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American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocquevilleby Bernard-Henri Levy, Charlotte MandellISBN 0812974719 (0-8129-7471-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville'Book summary:What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country.
The result is American Vertigo, a fascinating, wholly fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know. From Rikers Island to Chicago mega-churches, from Muslim communities in Detroit to an Amish enclave in Iowa, Lévy investigates issues at the heart of our democracy: the special nature of American patriotism, the coexistence of freedom and religion (including the religion of baseball), the prison system, the return of ideology and the health of our political institutions, and much more. He revisits and updates Tocquevilles most important beliefs, such as the dangers posed by the tyranny of the majority, explores what Europe and America have to learn from each other, and interprets what he sees with a novelists eye and a philosophers depth.
Through powerful interview-based portraits across the spectrum of the American people, from prison guards to clergymen, from Norman Mailer to Barack Obama, from Sharon Stone to Richard Holbrooke, Lévy fills his book with a tapestry of American voicessome wise, some shocking. Both the grandeur and the hellish dimensions of American life are unflinchingly explored. And big themes emerge throughout, from the crucial choices America
faces today to the underlying reality that, unlike the Old World, America remains the fulfillment of the worlds desire to worship, earn, and live as one wishesa place, despite all, where inclusion remains not just an ideal but an actual practice.
At a time when Americans are anxious about how the world perceives them and, indeed, keen to make sense of themselves, a brilliant and sympathetic foreign observer has arrived to help us begin a new conversation about the meaning of America.
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Beyond Culture Warsby Michael S. HortonISBN 0802408931 (0-8024-0893-1)
Hardcover, Moody Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Culture Wars'Book summary:Horton take aim at shallow fads and misspent political energy. He calls Christians back to the biblical mission, insisting that modern Christians' should follow the example of those first Christians by arguing their case. [via]
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Canon of Reason and Virtue: (Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King) Chinese and Englishby Lao-Tzu, Paul Carus, Daisetz Teitaro SuzukiISBN 0875480640 (0-87548-064-0)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canon of Reason and Virtue: (Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King) Chinese and English'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Millerby Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne TedeschiISBN 0801843871 (0-8018-4387-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller'Book summary:This is a reissue of Carlo Ginzburg's book on the world-view of a 16th-century Italian miller, burnt at the stake as a heretic in 1599. [via]
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The Church at the End of the Twentieth Centuryby Francisa SchaefferISBN 0852110022 (0-85211-002-2)
Hardcover, Norfolk Press
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Cliffsnotes Lord of the Fliesby D. M. CalandraISBN 0822007541 (0-8220-0754-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffsnotes Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Great for writing a report for this particular book, and enhancing your understanding of the particulars of the book. It also describe the characters of the story and what they may represent whether within the story or within someone's life. [via]
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Cultural Atlas of Chinaby Mark Elvin, Caroline BlundenISBN 0816038147 (0-8160-3814-7)
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Cultural Atlas of Franceby John ArdaghISBN 081602619X (0-8160-2619-X)
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Cultures of United States Imperialismby Amy Kaplan, Donald E. PeaseISBN 0822314134 (0-8223-1413-4)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultures of United States Imperialism'Book summary:Cultures of United States Imperialism represents a major paradigm shift that will remap the field of American Studies. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States.[via]
Drawing on a broad range of interpretive practices, these essays range across American history, from European representations of the New World to the mass media spectacle of the Persian Gulf War. The volume breaks down the boundary between the study of foreign relations and American culture to examine imperialism as an internal process of cultural appropriation and as an external struggle over international power. The contributors explore how the politics of continental and international expansion, conquest, and resistance have shaped the history of American culture just as much as the cultures of those it has dominated. By uncovering the dialectical relationship between American cultures and international relations, this collection demonstrates the necessity of analyzing imperialism as a political or economic process inseparable from the social relations and cultural representations of gender, race, ethnicity, and class at home.Contributors. Lynda Boose, Mary Yoko Brannen, Bill Brown, William Cain, Eric Cheyfitz, Vicente Diaz, Frederick Errington, Kevin Gaines, Deborah Gewertz, Donna Haraway, Susan Jeffords, Myra Jehlen, Amy Kaplan, Eric Lott, Walter Benn Michaels, Donald E. Pease, Vicente Rafael, Michael Rogin, José David Saldívar, Richard Slotkin, Doris Sommer, Gauri Viswanathan, Priscilla Wald, Kenneth Warren, Christopher P. Wilson
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The Daodejing of Laoziby Laozi, Philip J. IvanhoeISBN 0872207013 (0-87220-701-3)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Daodejing of Laozi'Book summary:A Daoist classic that has had a profound influence on Chinese thought, the Laozi or Daodejing, evolved into its present form sometime around the third century BCE and continues to enjoy great popularity throughout East Asia and beyond. Philip J Ivanhoe's lucid and philosophically-minded interpretation and commentary offer fresh insights into this classic work. In the substantial introduction and numerous notes, Ivanhoe draws attention to the issues at play in the text, often relating them to contemporary philosophical discussions and directing the reader to related passages within the Daodejing and to other works of the period. The Language Appendix, unique to this edition, offers eight translations of the opening passage by well-known and influential scholars and explains, line-by-line, how each might have reached his particular interpretation. [via]
