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  • Breaking the Male Code

    Unlocking the Power of Friendship

    by Robert Garfield ...
    Calling for a new men’s movement, a noted psychotherapist examines the critical role close male friendships play in helping men lead happy, healthy lives.For much of the past century, men have operated under the rules of Male Code, a rigid set of guidelines that equate masculinity with stoicism, silence, and strength. As men’s roles have changed over the past few decades, this lingering pressure ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Characteristics of Games

    by George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, K. Robert Gutschera ...
    Understanding games—whether computer games, card games, board games, or sports—by analyzing certain common traits.Characteristics of Games offers a new way to understand games: by focusing on certain traits—including number of players, rules, degrees of luck and skill needed, and reward/effort ratio—and using these characteristics as basic points of comparison and analysis. These issues are often ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • How to Lose Yourself

    An Ancient Guide to Letting Go

    by Jay L. Garfield, Maria Heim, Robert H. Sharf, The Buddha ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion—and why giving it up can free us from sufferingFrom self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed. We are even told that finding ourselves is the key to happiness. Better to lose yourself! More than 2,500 years ago, the Buddha argued that the ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Basic Mechanisms Controlling Term and Preterm Birth

    Edited by Kristof Chwalisz, Robert E. Garfield ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The mechanisms that initiate labour (i. e. , the conversion of the quies cent uterus to an active and reactive organ at term) are poorly under stood. Of considerable importance are the factors that control preterm labour and preterm birth, with their devastating effects on society. This problem is the leading obstetrical issue. Preterm labour affects ap proximately 10% of all pregnant women (even ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • What Can't be Said

    Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Thought

    by Yasuo Deguchi, Jay L. Garfield, Graham Priest, Robert H. Sharf ...
    Typically, in the Western philosophical tradition, the presence of paradox and contradictions is taken to signal the failure or refutation of a theory or line of thinking. This aversion to paradox rests on the commitment-whether implicit or explicit-to the view that reality must be consistent. In What Can't be Said, Yasuo Deguchi, Jay L. Garfield, Graham Priest, and Robert H. Sharf extend their ... Read more

    $100.79 CAD

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    How to Lose Yourself

    An Ancient Guide to Letting Go

    by The Buddha and His Followers, Jay L. Garfield, Maria Heim, Robert H. Sharf ...
    Narrated by Mike Carnes ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

    Unabridged

    2 hours 48 min

    Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion—and why giving it up can free us from sufferingFrom self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed. We are even told that finding ourselves is the key to happiness. Better to lose yourself! More than 2,500 years ago, the Buddha argued that the ... Read more

    $19.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Labour Relations in the Motor Industry

    A Study of Industrial Unrest and an International Comparison

    by H. A. Turner, Garfield Clack, Geoffrey Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Automobile Industry
    This book, originally published in 1967, takes the automobile industry experience as a basis for a wider view of industrial relations, trends and developments of the 1950s and 60s. The study also analyses the emergence of new institutions and systems of labour-management relationships. It contains chapters on the effects of automotion and technical change, on the impact of fluctuations in the ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

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  • Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism

    by Erich Fromm ...
    The renowned psychoanalyst and New York Times –bestselling author of The Art of Loving unites philosophy from the East and West.In 1957, social philosopher and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm invited Daisetz T. Suzuki, the most famous Zen Buddhist master in the Western world, to a seminar at his new home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Their discussion was one of the highlights of Fromm's lif... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way

    Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield ...
    The Buddhist saint Nāgārjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating metaphysical and epistemological treatises. His greatest philosophical work, the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way : Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Nagarjuna; Jay L. Garfield ...
    For nearly two thousand years Buddhism has mystified and captivated both lay people and scholars alike. Seen alternately as a path to spiritual enlightenment, an system of ethical and moral rubrics, a cultural tradition, or simply a graceful philosophy of life, Buddhism has produced impassioned followers the world over. The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • The Spectrum of Consciousness

    by Ken Wilber ...
    Wilber's groundbreaking synthesis of religion, philosophy, physics, and psychology started a revolution in transpersonal psychology. He was the first to suggest in a systematic way that the great psychological systems of the West could be integrated with the noble contemplative traditions of the East. Spectrum of Consciousness, first released by Quest in 1977, has been the prominent reference ... Read more

    $18.49 CAD

  • Buddhist Philosophy

    Essential Readings

    Edited by William Edelglass, Jay Garfield ...
    The Buddhist philosophical tradition is vast, internally diverse, and comprises texts written in a variety of canonical languages. It is hence often difficult for those with training in Western philosophy who wish to approach this tradition for the first time to know where to start, and difficult for those who wish to introduce and teach courses in Buddhist philosophy to find suitable textbooks ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD