Modern masters

“I wish I’d had this book 50 years ago … how much more effectively could we have prepared, how much better could we have performed, and how much healthier could we have been?” ...

This article focuses on southern slaveholders. Slave ownership in the South varied considerably, from region to region, from farm to plantation, and from settled society to frontie...

This chapter examines whether all animals are existential animals to meaningful degree. Drawing on existentialist perspectives, it bridges contemporary research in psychological sc...

In the wide range of Buddhist meditation and spirituality a very special place is held by the practice of calling on the name of Amitabha, or in Japanese Amida Buddha, using the si...

This book provides a sobering look at modern-day slavery—which includes sex trafficking, domestic servitude, and other forms of forced labor—and documents the development of the mo...