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Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy (Suny Series in the Philosophy ... 1 review
Max Van Manen
State University of New York Press, 1990
Book order review
The book arrived in a timely manner and was in like-new condition.
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Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) 32 reviews
Martin Heidegger
State University of New York Press, 1996
Unprecedented Thinking from an Unprecedented Thinker
Being and Time (1927) is the magnum opus of one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century and arguably Western Philosophy. Spending 7 years writing this first of 67 books, Martin Heidegger turns Husserlian phenomenology (Husserl being Heidegger's main teacher) on its head and introduces to the Western tradition a whole new way of understanding ontology (the formal study of existentia). ...
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The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner ... 6 reviews
Stanislav Grof
State University of New York Press, 1988
The Most Brilliant Investigator in History
I have to respond to Zosimos review below. The therapeutic technique Grof has been using since the 70's, is not original to him. It is derived from the tradition of Kundalini yoga, and his observations from research conducted both at the Prague Psychiatric Research Center, and Spring Grove Hospital, in Spring Grove, MD. His sessions with "holotropic breathwork" is very similar to "gestalt ...
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Vasistha's Yoga20 reviews
Venkatesananda
State University of New York Press, 1993
Great Book
This book is an amazing book full of knowledge and Truth. This book stretches your mind beyond any imagination and helps in breaking all the mental barriers. I have read only 100 pages so far but I Love it.
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Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research (Suny Series in Transpersonal and ...9 reviews
Stanislav Grof
State University of New York Press, 2000
Consciousness research on the cutting edge
I first encountered Stanislav Grof in the late 'seventies at a seminar held in Pacific Grove, California. He was a featured speaker, and to say that I was impressed would be an understatement. In this book, he discusses transpersonal psychology, involving a shift in awareness. Our psychologists and psychiatrists need to engage themselves in this transformational system and get outside the ...
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Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory
Crispin Sartwell
State University of New York Press, 2008
Irreverent and incisive critique of liberal theories of the state.
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Subtractive Schooling: U.S. Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring5 reviews
Angela Valenzuela
State University of New York Press, 1999
The problem with education
Valenzuela presents us with a study of both U.S. born and Mexican born students within American public schools. She is sincere, honest, and thorough. She studies teacher-student dynamics, and how many students are given the impression that teachers do not care how they fare in school. She also studies rifts between U.S. born and Mexican born students and the effect it has on both groups. She also ...
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The Triadic Heart of Siva: Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir (Suny ...5 reviews
Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega
State University of New York Press, 1989
Excellent!
Not only a rare and brilliant sanskritist, Paul Muller illuminates a once obscure mystical-religious tradition with the erudition of the most accomplished scholar. His rich background in the history of religion and familiarity with a seemingless endless variety of sanskrit texts show throughout his writing. He explains intricate spiritual concepts in straightforward terms and unearths the ...
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Literacy with an Attitude6 reviews
Patrick J. Finn
State University of New York Press, 1999
Absolutly one of the best books you'll ever read!
If you have ever wondered what the difference is between children of working class families verses those of more afluence, (hint, it isn't simply the money) if you ever wondered what the difference could possibly be that leads some children into the chute toward dead-end factory jobs, while others have jobs that hold some promise, this is the book to read! Read it, then take a closer look at ...
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Twenty West: The Great Road Across America
MAC Nelson
State University of New York Press, 2008
Traces the route, history, and geography of US 20, America's longest road.
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Doing Qualitative Research in Education Settings3 reviews
J. Amos Hatch, Amos J. Hatch
State University of New York Press, 2002
Must read for new qualitative researchers focused on dissertation
As a new qualitative researcher, finding Dr. Hatch's book "cleared the clouds" and provided an easy to read support for all the processes necessary to be successful with a qualitative research project, especially for dissertation students. After reading all the classics (Yin, Creswell, Denzin, Lincoln, Stake, Miles and Hubermann, etc) Hatch brings it all together and provides solid questions for ...
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Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural System (Buddhist Studies ...3 reviews
Joanna R. Macy
State University of New York Press, 1991
The real science in Buddhism
Joanna Macy cuts through the nonsense dispensed in thing like the the "Tao of Physics" to reveal the real scientific basis of Buddhist concepts. Drawing heavily on Systems theory (cybernetics), she shows that the Buddhist view of the universe as system of ever-changing subsystems in dynamic interaction is not just a scientifically valid view, but a profoundly spiritual one as well. She lights ...
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Islam and the Destiny of Man (Suny Series, Islam)17 reviews
Charles Le Gai Eaton
State University of New York Press, 1986
MONUMENTAL!!
This is a truly majestic book and is, without doubt, one of the most powerful works available on Islam in the English language. Intended primarily for the non-Muslim, or specifically for Westerners with little or no prior knowledge of Islam, I would say that this book is equally accessible and helpful to those who are either practising believers or who have a good working knowledge of the Faith, ...
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Native American Postcolonial Psychology7 reviews
Eduardo Duran, Bonnie Duran
State University of New York Press, 1995
Finally a book from "the other side"
This book gives a brilliant insight into the issues that Native Americans are facing as a colonialized people. I don't believe America as a whole has come to the realization of just what it did to the indigenous people and the traumatizing effect the American Dream has had on the original inhabitants. To make matters worse, these people are normally treated by individuals that only come from the ...
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The Concise Yoga Vasistha10 reviews
State University of New York Press, 1984
The greatest of Indian Scriptures
Among the great scriptures of Indian spiritual thought, Yoga Vasistha is the the most beloved of mine. It is not a dry, wise and scholarly representation of Upanishadic thinking. It is a witty, surrealistic, out-of-mind story-telling to break the grip of one's logic-dominated mind. How to grasp with human mind what essentially is beyond it? Read it and either you will jump with joy or you will ...
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William Cullen Bryant: Author of America
Gilbert H. Muller
State University of New York Press, 2008
A biography of one of nineteenth-century America's foremost poets and public intellectuals.
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What We Want Is Free: Generosity And Exchange In Recent Art (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)2 reviews
State University of New York Press, 2005
save your soul with art
This book probably isn't an obvious choice for a relaxation read. My roommate was surprised to see I was reading it and wasn't enrolled in some class that required me to. I ran across this book randomly in a library and I'm really glad I did. I guarantee you these short essays will get you thinking, get you excited and get you inspired--
especially if you are:
-a self-identified "artist" that ...
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Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences (Suny Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)
Donald E. Polkinghorne
State University of New York Press, 1988
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The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center8 reviews
Bernadette Roberts
State University of New York Press, 1992
A book to live with
This lucid and unfailingly honest account of the process of coming to terms with the loss of "self" is simply a grace for those with ears to hear. Ms. Roberts, a former nun, has walked the contemplative path to the point where it disappears into nowhere and then, remarkably enough, kept walking. Her personal experiences and reflections on the journey are invaluable to those traveling a similar ...
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Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite (Suny Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)1 review
Eric D. Perl
State University of New York Press, 2008
Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite
Along with the valuable work by O'Rourke, 'Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and the Metaphysics of Aquinas', Eric D. Perl's 'Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite' provides us with a summation of that sacred doctrine which took on the epithet 'Neoplatonism' and the particular contribution of the two sages Plotinus and Pseudo-Dionysius. Perl's work attempts to show how ...
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