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Acts of Meaningby Jerome BrunerISBN 0674003616 (0-674-00361-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acts of Meaning'Book summary:Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor; " has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture. [via]
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Actual Minds, Possible Worldsby Jerome BrunerISBN 0674003667 (0-674-00366-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Actual Minds, Possible Worlds'Book summary:In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has set its sights too narrowly on the logical, systematic aspects of mental life--those thought processes we use to solve puzzles, test hypotheses, and advance explanations. There is obviously another side to the mind--a side devoted to the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful. This is the side of the mind that leads to good stories, gripping drama, primitive myths and rituals, and plausible historical accounts. Bruner calls it the "narrative mode," and his book makes important advances in the effort to unravel its nature.
Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self.
Over twenty years ago, Jerome Bruner first sketched his ideas about the mind's other side in his justly admired book On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand. Actual Minds, Possible Worlds can be read as a sequel to this earlier work, but it is a sequel that goes well beyond its predecessor by providing rich examples of just how the mind's narrative mode can be successfully studied. The collective force of these examples points the way toward a more humane and subtle approach to the investigation of how the mind works.
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Arcadioby William GoyenISBN 0810150069 (0-8101-5006-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Art of Biblical Narrativeby Robert AlterISBN 046500427X (0-465-00427-X)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrativeby H. Porter AbbottISBN 0521659698 (0-521-65969-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative'Book summary:This study is designed to help readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it acts upon us, how we act upon it, how it is transmitted, and how it changes when the medium or the cultural context change. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not only in the arts but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. An indispensable tool for students and teachers alike, this book will guide readers through the fundamental aspects of narrative. [via]
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The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representationby Hayden WhiteISBN 0801841151 (0-8018-4115-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Daily News Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalismby Jack LuleISBN 1572306068 (1-57230-606-8)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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A Dictionary of Narratologyby Gerald PrinceISBN 0803287763 (0-8032-8776-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Narratology'Book summary:History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes the language of narrative with its regularly recurring patterns, deeply established conventions for transmission, and interpretive codes, whether in novels, cartoons, or case studies.Indispensable to writers, critics, and scholars in many fields, A Dictionary of Narratology provides quick and reliable access to terms and concepts that are defined, illustrated, and cross-referenced. All entries are keyed to articles or books in which the terms originated or are exemplified. This revised edition contains additional entries and updates some existing ones.[via]More editions of A Dictionary of Narratology:
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The Double Helixby Gunther S. Stent, James D. WatsonISBN 0684852799 (0-684-85279-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double Helix'Book summary:"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won Nobel Prizes for their work, and their names are memorized by biology students around the world. But as in all of history, the real story behind the deceptively simple outcome was messy, intense, and sometimes truly hilarious. To preserve the "real" story for the world, James Watson attempted to record his first impressions as soon after the events of 1951-1953 as possible, with all their unpleasant realities and "spirit of adventure" intact.
