Sometimes a person makes a major life decision without much thought or consideration of what they are getting into...Stephen Harris was carefree and looking for adventure. He was a farm boy in his 20s, freshly armed with a handy university degree in the faculty of arts that would probably allow him to sell fast food or sweep floors. He decided to roll the dice, move to South Korea, and spend nearly two years in Asia. It was a different way of life in a new culture, but he still had...

This collection analyses the dynamic role of tradition in understanding the thought and impact of the 8th century Mahayana Buddhist thinker Santideva.Organised into three interconnected sections, it highlights Santideva's Guide to the way of life of a Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryavatara) as a product of and major contributor to the 7th and 8th-century Mahayana Buddhist intellectual tradition.Across a series of cross-cultural case studies, a team...

**THE TIMES FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025In The Sportsman at Home, Stephen Harris welcomes us into his kitchen in Whitstable to discover how to make classic, nostalgic home cooking taste even better than you remember.**The Sportsman is nothing short of an institution. Now in its 25th year, Stephen Harris took over a rundown pub on the Kent coast in 1999 and turned something ordinary into something extraordinary with his pared-back style of cooking, earning a Michelin ...

Santideva's 8th century Mahayana Buddhist classic, the Guide to the Practices of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara), has been a source of philosophical inspiration in the Indian and Tibetan traditions for over a thousand years. Stephen Harris guides us through a philosophical exploration of Santideva's masterpiece, introducing us to his understanding of the compassionate bodhisattva, who vows to liberate the entire universe from suffering. Individual chapters provide studies of the bodh...

Designed for artists of all skill levels, The Complete Book of Drawing Optical Illusions, 3D Illustrations, and Spiral Art will help you create mind-bending art with simple step-by-step instructions.Optical illusions, 3D trick illustrations, and spiral art may look difficult to create, but with just a little bit of guidance, they can be easily achieved. Artists Jonathan Stephen Harris and Stefan Pabst guide you step by step in creating mind-blowing...

A fresh and exciting drawing guide for young artists who seek projects that are out of the ordinary.Are you tired of drawing the same boring stuff? Artist and author Jonathan Stephen Harris shows you how to draw almost anything with 40 fun and exciting projects that are anything but boring. You'll learn how to create crazy trick art, amazing 3D objects, mind-blowing anamorphic illustrations, and brain-twisting optical illusions. Every project features detailed, ste...

In the midst of the Great Depression in tiny Roxboro, Alabama, Sara and her son, Sam, struggle to make ends meet within a community where Christian values are preached but rarely practiced. The county’s wealthiest and most influential citizen, Milton Marion, is bent on ruining Sara’s life and wrestling Sam away from her. But as the story unfolds, a defiant farmer and his son, an unsatisfied redemption-seeking sheriff, and a Negro bootlegger risk everything to help her find love and family ...

This book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially transformative solutions to the current stalemate in contemporary water policy design. A more open policy conversation about water than exists at present is proposed – one that provides a space for the role of the imagination and is inclusive – of the arts and humanities, relevant stakeholders, including landholders and Indigenous peoples, as well as science, law and economics.Written for a wide audience, including pract...

The Art of Spiral Drawing offers a fresh, modern take on everyone’s favorite childhood toy from the 1960s through today, the Spirograph®. With The Art of Spiral Drawing, no complicated tools are needed, as artists of all skill levels learn to create their own spiral art using little more than paper and a pen or pencil.Written and illustrated by Jonathan Stephen Harris, the author of the popular The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions, the bo...

In The Price of Brotherhood, Mr. Stephen Moore, a successful lawyer and mystery writer, returned to his alma mater, Ivory College, on homecoming weekend to solve a homicide. Darnell Ellis, a pledge for Lambda Phi Psi Fraternity was killed in a hazing accident. Steve Moore arrives on campus to solve this crime. He realizes that a fatal accident could occur with this fraternity and that Lambda Phi Psi was a fraternity that had a secret to hide.

Besotted, she would do anything for him. He photographed them having sex and cavorted naked as he tortured and murdered the children they had kidnapped. They recorded the torture sessions and took pornographic pictures of their victims before they died – naked, bound and gagged. Only the Moors Murderers knew where the bodies were buried...Read about the shocking Moors Murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, along with the horrific stories of Fred and Rosemary West and David and Cath...

What makes English literature English ? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities. Harris examines possible configurations of communities, illustrating dominant literary metaphors of race from Old English to its nineteenth-century critical reception. Literary voices in the England...