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What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order
In the six years since 9/11, as the bush regime has squandered domestic solidarity and international goodwill, many of the archetypes and ideals with which we’ve traditionally framed the American enterprise now seem endangered, even hollow. This raises the question, has America ever been what it thinks it is? What Is America? goes to the heart of that inquiry. Ranging with dazzling expertise through anthropology, history, and literature, Wright reconfigures our self-perception, arguing that the “essence” of America can be traced to the foundations of our history-literally to the collision of worlds that began in 1492, as one civilization subsumed another-and exploring how these currents continue to shape our world. .
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New World Order: Stories
In this collection of richly varied stories, Derek Green takes readers on a tour of the world as America's military-industrial complex reels into a new century Written with grace, masterful precision and brutal honesty, New World Order shows us characters stripped of the familiar and forced to face the world on its own terms. In Iraq a young man in search of a fortune makes a bargain he never imagined. An adventure journalist on assignment in Australia finds himself at the center of his own harrowing story. In charge of an American company in Mexico, a powerful woman finds strength through submission. By turns frightening and comical, fierce and suspenseful, these eleven stories turn our attention outward, to a world where our role as Americans is no longer as clear and secure as it once seemed. With exotic settings, sharply rendered characters and quick-moving plots, New World Order announces the arrival of a powerful literary voice, and places Derek Green in the tradition of such worldly writers as Graham Greene, Paul Bowles and Robert Stone..
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The Old Order: Stories of the South
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Tales of Two Sillies: A Bathroom Reader, and Very Much out of Order
All names, faces, and shoe sizes have been changed in this book for the safety of the one-eyed mutt…who is rather sensitive about such things. All parts pertaining to the Little Glow Worm are actual fact, except for what the authors have exaggerated for the amusement of the oldest child. The middle child and the youngest child perform all their own stunts with the exception of that one minor incident of…well, at any rate, the favorite brother did a pretty good job with it. However, it is not recommended that such stunts are done at home…do them at a cousin’s house or somewhere like that….
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The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys: Stories
In this long-awaited new book by the "stunning" Dao Strom, four tales of love and desire reveal the complications of living in a modern global village In this beautifully written, psychologically astute examination of the rites of female passage, the acclaimed Dao Strom takes us from girlhood to young womanhood, wifehood, and motherhood. Told in four sections, each story introduces us to a compelling young woman and the questions before her, set against the jumble and noise of America today. In this elegant rendering of the rites of passage, we meet four unique young women: Mary, a film student in college who is full of yearning but finds herself confounded by the casual give-and-take of the people around her; Darcy, a twenty-something musician, who must confront the dark and unknown in the form of a naked stranger who repeatedly breaks into her ramshackle sublet; Leena, aged thirty, isolated and alone after having been transplanted from Vietnam to Texas through marriage to an American businessman; And finally, Sage, a new mother in her early thirties who finds herself, while on a road trip with her four-year-old boy and his father, entertaining thoughts of her son's preschool teacher. With both shrewd insight into the moral perils of contemporary life and unwavering compassion for the missteps we make along the way, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys is a major accomplishment from an exciting new talent..
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
An enormous intellectual adventure In this groundbreaking new book, the American biologist Edward O. Wilson, considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for consilience--the proof that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws that comprise the principles underlying every branch of learning. Professor Wilson, the pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, now once again breaks out of the conventions of current thinking. He shows how and why our explosive rise in intellectual mastery of the truths of our universe has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos and the human species--a vision that found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment, then gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries. Drawing on the physical sciences and biology, anthropology, psychology, religion, philosophy, and the arts, Professor Wilson shows why the goals of the original Enlightenment are surging back to life, why they are reappearing on the very frontiers of science and humanistic scholarship, and how they are beginning to sketch themselves as the blueprint of our world as it most profoundly, elegantly, and excitingly is..
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The Purchase of Order: Stories
In the cadence of a Texas drawl or the whisper of a midday kiss, these stories capture untidy lives in which the pain of living is confounded with a grin. The Purchase of Order depicts characters from Germany to Georgia, men and women attempting to find meaning within memory, who take joy in giving of themselves..
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