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  • Nothing Sacred

    Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction

    Edited by Bernard Schweizer, James Morrow ...
    Exploring uncharted literary territory, Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction offers the reading public a compilation of spellbinding stories on topics as diverse as crumbling male privilege, moonshine whiskey brewing, language policing, immigrant experience, sexual transgression, and plain heresy.At a time when the American publishing industry increasingly perceives fiction ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Viewpoint Diversity

    What It Is, Why We Need It, and How to Get It

    Edited by John Tomasi, Bernard Schweizer ...
    Viewpoint diversity is suddenly on everyone’s lips — yet few agree on what it really means. Is it about political balance? Free speech? Academic inclusion? Or something far more vital — the courage to engage across difference?In Viewpoint Diversity: What It Is, Why We Need It, and How to Get It, leading heterodox thinkers tackle one of the most urgent questions of our time: how to keep open ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Muslims and Humour

    Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth in Contemporary Islamic Contexts

    by Yasmin Amin ...
    This thought-provoking collection offers a multi-disciplinary approach on the subject of humour, Muslims, and Islam.Beginning with theoretical perspectives and scriptural guidance on permissible and restricted humour, the volume presents a variety of case studies about Muslim comedic practices in various cultural, political, and religious contexts.This unprecedented scholarship sheds new light on ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982

    Edited by Bernard Schweizer ...
    Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This provocative collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers have successfully adapted the masculine epic tradition to suit their own aesthetic needs and to express their own heroic literary, social, and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Radicals on the Road

    The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s

    by Bernard Schweizer ...
    In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered widely divergent and conflicting ideologies—socialist, conservative, male chauvinist, and feminist—and the major travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts. Evelyn Waugh was a declared conservative and fascist sympathizer; George Orwell was a dedicated socialist; Graham Greene wavered between his bourgeois instincts and his liberal ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Return of the Soldier

    by Rebecca West ...
    The Return of the Soldier tells the story of a shell-shocked soldier who returns home from the First World War believing that he is in love with a working-class woman from his past, rather than married to his aristocratic wife. His family and doctor must decide whether to allow him to remain safely in his delusion, or to bring him back to reality and return him to the front. A brief novel with a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Hating God

    The Untold Story of Misotheism

    by Bernard Schweizer ...
    While atheists such as Richard Dawkins have now become public figures, there is another and perhaps darker strain of religious rebellion that has remained out of sight--people who hate God. In this revealing book, Bernard Schweizer looks at men and women who do not question God's existence, but deny that He is merciful, competent, or good. Sifting through a wide range of literary and historical ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Christianity and the Triumph of Humor

    From Dante to David Javerbaum

    by Bernard Schweizer ...
    Series series Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
    This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, illustrating this point with a host of comedic examples. Humor is a powerful rhetorical tool for those who advocate and for those who satirize religious ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Hating God

    The Untold Story of Misotheism

    by Bernard Schweizer ...
    While atheists such as Richard Dawkins have now become public figures, there is another and perhaps darker strain of religious rebellion that has remained out of sight--people who hate God. In this revealing book, Bernard Schweizer looks at men and women who do not question God's existence, but deny that He is merciful, competent, or good. Sifting through a wide range of literary and historical ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Against All Gods

    Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    Do religions have an inherent right to be respected? Is atheism itself a form of religion, and can there be such a thing as a 'fundamentalist atheist'? Are we witnessing a global revival in religious zeal, or do the signs point instead to religion's ultimate decline?In a series of bold, unsparing polemics, A.C. Grayling tackles these questions head on, exposing the dangerous unreason he sees at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Big Book of Cyberpunk

    by Jared Shurin, Madeline Ashby, Maurice Broaddus, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow, William Gibson, Ken Liu, Janelle Monae, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling ...
    *A genre-defining—*and redefining—collection of the boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient speculative fiction, featuring stories from all over the globe.“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”Almost forty years ago, William Gibson wrote the line that began *Neuromancer—*and a movement that would change the face of science fiction.Award-winning ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • White Fragility

    Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    by Dr. Robin DiAngelo ...
    The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD