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  • Audiobook

    Progressive Calisthenics: The 20-Minute Dream Body with Bodyweight Exercises and Calisthenics

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

    Unabridged

    2 hours 36 min

    Do you dream of having a lean, mean, muscular body? Obliterate the old you and create the powerful, toned body you always wanted.Are you worried that you don't have enough time to lose weight? Are you sick of the pounds stacking on and covering up your muscles? John Powers is one of the country's foremost experts in personal training. With years of experience in grueling military workouts, high ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

    Narrated by John Skelley ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments ofinnocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers’s brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The youngnarrator becomes ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fenway Park

    A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest, Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America

    A centennial celebration of the Boston Red Sox's home stadium and the city's historical landmark.Fenway Park evokes a team and a sport that have become more synonymous with a city's identity than any stadium or arena in the country. The park's instantly recognizable confines have seen some of the most dramatic happenings in baseball history, including Carlton Fisk's "Is it fair?" home run in the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

  • Inventing Chemistry

    Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

    Series series Synthesis
    The story of this little-known Dutch physician "will interest students and practitioners of history, chemistry, and philosophy of science" ( Choice).In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Last Catholic In America

    It is fast-moving and often downright funny." New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment plus a touch of cynicism yet never with irreverence." Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled by just one nun. The agony and the ecstasy of Lent. The dubious honor of being declared the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Liar Liar

    Series Audiobook 4.1 - The Joe Ledger Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    Liar ['l─½-╔Ör] (n): 1. A person who tells lies. 2. A writer."Lying is essential to good storytelling. Daily, we writers sit at our computers—or legal tablets or Underwoods—and write down a bunch of untruths, piling one on top of the other, page after paltering page. We compound them, massage them, edit them, spin them, cut-and-paste them, until we're satisfied that, despite how outlandish or ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • The Future of the Economy

    East-West Perspectives on Pathways Through Disruption

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    As the pace of economic change seems to only quicken, including rapid technological advance, today’s advanced economies face uncertainty from a number of directions, most of which have the potential to change established modes of thinking and the institutional arrangements that underpin basic economic organization. Labor-saving technological advances are accompanied by risks to jobs due to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Tibet

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    Tibet is a land bounded by the world’s highest mountains, and it is the repository of an ancient culture. For centuries it was viewed by Europeans as a remote, mystical place populated by Buddhist masters with supernatural powers and profound wisdom. In contrast to this image, it was once a warlike country whose expansionist rulers conquered a vast empire that incorporated much of central Asia and ... Read more

    $166.09 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Tibet

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    Historical Dictionary of Tibet, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource for Tibetan history, politics, religion, major figures, prehistory and paleontology, with a primary emphasis on the modern period. It also covers the surrounding areas influenced by Tibetan religion and culture, including India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Central Asia, and Russia.It contains a chronology, a glossary, an ... Read more

    $218.69 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