A glossary of zen terms

Of special interest to scholars and students of Zen classics, a glossary of specialized vocabulary to aid understanding and practice

A god in need of help

Four men carry a painting over a mountain: a play about faith and mystery during The Enlightenment.

A god strolling in the cool of the evening

A god-shaped nation

A kaleidoscopic history that shows how the quest to worship freely became one of the nation’s most vexing tensions, shaping life for believers and nonbelievers alike Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of their Catholic God and New England Puritans formed their strictly Prot...

A goddess in motion

Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of María Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.

A good day for seppuku

Braverman challenges mythological nuclear family roles in her memorable collection of new stories.

A good life

"Lovers of Europa Editions' other titles My Brilliant Friend and Fresh Water for Flowers will fall hard for this beautiful, heartbreaking, and healing story. Grab a box of tissues!" — Electric LitFull of humor and compassion, this Indie Next Pick is a profound exploration of sisterhood, healing, ...

A good scent from a strange mountain

A good tax

In A Good Tax, tax expert Joan Youngman skillfully considers how to improve the operation of the property tax and supply the information that is often missing in public debate. She analyzes the legal, administrative, and political challenges to the property tax in the United States and offers rec...

A gothic sermon

In this groundbreaking work, Stephen Murray seizes a rare opportunity to explore the relationship between verbal and visual culture by presenting a sermon that may have been preached during the second half of the thirteenth century in or near the cathedral of Notre-Dame of Amiens, whose sculptura...

A grammar of motives

About this book Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it? An answer to that question is the subject of this book. The book is concerned with the basic forms of thought which, in accordance with the...

A grammar of nzadi [b865]

This publication presents the first documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is the product of extensive study by the authors and participants in field methods and group study courses at the University of Cali...

A grammar of the corpse

No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed...

A grammar of the seneca language

The Seneca language belongs to the Northern Iroquoian branch of the Iroquoian language family, where its closest relatives are Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora. Seneca holds special typological interest because of its high degree of polysynthesis and fusion. It is historically impo...

A great and terrible world

This edition of letters by Antonio Gramsci vividly evokes the 'great and terrible world' in which he lived.

A great sacrifice

This study analyzes the effects of the Civil War on northern black families as they sacrificed for a Union victory. This book especially studies the effects of the war on these families as they and their soldiers fully supported the Union war effort and strived to gain full American citizenship.

A greek roman empire

In the first half of the fifth century, the Latin-speaking part of the Roman Empire suffered vast losses of territory to barbarian invaders. But in the Greek-speaking half of the Eastern Mediterranean, with its capital at Constantinople, there was a stable and successful system, using Latin as it...

A greek state in formation

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Although the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago, its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of excavations at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos, takes readers o...

A greek thomist

Matthew Briel examines, for the first time, the appropriation and modification of Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of providence by fifteenth-century Greek Orthodox theologian Gennadios Scholarios. Briel investigates the intersection of Aquinas’s theology, the legacy of Greek patristic and later th...

A guidance guide for early childhood leaders

"Guidance Guy" Dan Gartrell provides strategies on how early childhood professionals can help others gain the emotional health they need to build relationships and solve problems cooperatively.

A guide for making fragments from diaries

Joshua Beckman’s new book, A Guide for Making Fragments from Diaries, gathers poems found or made in various forms—chapter summaries of non-existent books, body poems, an assemblage of his mother’s remarks while painting his portrait, lists of thoughts and things (one of all the uninvited animals...

A guide to college success for post-traditional students

This book guides post-traditional students in the OWLS Department at Texas State University to earn a BAAS degree. It covers applied coursework, prior learning assessment, and flexible programs. It addresses the unique needs of students over 25, often juggling multiple roles, seeking relevant, in...

A guide to data-driven leadership in modern schools

A Guide to Data-Driven Leadership in Modern Schools offers insights for school leaders and educators on practical data use. It covers data-driven decisions, accountability, and standardized testing. Chapters discuss data use in management, instruction, and personnel evaluations, emphasizing the n...

A guide to eu environmental law

Written by two internationally respected scholars, this unique primer distills European Union environmental law and policy into a practical guide for a nonlegal audience, as well as for lawyers trained in other jurisdictions. The first part explains the basics of the European legal system, includ...

A guide to healthcare facility dress rehearsal simulation planning

A Guide to Healthcare Facility Dress Rehearsal Simulation Planning: Simplifying the Complex provides a step-by-step scalable framework to coordinate an Interdisciplinary Dress Rehearsal event for a project or facility of any size.

A guide to human rights due diligence for lawyers

Business clients are increasingly seeking their lawyers’ advice and assistance with human rights due diligence (HRDD). Their clients must navigate compliance with a growing array of legal  requirements and soft law standards defining the expectations of governments, investors, and  society that b...

A guide to planning and managing open innovative ecosystems

Digital technology in the form of big data and data analytics is transforming the global economy. This book is the first to take an open innovation perspective to the study and practice of ecosystems, providing a novel way of understanding the impact data has on the way entrepreneurial firms deve...

A guide to the reservoirs act 1975

A Guide to the Reservoirs Act 1975 provides expert guidance on the application of the Reservoirs Act 1975, reflecting the current views and practices of the dam engineering profession.

A guide to the zohar

The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes, concealed meanings, obscure symbols, and ecstatic expression. This illuminating study, based upon the la...

A guide to u.s. environmental law

Written by two internationally respected authors, this unique primer distills the environmental law and policy of the United States into a practical guide for a nonlegal audience, as well as for lawyers trained in other regions. The first part of the book explains the basics of the American legal...

A gypsy's book of revelations

A short story collection that explores the weirdness of the human experience: physical transformations and experiments, adolescence and old age, extreme forms of love, from Japan to Poland through Pasadena. 

A half century of occupation

The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the world’s most polarizing confrontations. Its current phase, Israel’s “temporary” occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, turned a half century old in June 2017. In these timely and provocative essays, Gershon Shafir asks three questions—Wh...

A half-red sea

Full-length collection of poems by Evie Shockley featuring a special fold-out page for the poem "a thousand words."

A halfman dreaming

A hand full of water

Water is the element that connects two shores, flows between and around countries; and the element that belongs to nobody.

A handbook of integration with refugees

This book brings together the voices of academics, practitioners, and people seeking sanctuary to explore the processes of refugee integration. Situated in learnings from Scotland, the book offers theoretical, creative and practical responses for a wide international audience.

A handbook of latinx art

A curated selection of key texts and artists’ voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present.  A Handbook of Latinx Art is the first anthology to explore the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions that Latinx artists have made to art in the United States. Dra...

A handbook of the troubadours

This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies.Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadou...

A handlist of rhetorical terms

With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms—mostly Greek and Latin—that students of Western literature and rhetoric are likely to come across in their reading or will find u...

A haven and a hell

Lance Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. He reveals the forces that caused the ghetto’s role as haven or hell to wax and wane.

A heart afire

A brilliant anthology of early Hasidic teachings which encompasses teachings from Sufism, Buddhism and depth psychology.

A heated debate

Maria M. Sojka analyzes the importance of tacit knowledge in scientific practice and the question of what defines an expert.

A heaven of others

A Jewish boy transcends to the wrong heaven in this novel by one of our most provocative young writers.

A heaven wrought of iron

A collection of poems that collaborate with and explore the depths of the Odyssey; emphasizes theme of identity/alterity.