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  • The Moral World of The Sun Also Rises

    A significant new contribution to Hemmingway scholarship, this book seeks to show that the moral world of The Sun Also Rises is profoundly unstable, and that every character can be seen as being both endorsed and critiqued by the text. This is manifested especially in Jake’s status as a partially reliable narrator, and above all in his judgment of Brett. Jake consistently hides his true feelings ... Leer más

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  • Teaching Literature at Ridgeview

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    This collection of essays demonstrates that using fiction, poetry, and drama in the classroom provides students with the best opportunity to learn about thinking, writing, and life at their deepest levels. Several of the contributors have worked or studied at Ridgeview Classical School in Fort Collins, Colorado. E. D. Hirsch, in The Making of Americans, has said of this school that its success ... Leer más

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  • Shrinking Cities

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States. The book juxtaposes the complex and numerous processes that contribute to these patterns with broader policy frameworks that have been under consideration to address shrinkage in U.S. cities. A range of methods are employed to answer ... Leer más

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  • Dexter and Philosophy

    Mind over Spatter

    Series Libro 58 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another?Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a sense of justice but a charming psychopath animated by a lust to kill, ritualistically and bloodily. However ... Leer más

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  • Missing Out

    In Praise of the Unlived Life

    de Adam Phillips ...
    A leading psychoanalyst presents a transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach us about who we are.All of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable presence, a shadow at our heels. And this itself can become the ... Leer más

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  • Coming Apart

    The State of White America, 1960-2010

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity.“I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society.”—David Brooks, New York Times**In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American ... Leer más

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  • Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy

    New Life for the Undead

    Series Libro 49 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture. Today, zombies and vampires have taken over TV shows, comic books, cartoons, video games, and movies. Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy drags the theories of famous philosophers like Socrates and Descartes into the territory of the undead, exploring questions like: Why ... Leer más

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  • Colorblind

    The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

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    Series series City Lights Open Media
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  • Unforbidden Pleasures

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  • What It Means to Be a Libertarian

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    Charles Murray believes that America's founders had it right--strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society. In What It Means to Be a Libertarian, he proposes a government reduced to the barest essentials: an executive branch consisting only of the White House and trimmed-down departments of state, defense, ... Leer más

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