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A Consumer's Guide to the Apocalypse: Why There is No Cultural War in America and Why We Will Perish Nonetheless (Religion and Contemporary Culture)
What accounts for the apocalyptic angst that is now so clearly present among Americans who do not subscribe to any religious orthodoxy? Why do so many popular television shows, films, and music nourish themselves on this very angst? And why do so many artists—from Coldplay to Tori Amos to Tom Wolfe—feel compelled to give it expression? It is tempting to say that America’s fears and anxieties are understandable in the light of 9/11, the ongoing War on Terror, nuclear proliferation, and the seemingly limitless capacity of science to continually challenge our conceptions of the universe and ourselves. Perhaps, too, American culture remains so permeated by Protestant Christianity that even avowed skeptics cannot pry themselves from its grip. In A Consumer’s Guide to the Apocalypse, Eduardo Velásquez argues that these answers are too pat. Velásquez’s astonishing thesis is that when we peer into contemporary artists’ creative depiction of our sensibilities we discover that the antagonisms that fuel the current cultural wars stem from the same source. Enthusiastic religions and dogmatic science, the flourishing of scientific reason and the fascination with mystical darkness, cultural triumphalists and multicultural ideologues are all sustained by the same thing: a willful commitment to the basic tenets of the Enlightenment. Velásquez makes his point with insightful readings of the music of Coldplay, Tori Amos, and Dave Matthews and the fiction of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, and Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons. Written with grace and humor, and directed toward the lay reader, A Consumer’s Guide to the Apocalypse is a tour de force of cultural analysis. .
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Strange Birds from Zoroaster's Nest: An Overview of Revealed Religions
Are the world's religions related? How does a religion change from its beginnings to its maturity and old age? What would an (imaginary) Martian anthropologists say about earth religions at the beginnin of the 21st century? How can we be on the threshhold of journeys to outer space--yet have millions of people who believe in astrology, tarot, magic, and pray to saints and the Great Mother Goddess? Strange Birds from Zoroaster's Nest tracks revealed religion from its beginning to its troubling role in today's world..
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The New Wife: The Evolving Role of the American Wife
Who's hiding the heartbreak of the baby boomer wife? What is the real truth about egalitarian marriages? How is it that becoming a wife is still a woman's ultimate aspiration? Why are women's sexual relationships with their husbands not good enough? Gender studies professor and women's issues author Susan Shapiro Barash's THE NEW WIFE takes an unprecedented look at marriage in America over the past five decades and reflects on its social implications for women. "Whether a woman is married, divorced, widowed, or never married, the prospect of being a wife looms large," Barash says. "Each decade in the evolution of the modern married woman has contributed to the profile of today's 21st century wife." Barash uncovers the reasons why women yearn to be wives, and their disappointments, pretenses, and steadfast resolve in the role. Her unique study brings insight into the myriad ways women work at being successful wives in our complex world..
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Xenophilia
Xenophilia (the love of things foreign or different) was created with a ballpoint pen as the author-artist backpacked through England, India, Kashmir, and Nepal. While the images reflect the places in which they were drawn, the trip itself was inspired by simple necessity... These one hundred images appear as they do in the original sketchbook, drawn from front to back and then back to front again, in ballpoint pen. The original has survived monsoons, sand, revolution, monkeys, and spillage before languishing on the author's bookshelf for over a year..
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The Ecumenical Cruise and Other Three-Legged Chicken Philosophy Tales
A Chinese philosopher in the Fourth Century BCE was known for his claim that "a chicken has three legs." He was not hallucinating, nor are Chinese chickens different from the chickens of other nations. What the philosopher understood was that this "third leg" was the mental leg or concept of "chicken leg" that tells an observer that what he or she is seeing is a "two-legged chicken." This "idea leg" is in the mind of the beholder, and it is a paradoxical synthesis of perception and conception, of seeing and not seeing, of the possible and the impossible. Each story in this book is a three-legged chicken story that starts with statements found in philosophical and religious traditions from around the world, and then examines a "mind egg" that such a chicken might conceivably lay. All similarities to poultry--living or dead--are purely coincidental..
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G&G graphics are as loud as Muzak, but FBI was nonetheless suspicious. (G&G Designs/Communications) (company profile): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on November 6, 1989. The length of the article is 971 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: G&G graphics are as loud as Muzak, but FBI was nonetheless suspicious. (G&G Designs/Communications) (company profile) Author: Susan C. Schena Publication:San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal) Date: November 6, 1989 Publisher: CBJ, L.P. Volume: v10 Issue: n15 Page: p1(2) Article Type: company profile Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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God's Law or Man's Law: The Fundamentalist Challenge to Secular Rule
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It Moves Nonetheless
Chennault was born in 1953 and was raised on Lake St. John a few miles from the small town of Waterproof, Louisiana. He has practiced law for 28 years and presently resides in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He is the grandson of General Claire Lee Chennault, leader of the famed WW II Flying Tigers. Ken’s poetry covers a wide range of subjects in alternating dramatic, humorous, tragic and sometimes sad fashions. Topics include the ongoing battle between good and evil, love lost and love found, political correctness, jealousy, greed, pride, fanaticism, vanity, integrity (or the lack thereof), heroism, and human frailty. Several poems depict, for better or worse, slices of everyday life in America. Underlying his work is the constant theme that there is ultimate justice in God’s economy and the belief that there can and will be a better tomorrow. The title to his book comes from a loose translation of Eppur Si Muove—It Moves Nonetheless, the words uttered by Galileo as he was exiting the Papal Inquisition after writing the abjuration that saved his life..
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Hitchcock Nonetheless: The Master's Touch in His Least Celebrated Films
Alfred Hitchcock made many great films, but he also made many that critics and audiences largely dismissed. These least celebrated films, despite their admitted flaws and relative obscurity, offer much to reward the open-minded viewer. This critical study examines and reappraises fifteen such films generally overlooked by scholars and Hitchcock aficionados: Juno and the Paycock, The Skin Game, Waltzes from Vienna, Jamaica Inn, The Paradine Case, Under Capricorn, I Confess, Torn Curtain, Number Seventeen, Rich and Strange, Secret Agent, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Stage Fright, The Wrong Man, and Topaz. Each film is discussed and analyzed in detail, revealing the masterÂ’s touch in many previously unheralded ways. Brief assessments of the films from popular review compendia introduce each one, and excerpted highlights of numerous works of scholarship are liberally sprinkled throughout the text. In addition, wonderful rare still photographs from each film are included. Readers will come away with a richer sense of the directorÂ’s talents in these films, adding to their appreciation of his work in unexpected ways..
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Professional labs take a hit from recession in 2001: growth of digital-imaging sales strong nonetheless. (Feature).(photographic laboratories): An article from: Photo Marketing
This digital document is an article from Photo Marketing, published by Photo Marketing Association International on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1209 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Professional labs take a hit from recession in 2001: growth of digital-imaging sales strong nonetheless. (Feature).(photographic laboratories) Author: Brian Longheier Publication:Photo Marketing (Magazine/Journal) Date: December 1, 2002 Publisher: Photo Marketing Association International Volume: 77 Issue: 12 Page: 33(2) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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