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Architecture as Metaphor : Language, Number, Moneyby Kojin Karatani, Sabu Kohso, Michael SpeaksISBN 0262611139 (0-262-61113-9)
Softcover, MIT Press
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Body Politics and the Fictional Doubleby Debra Walker KingISBN 0253214092 (0-253-21409-2)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport: Making Connections in Today's Worldby Richard J. MouwISBN 0310231973 (0-310-23197-3)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport: Making Connections in Today's World'Book summary:What do the Canons of Dordt mean to people in the Las Vegas airport---and does anyone there even care? In the movie Hardcore, a pious Calvinist elder tries unsuccessfully to explain the TULIP theology of his Dutch Reformed faith to a prostitute in the Las Vegas airport. This incongruous conversation demonstrates how Calvinism is often perceived today: irrelevant, harsh, even disrespectful. Beginning with this movie scene, Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport addresses the weaknesses of Calvinism and points to its strengths. How does Calvinism shed light on today? Instead of reciting the Canons of Dordt, what's a more compassionate way to relate to nonbelievers? What might it look like to live out the doctrines of TULIP with gentleness and respect? This conversational book provides answers and shatters some stereotypes. Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport encourages you to live every aspect of life---business, family, education, politics, activities, and more---before the face of a generous, sovereign God. Calvinists and non-Calvinists alike will find this an enjoyable read. You will discover that Reformed theology can speak relevantly and compellingly today, both to you and to people in the Las Vegas airport. Does Calvinism Have Anything to Do with the 21st Century? What do you think about Calvinism? Do you view it positively or negatively? Or has its day passed? Let's face it, many non-Calvinists hold a less-than-positive view, sometimes due to caricatures. This friendly, conversational book helps clear up some misconceptions and distorted views. If you're not a Calvinist, here is an engaging inside look. And if you are a Calvinist, Richard Mouw shows how to live gently and respectfully with others---Christians and non-Christians---who hold different perspectives. Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport focuses not on what Calvinists believe but on how they live. From a movie scene to the author's personal experiences in Las Vegas, you are invited to travel with Mouw and see the Reformed faith in a new light. Yes, it still does travel well! [via]
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Chaosmosis: An Ethicoaesthetic Paradigmby Felix Guattari, Paul Bains, Julian PefanisISBN 0253210046 (0-253-21004-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectivesby Michael Horton, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Brian D. McLaren, Erwin Raphael McManus, Leonard I. Sweet, Andy CrouchISBN 0310254876 (0-310-25487-6)
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Church Re-Imagined: The Spiritual Formation of People in Communities of Faithby Doug PagittISBN 031026975X (0-310-26975-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Church Re-Imagined: The Spiritual Formation of People in Communities of Faith'Book summary:The Spiritual Formation of People in Communities of Faith. This book isn't about quick-fix methods or bulleted, how-to lists. And it's certainly not a dry lecture about a heady theological topic. Instead this book is about striving, about trying, about experimenting with the idea that the old ways of approaching spiritual formation may not be the only avenues toward living lives in harmony with God in our day. Inside these pages you'll spend a full week with Solomon's Porch---a holistic, missional, Christian community in Minneapolis---and get a front row seat at their gatherings, meetings, and meals. Along the way, you'll also discover what spiritual formation looks like in a church community that moves beyond education based practices by including worship, physicality, dialogue, hospitality, belief, creativity, and service as means toward spiritual formation rather than mere appendices to it. Specifically, you'll get a glimpse into the lives of six people from Solomon's Porch and track their growth through their journals as they wrestle with various approaches to spiritual development. Church Re-Imagined is ideal for thinkers, pastors, church leaders, and anyone else seeking fresh ways of experiencing life with God. [via]
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A Churchless Faithby Alan JamiesonISBN 0281054657 (0-281-05465-7)
Softcover, Pilgrim Pr
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Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Churchby Mark DriscollISBN 0310270162 (0-310-27016-2)
Softcover, Zondervan
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The Deadby James Joyce, Daniel R. SchwarzISBN 0312080735 (0-312-08073-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense : A Guide for Edgy Peopleby Ophelia Benson, Jeremy StangroomISBN 0285637142 (0-285-63714-2)
Hardcover, Souvenir Press Limited
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Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Cultureby Russell Ferguson, William OlanderISBN 0262061252 (0-262-06125-2)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Dismantling Truth: Reality in the Post-Modern World Based on a Series of Papers Presented at a Conference at the ICA and Related Materialsby Lisa Appignanesi, Hilary Lawson, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)ISBN 029779342X (0-297-79342-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literatureby Ihab Habib HassanISBN 0299091244 (0-299-09124-4)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Experiential Storytelling: (Re)Discovery Narrative to Communicate God's Messageby Mark MillerISBN 0310255147 (0-310-25514-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Experiential Storytelling: (Re)Discovery Narrative to Communicate God's Message'Book summary:The 'Been there, done that' culture is starving for reality. Hardly satisfied with the modern conventions of citing facts and figures and pushing propositions, emerging churches are jumping into the narrative form of communication with both feet. But not all emerging church leaders have an inherent handle on the craft and skill of using narrative as a sermon form. Experiential Storytelling zeros in on the hows and whys of narrative, as well as the importance of sharing personal experience to double your storytelling ammunition. In addition, author Mark Miller goes several steps further, giving examples of real-time, hands-on experiences for church members as innovative extensions of traditional teaching and preaching that offer them greater scriptural understanding and ownership of the gospel story. Chapters include: * The Dawning of the Age of Experience * Once Upon a Story * Awakening the Sleeping Giant in the Church---C*R*E*A*T*I*V*T*Y * Reimagining the 'Sermon' * Elements of Experiential Storytelling * Killer Apps [via]
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The Face of Anotherby Kobo AbeISBN 0297177052 (0-297-17705-2)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Faith of My Fathers: Conversations With Three Generations of Pastors About Church, Ministry, And Cultureby Chris SeayISBN 0310253268 (0-310-25326-8)
Softcover, Zondervan
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The Future Of Religionby Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty, Santiago Zabala, William McCuaigISBN 0231134940 (0-231-13494-0)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahnby Peter EsterhazyISBN 0297840533 (0-297-84053-3)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood, Valerie MartinISBN 0307264602 (0-307-26460-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.
Like Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant. [via]More editions of The Handmaid's Tale:
Hermeneutics As Politicsby Stanley RosenISBN 0300099878 (0-300-09987-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity: Figures and Themesby G. B. MadisonISBN 0253206170 (0-253-20617-0)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel, And Churchby Shane A. Hipps, Brian McLarenISBN 0310262747 (0-310-26274-7)
Softcover, Youth Specialties
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How Images Thinkby Ron BurnettISBN 0262524414 (0-262-52441-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffmanby Angela CarterISBN 0246105453 (0-246-10545-3)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis
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Infinity and Perspectiveby Karsten HarriesISBN 026258218X (0-262-58218-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infinity and Perspective'Book summary:Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future. Such conviction has frequently led to a critique of modernity's founding heroes. Challenging that critique, Harries insists that modernity is supported by nothing other than human freedom.But more important to Harries is to show how modernist self-assertion is shadowed by nihilism and what it might mean to step out of that shadow. Looking at a small number of medieval and Renaissance texts, as well as some paintings, he uncovers the threshold that separates the modern from the premodern world. At the same time, he illuminates that other, more questionable threshold, between the modern and the postmodern.Two spirits preside over the book: Alberti, the Renaissance author on art and architecture, whose passionate interest in perspective and point of view offers a key to modernity; and Nicolaus Cusanus, the fifteenth-century cardinal, whose work shows that such interest cannot be divorced from speculations on the infinity of God. The title Infinity and Perspective connects the two to each other and to the shape of modernity.
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A Is for Abductive: The Language of the Emerging Churchby Leonard Sweet, Brian D. McLaren, Jerry HaselmayerISBN 0310243564 (0-310-24356-4)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Is for Abductive: The Language of the Emerging Church'Book summary:A Is for Abductive B is for Body C is for Carpe Manana D is for Double-Ring E is for EPICtivities F is for Fractals G is for Grace H is for Holarchy I is for Icon J is for the J-Factor K is for Kaleidoscopic Change L is for Loopy M is for Metanarrative N is for Neurological Pre-Rewirings O is for Open-Endedness P is for Prayer Q is for Quest-ions R is for Radical Orthodoxy S is for Systems Theology T is for Tribal U is for Unknown V is for Voice W is for Wonder X is for Xenophilia Y is for Yes! Z is for Zending Do You Know the Postmodern Alphabet? The letters are all the same, but the things they stand for are as different as the future is from the past. A Is for Abductive helps you get a handle today on the vocabulary of tomorrow, and on concepts indispensable for living out the old-fashioned gospel in these newfangled times. 'You caused this book,' writes one of the authors. 'People like you were insisting on a beginner's guide to the pathway of postmodern ministry.' Here it is. There is no right or wrong place to begin---just pick a letter and start reading. You'll acquire new words for a new world that will change how you think about church, about ministry, and about what it means to follow in Jesus' footsteps---entering today's culture in order to love it, serve it, and lead it home to God. [via]
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Jesus Drives Me Crazy: Lose Your Mind, Find Your Soulby Leonard SweetISBN 0310232244 (0-310-23224-4)
Softcover, Zondervan
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King, Queen, Knaveby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0297761773 (0-297-76177-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Language of Twentieth-Century Art: A Conceptual Historyby Paul CrowtherISBN 0300072414 (0-300-07241-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Formby Robert VenturiISBN 026272006X (0-262-72006-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequalityby Sandra Lipsitz BemISBN 0300061633 (0-300-06163-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality'Book summary:In this book a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Sandra Lipsitz Bem argues that these assumptions, which she calls the lenses of gender, shape not only perceptions of social reality but also the more material things - like unequal pay and inadequate daycare - that constitute social reality itself. Her penetrating and articulate examination of these hidden cultural lenses enables us to look at them rather than through them and to better understand recent debates on gender and sexuality. According to Bem, the first lens, androcentrism (male-centredness), defines males and male experience as a standard or norm and females and female experience as a deviation from that norm. The second lens, gender polarization, superimposes male-female differences on virtually every aspect of human experience, from modes of dress and social roles to ways of expressing emotion and sexual desire. The third lens, biological essentialism, rationalizes and legitimizes the other two lenses by treating them as the inevitable consequences of the intrinsic biological natures of women and men. After illustrating the pervasiveness of these three lenses in both historical and contemporary discourses of Western culture, Bem presents her own theory of how the individual either acquires cultural gender lenses and constructs a conventional gender identity or resists cultural lenses and constructs that we must reframe the debate on sexual inequality so that it focuses not only on the differences between men and women but on how male-centred discourses and institutions transform male-female difference into female disadvantage. [via]
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The Libidinal Economyby Jean-Francois LyotardISBN 0253207282 (0-253-20728-2)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Limits of Interpretationby Umberto EcoISBN 0253208696 (0-253-20869-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five Perspectivesby Robert Webber, Mark DriscollISBN 0310271355 (0-310-27135-5)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanitiesby John M. EllisISBN 0300075790 (0-300-07579-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Menace of Multiculturalism: Trojan Horse in Americaby Alvin J. SchmidtISBN 0275955982 (0-275-95598-2)
Hardcover, Praeger Pub Text
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Menace of Multiculturalism: Trojan Horse in America'Book summary:In this broad condemnation of multiculturalism, the author works to uncover pernicious errors in the arguments of diversity's proponents and to sound a warning against the dire consequences for American culture if the tenets of political correctness are incorporated into our social structure. Schmidt begins by exposing multiculturalism, not as a movement aimed at expanding democratic ideals, but rather as a crypto-Marxist political ideology that seeks to import Marxist concepts into social and cultural institutions. Subsequent chapters then illuminate a number of dismaying trends: a tendency toward historical revisionism in multiculturalist arguments, the sly linguistic maneuvering and limits on speech that characterize political correctness, and the dismantling of the traditional image of the family unitthe primary building block of American society. Schmidt concludes with a rousing admonition to expel from our midst the latter-day Trojan horse that is multiculturalism.
Casting a troubled glance over the list of social ills plaguing America todaybesieged inner cities, divisive racial politics, diminishing educational standards, and rampant divorce and illegitimacywe have cause to wonder whether the advocates of multiculturalism represent the solution or the source of the problem. In this rousing condemnation of the multiculturalist agenda, the author fixes an unflinching critical gaze on the subtle deceptions and wrongheaded conclusions at work in the arguments for cultural pluralism, moral relativism, and political correctness. An exhaustive and damning account of multiculturalisM&Apos;s wages and a compelling argument for the importance of traditional American values make this book essential reading for anyone concerned about our country's present plight and future prospects.
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Modernism in Dispute: Art since the Fortiesby Jonathan Harris, Francis Frascina, Charles Harrison, Paul WoodISBN 0300055226 (0-300-05522-6)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Areby John D. CaputoISBN 0253213878 (0-253-21387-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity - Postmodernityby Richard J. BernsteinISBN 0262521660 (0-262-52166-0)
Softcover, MIT Press
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New Horizons in Hermeneuticsby Anthony C. ThiseltonISBN 0310217628 (0-310-21762-8)
Softcover, Zondervan
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New Philosophy for New Mediaby Mark B. N. Hansen, Timothy LenoirISBN 026258266X (0-262-58266-X)
Softcover, MIT Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Philosophy for New Media'Book summary:Mark B. N. Hansen's New Philosophy for New Media departs from much theorizing about the cognitive effects of new media to argue that the embodied experience--rather than a de-contextualized, disembodied flow of information--is the proper framework for understanding perception. His nuanced claims, infused with both cognitive theory and science, offer compelling insights into the human interaction with the digital image, but the book falls somewhat short of its titles dramatic promise.
Ultimately, Hansen's project it to update Henri Bergson's notion of the "affective body" for the 21st century. He claims that in the world of interactive new media "the 'image' has itself become a process, and, as such, has become irreducibly bound up with the activity of the body." The body acts as a filter to frame the digital image. In contrast, Hansen offers a sustained critique of Gilles Deleuzes "treatment of the movement image in which the cinematic image is purified of connection with the human body" (as described by Tim Lenoir). The book expands Hansen's vision across seven chapters that variously engage with new media art theory, virtual reality, the "digital facial image," and digital artwork. His most compelling illustration comes in the final chapter, where he demonstrates how artists Douglas Gordon and Bill Viola open "experience to the subperceptual inscription of temporal shifts (machine time)." Here, drawing on work of neuroscience, he shows that art actually engages the body and expands perception of the interstices between what human normally experience as "now."
While, like many contemporary works of theory, Hansen sometimes falls into opaque passages of academic, postmodern jargon, he tries to ground his theorizing in a concrete language that he lays out early on (with definitions of such terms as "embodiment" made explicit in relation the neuroscience). In the end, though, Hansen doesn't make entirely clear why this "new" philosophy of embodied experience is actually particular to new media. His supposition seems, rather, that new media art--interactive digital images--heighten the felt experience of perception, but this difference appears to be quantitative, rather than qualitative, relative to the experience of "old" media. In the end, then, Hansen provides a useful remedy to the abundance of "disembodied" theories of virtuality, but his book does not present a comprehensive "new philosophy" for those seeking guidance in a the new media era. --Patrick OKelley [via]
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New Poverty : Families in Postmodern Societyby David ChealISBN 0275965848 (0-275-96584-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Education
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No Perfect People Allowed: Creating a Come As You Are Culture in the Churchby John BurkeISBN 0310275016 (0-310-27501-6)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Artsby Douglas KahnISBN 0262611724 (0-262-61172-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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On Beautyby Zadie SmithISBN 0241142938 (0-241-14293-8)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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On the Museum's Ruinsby Douglas Crimp, Louise LawlerISBN 0262531267 (0-262-53126-7)
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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Mythsby Rosalind E. KraussISBN 0262610469 (0-262-61046-9)
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Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Nature and Cultureby Louis DupreISBN 0300055315 (0-300-05531-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Paul Ramsey's Ethics : The Power of 'Agape' in a Postmodern Worldby Michael C. McKenzie, John P. CrossleyISBN 0275969886 (0-275-96988-6)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Termsby Babette DeutschISBN 0308100883 (0-308-10088-3)
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The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchismby Todd MayISBN 0271028890 (0-271-02889-0)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Postmodernism: A Readerby Thomas DochertyISBN 0231082215 (0-231-08221-5)
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Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernismby Robert HollingerISBN 0275965244 (0-275-96524-4)
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Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Bodyby Shannon BellISBN 0253208599 (0-253-20859-9)
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Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Churchby Doug PagittISBN 0310256879 (0-310-25687-9)
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Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearancesby Barbara KrugerISBN 0262611066 (0-262-61106-6)
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The Roadby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0307265439 (0-307-26543-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road'Book summary:Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century," Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including last year's bestselling No Country for Old Men, and this year's The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we've read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, occasionally bleak and brutal novels, to read it and give us his take. Read his glowing review below. --Daphne Durham
Guest Reviewer: Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane, master of the hard-boiled thriller, generated a cult following with his series about private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, wowed readers with the intense and gut-wrenching Mystic River, blew fans away with the mind-bending Shutter Island, and switches gears with Coronado, his new collection of gritty short stories (and one play).
Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it's not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and that's the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy's previous work. McCarthy's Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in The Crossing. But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel's closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father's (and McCarthy's) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith. --Dennis Lehane
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Searching for Jane Austenby Emily AuerbachISBN 0299201848 (0-299-20184-8)
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Seductionby Jean BaudrillardISBN 0312052944 (0-312-05294-4)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seduction'Book summary:[via]Examines modern critical theory, feminism, and psychoanalysis, and discusses the modern concept of sex roles and the political aspect of human sexuality.The Slave Dancerby Paula Fox, Peter MacNicolISBN 0307256782 (0-307-25678-2)
Softcover, Listening Library
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Starting Right: Thinking Theologically About Youth Ministryby Chap Clark, Kenda Creasy Dean, Dave RahnISBN 0310234069 (0-310-23406-9)
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Stories of Emergence: Moving from Absolute to AuthenticISBN 0310253861 (0-310-25386-1)
Softcover, Zondervan
Find This BookBook summary:Imagine coming to a crossroads where you're no longer sure who you are, why you do what you do, why you believe the way you do. You're not even sure you care. Where do you go? Follow the stories of people who were steeped in their beliefs--a former fundamentalist, a former Pentecostal, a former liberal, a former feminist, a former communist, and several other 'formers'--and walk with them on their journeys out of those beliefs. See what twists and turns arise before them, and find out what they learned (about faith, themselves, their beliefs, the world) as they emerged on the other side. This diverse group of Christian leaders discloses and shares in vulnerable, uncommon ways, allowing you full access into their doubts, fears, convictions, and unanswered questions. Each takes you on a path from absolute to authentic: from a place of false conviction and thin resolution, through struggles and growing pains, to a new place that's much more about process than about having 'arrived.' When it comes to journeys of faith, we often don't know what lies at the end of the road. It's difficult to take the first step when we are so unsure of the destination. As you read these stories, you'll find there is room to challenge your fears as well as your faith. [via]
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Thinking of Youby Barbara Kruger, Ann GoldsteinISBN 0262112507 (0-262-11250-7)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinking of You'Book summary:This is the most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work of American artist Barbara Kruger. Kruger, one of the most influential artists of the last three decades, uses pictures and words through a wide variety of media and sites to raise issues of power, sexuality, and representation. Her works include photographic prints on paper and vinyl, etched metal plates, sculpture, video, installations, billboards, posters, magazine and book covers, T-shirts, shopping bags, postcards, and newspaper op-ed pieces.
This book serves as the catalog for the first major one-person exhibition of Kruger's work to be mounted in the United States. The book, designed by Lorraine Wild in collaboration with the artist, contains texts by Rosalyn Deutsche, Katherine Dieckmann, Ann Goldstein, Steven Heller, Gary Indiana, Carol Squiers, and Lynne Tillman on subjects associated with Kruger's work, including photography, graphic design, public space, power, and representation, as well as an extensive exhibition history, bibliography, and checklist of the exhibition. The cover features a new piece by Kruger, entitled Thinking of You,created especially for the catalog.
The exhibition was organized by Ann Goldstein, curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Copublished with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
October 17, 1999-February 13, 2000
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York City
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Ulyssesby James Joyce, Lawrence RaineyISBN 0300108184 (0-300-10818-4)
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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Propby Robert CooverISBN 0246639822 (0-246-63982-2)
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Unmodern Observationsby Friedrich Nietzsche, William ArrowsmithISBN 0300043112 (0-300-04311-2)
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A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattariby Brian MassumiISBN 0262631431 (0-262-63143-1)
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Who Is My Enemy?: Welcoming People the Church Rejectsby Rich NathanISBN 031023882X (0-310-23882-X)
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The Will to Powerby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, R.J. HollingdaleISBN 0297763326 (0-297-76332-6)
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Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminismby T. Minh-Ha TrinhISBN 0253366038 (0-253-36603-8)
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Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminismby Trinh T. Min-HaISBN 0253205034 (0-253-20503-4)
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Zeitgeist in Babelby Ingeborg HoestereyISBN 0253206111 (0-253-20611-1)
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