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View book details for The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
Bolano and After
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered-Aira, Bolano, Castellanos Moya, Vasquez-are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond …
View book details for Deep Symbols
Their Postmodern Effacement and Reclamation
Here is an absorbing and exceptionally perceptive account of how deep symbols or words of power (which tend to be a culture's normaltive language) have undergone diminishment in a contemporary postmodern society. Edward Farley explains that such diminishment does not …
View book details for Violent Games
Rules, Realism and Effect
It was over a decade ago that experimental psychologists and media-effects researchers declared the debate on the effects of violent video gaming as essentially over, referring to the way violence in videogames increases aggressive thoughts, feelings and behaviors in players. …
In the twentieth century a number of novelists, artists, and filmmakers, resurrected the life of Jesus genre made so popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Renan, Strauss, and others. In addition, novelists Norman Mailer, Jose Saramago, and Ricci …
Can Iranians and Americans find common ground to overcome their troubled history? U.S.-Iran Misperceptions is the first written dialogue on the key issues that separate these two great countries. Bringing together former policy makers and international relations experts from the …
This engaging work tells the story of democracy through the perspective of tragic drama. It shows how the ancient tales of greatness and its loss point to the potential dangers of democracy then and now. Greek Tragedy dramatized a variety …
View book details for The Legacy of Marxism
Contemporary Challenges, Conflicts, and Developments
Marx's influence is evident in a range of often incompatible and contradictory political movements and intellectual approaches. With a number of those movements now discredited by the experience of 'really existing socialism', and the academic left gravitating towards approaches which …
View book details for Your Messy Brilliance
7 Tools for the Perfectly Imperfect Woman
There is no magic pill. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to your problems. There is no guru coming to save you. The remarkable truth you are about to discoverone that you already know deep down in your bonesis that the …
Prowling the seedy red-light districts, the underground club circuit and the house parties of wealthy Indonesian society, Moammar Emka offers a unique glimpse into the underbelly of modern, urban Jakarta. This is the book that took Indonesia by storm. Moammar …
View book details for The Twilight Symbols
Motifs-Meanings-Messages
How well do you know the Twilight universe... really?In her famous four-book series The Twilight Saga, author Stephenie Meyer refers to myth, music, history, literature and more. She masks numerous symbols in her romantic vampire dreamscape. The Twilight Symbols is …
View book details for Outside the Revolution; Everything
A Redefinition of Left-wing Identity in Contemporary Cuban Music Making
Through the reclamation of a left-wing identity, disparate groups of Cuban musicians seek a collective Cubanness outside of the Revolution. ,
View book details for Love's Calling
A Journey to Self
Join Elizabeth Griffin as she jumps into the unknown in search of....Love. Following inspiration she travels and ends up halfway around the world in Italy. A diagnosis of breast cancer changes the panorama of her outlook completely. She discovers the …
View book details for How To Live In The Here And Now
A Guide for Accelerated Practical Enlightenment
Paul Jones rescues enlightenment from the specialists, the superstitious and the pious and makes it available to everyone and anyone through a simple step by step process.,
To quiet his existential horror, a brooding young man seeks to understand life. Cliff Gogh is out in the dark, a solitary ghost examining himself in the night, with all of his mental faculties directed toward the intangible, pain, darkness, …
This was no place for these aliens. It was no place for anyone not resigned to life such as they all knew it. . . . Evelyn E. Smith has that rare abilitysurprisingly rare, actually, in SFto set herself into …
View book details for Body of Wisdom
Women's Spiritual Power and How it Serves
A chakra in our breasts that emits spiritual nourishment into life... a secret substance in our bodies to heal the earth... a direct connection from our wombs to the creative center of the universe...In Body of Wisdom, Hilary Hart identifies …
A superbly original collection of short stories with an esoteric bias. Each story explores in different situations, often humorous, a paradoxical edge of experience, when the inner and outer life is about to transform; at any stage in life. These …
View book details for Dear Mr. Beckett: Letters from the Publisher
The Samuel Beckett File: Correspondence, Interviews, Photos
Preface by Paul Auster Foreword by Edward BeckettEdited by Lois Oppenheim Curated by Astrid Myers RossetYou know, Barney, I think my writing days are over Beckett writes in 1954 awhen most of his output was still ahead of him.a And …
Many people believe you have to be a pagan to appreciate and perform ritual, which is untrue. For thousands of years people have been drawn together to dance, make music, pray and feast, these activities are all the parts of …
View book details for Circles of Meaning, Labyrinths of Fear
The Twenty-two Relationships of a Spiritual Life and Culture - And Why They Need Protection
Youve heard of sacred places, writings, relics, and rituals, holy days and magical times of year. But these are actually representations of relationships that people have with each other and the elements of the world. Some of these relationships environmental: …
View book details for Fatima's Touch
Poems and Stories of the Prophet's Daughter
Fatimas Touch is unique. Biographies of Muhammad are available, but there is very little in English on Fatimathe Prophets youngest daughterher life and family. The word Islam takes up a great deal of space in world events today, so it …
Runes are an ancient Scandinavian writing system. They have been used for hundreds of years as part of magical rituals, spells and foretelling the future and are steeped in mystery and secrecy. This book contains meanings of the twenty-four Runes, …
View book details for Introduction to Traditional Islam
Foundations, Art and Spirituality
Behind the clamorous headlines of militant and political Islam lies a more serene and cultivated form of traditional Islam. Jean-Louis Michon, a UNESCO advisor tasked with preserving the architectural and artistic heritage of Islam, unveils this lesser-known dimension of the …
The first decades of the twenty-first century have been beset by troubling social realities: coalition warfare, global terrorism and financial crisis, climate change, epidemics of family violence, violence toward women, addiction, neo-colonialism, continuing racial and religious conflict. While traumas involving …
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Re-Imagining the Twentieth Century
Scholars from a variety of academic disciplines have been drawn into exhaustive analyses of what went wrong in "the terrible 20th Century", as Winston Churchill dubbed it. In this book Stuart Scheingold adds political novels to those inquiries and argues …
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