Watson holds nothing back when revealing the petty sniping and backbiting among his colleagues, while acknowledging that he himself was a willing participant in the melodrama. In particular, Watson reveals his mixed feelings about his famous colleague in discovery, Francis Crick, who many thought of as an arrogant man who talked too much, and whose brilliance was appreciated by few. This is the joy of The Double Helix--instead of a chronicle of stainless-steel heroes toiling away in their sparkling labs, Watson's chronicle gives readers an idea of what living science is like, warts and all. The Double Helix is a startling window into the scientific method, full of insight and wit, and packed with the kind of science anecdotes that are told and retold in the halls of universities and laboratories everywhere. It's the stuff of legends. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Double Helixby James D. WatsonISBN 074321630X (0-7432-1630-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Watson holds nothing back when revealing the petty sniping and backbiting among his colleagues, while acknowledging that he himself was a willing participant in the melodrama. In particular, Watson reveals his mixed feelings about his famous colleague in discovery, Francis Crick, who many thought of as an arrogant man who talked too much, and whose brilliance was appreciated by few. This is the joy of The Double Helix--instead of a chronicle of stainless-steel heroes toiling away in their sparkling labs, Watson's chronicle gives readers an idea of what living science is like, warts and all. The Double Helix is a startling window into the scientific method, full of insight and wit, and packed with the kind of science anecdotes that are told and retold in the halls of universities and laboratories everywhere. It's the stuff of legends. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNAby James D. Watson, L. BraggISBN 0689706022 (0-689-70602-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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The Drama Of Scripture: Finding Our Place In The Biblical Storyby Craig G. Bartholomew, Michael W. GoheenISBN 0801027462 (0-8010-2746-2)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Greatest Generationby Tom BrokawISBN 0812975294 (0-8129-7529-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greatest Generation'Book summary:Tom Brokaw was born in 1940, but it wasn't until he was a famous newscaster that he began to contemplate what his parents' generation--those born between 1910 and the mid-1920s--had accomplished. Narrating his own book, he discusses the sacrifices those men and women made: the bodily harm they suffered in war, the diligence with which they built families and businesses, the courage they displayed in rehabilitating their war wounds, the integrity and values that infused their lives. "They never whined or whimpered," Brokaw notes. The stories these men and women tell Brokaw are consistently startling--triumphant, tragic, courageous, sad, miraculous. Although Brokaw never gets maudlin or sappy, most people will find it impossible to listen to this audiobook with dry eyes. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Lou Schuler [via]
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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspaceby Janet H. MurrayISBN 0262631873 (0-262-63187-3)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Hamlet on the Holodeck : The Future of Narrative in Cyberspaceby Janet Horowitz MurrayISBN 0684827239 (0-684-82723-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet on the Holodeck : The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace'Book summary:Technology changes storytelling--movies don't tell stories in the same manner as wandering bards. Janet H. Murray, director of the Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is fascinated with the changes emerging technologies may bring. Interactive tales, more versatile structures, stories as games, and games as stories are among the topics she explores in her very personable and entertaining style. And what about fears that interactive escapism could be the coming addiction? She makes an unblinking examination of this question with insight into both the technological possibilities and the strengths of the human psyche. Strongly recommended for anyone who loves the art of storytelling in any medium. [via]
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The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon As Narrative Art Formby Eugene L. LowryISBN 0664222641 (0-664-22264-1)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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How to Preach a Parable: Designs for Narrative Sermonsby Eugene L. LowryISBN 0687179246 (0-687-17924-6)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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The Hungry Oceanby Linda GreenlawISBN 0786885416 (0-7868-8541-6)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hungry Ocean'Book summary:The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet, though until the publication of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, "nobody cared." Greenlaw's boat, the Hannah Boden, was the sister ship to the doomed Andrea Gail, which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and became the focus of Junger's book. The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right--proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster.
There is the weather, the constant danger of mechanical failure, the perils of controlling five sleep-, women-, and booze-deprived young fishermen in close quarters, not to mention the threat of a bad fishing run: "If we don't catch fish, we don't get paid, period. In short, there is no labor union." Greenlaw's straightforward, uncluttered prose underscores the qualities that make her a good captain, regardless of gender: fairness, physical and mental endurance, obsessive attention to detail. But, ultimately, Greenlaw proves that the love of fishing--in all of its grueling, isolating, suspenseful glory--is a matter of the heart and blood, not the mind. "I knew that the ocean had stories to tell me, all I needed to do was listen." --Svenja Soldovieri [via]
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Tanks and Fighting Vehicles: A Technical Directory of Major Combat Vehicles from World War I to the PreseISBN 0861010035 (0-86101-003-5)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 1406510017 (1-4065-1001-7)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" was one of the first of the personal slave narratives. At the time this book was first published Harriet Jacobs was living as an escaped slave in the North, a precarious position given the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Originally published under the pseudonym Linda Brent, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is a gripping first hand account of the brutality endured by slaves and one of the few ever written by a woman. [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herselfby John Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, John S. JacobsISBN 0674002717 (0-674-00271-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself'Book summary:THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION.
