When journalist Robert Andrew Powell finished his first marathon, he cried, cradled in his father s arms. Long distance runners understand where those tears come from, even if there are others who will never understand what drives someone to run 26.2 consecutive miles in a grueling mental and physic[...]

The Nectar of Immortality gathers talks and writing of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a revered master of Tantric Nath lineage. This book focuses on the meanings of being, the definition of being, and the limits of constantly asserting one's presence. Many chapters recount dialogue between Nisargadatta a[...]

Addresses ways in which culture influences communication in the classroom & provides teachers with information they need to meet the needs of students in multicultural classrooms. This title is suitable for students & scholars in instructional communication.[...]

Drawing on Baden-Powell's extensive archive, "Playing the Game" is a rich and evocative selection of his writings, on peace - a major theme throughout his career and the theme of the 2007 centenary celebrations, on his own life, from his wonderfull idiosyncratic anecdotal autobiography and includes [...]

The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. With the contributors to this volume, they offer a unifying p[...]

About the Author: Robert Powell was born in Reading, England in 1947. He received a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Sussex. He a eurythmist and movement therapist living in Kinsau, Germany. Powell is author of Divine Sophia: Holy Wisdom and other related works, including a si[...]

Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids." What he did to end up here, Ja[...]

"The Ultimate Medicine" is not for those who like their spirituality watered down, but for serious students searching for awareness. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) lived and taught in a small apartment in the slums of Bombay. A realized master of the Tantric Nath lineage, he supported himself [...]

There are many conflicting views on Mary Magdalene, from the early church's focus on her as a sinner, to her incarnation in Dan Brown's infamous novel. Through all the theories and distortions, the reality of her life and mission is still largely unknown. In this concise book, Robert Powell sifts th[...]