Books by Steven Collins

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 is book 2 in the Everyday English series ). This book will teach you advanced vocabulary, phrasal verbs and idioms with excellent examples and constant repetition. Each of the nine chapters ends with written dialogue and exercises to practise and test you on what you have studied in that chapter. .

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.

Offers a selection of essays that demonstrates the study of Buddhism, a concern with detailed accuracy in philological and textual specifics can be combined with wider philosophical and sociological issues. This book includes essays that are divided into three parts: Pali Literature, The Theory and Practice of Not-Self, and Buddhism and Society.

Intended for modern students, inside or outside the classroom, this book presents an introductory sketch of Pali using both European and South Asian grammatical categories. It presents Pali in the traditional terms of English grammar, derived from the classical tradition, and discusses and reflects upon those categories.

This book seeks to explain carefully and sympathetically the Buddhist doctrine of anatta ('not-self'), which denies the existence of any enduring essence in man. The author relates this doctrine to its cultural and historical context as well as the Theravada Buddhist tradition.