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Chaim Potok Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Walden Daniel, PUBLISHER: Pennsylvania State University Press, NA Acquista Ora

God's Masterwork: Ezra Through Daniel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Swindoll, Charles R., PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson Publishers, From the leadership of Ezra through the integrity of Daniel, see God's faithfulness and love to Israel during its obedience, rebellion, and restoration. Swindoll traces the sweep of history, the undercurrents of doctrine, and the pulse of redemption through this section of Scripture.

Light, Darkness and Colour in Painting Therapy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: d'Herbois, Liane Collot, PUBLISHER: Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag Am Go, This book shows how, through painting, the creative human spirit brings about healing. The main part of the book is a detailed journey through the properties of each color and their therapeutic qualities, the illnesses of the extremes as revealed through color, and specifics of how to approach therapy based on the colors.

Dinosaurs of Utah

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: DeCourten, Frank L. / Van Kempen, Carel Brest / Telford, John, PUBLISHER: University of Utah Press, Dinosaurs of Utah enlivens our understanding of these amazing prehistoric creatures and their world by presenting information about the dinosaurs' anatomy, feeding habits, reproduction, and social behaviors in the context of the changing geological record. Through the lens of this book we can look backward in time to view a landscape millions of years old.

The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nisker, Wes Scoop, PUBLISHER: HarperOne, Hang on for a Wild Journey through the Political and Spiritual Adventures of the Baby-Boom Generation Join Wes "Scoop" Nisker as he takes us on a hilarious, wild ride through the heyday of the Beats and the Hippies and the birth of the modern environmental movement, and the surge of Buddhism in the West.

Silent Urns: Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ferris, David, PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press, The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if, like Pallas Athene springing from the head of Zeus, its cultural significance had attained full maturity at birth. In "Silent Urns, " the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in eighteenth-century aesthetics. He argues that Winckelmann's "History of Ancient Art" () produced this reconciliation by developing a concept of culture that effectively defined our modern understanding of the term, as well as our sense of what it is to be modern. From this reconciliation, Greece emerges as the form in which culture is first conceptualized as a historically and politically defined category. In readings of works by Keats, Schelling, Aeschylus, Shelley, and Holderlin, the author studies different aspects of Winckelmann's conceptualization of culture as it passes into Romantic Hellenism. Through these readings--in which individuality, identity, freedom, the tragic, and memory are all discussed--the book demonstrates how Romanticism took issue with the legacy of Greece that emerged in the eighteenth century, and did so in the name of a freedom that our cultural modernity no longer recalls.

Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weber, Cynthia / Debrix, Francois, PUBLISHER: University of Minnesota Press, A timely consideration of the meaning of transnational cultural interactions today. In an era of increasing globalization, the cultural and the international have borders as permeable as most nations'--and an understanding of one requires making sense of the other. Foregrounding the role of mediation--understood here as a site of representation, transformation, and pluralization--the authors engage two specific questions: How might we make theoretical and practical sense of transnational cultural interactions? And how are we to understand the ways in which the sites of mediation represent, transform, and remediate internationals? Accordingly, the authors consider international issues like security, development, political activism, and the war against terrorism through the lens of cultural practices such as traveling through airports, exhibiting art and photography, logging on to the Internet, and spinning news stories.

Today is Valentines Day

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hallinan, P. K., PUBLISHER: Ideals Publications, Exploring the magic of a beloved childhood holiday, P.K. Hallinan takes us through the enchantment of this day of celebrating the many loves in our lives. Children will identify with the lovable characters as we see Valentine's Day through the eyes of a child.

Capitalism and Religion

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Goodchild, Philip B., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Our global ecological crisis demands that we question the rationality of the culture that has caused it: Western modernity's global free market capitalism. Goodchild develops arguments from Nietzsche, Adorno and Horkheimer to suggests that our love of Western modernity is an expression of a piety and that it has become a global religion in practice, if not always in belief. He condemns modernity, presenting a philosophical alternative that demands attention from philosophers, critical theorists, philosophers of religion, theologians and those in ecological politics.

Who Will Be Saved?: Defending the Biblical Understanding of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: House, Paul R. / Thornbury, Greg A., PUBLISHER: Crossway Books, Of the many doctrinal challenges facing the church today, the most critical may be opposition to the traditional, biblical view of God and the doctrine of salvation. For centuries Christians agreed that God is sovereign, that He does not change, that He is both kind and all-powerful. Yet in recent decades process theologians have regularly depicted God as a constantly evolving deity, and postmodernists have defined Him in diverse, even contradictory ways. A number of scholars--some with evangelical roots or affiliations--have even gone so far as to claim that salvation may come through other religions and not exclusively through a conscious personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Given these internal and external challenges, evangelical Christianity must reassert the inerrant, biblical definition of God and the doctrine of salvation, and do so in a way that is convincing in our postmodern setting. That is the goal of Who Will Be Saved? Some of the most significant figures in evangelical theology--including Carl F.H. Henry, D. A. Carson, and R. Albert Mohler--explore the traditional view of salvation through a contemporary lens, beginning with the doctrine of God as the author of salvation. They then move on to the pressing matters confronting Christians today--the exclusivity of Christianity, the work of the church, our evangelism strategies--that are driven by one's conclusions about the doctrine of God. The biblical response to inclusivist perspectives presented here will empower Christians to faithfully and convincingly continue declaring the gospel message in these postmodern times.

