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Buddha in Your Rearview Mirror
Five years ago, journalist and practicing Buddhist Woody Hochswender co-authored a book on Buddhism that focused on the teachings of Nichiren, a 13th-century Japanese monk who has become the spiritual teacher for more than 20 million Buddhists worldwide. That book, which is in its 10th printing and has sold more than 80,000 copies, was such a resounding success that Hochswender has written an insightful new work—at once a follow-up to the previous volume and a freestanding work of its own. A new breath of inspiration, The Buddha in Your Rearview Mirror speaks to the spiritual yearnings so many of us have amid the hustle and flux of contemporary life. The book is a sophisticated but accessible introduction to Buddhism as well as an in-depth study of Buddhism in the Samurai period. Hochswender again focuses on the philosophy of Nichiren and applies its principles to everyday issues ranging from health to careers to family problems. The Buddha in Your Rearview Mirror is both cogent and compelling—informative history and inspiring self-help. Ideal for the novice or veteran Buddhist, the book will resonate with anyone interested in concrete methods for tapping into their own highest potential or enlightened self..
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The Windshield Is Bigger Than the Rearview Mirror: Changing Your Focus from Past to Promise
There is a reason that the approaching horizon along life's journey looms large, explains author Jeff Wickwire in this probing and encouraging wake-up call. Yet the human tendency is to view life through the rearview mirror-a tendency encouraged by a nostalgia-obsessed culture. This mulling over the past--a wrong job choice, a lost chance at love, a hundred missed opportunities--can be paralyzing. Wickwire helps readers let go of skeletons that have kept them in bondage to events that are dead and gone. His scriptural, common-sense approach shows that the best days are ahead for those who learn to keep God's promises in clear view..
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Rearview Mirror: Looking Back at the FBI, the CIA and Other Tails
In Rearview Mirror, investigative journalist William Turner revisits the significant stories and inquiries of his illustrious career, which encompasses many of the major political events of the last half of the twentieth century. In these explosive memoirs, Turner ferrets out the truth and shoots down the myths and lies promulgated not only about known events such as Hoover's FBI, the assassinations of John and Bobby Kennedy, the Bay of Pigs and Watergate, but about unknown events such as the Farewell America plot and the stealth war against Cuba. William Turner began his career as an FBI special agent in 1951, and for ten years was schooled in the art of criminal and counterespionage investigations, pulling off illegal burglaries and garnering accolades from Hoover along the way. Eventually, however, he became disenchanted with Hoover's despotism, his misplaced focus on the Communist menace and his reluctance to tackle organized crime. When Turner decided to leave the FBI, he exchanged his revolver for a typewriter and wrote the classic expose Hoover's FBI, which made the Director seethe. He became interested in the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy immediately after the shooting, when he went to Dallas on assignment. His inquiries led him to write critically of the Warren Commission Report and to work with New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to reopen the case. He subsequently became senior editor of the radical magazine Ramparts, which published eye-opening articles he wrote about the FBI, the CIA and the police establishment, including investigations of COINTELPRO and Operation CHAOS, which revealed abuses perpetrated by agencies of the government behind a veneer of legality and propriety. In Rearview Mirror, Turner chronicles these and other pivotal events surrounding the Bay of Pigs invasion, the secret war against Cuba and the assassination of Robert Kennedy with great compassion, extensive detail and an eye to the truth: How Hoover's FBI created myths with lies and safeguarded its image via unscrupulous tactics of intimidation and character assassination
Pervasive wiretapping and bugging abuses by the FBI
Operation CHAOS, the CIA-orchestrated burglaries of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union and the Ramparts editorial offices after the magazine exposed Agency infiltration of American institutions
Suppressed information about the group that surrounded Sirhan Sirhan, hypnotically making him a "Manchurian Candidate," as well as forensic analysis of gunfire and trajectories that force other conclusions than the court's that Sirhan Sirhan was the lone gunman
The theory proposed by the suppressed book, Farewell America, that JFK was killed by an amalgam of powerful public and private interests who feared the makings of a Kennedy dynasty
The findings of investigations by Jim Garrison, which substantiate a conspiracy theory linking JFK's assassination to the CIA's involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Pervasive CIA and FBI manipulation of the media to discredit critics and sway public opinion.
