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Bellow: A Biography With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel prize-winning author's turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events, the Depression, World War II, the upheavals of the sixties and the complexities of the Jewish-immigrant experience in America. Drawing upon a vast body of original research, including Bellow's extensive correspondence with Ralph Ellison, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, Robert Penn Warren, John Cheever, and many other luminaries of the twentieth century literary community, Atlas weaves a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most talented and enigmatic figures in American intellectual history.
Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas Are human being destined to find perfect complements in love or are we more like the fabled porcupines, forever jostling for a place between painful involvement and loveless isolation? That is the question at the heart of this stunning new book. "People seek therapy when things have gone terribly wrong in their lives," observes Deborah Anna Luepnitz. Schopenhauer's Porcupines recounts five stories from Luepnitz's practice, with patients who range from the super-rich to the homeless as they grapple with panic attacks, psychosomatic illness, marital despair and sexual recklessness. Intimate, original and triumphantly funny, Schopenhauer's Porcupines goes further than any other book in unveiling the secrets of "how talking helps."
Anger It was under the bodhi tree in India 2,500 years ago that the Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: wrong knowing, obsessive desire, and anger. All are difficult, but in one instant of anger, lives can be ruined, and our spiritual development can be destroyed. Twenty-five centuries after the Buddha's insight, medical science tells us that he was right: anger can also ruin our health. But it can be dealt with, and it can be overcome. Thich Nhat Hanh gives tools and advice for transforming relationships and rejuvenating those parts of ourselves that have been laid waste by anger. As the Dalai Lama says, Thich Nhat Hanh "shows us the connection between personal, inner peace, and peace on earth."
One More for the Road America has no finer teller of tales than Ray Bradbury. Now the master treats us to another round; eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected. Here is a rich elixir distilled from the pungent fruit of experience and imagination, expertly prepared by a superior mixologist whose hand is sure and whose eyes and ears have long taken in the shouting, weeping, carping, reveling life all around him. One More for the Road is superb refreshment served with wit, heart, and flair by the incomparable Bradbury. This one's on Ray.
Cities of Tomorrow Peter Hall examines the urban consequences of the informational revolution, and assesses the value of new ideas such as sustainable urban development. He considers the cause and effect of economic decline in some cities and of spectacular growth in others. The rich he finds retreating into gated enclosures, the poor subsisting on welfare and the black economy. He compares the fate of the disadvantaged today to the sweatshop laborers of New York one hundred years ago: he concludes that 'for these, their descendants, the way out may paradoxically be even harder, because those kinds of jobs no longer exist.' Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it.
Xenophon's March: Into the Lair of the Persian Lion The year is 401 B.C. Xenophon, an Athenian student of Socrates, has joined an army of Spartan Greeks marching to the aid of the Persian pretender Cyrus in a war against his brother, Artaxerxes. At the Battle of Cunaxa, Cyrus is killed and his army destroyed, except for the Greeks holding his right flank. Xenophon and the Greeks are stranded in the heart of the Persian Empire, outnumbered a hundred to one and suddenly having to make their way home. The march of the Greek "Ten Thousand" through the Persian Empire is one of history's greatest military epics. Now John Prevas has combined Xenophon's ancient account, the Anabasis, with the experience of his own travels along the Greek army's route and with expert analysis of its military historical context. |
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Religion in Late Modernity Religion in Late Modernity runs against the grain of common suppositions of contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. Against the common supposition that basic religious terms have no real reference but are mere functions of human need, the book presents a pragmatic theory of religious symbolism in terms of which the cognitive engagement of the Ultimate is of a piece with the cognitive engagement of nature and persons. Throughout this discussion, Neville develops a late-modern conception of God that is defensible in a global theological public.
Indestructible Truth Here is one of the most thorough and accessible introductions to the Tibetan Buddhist worldview ever written. Indestructible Truth leads the reader into the vast and colorful world of Tibetan Buddhism, including its history, philosophy, and meditation practices, presented as elements of a practical, living spirituality. Reginald A. Ray, Ph.D., elucidates complex and sophisticated teachings and practices in nontechnical language, using engaging stories and personal anecdotes to illustrate his points. Indestructible Truth shows Tibetan Buddhism in its traditional form but also reveals how it is readily applicable to the problems and challenges of modern life in the West.
Understanding Thomas Jefferson Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character; famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation yet secret lover of a beautiful slave for thirty years, aristocrat yet fervent advocate of government by the people. E. M. Halliday's absorbing, compact, and lucid portrait recognizes these and other puzzles about this great founder, but shows us how understandable they can be in the light of his personal and social circumstances and common human experience.
Preserving Nature in the National Parks This book traces the epic clash of values between traditional scenery-and-tourism management and emerging ecological concepts in the national parks, America's most treasured landscapes. It spans the period from the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 to near the present, analyzing the management of fires, predators, elk, bear, and other natural phenomena in parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Great Smoky Mountains.
Introducing Romanticism Romanticism is crucial to an understanding of modern Western culture. Philosophy, art, literature, music and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848. This was the age of the "Romantic revolution", when modern attitudes to political and artistic freedom were born. Introducing Romanticism gives the reader an accessible overview of the many interlocking strands of the movement, focusing on the leading figures in Britain, Germany, France, America, Italy and Russia. It is the ideal introduction for both student and general reader.
Introducing Modernism What is modernism? Why did it begin and how long did it last? How does it relate to postmodernism? Replies to these questions have often been vague of confusing, but in this brilliant new book Chris Rodrigues provides an accessible introduction to this crucial and perplexing formation of 20th-century culture. Introducing Modernism explores the avant-garde milieu of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg and other modern masters, but it also delves deeper, interpreting modernism as a set of responses to the global phenomenon of modernity itself; responses that are often in conflict with each other, and that encompass revolutionary advances in technology, industry and science. |
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