This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents additional historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Importantly, it presents the people, places, and events Harriet Jacobs wrote about from the different perspective of a male narrator. Once more, Jean Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. She has also brought her Introduction up to date.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself: Written by Herselfby L.Maria Child, Harriet A. Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 0674447468 (0-674-44746-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Into the Wildby Jon KrakauerISBN 0613033574 (0-613-03357-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Wild'Book summary:What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life. [via]
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The Last Word And The Word After That: A Tale Of Faith, Doubt, And A New Kind Of Christianityby Brian D. McLarenISBN 0787975923 (0-7879-7592-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Word And The Word After That: A Tale Of Faith, Doubt, And A New Kind Of Christianity'Book summary:For all those seeking more authentic ways to hold and practice Christian faith, Brian McLaren has been an inspiring, compassionateand provocativevoice. Starting with the award-winning A New Kind of Christian, McLaren offered a lively, wide-ranging fictional conversation between Pastor Dan Poole and his friend Neil Oliver as they reflected about faith, doubt, reason, mission, leadership, and spiritual practice in the emerging postmodern world. That conversation widened to include several intriguing new characters in the sequel, The Story We Find Ourselves In, as Dan and friends continued to explore faith-stretching themes from evolution to evangelism, from death to the meaning of life. Now, in this third installment of their adventures, Dan and his widening circle of friends grapple with conventional Christian teachings about hell and judgment and what they mean for our relationship with God and each other. Is there an alternative to the usual polar views of a just God short on mercy or a merciful God short on justice? Could our conflicted views of hell be symptoms of a deeper set of problems misunderstandings about what Gods justice and mercy are about, misconceptions about Gods purpose in creating the world, deep misgivings about what kind of character God is and what the Christian gospel is for?
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Making Stories: Law, Literature, Lifeby Jerome S. BrunerISBN 067401099X (0-674-01099-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Mythologiesby R. BarthesISBN 0686539389 (0-686-53938-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythologies'Book summary:"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith always to appear natural to their consumer, as if what they say is eternal, true, necessary, instead of arbitrary, made, contingent. Mythologies finds Barthes revealing the fashioned systems of ideas that make it possible, for example, for 'Einstein's brain' to stand for, be the myth of, 'a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as a functional labor analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object, making the object speak its hidden, but ever-so-present, reservoir of manufactured sense."--Edward W. Said[via] -
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Methodby Gerard Genette, Jane E. LewinISBN 0801492599 (0-8014-9259-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies and names the basic constituents and techniques of narrative and illustrates them by referring to literary works in many languages. [via]More editions of Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method:
Narrative in Teaching, Learning, and Researchby Hunter McEwan, Kieran EganISBN 0807733997 (0-8077-3399-7)
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Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Researchby F. Michael Connelly, D. Jean ClandininISBN 0787972762 (0-7879-7276-2)
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Narrative of Sojourner Truthby Sojourner TruthISBN 1576468380 (1-57646-838-0)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truthby Margaret WashingtonISBN 067974035X (0-679-74035-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrative of Sojourner Truth'Book summary:Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. With an eloquence that resonates more than a century after its original publication in 1850, the narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's thirty years of bondage in upstate New York and to the mystical revelations that turned her into a passionate and indefatigable abolitionist.
In this new edition, which has been edited and extensively annotated by the distinguished scholar and biographer of Sojourner Truth, Margaret Washington, Truth's testimony takes on added dimensions: as a lens into the little-known world of northern slavery; as a chronicle of spiritual conversion; and as an inspiring account of a black woman striving for personal and political empowerment. [via]More editions of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth:
The Narrative Universeby Mauro Ceruti, Gianluca Bocchi, Alfonso Montuori, Luca PellegriniISBN 1572732806 (1-57273-280-6)
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Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysisby Stanton WorthamISBN 0807740756 (0-8077-4075-6)
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Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrativeby Mieke BalISBN 0802078060 (0-8020-7806-0)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative'Book summary:Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills years of study of the ways in which we understand both literary and non-literary works.
In this third edition, Bal updates the book to include more analysis of film narratives while also sharpening and tightening her language to make it the most readable and student-friendly edition to date. Bal also introduces new sections that treat and clarify several modernist texts that pose narratological challenges. With changes prompted by ten years of feedback from scholars and teachers, Narratology remains the most important contribution to the study of the way narratives work, are formed, and are received.