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Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts With Modernityby OS GuinnessISBN 0801038553 (0-8010-3855-3)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts With Modernity'Book summary:What shapes the message of the church? The Bible and Spirit? Or society and culture? Os Guinness points out perils of compromise in the church growth movement. [via]
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Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disasterby Mike DavisISBN 0805051066 (0-8050-5106-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster'Book summary:The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes, "The destructive February 1992, January 1993, and January 1995 floods ($500 million in damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's preoccupation with apocalypse--L.A. has been destroyed on screen by everything from lava (Volcano) to nukes (Miracle Mile) to alien death rays (Independence Day)--is in reality a strong case of denial. Again, Davis himself says it best: "For generations, market-driven urbanization has transgressed environmental common sense. Historic wildfire corridors have been turned into view-lot suburbs, wetland liquefaction zones into marinas, and floodplains into industrial districts and housing tracts. Monolithic public works have been substituted for regional planning and a responsible land ethic. As a result, Southern California has reaped flood, fire, and earthquake tragedies that were as avoidable, as unnatural, as the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing explosion in the streets."
As in City of Quartz, his earlier book about Los Angeles, Davis reveals the deeper ideological narratives behind historical events. Whether he's explaining the motivations behind the persistent refusal of civic leaders to admit that a tornado alley runs down the middle of the region, from Long Beach to Pasadena, or discussing, as one chapter refers to it, "the case for letting Malibu burn," he outlines his arguments with a fascinating amount of detail and a subtle sense of irony. There are wonderful chapters here, such as "Maneaters of the Sierra Madre," a zoology of the wild beasts Angelenos fear, including mountain lions that descend from the hills to eat joggers and small children, swarms of Africanized killer bees making their way across the deserts, and El Chupacabra, the "goat-sucking vampire" that joined L.A.'s roster of faddish icons in 1996.
Although this book is specifically about Los Angeles, its lessons about the relationship between urban developments and natural ecosystems and about the dangerous influence of class politics on environmental safety policy are applicable to any city. Anyone with a serious interest in natural history or urban policy should make a point of reading this book. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Erotism: Death and Sensualityby Georges Bataille, Mary DalwoodISBN 0872861902 (0-87286-190-2)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Erotism: Death and Sensuality'Book summary:[via]Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensualityGeorges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey; and the subjects he covers include prostitution, mythical ecstasy, cruelty, and organized war. Investigating desire prior to and extending beyond the realm of sexuality, he argues that eroticism is "a psychological quest not alien to death.
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Escape from Reason: A Penetrating Analysis of Trends in Modern Thoughtsby Francisa Schaeffer, J.P. MorelandISBN 0830834052 (0-8308-3405-2)
Softcover, Ivp Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Escape from Reason: A Penetrating Analysis of Trends in Modern Thoughts'Book summary:Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness. How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy? In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century thought and unpacks how key ideas have shaped our society. Wide-ranging in his analysis, Schaeffer examines philosophy, science, art and popular culture to identify dualism, fragmentation and the decline of reason. Schaeffer's work takes on a newfound relevance today in his prescient anticipation of the contemporary postmodern ethos. His critique demonstrates Christianity's promise for a new century, one in as much need as ever of purpose and hope. [via]
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury, Dave EggersISBN 0812973577 (0-8129-7357-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Forest Peopleby Colin M. TrunbullISBN 0844663336 (0-8446-6333-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forest People'Book summary:Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster Publication date: 1962 Subjects: Mbuti (African people) Ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. [via]
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Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Dollby M. G. LordISBN 0802776949 (0-8027-7694-9)
Softcover, Walker & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll'Book summary:Since Barbie's introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what-- for better or worse-- was expected of them. In telling Barbie's fascinating story, cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, has written a provocative, zany, occasionally shocking book that will change how you look at the doll and the world.[via]More editions of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll:
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0812504577 (0-8125-0457-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Frankenstein: ISBN 0811468224 (0-8114-6822-4)
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The Greek Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 0809436876 (0-8094-3687-6)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Way'Book summary:The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.
