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Albert Low's books are carried, in both English and French, in the bookstore Boule de Neige, 4433 St. Denis, Montreal, Quebec H2J 2L2 telephone: (514)849-0959 email: boule@cam.org

Some of his books can also be ordered from this site by emailing books@zenmontreal.ca. Please allow $6 postage if posted in Canada. The prices of the books (in Canadian currency) are listed below.

All of Albert Low's books can be ordered from various places on the internet. Simply copy/paste the title of the book with author's name ... ie Albert Low A Pratica do Zen E O Conhecimento de si mesmo ....and Google will come up with a place where you can order the book.

Some of Albert Low's books have been translated into French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. In the French side of the website there is the complete list of the books that have been translated into French. For the other translations please see below , under the title 'translations' you will find the complete list of translations done for each title.

To browse the books either click on the book in the "library" above or scroll down.

A NEW BOOK!

What Am I? The Heart Sutra for Everyone.

What strange things the Prajnaparamita Hridaya says! A young Buddhist acolyte put his finger on this strangeness when he complained to his teacher, “I have an eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind, so why does the Prajnaparamita Hridaya say that I do not?” His teacher admitted that he did not know, but said, “I must send you to a Zen master; he will know.” If, however, one were to go to a Zen master with this question he might well reply, “To answer that question you must first know what was your face before your parents were born!” or, to put the question in a more familiar form, “What am I?”

The sutra is possibly the most familiar of all the sutras and is chanted regularly in Zen temples and monasteries, but for most it is opaque and impenetrable. Dr Albert Low uses his vast experience, coming from years of practice and teaching, to guide the reader through the difficult terrain of the Prajnaparamita Hridaya, the Heart Sutra, using non-technical language, a variety of stories and many references to the Zen koans. In this way he encourages the reader to use the mind in a new, creative way.

$20 + postage

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A new and very topical book by Albert Low called Conflict and Creativity at Work has just been published.

The book gives original answers to the following questions:

1) Human beings are naturally creative; what does this mean and what is the connection between creativity and conflict?

2) How are creativity and conflict expressed in work, and why is work necessary for our mental health?

3) How has the corporate system emerged out of human creativity?

4) How can the company organization promote creativity through the judicious use of conflict?

5) What exactly is meant by the expression ‘an ethical corporation?’

"Albert Low has spent a lifetime searching for the foundations of harmony and creative satisfaction in common human endeavors--inside and outside the corporation. His questions are timely for all executives to consider."

Kathryn Cason, Co-founder and President, Requisite Organization International Institute (ROII).

"Great management calls for fundamental and keen awareness, of the sort that is easy to recognize and very hard to teach. Albert Low, in an easy-going, straightforward, low-key and respectful way, provides that education in the context of corporate purpose. This is an erudite book, not opaque or academic, but thoughtful and intent on getting its readers through the looking glass of personal and organizational change. "

Art Kleiner, Editor-in-chief, strategy+business. Author, The Age of Heretics

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$35 + postage

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The Origin of Human Nature

Albert Low talks about this book on YouTube.

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The Origin of Human Nature offers an original and fertile way to integrate spiritual and scientific views of human evolution. It offers a new and refreshing alternative to the way we think about our origins: random mutation (mechanistic neo-Darwinism), Genesis (God did it all personally), and Intelligent Design (God personally does what we can’t otherwise account for). The result is an invigorating perspective on how our best qualities – our capacity for love, our appreciation of beauty, our altruistic capability, our creativity and intelligence – have come into being and evolved.

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$30 + postage

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