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This sequel to the widely read Zen and the Brain continues James Austin's explorations into the key interrelationships between Zen Buddhism and brain research. In Zen-Brain Reflections, Austin, a clinical neurologist, researcher, and Zen practi-tioner, examines the evolving psycho-logist, researche... More

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the core topics, theories and debates in modern social theory. Fourteen chapters have been written by leading specialists in the field, providing up-to-date guidance on the full sweep of the modern sociological imagination, from the legacies of the... More

The Blind Spot opens with the words: "Perhaps it were just as well to start at the beginning. A mere matter of news." Suppose I use them in the same sense:... More

"Art and Social Theory" provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics. Separate chapters discuss questions about the mean... More

Electric Motors and Drives is intended for non-specialist users of electric motors and drives, filling the gap between maths- and theory-based academic textbooks and the more prosaic 'handbooks', which provide useful detail but little opportunity for the development of real insight and understanding... More

"Hummell is a master of extremity, and of beauty . . . one of the most exacting and exciting, most wounding and unflinching new poets I've read in a good long while . . ."--Lucie Brock-Broido ("Trouble in Mind").First Annual Del Sol Press Poetry Prize winner, judged by Lucie Brock-Broido: "Hummell i... More

The doorway between the worlds -- the mysterous room where two things could occupy the same space -- had been locked forever, or so its scientist-guardian thought. But nobody had reckoned with the cunning brain of the ruler of that Other World. His advisers had also been working on the dimensional m... More