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A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journeyby Brian D. McLarenISBN 078795599X (0-7879-5599-X)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where personal, daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where faith is more about a way of life than a system of belief, where being authentically good is more important than being doctrinally "right," and where one's direction is more important than one's present location. Brian McLaren's delightful account offers a wise and wondrous approach for revitalizing Christian spiritual life and Christian congregations.
If you are interested in joining a discussion group devoted to a A New Kind of Christian please visit groups.yahoo.com/group/NKOC. [via]
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On Narrativeby W. J. Thomas MitchellISBN 0226532178 (0-226-53217-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenanceby Donald MillerISBN 0736901604 (0-7369-0160-4)
Softcover, Harvest House Pub
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Reading for the Plotby Peter BrooksISBN 0674748921 (0-674-74892-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Recent Theories of Narrativeby Wallace MartinISBN 0801493552 (0-8014-9355-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Red River to SpotsylvaniaISBN 0783501099 (0-7835-0109-9)
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Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colonyby Stanley Hauerwas, William H. WillimonISBN 0687361591 (0-687-36159-1)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony'Book summary:In this bold and visionary book, two leading Christian thinkers explore the "alien" status of Christians in today's world and offer a compelling new vision of how the Christian church can regain its vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity to nourish souls, and stand firmly against the illusions, pretensions, and eroding values of today's world. Hauerwas and Willimon call for a radical new understanding of the church. By renouncing the emphasis on personal psychological categories, they offer a vision of the church as a colony, a holy nation, a people, a family standing for sharply focused values in a devalued world. [via]
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Secession to Fort Henryby Editors of Time Life BooksISBN 0783501005 (0-7835-0100-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Seaby Gary KinderISBN 0783803788 (0-7838-0378-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea'Book summary:The facts speak for themselves. In 1857, the Central America, a sidewheel steamer ferrying passengers fresh from the gold rush of California to New York and laden with 21 tons of California gold, encountered a severe storm off the Carolina coast and sank, carrying more than 400 passengers and all her cargo down with her. She then sat for 132 years, 200 miles offshore and almost two miles below the ocean's surface--a depth at which she was assumed to be unrecoverable--until 1989, when a deep-water research vessel sailed into the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, fat with salvaged gold coins and bullion estimated to be worth one billion dollars.
Author Gary Kinder wisely lets the story of the Columbus-America Discovery Group, led by maverick scientist and entrepreneur Tommy Thompson, unfold without hyperbole. Kinder interweaves the tale of the Central America and her passengers and crew with Thompson's own story of growing up landlocked in Ohio, an irrepressible tinkerer and explorer even in his childhood days, and his progress to adulthood as a young man who always had "7 to 14" projects on the table or spinning in his head at any given moment. One of those projects would become the preposterous recovery of the stricken steamer, and the resourcefulness and later urgency with which the project would proceed is contrasted poignantly with the Central America's doomed battle in 1857 to stay afloat.