Timebomb

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Reichman, Lee / Hopkins Tanne, Janice / Tanne, Janice Hopkins, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Companies, ""A chilling account of... the global resurgence of this disease..."--"The New York Times ""Tuberculosis--a nineteenth century disease--has come back with a vengeance... "Timebomb "is the extraordinary story of courage and cowardice in confronting the global TB epidemic."--Donna E. Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, President of the University of Miami"

With the 3rd Wisconsin Badgers: The Living Experience of the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Raab, Steven S. / Willard, Van R., PUBLISHER: Stackpole Books, Presents an edited version of the diary of infantryman Van R. Willard as he lived through such events of the Civil War as the Battle of Antietam, a lengthy stay at a hospital in Frederick, and the Battle of Gettysburg. Throughout the editor offers comments explaining some of the events framing the narrative of the diary.

Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach: Dualism and Mass

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Miller, Daniel, PUBLISHER: Berg Publishers, From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine how far these supposed trends actually apply to a given population. This book explicitly accepts this challenge and, in so doing, demonstrates the potential of modern anthropology studies. It starts by summarizing some debates on modernity and then argues that the Caribbean island of Trinidad is particularly apt for such a study given the origins of its population in slavery and indentured labour, both forms of extreme social rupture.The particular focus of this book is on mass consumption and the way goods and imported images such as soap opera have been used to express and develop a number of key contradictions of modernity. It will be of interest to anthropologists looking for a new potential for the discipline, as well as students in other fields who will be interested in the new contribution of anthropology to their debates.

The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cooper, Darius / Rothman, William / Andrew, Dudley, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The most comprehensive treatment of Satyajit Ray's work, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray makes accessible the oeuvre of one of the most prolific and creative filmmakers of the twentieth century. Providing analyses of selected films, including those that comprise The Apu Trilogy, Chess Players, and Jalsaghar, among others, Darius Cooper outlines Western influences on Ray's work, such as the plight of women functioning within a patriarchal society, Ray's political vision of the "doubly colonized," and his attack and critique of the Bengali/Indian middle class of today.

Myth and Method Myth and Method

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Patton, Laurie L. / Doniger, Wendy, PUBLISHER: University of Virginia Press, In the wake of the elegant master theories of Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, and Claude Levi-Strauss, how are mythology and the comparative study of religion to be understood? In Myth and Method, a leading team of scholars assesses the current state of the study of myth and explores the possibilities for charting a methodological middle course between the comparative and the contextual issues raised in the last ten years. In confronting these tension, they provide an outline of the most troubling questions in the field and offer a variety of responses to them.

The Tears of Hispaniola: Haitian and Dominican Diaspora

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Suarez, Lucia M., PUBLISHER: University Press of Florida, "The first book on the market that considers the experience of Haitians and Dominicans in the United States in one single effort of analysis and does so through the cultural venue of literary texts produced by writers from the two communities."--Silvio To

Remember My Soul: A Guided Journey Through Shiva and the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Palatnik, Lori, PUBLISHER: Leviathan Press, The Jewish experience of mourning is divided into a seven day period--Shiva, and then a thirty day period. This book does three things) Explores the ideas of the soul, death and the afterlife.) Guides the mourner through the traditions and rituals of the Shiva period.) Offers a thirty day guided excercise that both comforts the mourner and--according to Jewish mystical tradition--provides spiritual elevation for the soul of the departed.

Touring the Flatiron District: Walks in Four Historic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mendelsohn, Joyce, PUBLISHER: City and Company, From the Victorian department stores of Ladies' Mile to the Greek Revival townhouses of Chelsea to the early skyscrapers of Madison Square to the stately brownstones of Gramercy park, "Touring the Flatiron District takes the reader through some of he most vibrant sections of New York City.

Sangre y Oro

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rice, Anne / Batlles Winn, Camila, PUBLISHER: Ediciones B, Through the eyes of Marius, once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, this sweeping historical fantasy watches the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, the vile aftermath of the Black Death, and the restorative beauty of the Renaissance. But it is in the present day, deep in the jungle, that Marius will meet his fate seeking justice from the oldest vampires in the world.

