Delusions of Grandeur
Title | Delusions of Grandeur PDF eBook |
Author | Joey Franklin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 149621210X |
In Delusions of Grandeur Joey Franklin examines the dreams and delusions of America's most persistent mythologies--including the beliefs in white supremacy and rugged individualism and the problems of toxic masculinity and religious extremism--as they reveal themselves in the life of a husband and father fast approaching forty. With prose steeped in research and a playful, lyric attention to language, Franklin asks candid questions about what it takes to see clearly as a citizen, a parent, a child, a neighbor, and a human being. How should a white father from the suburbs talk with his sons about the death of Trayvon Martin? What do video games like Fortnite and Minecraft reveal about our appetites for destruction? Is it possible for Americans to celebrate bootstrap pioneer history while also lamenting the slavery that made it possible? How does the American tradition of exploiting cheap labor create a link between coal mining and plasma donation in southeast Ohio? Part cultural critique, part parental confessional, Delusions of Grandeur embraces the notion that the personal is always political, and reveals important, if sometimes uncomfortable, truths about our American obsessions with race, class, religion, and family.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
Title | Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity PDF eBook |
Author | Abraham Joshua Heschel |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1997-05-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780374524951 |
Gathers essays by the Jewish scholar, activist, and theologian about Judaism, Jewish heritage, social justice, ecumenism, faith, and prayer.
Full House
Title | Full House PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0674061616 |
Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.
How to Want what You Have
Title | How to Want what You Have PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Miller |
Publisher | Henry Holt |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780805033175 |
Convincing readers that wanting what they have is the secret of happiness, the author offers a simple, practical, and credible method to achieving this end by applying principles of Compassion, Attention, and Gratitude to everyday living. 20,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
All the Places to Love
Title | All the Places to Love PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1994-04-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0060210982 |
Within the sanctuary of a loving family, baby Eli is born and, as he grows, "learns to cherish the people and places around him, eventualy passing on what he has discovered to his new baby sister, Sylvie: 'All the places to love are here . . . no matter where you may live.' This loving book will be something to treasure."'BL."The quiet narrative is so intensely felt it commands attention. . . . a lyrical celebration."'K.
Everyday Christian Life
Title | Everyday Christian Life PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic William Farrar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Christian life |
ISBN |
The Christian Souvenir; Or, Reflections for Every Day in the Year. Selected from the Writings of Approved Authors. Seventh Edition
Title | The Christian Souvenir; Or, Reflections for Every Day in the Year. Selected from the Writings of Approved Authors. Seventh Edition PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | |
ISBN |