"Breakout": the story of Joel Kaplan's frame-up by the CIA with complicity by the Mexican police and the amazing story of his escape.
The stealth war against Cuba and plans for a second invasion.
The identity of Watergate's "Deep Throat".
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The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror
When Margaret Thatcher called in 1979 for a return to Victorian values such as hard work, self-reliance, thrift, and national pride, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock responded that “Victorian values” also included “cruelty, misery, drudgery, squalor, and ignorance ” The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror is an in-depth look at the ways that the twentieth century reacted to and reimagined its predecessor. It considers how the Victorian inheritance has been represented in literature, politics, film, and visual culture; the ways in which modernists and progressives have sought to differentiate themselves from an image of the Victorian; and how conservatives (and some liberals) have sought to revive elements of nineteenth-century life. Nostalgic and critical impulses combine to fix an understanding of the Victorians in the popular imagination. Simon Joyce examines heritage culture, contemporary politics, and the “neo-Dickensian” novel to offer a more affirmative assessment of the Victorian legacy, one that lets us imagine a model of social interconnection and interdependence that has come under threat in today’s politics and culture. Although more than one hundred years have passed since the death of Queen Victoria, the impact of her time is still fresh. The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror speaks to diverse audiences in literary and cultural studies, in addition to those interested in visual culture and contemporary politics, and situates detailed close readings of literary and cinematic texts in the context of a larger argument about the legacies of an era not as distant as we might like to think. .
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A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large
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Forward through the rearview mirror : reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan
Communications thinker and prophet Marshall McLuhan gave us the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village". Today, with the explosion of electronic technologies and on-line communication, his ideas are more relevant than ever. Forward Through the Rearview Mirror is an evocative and visually exciting exploration of McLuhan's life and work in the context of the information age. The book consists of short prose passages, aphorisms, interviews, letters, and dialogues by McLuhan—many never before published—interwoven with biographical text by his biographer Philip Marchand and commentary by such cultural critics as Louis Rossetto, Neil Postman, Camille Paglia, and Lewis Lapham. The book is organized into four parts: Global Village and Identity, Medium is the Message, and Extensions of Man. In keeping with McLuhan's style of speaking and writing, the text consists of a series of brief entries, ranging in length from a single line to a page. The entries have been selected and positioned so that they can be read consecutively as a narrative or randomly as individual ideas. Throughout, the material by McLuhan appears in a different typeface and color from the material by others, to make the two clearly distinguishable. Part book, part magazine, part storyboard, this multidimensional look at the ideas and life of the patron saint of Wired magazine will appeal to anyone interested in technology, contemporary thought, and popular culture..
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Looking Through the Rearview Mirror
A Journey of Spiritual Growth Looking back at the events of our lives, we can choose to see only the bad things that have occured That was Nancy Weems' way of thinking until someone challenged it and caused her to appreciate all that God had done through her life. In Looking Through the Rearview Mirror, Weems begins with chronicling her years of growing up in the Miami of the 1960s. After the tragic deaths of her brother at a young age and then her cousin when she was 16, Weems began committing to paper the experiences she had and the lessons she learned. Culled from these writings and written from a mature perspective, this book shares the highlights of a journey spent walking with God. We may not be able to undo our past, but we can learn from it if we look through the rearview mirror of life. College students have raved about Looking Through the Rearview Mirror with comments such as, "The book is like having a conversation. It's so refreshing. It was written to people who need to be reminded that there is a God who loves them just as they are and that He is in control." and "I could identify with your thoughts and conclusions.".
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Through the Rearview Mirror: Historical Reflections on Psychology
In this lively book, John Macnamara shows how a number of important thinkers through the ages have approached problems of mental representation and the acquisition of knowledge. He discusses the relevance of these approaches to modern cognitive psychology, focusing on central themes that he believes have strongly influenced modern psychology. This is not a neutral historical survey, but a vehicle for Macnamara's compelling and provocative arguments on the relevance and worth of certain aspects of psychological and philosophical thought. The historical figures discussed are quite varied—from Plato to Thomas Jefferson to Sigmund Freud—and include numerous Christian philosophers such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. The book assumes no previous background in the subject matter; Macnamara often simplifies abstract concepts via homespun examples (many using his beloved dog, Freddie). This is a quirky, engaging book, as well as the last work by a highly influential figure in cognitive psychology..
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