Foster Family Care: Theory and Practice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Martin, Judith A., PUBLISHER: Allyn & Bacon, This book is authored by Judith Martin, co-author of the classic child welfare text with Dr. Alfred Kadushin. The book describes the process of carrying out one of the core child welfare services for families: foster family care. Taking an in-depth look at this service, "Foster Family Care" moves the reader from the experiences of children and their parents as they first enter care, through the process of settling in and confronting the problems that led to the need for placement, to an assessment of the outcomes of care and its consequences for the growing child. The book offers a thorough review of current literature on foster family care and a critical perspective on this service. A central theme is the concept of quality service delivery; the perspective draws heavily on attachment theory and on practice principles embedded in the concept of permanency planning. For social workers, psychologists, or practitioners in related fields.

Endgames: The Irreconcilable Nature of Modernity: Essays and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wellmer, Albrecht / Midgley, David, PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), A common theme of this set of thirteen essays by one of the major figures in contemporary German philosophy is the idea of a postmetaphysical modernity. In his preface Wellmer relates the title of his book, "Endgames," to this common theme: The historical utopias of the Marxist tradition and the programs of ultimate justification in the Kantian tradition are both endgames "within" metaphysics, the deconstruction of those utopias and programs of ultimate justification are endgames played "with" metaphysics, and the game with an end as ultimate telos--the end(s) of history, the end(s) of knowledge, the end(s) of human life--is metaphysics. The title, "Endgames," finally also refers polemically to postmodernist games with an end of modernity; as opposed to these, Wellmer defends the fragile moral and political substance of the modernity that postmodernists attempt to overcome--and that sense of what needs to be preserved of the modern tradition for a postmetaphysical modernity is what makes his writings unique. In the first of the book's three parts, "Negative and Communicative Freedom," Wellmer focuses on political philosophy, examining in particular the links and tensions between liberal basic rights and modern ideas of democracy. In Part II, "Postmetaphysical Perspectives," he attempts to develop a postmetaphysical perspective on aesthetics and metaphysics (with and against Adorno), on the problem of truth (with and against Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermas, and Karl-Otto Apel), and on hermeneutics (with and against Hans-Georg Gadamer and Karl-Otto Apel). Part III, "Images of the Times," contains occasional pieces on Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Frankfurt School, Hans Jonas, and architecture. The book closes with an appended critical essay on Hannah Arendt, reflecting the importance of Arendt's political philosophy to Wellmer's work.

Blue Guide Switzerland

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Robertson, Ian, PUBLISHER: Blue Guides, A new edition of this detailed and comprehensive guide to Switzerland. Blue Guide Switzerland suggests routes through the country's dramatic alpine scenery, recalling the adventures of past travelers. It takes the visitor through Switzerland's picturesque villages, describes walks around its elegant cities, and gives full details of the country's fine collections of art.

The American Cowboy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: James, Will, PUBLISHER: Mountain Press Publishing Company, "The American Cowboy spans three generations of cowboys in the American West, from the young trail boss of the very first cattle drive from Texas north to the railroads, to his grandson, born after the open range had been fenced in. Discover the danger and thrill of life on the frontier as the history of the cowboy unfolds through the expansion of the cattle business, the growth of the railroads, and the coming of the farmer. Will James brings to life the spirit of the American cowboy that will never die.

Meike tubo di prolunga estensione Canon EOS M set 10mm 16mm

DG EXTENSION TUBE for micro DSLR is an accessory designed for use with micro DSLR lenses to shoot at close distance with higher magnification. Since the magnification changes according to the focal length of the lens, you can easily make close-ups shots of small subjects, insects or flowers. What is more, electronic signals between camera and lens are transfered through the electronic contacts of the DG EXTENSION TUBE for micro DSLR, enabling you to use all of the camera',s shooting modes. Depending on the shooting conditions, exposure compensation is required. PRECAUTIONS: When using the extension tubes alone (10mm or 16mm) or combination (10mm + 16mm = 26mm), the focal length should be greater than the length (10mm, 16mm, or 26mm) of the tube/tubes used. Suitable lenses are from standard to telephoto as well as macro (micro) lenses. Wide lenses are also usable, but depending on how the lens is combined with the tube, the distance between lens front and subject may become extremely close.

Garden Psalms: God's Gift of Comfort and Abundance

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Honor Books, PUBLISHER: Honor Books, The deepest desires of the heart are explored through Psalms that teach us lessons of life from the beauty of a garden... that help us discover the beacon of guidance from a lighthouse... that encourage us to celebrate the wonder of love. The stunning imagery and poetic expressions of the Psalms have inspired and transformed the hearts of countless souls through the centuries. Now Honor Books, the leading publisher of gift devotionals, has added exquisite full-color art and heart-stirring prayers with selections from best-loved Psalms. God has been providing for the daily needs of His children since the Garden of Eden. Readers will find He promises to bless them daily out of His abundance through which they can enjoy the peace and comfort of His presence. Each devotion will give the reader another look at the richness and abundance of living and walking in the will of God.

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