"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpasses and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world."
A perennial favorite in many different editions, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures the spirit and achievements of Greece in the fifth century B.C. A retired headmistress when she began her writing career in the 1930s, Hamilton immediately demonstrated a remarkable ability to bring the world of ancient Greece to life, introducing that world to the twentieth century. The New York Times called The Greek Way a "book of both cultural and critical importance."
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The Guiding Light of Lao Tzu: A New Translation and Commentary on the Tao Teh Chingby Henry WeiISBN 0835605582 (0-8356-0558-2)
Softcover, Theosophical Pub House
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Manby Herbert Marshall McLuhanISBN 0802060412 (0-8020-6041-2)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man'Book summary:Movable type, as much if not more than any meaningful arrangement of that type, transformed Renaissance consciousness--just as electronic circuitry is transforming us now. That is the basic premise of Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy. New technologies create new human environments, and "technological environments are not merely passive containers & but are active processes that reshape people and other technologies alike." McLuhan's second book, The Gutenberg Galaxy was published in 1962, won the Canadian Governor General's Medal that same year, and pushed McLuhan toward international prominence. Like most of McLuhans's other work--Understanding Media or The Global Village, for example--The Gutenberg Galaxy is a rich, dense text that draws freely, almost frantically, from works of philosophy, economics, political theory, history, and especially literature. There are liberal doses of Shakespeare--text and commentary--sprinkled throughout, as well as trenchant appropriations from Rabelais, Cervantes, Leibnitz, Blake, Joyce, and many others. Attempting to match his medium to his metaphors, McLuhan structures his book using what he calls "a mosaic or field approach" and ends up producing more than 100 short sections separated by pithy glosses in large bold type, such as "Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy," or " Nobody ever made a grammatical error in a non-literate society." Today's reader might find the "mosaic of perpetually interacting forms" into which the author organizes his data and quotations distinctly Web-like. Indeed, one could say of McLuhan and his complex rhetorical circuitry what McLuhan himself says about Shakespeare: "His insights appear so richly in his lines that it is very difficult to select among them." --Russell Prather [via]
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The Hidden Dimensionby Edward Twitchell HallISBN 0844665525 (0-8446-6552-5)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Dimension'Book summary:An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal. [via]
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Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films With Wisdom & Discernmentby Brian GodawaISBN 0830823212 (0-8308-2321-2)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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How We Want to Live: Narratives on Progressby Susan Richards Shreve, Porter Shreve, James RestonISBN 0807045101 (0-8070-4510-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Want to Live: Narratives on Progress'Book summary:In 17 thoughtful essays--edited by the novelist Susan Richards Shreve and her son, the writer and University of Michigan instructor Porter Shreve--How We Want to Live follows up their 1997 anthology, Outside the Law: Narratives on Justice in America, with another eclectic, distinguished collection of authors--this time, defining the concept of progress as it pertains to their lives. More often than not, each author concludes that Western culture's idea of progress actually leads to regression, as we lose touch with each other, hide behind our computer and TV screens and windshields, and rely on modern conveniences to shield us from intimacy. In his own contribution, "Made by You," Porter Shreve searches to find a birthday gift for his youngest sister. He walks down a block previously filled with independently owned stores, only to find an antiseptic mall. Deborah Tannen, author of the bestselling You Just Don't Understand, considers the benefits and the shortfalls of online communication when she begins an intimate e-mail correspondence with an old college friend dying of lung cancer. And Shawn Wong explains his struggle to assert his American identity as a U.S.-born Chinese man. The tone varies from the cynical (Ishmael Reed's essay "Progress: A Faustian Bargain") to the wonderfully poignant (Pearl Abraham's "Lost Souls"), but the essays are always well wrought, inspiring readers to extend the question of the meaning of progress to their own lives. --Kera Bolonik [via]
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Idols for Destruction: Christian Faith and Its Confrontation with American Societyby Herbert SchlossbergISBN 0840758324 (0-8407-5832-4)
Softcover, T. Nelson
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Japanese Cultureby Paul VarleyISBN 0824821521 (0-8248-2152-1)
Softcover, Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Japanese Homes and Their Surroundingsby Edward S. MorseISBN 0804809984 (0-8048-0998-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings'Book summary:A classic text, Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings was originally published in 1886 by Edward S. Morse, a groundbreaking and imaginative inventor. Still considered an authoritative review of traditional Japanese architecture and landscape design, Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings contains over 300 detailed illustrations and reveals important historical and cultural sources, making it a time-tested resource for architects and landscape designers.[via]More editions of Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings:
The Japanese Way: Aspects of Behavior, Attitudes, and Customs of the Japaneseby Rita L. Lampkin, Noriko TakadaISBN 0844283770 (0-8442-8377-0)
Softcover, Ntc Pub Group
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Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930by Billy Kluver, Julie MartinISBN 0810925915 (0-8109-2591-5)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavementby Rowan WilliamsISBN 0819219487 (0-8192-1948-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement'Book summary:In his remarks upon being named Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams spoke of the Christian creed and Christian vision (that) have in them a life and a richness that can embrace and transfigure all the complexities of human life. Confidence in that creed, he said, saves us from being led by fashion. Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement explores Williams concern that fashion dictates how we understand and respond to the world around us, rather than long-accepted behavioral and relational norms, or icons. Whereas fashion comes and goes, cultural icons arise from generations of conversation, and represent some of the basic constraints on what human beings can reasonably do and say together if they are going to remain within a recognizably human conversation. Specifically Williams explores images of childhood, our awkwardness at speaking about community, our unwillingness to think seriously about remorse, and our devastating lack of vocabulary for the growth and nurture of the self through time. All have in common the presupposition that we cannot choose just any course of action in respect of our human and non-human environment, he writes, and still expect to make sense. In Lost Icons, he explores how cultural norms have been discarded and how society will suffer without a sense of soul. Those who are already familiar with the writings of Rowan Williams will know of his gift of taking the ordinary stuff of human experience and opening it up to show how it can carry us into the mystery of God incarnate. They will not be surprised to discover that in his new book he once again enlightens us. The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold How rare it is to find someone who, simultaneously, is thoughtfully and constructively involved both with the main teachings of Christian theology and also with contemporary culture, politics, education, and spirituality. This is a rich book& David F. Ford, Theology Today Rowan Williams is one of the deepest and most insightful theologians today. Here he reflects on crucial notions childhood, charity, remorse, soul that we depend upon but have allowed to atrophy. L. Gregory Jones, Dean and Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School.Rowan Williams will be the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. 5 ½ x 8 ½paperback200 pages0-8192-1948-7$15.95> [via]
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Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comicsby Frederik SchodtISBN 0870117521 (0-87011-752-1)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics'Book summary:Since first published in 1983, Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics has been the book to read for all those interested in Japanese comics. It is virtually the "bible" from which all studies and appreciation of manga begins. More than that, given the influence of Japanese manga on animation and on American-produced comics as well, Manga! Manga! provides the background against which these other arts can be understood. The book includes 96 pages from Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix, Reiji Matsumoto's Ghost Warrior, Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles, and Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen. [via]
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Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North Americaby Darrell L. Guder, Lois BarrettISBN 0802843506 (0-8028-4350-6)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America'Book summary:What would a theology of the Church look like that took seriously the fact that North America is now itself a mission field? This question lies at the foundation of this volume written by an ecumenical team of six noted missiologistsLois Barrett, Inagrace T. Dietterich, Darrell L. Guder, George R. Hunsberger, Alan J. Roxburgh, and Craig Van Gelder.
The result of a three-year research project undertaken by The Gospel and Our Culture Network, this book issues a firm challenge for the church to recover its missional call right here in North America, while also offering the tools to help it do so.
The authors examine North Americas secular culture and the churchs loss of dominance in todays society. They then present a biblically based theology that takes seriously the churchs missional vocation and draw out the consequences of this theology for the structure and institutions of the church.
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Modern Art and the Death of a Cultureby H. R. RookmaakerISBN 085110617X (0-85110-617-X)
Hardcover, Inter-Varsity P.
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Modern Cultureby Roger ScrutonISBN 0826485448 (0-8264-8544-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and Historyby Lawrence W. LevineISBN 0807031194 (0-8070-3119-4)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History'Book summary:In 1987 The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom's famously ferocious critique of the corrosive effects of political correctness in American universities, exploded like a bomb in the halls of the academy; even today, its conservative analysis is constantly enlarged upon by academics and political pundits alike, from Dinesh D'Souza to William J. Bennett. In The Opening of the American Mind, Lawrence W. Levine has produced a direct rebuttal. The conservative complainers are, he says, discomfited by perfectly healthy developments in education. Levine argues that opening the academic canon to cultures beyond Western civilization is a natural and laudable outgrowth of the increasing diversity of America. The universities are changing, says Levine, to keep in touch with the real world, and are "doing a more thorough and cosmopolitan job ... than ever before." [via]
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Pedagogy of the Oppressedby Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman RamosISBN 0826412769 (0-8264-1276-9)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Pictures from the Water Trade: Adventures of a Westerner in Japanby John David MorleyISBN 0871130173 (0-87113-017-3)
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Plagues and Peoplesby William H. McNeillISBN 0844664928 (0-8446-6492-8)
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Post-Modern Pilgrims: First Century Passion for the 21st Century Worldby Leonard SweetISBN 0805421378 (0-8054-2137-8)
Hardcover, B & H Pub Group
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A Primer on Postmodernismby Stanley J. GrenzISBN 0802808646 (0-8028-0864-6)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Promised Lands: Modernity, Utopia and Emancipation in the Black Atlanticby Paul GilroyISBN 0860916758 (0-86091-675-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Promised Lands: Modernity, Utopia and Emancipation in the Black Atlantic'Book summary:This text sketches a critical account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The book explores the reactions of black writers to modernity's colour-coded promises, demonstrating the value of a politicized post-modernism in re-reading black cultural politics and political culture. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences outside the US in Europe and Africa. Gilroy provides an extensive discussion of black vernacular cultures, especially music. Moving beyond debates about modernity that confine it to Europe, "Promised Lands" views the black Atlantic as a transnational alternative to black political theory based, often by default, on conceptions of the nation imported from European letters. The black Atlantic is a hetero-cultural formation in which routes count for as much as roots and travelling and displacement are more usual than permanent fixity. This text should be of interest to students and teachers of English Cultural Studies and African and American Studies, as Gilroy presents a thorough indictment of their institutionalized ethnocentrism and inability to see beyond the structures of cultural nationalism and the borders of the nation state. [via]
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Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge To The Idol Of Relevanceby O. GUINNESSISBN 0801065607 (0-8010-6560-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge To The Idol Of Relevance'Book summary:The buzz among evangelicals today is about relevance and reinvention, about new ways of "doing church" through revising, innovating, borrowing, mixing, and experimenting. Yet, says Os Guinness, in our uncritical pursuit of relevance, Christians have actually become irrelevant. By our determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more in line with the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and significance. Prophetic Untimeliness addresses this issue by giving practical, constructive solutions for living with integrity in the midst of modern pressures. Guinness explores what it means to be both faithful and relevant, and how to be truly relevant without being trivial or trendy. Readers will be challenged to develop "resistance thinking," an approach inspired by C. S. Lewis that balances the uncomfortable truths of the gospel with the pursuit of relevance. Only by being true to Christ and living with integrity and wisdom will we meet the needs of a world that is hungry for some really good news. [via]
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Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Informationby James Brook, Iain A. BoalISBN 0872862992 (0-87286-299-2)
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 0805420401 (0-8054-2040-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toastby C. S. LewisISBN 0809436590 (0-8094-3659-0)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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The Screwtape Letters/Book & Study Guideby C. S. LewisISBN 0800783360 (0-8007-8336-0)
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Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysisby William J. WebbISBN 0830815619 (0-8308-1561-9)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis'Book summary:In Slaves, Women & Homosexuals William J. Webb tackles some of the most complex and controversial issues that have challenged the Christian church--and still do. He leads you through the maze of interpretation that has historically surrounded understanding of slaves, women and homosexuals, and he evaluates various approaches to these and other biblical-ethical teachings. Throughout, Webb attempts to "work out the hermeneutics involved in distinguishing that which is merely cultural in Scripture from that which is timeless" (Craig A. Evans). By the conclusion, Webb has introduced and developed a "redemptive hermeneutic" that can be applied to many issues that cause similar dilemmas. Darrel L. Bock writes in the foreword to Webb's work, "His goal is not only to discuss how these groups are to be seen in light of Scriptures but to make a case for a specific hermeneutical approach to reading these texts. . . . This book not only advances a discussion of the topics, but it also takes a markedly new direction toward establishing common ground where possible, potentially breaking down certain walls of hostility within the evangelical community." [via]