Thompson, who spent nearly a decade planning and organizing his recovery effort, emerges as one of the great unsung adventurers of these times (the technical innovations alone required for such a task produced a windfall for the scientific community and defined a new state of the art for deep-sea explorers and treasure hunters), and the story of the steamer's sinking is compelling enough to make any reader wonder why the Central America sinking isn't synonymous with shipwreck in this Titanic-happy age. --Tjames Madison [via]
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Stories for Christian Initiationby Joseph J. JuknialisISBN 0893902357 (0-89390-235-7)
Softcover, Resource Pubns
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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Filmby Seymour Benjamin ChatmanISBN 080149186X (0-8014-9186-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film'Book summary:"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a storywhatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject into the 'what' of the narrative (Story) and the 'way' (Discourse). . . Chatman's command of his material is impressive."Library Journal
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The Story of God: Wesleyan Theology and Biblical Narrativeby Michael LodahlISBN 0834114798 (0-8341-1479-8)
Softcover, Beacon Hill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of God: Wesleyan Theology and Biblical Narrative'Book summary:The author weaves together the issues of theology, the Bible, and everyday experience, to present a fresh telling of the grand story of God. Kivar. [via]
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The Story We Find Ourselves Inby Brian D. McLarenISBN 0787963879 (0-7879-6387-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story We Find Ourselves In'Book summary:After many years as a successful pastor, Brian McLaren has found, as more and more Christians are finding, that none of the current strains of Christianity fully describes his own faith. In The Story We Find Ourselves In -- the much anticipated sequel to his award-winning book A New Kind of Christian-- McLaren captures a new spirit of a relevant Christianity, where traditional divisions and doctrinal differences give way to a focus on God and the story of God's love for this world. If you are searching for a deeper life with God-- one that moves beyond the rhetoric of denominational and theological categories-- this delightful and inspiring fictional tale will provide a picture of what it could mean to recapture a joyful spiritual life. [via]
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Tell Me a Storyby Roger C. Schank, Gary Saul MorsonISBN 0810113139 (0-8101-1313-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Roadby Don MillerISBN 0785209824 (0-7852-0982-4)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Two Years Before the Mastby Richard Henry DanaISBN 1404335072 (1-4043-3507-2)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast'Book summary:Avast there all you Patrick O'Brian fans! Here is a personal narrative of the seaman's life in the age of sail: 1815-1882, and a classic of nautical literature. Dana was a Harvard student recovering from the measles when he decided it would be more interesting to do so at sea as a common sailor. In 1834 he joined a two-year voyage rounding Cape Horn to deliver cargo to California. All the color and detail of daily life at sea as well as descriptions of various ports. Rousing! [via]
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrativeby Richard Henry DanaISBN 0486458024 (0-486-45802-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative'Book summary:In 1834, a Harvard student enlisted as a common seaman--the result was this adventure classic. Crackling with realism, it offers memorable views of a dangerous voyage, vividly describing storms, whales, an insane captain, excruciating hardships, and magical beauty, as well as fascinating historical detail, including a portrait of California before the gold rush.[via]More editions of Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative:
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Seaby Richard Henry DanaISBN 0140390081 (0-14-039008-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea'Book summary:Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he abandons the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for an arduous voyage among real sailors, amid genuine danger. The result is an astonishing read, replete with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail, including an intriguing portrait of California before the gold rush. As D. H. Lawrence proclaimed, "Dana's small book is a very great book." [via]
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Seaby Richard H. Dana, Anne SpencerISBN 1593082703 (1-59308-270-3)
Softcover, Fine Communications
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailing Lifeby R. H. DanaISBN 1406799556 (1-4067-9955-6)
Softcover, Home Farm Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailing Life'Book summary:A detailed, almost daily, record giving an accurate and authentic narrative of over two years in the life of a common sailor before the mast in the American merchant service of the early 1800s. The book is written in journal fashion in the words of an ordinary sailor on the brig "Pilgrim" on her voyage from Boston, round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italyby Frances MayesISBN 0767900383 (0-7679-0038-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy'Book summary:In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her. She revels in the sunlight and the color, the long view of her valley, the warm homey architecture, the languor of the slow paced days, the vigor of working her garden, and the intimacy of her dealings with the locals. Cooking, gardening, tiling and painting are never chores, but skills to be learned, arts to be practiced, and above all to be enjoyed. At the same time Mayes brings a literary and intellectual mind to bear on the experience, adding depth to this account of her enticing rural idyll. [via]
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Windfallby Charlotte Boyett-CompoISBN 193120151X (1-931201-51-X)
Softcover, Twilight Times Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Windfall'Book summary:An Unholy Marriage: Prince Kaelan Hesar made the mistake of falling in love with a girl of whom his Jarl did not approve and was thrown into prison because of that love. His heart broken, his spirit crushed, he was sold in marriage to the highest bidder and forbidden to ever see his love again.
Lady Gillian Cree, fleeing the unwanted attentions of a man she'd been ordered to marry, stumbles upon a derelict manor house in the midst of a snow storm and discovers true love never dies.
A tale of unrequited love, undying devotion, and lovers searching for happiness in a world set against them. [via]
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