. Millionaire populists like Bill O’Reilly and Michael Moore dominate a political scene spinning ever further from the real world; meanwhile, we look to bizarre experiments like...
by John Powers, David Templeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Tibet is a land bounded by the world’s highest mountains, and it is the repository of an ancient culture. For centuries it was viewed by Europeans as a remote, mystical place populated by Buddhist masters with supernatural powers and profound wisdom. In contrast to this image, it was once a warlike...
Fenway Park
A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest, Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Fenway Park. The name evokes a team and a sport that have become more synonymous with a city's identity than any stadium or arena in the country.
Since opening in the same week of 1912 that the Titanic sank, the park's instantly recognizable confines have seen some of the most dramatic happenings...
Dignaga's Investigation of the Percept
A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
While a short work of only eight verses and a three-page autocommentary, the Investigation of the Percept has inspired epistemologists for centuries and has had a wide-ranging impact in India, Tibet, and China. Dignaga, one of the major figures in Buddhist epistemology, explores issues such as the...
by John Powers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From the teachings of the early masters to the growth of the tradition in the West, this authoritative new reference tool contains over 900 entries supplying information on all the key doctrines, practices, and figures central to Buddhism.
Fridays with Bill
Inside the Football Mind of Bill Belichick
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Bill Belichick is a different man on Fridays. With preparations for Sunday's game essentially complete, and the media presence reduced to those regulars Belichick calls the "Friday Warriors," the normally terse coach is known to open up in provocative, entertaining, and expansive fashion....
The Future of the Economy
East-West Perspectives on Pathways Through Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
As the pace of economic change seems to only quicken, including rapid technological advance, today’s advanced economies face uncertainty from a number of directions, most of which have the potential to change established modes of thinking and the institutional arrangements that underpin basic economic...
Inventing Chemistry
Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. The primary focus of this study is...
Dental Materials-E-Book
Properties and Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Focusing on the dental materials most commonly used, Dental Materials: Properties and Manipulation, 10th Edition covers the tasks that dental assistants and dental hygienists typically perform. It shows the most current materials, how to mix and apply them in a clinical setting, and how to educate...
by John R. Powers,Andrew Greeley,Amy Welborn
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
It is fast-moving and often downright funny." New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment plus a touch of cynicism yet never with irreverence." Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled...
Dental Materials - E-Book
Properties and Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Get an in-depth understanding of the dental materials and tasks that dental professionals encounter every day with Dental Materials: Foundations and Applications, 11th Edition. Trusted for nearly 40 years, Powers and Wataha’s text walks readers through the nature, categories, and uses of clinical...
Dry Creek
Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers...
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