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Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as If People Matteredby E. F. SchumacherISBN 085634012X (0-85634-012-X)
Hardcover, Blond and Briggs
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Southern Ladies and Gentlemenby Florence KingISBN 0812817737 (0-8128-1773-7)
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemologyby Gregory BatesonISBN 0810204479 (0-8102-0447-9)
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Tao Te Chingby Lao Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo, Burton WatsonISBN 087220233X (0-87220-233-X)
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Tao Te Chingby Stephen Addiss, Lao-Tzu, Burton Watson, Stanley LombardoISBN 0872202321 (0-87220-232-1)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tao Te Ching'Book summary:With this edition of the Tao Te Ching, an unlikely team of a Japanese art expert and a Greek translator pull off a uniquely powerful version of the text. If one thing marks the language of the original Tao Te Ching, it is linguistic spareness. Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo are the first to succeed in duplicating the language in English, and although their search for just the right word occasionally goes far afield, they are mostly successful. The effect can be quite liberating as the full ambiguity of meaning comes through and you are afforded the freedom to interpret in a variety of ways. The translators also enhance the atmosphere of the book with Addiss's expressive calligraphy and the two lines in the original Chinese that are retained in each chapter. Addiss and Lombardo's rendering of the Tao Te Ching gets you right down into the primary source, and from there you're free to wander where you will. [via]
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Tao Teh King: Nature and Intelligenceby Lao TzuISBN 0804463875 (0-8044-6387-5)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Tao Teh King: Saying of Lao Tzuby MedhurstISBN 0835604306 (0-8356-0430-6)
Softcover, Natl Book Network
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Technocultureby Constance Penley, Andrew RossISBN 0816619328 (0-8166-1932-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrasesby Howard RheingoldISBN 0874774640 (0-87477-464-0)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Trickster Makes This Worldby Lewis HydeISBN 0865475369 (0-86547-536-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Utopiaby Thomas More, Desiderius Erasmus, David WoottonISBN 0872203778 (0-87220-377-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:Raphael Hythloday, a well-seasoned traveler, describes a fictional island society and its political, social, and religious customs. The ideal depictions offered a stark contrast to the turbulent political world of the 16th century. [via]
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Utopiaby John SheehanISBN 0874624487 (0-87462-448-7)
Softcover, Marquette Univ Pr
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Utopia: With Erasmus's the Sileni of Alcibiadesby Thomas More, David WoottonISBN 087220376X (0-87220-376-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia: With Erasmus's the Sileni of Alcibiades'Book summary:Wootton's new translation brings out the liveliness of More's work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His edition is further distinguished by the inclusion of a translation of Erasmus's "The Sileni of Alcibiades", a work very close in sentiment to Utopia, and one immensely influential in the sixteenth century. This attractive combination suits the edition especially well for use in Renaissance and Reformation courses as well as for Western Civilization survey courses. Wootton's Introduction simultaneously provides a remarkably useful guide to anyone's first reading of More's mysterious work and advances an original argument on the origins and purposes of Utopia which no one interested in sixteenth-century social theory will want to miss. [via]
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, Bill McKibbenISBN 0807014230 (0-8070-1423-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau's groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition of Walden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant than ever. [via]
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Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Artby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0865474877 (0-86547-487-7)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art'Book summary:For years, beloved author Madeline L'Engle has commingled her writing with her faith in such titles as A Wrinkle in Time and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. In Walking on Water, L'Engle takes a fresh look at what it means to be a Christian artist and what separates Christian art from that which is supposedly secular. This first-person account draws the reader into L'Engle's mind frame and sphere of reference--uncloaking her frustrations with bad art (from poetry to painting) that claims to be religious--and explains how the true artist can only serve the world by imitating the ultimate Creator, the Lord Himself. When asked to describe where faith stops and art begins, L'Engle explains that there is no separating the two--"it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory." Words of wisdom seep from these pages in a practical, faith-filled manner by encouraging the reader to slow down amidst the business of life, to listen to the spirit, and to be more fully devoted to God by seeking to be more truthfully artistic. "Unless we are creators, we are not fully alive," L'Engle writes, hoping readers are inspired to turn the "chaos of life" into the "cosmos of art." --Jill Heatherly [via]
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The Way of Life According to Laotzu ; Translated by Witter Bynner ; Illustrated by Frank Wrenby Lao-Tzu, Witter BynnerISBN 0856290017 (0-85629-001-7)
Hardcover, Lyrebird Press Ltd
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Ways of Seeingby John BergerISBN 0844661759 (0-8446-6175-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ways of Seeing'Book summary:[via]John Bergers Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.
