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  • Fridays with Bill

    Inside the Football Mind of Bill Belichick

    by John Powers ...
    Bill Belichick is a different man on Fridays. With preparations for Sunday's game essentially complete, and the media presence reduced to those regulars Belichick calls the "Friday Warriors," the normally terse coach is known to open up in provocative, entertaining, and expansive fashion. Fridays With Bill provides a rare glimpse inside one of history's greatest football minds, featuring insights ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism

    by John Powers ...
    Lucid and economical, this introductory text delivers a brisk, fast-moving survey of Tibetan Buddhism. For many years Powers's nearly 600-page Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism has served as the field's most authoritative and comprehensive overview of Tibet's distinctive Buddhist tradition. A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism explains the core Buddhist doctrines and the practices of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sore Winners

    American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other Strange Species in George Bush's America

    by John Powers ...
    Politics and culture, culture and politics. They’ve never been normal in America, but today they’re weirder than ever. Millionaire populists like Bill O’Reilly and Michael Moore dominate a political scene spinning ever further from the real world; meanwhile, we look to bizarre experiments like “Survivor” for our daily dose of reality.In this wonderfully acerbic tour through our increasingly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Boston Handbook

    An Irreverent Guide to the Hub of the Universe

    by John Powers ...
    In this unique city, it’s less “Welcome to Boston” and more welcome Boston to you. From street names to driving customs to weather, nothing is as it is wherever you call home, and the locals are proud of it. Boston writer John Powers turned his experience of living in Boston for over fifty years into this fun yet practical guide which brings visitors into the real Boston. Fresh with Peter Wallace ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • ARMY

    From Citizen to Soldier to Hippie to Patriot

    by John Powers ...
    January 1968-John Powers opens a letter no young man wants to see: "Greetings from the United States Army." Overnight, he's ripped from civilian life and thrown into the chaos of basic training, the scorching deserts of Texas, and eventually, the sweltering warzone of Vietnam.From dodging rattlesnakes at Fort Bliss to gripping an M60 as a helicopter door gunner over enemy territory, Powers ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture

    by John Powers ...
    The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact. Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture examines how the avant-garde embraced these material resources and invested them with meanings and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • History As Propaganda

    Tibetan Exiles versus the People's Republic of China

    by John Powers ...
    Despite Chinese efforts to stop foreign countries from granting him visas, the Dalai Lama has become one of the most recognizable and best loved people on the planet, drawing enormous crowds wherever he goes. By contrast, China's charismatically-challenged leaders attract crowds of protestors waving Tibetan flags and shouting "Free Tibet!" whenever they visit foreign countries. By now most ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • The Buddha Party

    How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism

    by John Powers ...
    The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad. The narrative they create is at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading but, John Powers argues, it is widely believed by Han Chinese. Most of China's leaders appear to deeply believe the official line regarding ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • A Concise Encyclopedia of Buddhism

    by John Powers ...
    Series series Concise Encyclopedias
    From bodhi to the true meaning of Zen, this comprehensive new encyclopedia captures the rich diversity of the Buddhist tradition.'Well presented, easy to use and authoritative.' Living TraditionsFrom the teachings of the early masters to the growth of the tradition in the West, this authoritative new reference tool contains over 900 entries supplying information on all the key doctrines, practices ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    HIIT

    The 20-Minute Dream Body with High Intensity Interval Training

    by John Powers ...
    Narrated by Sherry Granader ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 15 min

    Struggling to lose weight and tone muscle no matter how hard you train? Discover a rapid workout strategy for creating your dream body in just 20 minutes a day.Does your ideal body seem like it's a thousand workouts away? Has your expensive gym membership chipped away at your wallet but not at your midsection? Pro trainer and fitness author John Powers will show you how to make rapid gains from a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    HIIT

    The 20-Minute Dream Body with High Intensity Interval Training

    by John Powers ...
    Narrated by Sherry Granader ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 15 min

    Struggling to lose weight and tone muscle no matter how hard you train? Discover a rapid workout strategy for creating your dream body in just 20 minutes a day.Does your ideal body seem like it's a thousand workouts away? Has your expensive gym membership chipped away at your wallet but not at your midsection? Pro trainer and fitness author John Powers will show you how to make rapid gains from a ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Bull of a Man

    Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism

    by John Powers ...
    The androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure presented in Indian Buddhist texts. In early Buddhist literature and art, the Buddha’s perfect physique and sexual prowess are important components of his legend as the world’s “ultimate man.” He is both the scholarly, religiously inclined brahman and the warrior ... Read more

    $26.29 USD