Steven Collins Knihy

Exploring the concept of 'nirvana,' this book delves into Buddhist utopias and their implications for understanding textuality and world history. It offers insights into how these themes interconnect, providing a comprehensive analysis of the philosophical and cultural dimensions of Buddhism. Through this examination, readers gain a deeper appreciation of the historical and spiritual significance of nirvana within the broader context of Buddhist thought.

Practical Everyday English is a self-study book with audio CD that focuses on advanced vocabulary, phrasal verbs and idioms. It teaches students words and expressions which are often not learnt at schools or in other books. It is the first book in the Practical Everyday English series.

High-level Everyday English is book 3 in the Practical Everyday English series, and is designed for students who have reached a very advanced stage in their English studies...but still need a little help with difficult everyday vocabulary.

In his four years with the SO19, the Metropolitan Police Special Firearms Wing, Steve Collins has been in over thousand contacts, that is gun battles with Yardies, IRA gunmen, East End gangsters such as the notorious Arifs and their hitman, drug smugglers from South America and elsewhere and lone gunmen who have simply gone beserk. A judge commending the bravery of Steve`s team recenty said, ` If only the public knew the calibre of the men that protect them. ' SO19 is the invisible blue line that protects us all from the chaos and the violence that continually threatens to take over the capital. These groups are simply the best when it comes to firearms operations in an urban enviroment-the SAS come to them for training! Here Steve Collins gives the inside story of these operations, which we otherwise only get to hear about when they make the headlines.

Practical Everyday English is a self-study book with audio CD that focuses on advanced vocabulary, phrasal verbs and idioms. It teaches students words and expressions which are often not learnt at schools or in other books. It is the first book in the Practical Everyday English series.

This book is intended for modern students, inside or outside the classroom, as a work of reference rather than a "teach yourself" textbook. It presents an introductory sketch of Pali using both European and South Asian grammatical categories. In English-language works, Pali is usually presented in the traditional terms of English grammar, derived from the classical tradition, with which many modern students are unfamiliar. This work discusses and reflects upon those categories, and has an appendix devoted to them. It also introduces the main categories of traditional Sanskrit and Pali grammar, drawing on, in particular, the medieval Pali text Saddaniti, by Aggavamsa. Each grammatical form is illustrated by examples taken from Pali texts, mostly canonical. Although some previous knowledge of Sanskrit would be helpful, the book can also be used by those without previous linguistic training. A bibliographical appendix refers to other, complementary resources.

Fluent Everyday English is the fourth and final book in the Practical EverydayEnglish series and follows the same format as the previous three titles. These self-study books are designed to improve the everyday vocabulary of adult advancedstudents of English as a foreign language.

This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravada Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act.

High-level Everyday English is the third book in the Practical Everyday English series. All the books are designed for students who already have good English, but this third one is especiallyfor those who have reached a very advanced stage in their English studies...but still need a littlehelp with difficult vocabulary.

Advanced Everyday English with audio CD is the second book in the Practical Everyday series. Like the first book, it is designed to improve the vocabulary of advanced students of English and contains advanced vocabulary, phrasal verbs and idioms.