Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 13 results for “alex john”
Skip side bar filters

  • Apples in the Dark

    by John Alex Taylor ...
    Series Book 1 - Apples in the Dark
    ‘Mam, we should… I don’t know. Be friends.’A mother and daughter meet a stranger on a Cardiff bus. For ten-year-old Alice, it’s simple: the three of them need each other. But adults never see the obvious.Alice needs an ally who knows how it feels to be excluded for her intelligence. Beth has neglected her artistic career in the struggle to support Alice. Scientist Rachel has epilepsy, a hidden ... Read more

    $6.70 USD

  • Buddha in the Marketplace

    The Commodification of Buddhist Objects in Tibet

    by Alex John Catanese ...
    Series series Traditions and Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism
    Classical Tibetan Buddhist scriptures forbid the selling of Buddhist objects, and yet there is today a thriving market for Buddhist statues, paintings, and texts. In Buddha in the Marketplace, Alex John Catanese investigates this practice, which continues to be viewed as a form of "wrong livelihood" by modern Tibetan Buddhist scholars. Drawing on textual and historical sources, as well as ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Angels and Blackbirds

    by John Alex Taylor ...
    Series Book 2 - Apples In The Dark
    Mam gone. No Mam. No Mam’s house.Tom’s sister Emmy has almost become one of the family with Rachel, Beth and Alice. But learning-disabled Emmy lives with her fiercely protective mother. A mother who has let her own fears constrain Emmy’s life and made no attempt to prepare for Emmy’s future.Emmy is thirty-six when her mother dies, and their rigid home routine has left her unprepared for change. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • For the Common Good

    Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics

    by Alex John London ...
    The foundations of research ethics are riven with fault lines emanating from a fear that if research is too closely connected to weighty social purposes an imperative to advance the common good through research will justify abrogating the rights and welfare of study participants. The result is an impoverished conception of the nature of research, an incomplete focus on actors who bear important ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The Fallen Angel

    by John Alex Harrison ...
    In 1993, Michael Pappenhauser, a Catholic Monsignor, is shot in the head and stuffed into the trunk of his own Buick. A priceless artifact is missing so says emissaries from the Vatican in Rome. A postmarked letter from Mexico to the Gazelle Daily News in San Bernardino is evidence that the priest was alive in Mexico. The killer is never found. The seemingly perfect crime. 16 years later, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Using Reading to Teach a World Language

    Strategies and Activities

    by Donna Spangler, John Alex Mazzante ...
    To help your students learn a world language, don’t forget the power of reading! In this practical book from Donna Spangler and John Alex Mazzante, you’ll gain a variety of strategies and activities that you can use to teach students to read in a world language, boosting their comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Perfect for any age or proficiency level, these classroom-ready activities can ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Cutting to the Core

    Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries

    by Michael Benatar, Leslie Cannold, Dena Davis, Merle Spriggs, Julian Savulescu, Heather Draper, Neil Evans, Richard Hull, Stephen Wilkinson, David Wasserman, Donna Dickenson, Guy Widdershoven, Françoise Baylis, Stephen Coleman, Rosemarie Tong, Hilde Lindemann, David Neil, Alex John London ...
    Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested. Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including infant ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Gathering Company

    by John & Alex Dent-Young ...
    This is the third volume of a series of the new translation of the Chinese classical novel generally known as The Water Margin. In this volume, the company of outlaws on Mount Liang continues to grow - a butcher, a blacksmith, a public executioner, a petty thief... and the usual generals defecting from the government forces. Lu Zhishen, the Flowery Monk, and his companions from Twin Dragon Peak ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Scattered Flock

    by John & Alex Dent-Young ...
    The Scattered Flock, the last volume of this new series of translations, contains chapters 91-120 that mark the disastrous end of the 108 heroes. The action in this volume can be divided into three parts: the campaign against Tian Hu, the campaign against Wang Qing and the campaign against Fang La. It is in the last of these that the heroes of Mount Liang begin to die. Their demise is as haphazard ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Broken Seals

    by John & Alex Dent-Young ...
    When Marshal Hong breaks the seals which generations of Taoist Masters have placed on the temple doors to hold back 108 incarcerated Demon Princes, powerful forces of disorder are released. One after another, brave men fall out with officialdom and are obliged to join the brotherhood of the rivers and lakesa&quote;the mixed company of heroes and vagabonds who live by their wits and their fighting ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Tiger Killers

    by John & Alex Dent-Young ...
    The Tiger Killers is the second volume of a new translation of the Chinese classical novel generally known as The Water Margin. Like the first volume, The Broken Seals, it follows the fortunes of various outlaw heroes as they move through a world of treacherous officials, jealous toadies, bullying gaolers, hired assassins, foolhardy generals and cannibalistic innkeepers.This volume contains some ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Iron Ox

    by John & Alex Dent-Young ...
    Iron Ox contains chapters 63-90 of the original and can be divided into four main sections. The first of these is very much concerned with the question of the leadership on Mount Liang. Iron Ox is prominent in the second section, probably the most varied and entertaining part of this volume. The third section is concerned with the count's various attempts to subdue Mount Liang by force or win them ... Read more

    $26.99 USD