"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" Peter Fuller, Arts Review
"The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling
Winner of the 1972 Booker Prize for his novel, G., John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and author of many novels including A Painter of Our Time, From A to X and Bentos Sketchbook.More editions of Ways of Seeing:
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We Believe: Recovering the Essentials of the Apostles' Creedby Michael Scott HortonISBN 0849914086 (0-8499-1408-6)
Hardcover, W Pub Group
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What Are People For?by Wendell BerryISBN 0865474370 (0-86547-437-0)
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What's The Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won The Heart Of Americaby Thomas FrankISBN 080507774X (0-8050-7774-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What's The Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won The Heart Of America'Book summary:The largely blue collar citizens of Kansas can be counted upon to be a "red" state in any election, voting solidly Republican and possessing a deep animosity toward the left. This, according to author Thomas Frank, is a pretty self-defeating phenomenon, given that the policies of the Republican Party benefit the wealthy and powerful at the great expense of the average worker. According to Frank, the conservative establishment has tricked Kansans, playing up the emotional touchstones of conservatism and perpetuating a sense of a vast liberal empire out to crush traditional values while barely ever discussing the Republicans' actual economic policies and what they mean to the working class. Thus the pro-life Kansas factory worker who listens to Rush Limbaugh will repeatedly vote for the party that is less likely to protect his safety, less likely to protect his job, and less likely to benefit him economically. To much of America, Kansas is an abstract, "where Dorothy wants to return. Where Superman grew up." But Frank, a native Kansan, separates reality from myth in What's the Matter with Kansas and tells the state's socio-political history from its early days as a hotbed of leftist activism to a state so entrenched in conservatism that the only political division remaining is between the moderate and more-extreme right wings of the same party. Frank, the founding editor of The Baffler and a contributor to Harper's and The Nation, knows the state and its people. He even includes his own history as a young conservative idealist turned disenchanted college Republican, and his first-hand experience, combined with a sharp wit and thorough reasoning, makes his book more credible than the elites of either the left and right who claim to understand Kansas. --John Moe [via]
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Where in the World Is the Church?: A Christian View of Culture and Your Role in Itby Michael S. HortonISBN 0802492398 (0-8024-9239-8)
Hardcover, Moody Pub
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Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rageby Meic PearseISBN 0830832025 (0-8308-3202-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage'Book summary:"Why do they hate us so much?" Many in the U.S. are baffled at the hatred and anti-Western sentiment they see on the international news. Why are people around the world so resentful of Western cultural values and ideals? Historian Meic Pearse unpacks the deep divides between the West and the rest of the world. He shows how many of the underlying assumptions of Western civilization directly oppose and contradict the cultural and religious values of significant people groups. Those in the Third World, Pearse says, "have the sensation that everything they hold dear and sacred is being rolled over by an economic and cultural juggernaut that doesnt even know its doing it . . . and wouldnt understand why what its destroying is important or of value." Pearse's keen analysis offers insight into perspectives not often understood in the West, and provides a starting point for intercultural dialogue and rapprochement. [via]
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, W. Meitcke, W. MeitcheISBN 0812034260 (0-8120-3426-0)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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