Daniel Nelson: 24 books

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...

Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the...

That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry. Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for...

Discover how to make virtually any moment in your day a significant part of a meaningful Jewish life. As we have discovered, and as our sages have long known, there is no experience in the life of a Jew that cannot be marked in Jewish ways…. The book you hold in your hands is the result of...

How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground...

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...

El 21 de mayo de 1879, el capitán Carlos Condell derrotó a la flota peruana liderada por el Huáscar y la Independencia, usando un blindado aéreo: una maravilla tecnológica propulsada por la Metahulla, el poderoso mineral azul encontrado en las entrañas del golfo de Arauco. Chile se ha...

El mundo está en guerra desde 1939 y la metahulla corre peligro. Con ayuda de unos misteriosos extraterrestres, el Imperio Zarista Ruso ha conquistado el mundo, excepto América y África. Durante una tregua en el conflicto, el doctor Salvador Allende recibe la visita del coronel Augusto Pinochet....

Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors...

No matter what you are looking for in your life, contentment, purpose, freedom from guilt, confidence in your future, you can find it. God, the all-powerful, eternal, all-knowing, creator of the universe, loves you and wants you to know and love Him. His free gift to you in this relationship are the...