The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays (Gioia Dana)(Paperback)

The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays (Gioia Dana)(Paperback)

Over the past decade Dana Gioia has emerged as a compelling advocate of Christianity's continuing importance in contemporary culture. His incisive and arresting essays have examined the spiritual dimensions of art and the decisive role faith has played in the lives of artists. This new volume

Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization (Barron Robert)(Paperback)

Robert Barron is one of the Catholic Church's premier theologians and author of the influential The Priority of Christ. In this volume, Barron sets forth a thoroughgoing vision for an evangelical catholic theology that is steeped in the tradition and engaged with the contemporary world. Striking a

Catholic Sexual Morality (Fastiggi Robert)(Paperback)

Many people today believe that the traditional Catholic view of sex is antiquated, unrealistic, and potentially harmful. In Catholic Sexual Morality, Dr. Robert Fastiggi asks whether the permissive sexual attitude of today's culture is really contributing to deeper love, better relationships, and

Essays One (Davis Lydia)(Paperback)

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her 'a magician of self-consciousness,' while Rick Moody hails her as 'the best prose stylist in

The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (Makhno Nestor)(Paperback)

A collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. 'The Struggle Against the State and other Essays' sheds valuable insight onto the man and the movement that bore his

The Catholic Dogma- Extra Ecclesiam Nullus Omnino Salvatur (The Perfect Library)(Paperback)

'The Catholic Dogma- Extra Ecclesiam Nullus Omnino Salvatur' from Michael Muller. Catholic writer of the 19th century in the United States

The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (Rowe Colin)(Paperback)

This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the

Writer and the World - Essays (Naipaul V. S.)(Paperback / softback)

Concentrating mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction to this writer's extraordinary

The Fear of the Feminine: And Other Essays on Feminine Psychology (Neumann Erich)(Paperback)

These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity Erich Neumann belong in the context of the depth psychology of culture and reveal a prescient concern about the one-sidedness of patriarchal Western civilization. Neumann recommended a 'cultural therapy' that he thought

Selected Political Writings - The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays(Paperback / softback)

Economic Reform and a Liberal Culture: And Other Essays on Social and Cultural Topics (Rubens Tom)(Paperback)

This second collection of essays for the Societas series by Tom Rubens continues the author's discussion of contemporary issues contained in 'Progressive Secular Society' (Imprint Academic 2008). The present book is divided into three main sections. The first deals with social, economic and

The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ and Other Essays: 2nd Edition (Hayley Jay)(Paperback)

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is 'brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer' (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone?

How Not to be a Doctor - And Other Essays (Launer John)(Paperback / softback)

The essays in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humour, candour, and the human touch. They show how, in medicine, you cannot separate personal experiences from professional ones, in short stories and reflections that will inform and entertain readers on both ends of the

The Beer Option: Brewing a Catholic Culture, Yesterday & Today (Staudt R. Jared)(Paperback)

The World's Last Night: And Other Essays (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback)

A repackaged edition of the revered author's anthology of satirical yet serious essays on evil.In these spirited essays, C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (Bakhtin M. M.)(Paperback)

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in

Wordy (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man

Anarchism and Other Essays (Goldman Emma)(Paperback)

In the 1890s and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the 'notorious Anarchist,' feminist, revolutionist, and agitator, Emma Goldman. A Russian Jewish immigrant at the age of 17, she moved by her own efforts from seamstress in a clothing factory to internationally known

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Lorde Audre)(Paperback)

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. ' Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.'--The New York

I Might Regret This - Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff (Jacobson Abbi)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir in essays by Abbi Jacobson, the co-creator and co-star of hit comedy series Broad

This Is It: And Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience (Watts Alan)(Paperback)

Six revolutionary essays from 'the perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise' (Deepak Chopra), exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life--and the need for them to coexist within each of us. With essays on 'cosmic

Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays (Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm)(Paperback / softback)

Index Cards (Davey Moyra)(Paperback / softback)

In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter - with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book - and links that subject to others, drawing fascinating and unlikely connections, until you can almost feel the texture