Oxford University Press

This is a diary of real journeys with stroke, viewed through multiple prisms - stroke patient, stroke survivor, family members, and physician. Compelling episodes are dramatic hybrids of poetic prose separated by simplified medical explanations. An anthology of hope emerges, populated by helpful strategies for stroke recovery and healthy living....

This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a 'total' or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that Tamil religion is primarily concerned with transformations of identity and subjectivity, both...

Contemporary Poetry and Public AddressSpeaking to You explores the work of four important poets writing post-1960 - Don Paterson, Geoffrey Hill, W.S. Graham, and C.H. Sisson - in order to show how contemporary British poetry's creative handling of addresses to 'you' are key in its interactions with readers, critics, lovers, editors, fellow poets,...

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This is the 11th volume in the     New Directions in Cognitive Science Series (formerly    Vancover Studies in Cognitive Science). It addresses common sense, reasoning, and rationality, currently areas of considerable interdisciplinary interest and importance. While common sense and rationality have often been viewed as two distinct features in a...

As a religion concerned with eternal salvation, Zen is based on and grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Indeed, says Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, ephemeral agent of awareness and healing. In this book,...