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Pali Grammar for Students by Steven Collins
Booksplease Price: £31.55This book is intended for modern students, inside or outside the classroom, as a work of reference rather than a "teach yourself" textbook. It presents an introductory sketch of Pali using both... -
Readings of the Vessantara Jataka by Steven Collins 9780231160391
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as... -
Nirvana: Concept, Imagery, Narrative by Steven Collins
Booksplease Price: £33.50The idea of nirvana (Pali nibbana) is alluring but elusive for non-specialists and specialists alike. Offering his own interpretation of key texts, Steven Collins explains the idea in a new,... -
Nirvana: Concept, Imagery, Narrative by Steven Collins 9780521881982
Booksplease Price: £56.13The idea of nirvana (Pali nibbana) is alluring but elusive for non-specialists and specialists alike. Offering his own interpretation of key texts, Steven Collins explains the idea in a new,... -
Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities by Steven Collins 9780521578424
Booksplease Price: £43.34This book presents an answer to the question: what is nirvana? Part I distinguishes between systematic and narrative thought in the Pali texts of Theravada Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia,... -
Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravada Buddhism Reimagined by Steven Collins
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravada Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how... -
Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism by Steven Collins 9780521397261
Booksplease Price: £29.56This book seeks to explain carefully and sympathetically the Buddhist doctrine of anatta ('not-self'), which denies the existence of any self, soul or enduring essence in man. The author relates this... -
Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravada Buddhism Reimagined by Steven Collins 9780231197205
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravada Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how... -
The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology: Molecules, Market and the State in Japan and the US by Steven Collins
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This comparative study looks at the early development of biotechnology in the US and Japan. Drawing on primary and secondary sources it traces the historical roots of recombinant DNA technology,... -
The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology: Molecules, Market and the State in Japan and the US by Steven Collins 9780415651295
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This comparative study looks at the early development of biotechnology in the US and Japan. Drawing on primary and secondary sources it traces the historical roots of recombinant DNA technology,... -
Fluent Everyday English: Book 4 in the Everyday English Advanced Vocabulary series by Steven Collins
Booksplease Price: £19.21Fluent Everyday English is the fourth and final book in the Practical Everyday English series. These self-study books are designed to improve the everyday vocabulary of adult advanced students of... -
Advanced Everyday English: Book 2 in the Everyday English Advanced Vocabulary series by Steven Collins
Booksplease Price: £19.21Is your English good, but still not fluent and natural? Advanced Everyday English is book 2 in the Everyday English series (book 1 is Practical Everyday English). This book will teach you... -
Self and Society: Essays on Pali Literature and Social Theory, 1988-2010 by Steven Collins 9786162150678
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.93This selection of essays demonstrates that, in the study of Buddhism, a concern with detailed accuracy in philological and textual specifics can be combined with wider philosophical and sociological... -
Practical Everyday English: Advanced Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs: Idioms:: 2022 by Steven Collins 9781838106911
Booksplease Price: £19.21For upper intermediate and advanced students only; not for beginners or elementary level. Practical Everyday English is Book 1 in the Everyday English series. It is a self-study book designed to... -
High-Level Everyday English: Book 3 in the Everyday English Advanced Vocabulary series by Steven Collins
Booksplease Price: £19.21High-level Everyday English is the third book in the Practical Everyday English series. All the books are designed for students who already have good English, but this third one is especially for... -
Discovering the City of Sodom: The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament's Most Infamous City by Dr Steven Collins 9781451684384
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451684384Author Dr Steven CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Tall al-Hammam Excavations, Volume 1: An Introduction to Tall al-Hammam: Seven Seasons (2005-2011) of Ceramics and Eight Seasons (2005-2012) of Artifacts from Tall al-Hammam by Steven Collins 9781575063690
Booksplease Price: £115.86The Tall al-Hamman Excavations, Volume 1 is the first in a series of reports on the Tall al-Hammam Excavation Project, directed by Steven Collins of Trinity Southwest University and assisted by Gary... -
Theravada Buddhist Encounters with Modernity Juliane Schober 9780367875510
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Although recent scholarship has shown that the term 'Theravada' in the familiar modern sense is a nineteenth- and twentieth-century construct, it is now used to refer to the more than 150 million... -
Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life by Joanna Cook 9781107660557
Booksplease Price: £35.47In contemporary Thai Buddhism, the burgeoning popularity of vipassana meditation is dramatically impacting the lives of those most closely involved with its practice: monks and mae chee (lay nuns)... -
Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life by Joanna Cook 9780521119382
Booksplease Price: £99.43In contemporary Thai Buddhism, the burgeoning popularity of vipassana meditation is dramatically impacting the lives of those most closely involved with its practice: monks and mae chee (lay nuns)... -
The Popular Handbook of Archaeology and the Bible: Discoveries That Confirm the Reliability of Scripture by Norman Geisler 9780736944854
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £21.88From two leading Christian apologists, here is a fascinating survey of the most important Old and New Testament archaeological discoveries through the ages.Biblical archaeology has always stirred... -
A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics: A One-of-a-Kind Resource for the Everyday Apologist Joseph M. Holden 9780736982764
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £17.43Sharing Your Faith Just Got Easier The intersection of Christianity and secular culture is commonly filled with disagreement, tension, and complicated issues, leading many Christians to avoid talking... -
Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet by Janet Gyatso 9780231164979
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human in a Buddhist World reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of...