Western society is individualised; we feel at ease talking about individuals and we study individual behaviour through psychology and psychoanalysis. Yet anthropology teaches us that an individual approach is only one of many ways of looking at ourselves.In this wide-ranging text Morris explores the origins, doctrines and conceptions of the self in Western, Asian and African societies passing though Greek philosophy, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confuscism, Tao and African philosophy and en...

Windy Cindy is a little wind girl who learns to apply her budding power for helping people and the planet. Windy Cindy is very curious, but she is also impatient, wanting to be a full-grown wind right now! Faced with peer pressure and learning from trial and error, she makes the right choices and becomes a wonderful role model for children of all ages.About the AuthorBrian Morris grew up in Iowa and Connecticut. As a writer and former advertising executive, he has written a...

The nineteenth century witnessed the growth of anarchist literature, which advocated a society based on voluntary cooperation without government authority. Although his classical writings on mutual aid and the philosophy of anarchism are still published today, Peter Kropotkin remains a neglected figure. A talented geographer and a revolutionary socialist, Kropotkin was one of the most important theoreticians of the anarchist movement.In Kropotkin: The Politics of Community...

Over the course of a long career, Brian Morris has created an impressive body of engaging and insightful writings—from social anthropology and ethnography to politics, history, and philosophy—that have made these subjects accessible to the layperson without sacrificing analytical rigor. But until now, the essays collected here, originally published in obscure journals and political magazines, have been largely unavailable to the broad readership to which they are so naturally suited. The o...

Today's society is one in which we, as individuals, are constantly barraged by the threat of domestic terrorism. The ever-present fear for your safety and the safety of those we love can overwhelm you if you aren’t sure how to protect yourself. Luckily, distinguished combat veteran Brian M. Morris's Green Beret Survival Guide is here to help ease your fears.Using his firsthand knowledge from the field as a Green Beret, Morris concisely outlines the steps that are necessary...

Amid the clashes, complexities, and political personalities of world politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Peter Kropotkin stands out. Born a prince in Tsarist Russia and sent to Siberia to learn his militaristic, aristocratic trade, he instead renounced his titles and took up the “beautiful idea” of anarchism. Across a continent he would become known as a passionate advocate of a world without borders, without kings and bosses.From a Russian cell to France...

In the aftermath of October 7, 2023, a 74-year-old Canadian surgeon makes a life-altering decision: to leave home and volunteer in Israel during one of its darkest moments. Trading the familiarity of the operating room for the uncertainty of a war zone, he seeks to serve in any capacity-whether as a physician, ambulance volunteer with MDA, or labourer on an IDF base through Sar-El.This powerful memoir chronicles his journey from Montreal to the front lines, offering a firsthand acc...

This is a comprehensive study of the varying conceptions of the human subject in the Western intellectual tradition. Although informed by an anthropological perspective, the author draws on material from all the major intellectual disciplines that have contributed to this tradition and offers biographical and theoretical vignettes of all the major Western scholars. By scrutinizing the classical texts of the Western tradition, he succeeds in delineating the differing conceptions of the huma...

In the tradition of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey,  The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, and The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo comes The Wellness Code  from Dr. Brian Morris. The Wellness Code is unlike any health or diet book you’ve ever read. In this life-changing book, you will learn why conventional diets don’t work and what actually ...

Become an expert at finding food, water, shelter, security, establishing communication, maintaining your health, navigating, and making fire.Many survival and emergency preparedness experts today use the pyramid approach to survival prioritization, putting food, water, shelter, and security in the largest block at the base of the pyramid and then community, sustainability, and higher needs in smaller brackets at the top of the pyramid. Decorated combat veteran Bria...

Richard Jefferies and the Ecological Vision provides an illuminating account of one of Britain's best-loved nature writers, the incomparable Richard Jefferies. Lucid and comprehensive the book critically explores the diversity of Jefferies' literary talents, for this Wiltshire naturalist was without doubt a many sided and comprehensive genius. As a prose poet of nature Jefferies, like Thoreau, attempted to combine a vivid empirical naturalism with an extraordinary poetic i...

Special Forces team is in for a ride on this pleasure cruise. Fighting to survive a living nightmare. Will the team prove themselves to be the best they were trained to be? Or will the team fail for the final test? Who can they trust? Who will live? and Who will die?