Stephen K : 136 books
Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy
The Arts and Human Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist...
Money and the Prosperous Soul
Tipping the Scales of Favor and Blessing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In an age of mounting credit debt, get-rich-quick schemes, and high unemployment, many people are left wondering, "Why am I always struggling with finances? Why can't I seem to get ahead?" While the market is flooded with short-term help, few resources address the root spiritual problems...
Business Biographies
Shaken, Not Stirred ... with a Twist
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
In this series of profiles, author Stephen K. Troy takes a detailed look at people who walked down nontraditional paths to achieve success. Many of these leaders are no longer celebrated or remembered, but their achievements changed the course of business and continue to influence society.
You’ll...
The Ninja Defense
A Modern Master's Approach to Universal Dangers (Downloadable Media Included)
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Master the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu with this illustrated, informative guide.
In The Ninja Defense, the classic art of the ninja is updated for maximum effectiveness in modern day situations. Stephen K. Hayes is a Black Belt Hall of Fame member, founder of To-Shin Do, and acknowledged...
by Stephen K. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Look past the legends and learn about the REAL ninjas of feudal Japan with this entertaining, illustrated ninjutsu guide.
Ninjutsu, the least understood of the Japanese martial arts, is an ancient fighting style emphasizing natural movement, responsiveness to adversaries, and absolute practicality....
In Defense of Politicians
The Expectations Trap and Its Threat to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Politicians are reviled. From jokes on late-night TV talk shows to radio show rants and from public opinion polls to ubiquitous conventional wisdom—politicians are among the most despised professional class in modern society. Drawing on seminal work in political science, Stephen K. Medvic convincingly...
by Stephen K. Sanderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
If evolution has changed humans physically, has it also affected human behavior? Drawing on evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and human behavioral ecology, Human Nature and the Evolution of Society explores the evolutionary dynamics underlying social life.
In this introduction to human...
A Democratic Bearing
Admirable Citizens, Uneven Injustice, and Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
In this rich analysis of the changing ideals of citizenship, Stephen K. White offers a path for the renewal of democratic life in the twenty-first century. Looking beyond passive notions of citizenship defined in terms of voting or passport possession, White seeks a more aspirational portrait, both...
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the ancient...
Rethinking Sociological Theory
Introducing and Explaining a Scientific Theoretical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Stephen K. Sanderson s latest book recaptures a scientific theoretical sociology, one whose fundamental aim is the formulation of real theories that can be empirically tested. Sanderson reviews the major theoretical traditions within contemporary sociology, explicating their key principles, critically...
Social Transformations
A General Theory of Historical Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1999
In Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development Stephen K. Sanderson develops a general theory of social evolution and uses it to explain the most important evolutionary transformations in human history and prehistory. In this expanded edition Sanderson has added a discussion...
by Stephen Salkever, Cary Nederman, Jeff Macy
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2000
Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities...
Campaigns and Elections
Players and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Stephen Medvic’s Campaigns and Elections is a comprehensive yet compactcore text that addresses two distinct but related aspects of American electoral democracy—both the processes that constitute campaigns and elections and the players who are involved. In addition to balanced coverage of process...
by Stephen K. McLeod
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This title was first published in 2001. Modality and Anti-Metaphysics critically examines the most prominent approaches to modality among analytic philosophers in the twentieth century, including essentialism. Defending both the project of metaphysics and the essentialist position that metaphysical...