Richard Payne

Re-Visioning "Kamakura" Buddhism

Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha

The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development

Market Yourself for Success

How to Get a Better Job Quicker

How to Get a Better Job Quicker

How to Get a Better Job Quicker

The Foreign Exchange Market: Empirical Studies with High-Frequency Data

A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus

With 25 illustrations. This extended essay on fertility worship in the Classical period was written by Robert Payne Knight, a distinguished English scholar, parlimentarian, writer, and antiquarian. Published in 1786, this book shocked English society to such an extent that Knight took it upon himsel...

Cosmopolitanism and Empire: Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Oxford Studies in Early Empires)

The empires of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean invented cosmopolitan politics. In the first millennia BCE and CE, a succession of territorially extensive states incorporated populations of unprecedented cultural diversity. Cosmopolitanism and Empire traces the development of cultural techniq...

Global Issues, Books a la Carte (5th Edition)

For courses in Global Issues, Globalization, and Introduction to International Relations   Explaining the political, economic, and cultural context of issues around the globe Global Issues is a current and topical look at the forces driving globalization — everything from democratization, ...

Global Issues: Politics, Economics and Culture

Global Issues is a lively and comprehensive introductory text that explores the forces driving globalization. With a current and topical approach to global affairs that will engage students' interest, this text focuses on specific issues that transcend and are transforming states and international r...

A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)

Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks. Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians ...

Global Issues (4th Edition)

Updated in its 4th edition, Global Issues is a current and topical look at the forces driving globalization. From democratization, human rights, and global finance to terrorism, pandemics, and climate change, this texts surveys global problems that transcend boundaries and are challenging the intern...

How Much is Enough?: Buddhism, Consumerism, and the Human Environment

The massive outpouring of consumer products available today might alone lead one to ask "How much is enough?" But at the same time, if we allow ourselves to see the social, political, economic and environmental consequences of the system that produces such a mass of "goods," then the question is not...

Living Well and Dying Faithfully: Christian Practices for End-of-Life Care

Living Well and Dying Faithfully explores how Christian practices ― love, prayer, lament, compassion, and so on ― can contribute to the process of dying well. Working on the premise that one dies the way one lives, the book is unique in its constructive dialogue between theology and medicine as offe...