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The Top 10 Main Ideas in this Book1 based on years of research studying the timeless elements of the human condition, this authoritative book illuminates why we employ the strategies we do as we all play the power game of our lives2 how to strategically employ the five grandest institutions -- the church, the economy, the state, the academy, and the family -- to win the power game3 humanity's discovery that we die gave birth to civilization and rapid...
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Advance Praise for Savage Park:
"In this unusually refreshing meditation (which reads like a novel), we are given a tour of the space around and within us. With poetic efficiency Amy Fusselman reveals what makes us savage or not; why secret, wild spaces are essential; and, why playing should be taken seriously. I should add, she frightened me with: It is still illegal to climb a tree in Central Park!"
-Philippe Petit, High Wire Artist -
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Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachment lies at the very core of depression's dark heart. Kristeva analyzes Holbein's controversial 1522 painting The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb...
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Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life. At the heart of this engagement are community conversations, in which common goals are embraced...
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John Hurlbut has written a profound reflection on the nature of self awareness and an unflinching honesty to chart a path, not only to citizenship, but to the possibility of an individual's engaging vulnerability as a vehicle for personal evolution. The central point that love and treating others as you should underlies exceptional insights into citizenship, skill sets, careers, and templates for the future. This is a must read book for those seeking...
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Diogo Morais Sarmento Madureira invita a un apasionante viaje intelectual al debate político contemporáneo sobre la familia, arrojando luz sobre factores históricos y antropológicos que refuerzan el valor de los lazos familiares y la necesidad de protegerlos.
Este libro desentraña las complejas influencias filosóficas y políticas que frecuentemente conllevan el desprecio por aspectos estructurantes de la noción de familia, ayudando a comprender...
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Prometheus Bound is the first book in a trilogy -- Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound, and Prometheus Triumphs. The trilogy explores man's battle with the forces beyond his control (Prometheus Bound) using the forces within his control (Prometheus Unbound) to triumph over the human condition by triumphing over himself (Prometheus Triumphs).Prometheus Bound is especially for college undergraduates who are focused on one particular subject in either...
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"Threads of Faith: A Comparative Tapestry" by Vandi Lynnae Enzor is a captivating exploration of diverse faith traditions woven into a rich narrative tapestry. In this thought-provoking book, Enzor takes readers on a journey through the intricate threads of various religious beliefs, examining their similarities, differences, and the interconnectedness that binds them.Drawing on her extensive research and personal insights, Enzor delves into the core...
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Music Your Parents Never Wanted You To Hear
Believe it or not, music censorship in America did not begin with Tipper Gore's horrified reaction to her daughter's Prince album. The vilification of popular music by government and individuals has been going on for decades. Now, for the first time, Parental Advisory offers a thorough and complete chronicle of the music that has been challenged or suppressed...
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Equal parts inspiration, perspiration, and information -- a book that is sure to take the Vibrant Communities story to new heights as it begins its next exciting phase. In Canada, "poverty reduction" is no longer a "wouldn't it be nice" dream discussed after yet another failure to make a dent in an age-old problem. It's a living, breathing, exhilarating reality. Why? Because all across the country people are approaching poverty in a positive, creative,...
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Why do we find others weird? Why do we tend to discriminate other human beings, when all it takes for a person to be different is, actually, to be born? These questions may be valid, but how do they help with our daily problems such as; the refugees, the distribution of wealth, political correctness, cruelty and so on? And what about the Turks...? A weird group of people; they look stiff but indifferent at the same time, serious but laughing at unfunny...
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À bien des égards, notre existence est devenue une quête permanente de changement, de renouveau. À la manière de nos fils de réseaux sociaux, nous cherchons constamment à rafraichir notre quotidien, à le rendre plus plein de vie.
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This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contributing...
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If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. From the bath houses of Roman Londinium to the sexual underground of the twentieth century and beyond, The Sexual History of London is an entertaining, vibrant chronicle of London and sex through the ages.
For more than a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice, and the sins of the flesh. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that "every...
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Democratizing Cleveland: The Rise and Fall of Community Organizing in Cleveland, Ohio, 1975-1985 is the result of almost fifteen years of research on a topic that has been missing from local works on Cleveland history: the community organizing movement that put neighborhood concerns and neighborhood voices front and center in the setting of public policies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Originally published in 2007 by Arambala Press, this important...
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This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future-and the way we will do business too.
Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern-the city in the center, the airport on the periphery- shaped life in the twentieth century, from the central city to exurban sprawl. Today, the ubiquity of jet travel,...
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