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  • Moral Soundings

    Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life

    de Richard Rorty, Steven Fesmire, Stanley Kurtz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jerry Weinberger, Leon Kass, Jane Smiley, Thomas Pogge, Richard Pipes, James Twitchell, David Marsland, David Bosworth, Christina Hoff Sommers, Edward W. Said, Janet C. Gornick, Isabel V. Sawhill, Albert Borgmann, Jerry L. Walls, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Cornel West ...
    Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent voices in the humanities and social sciences provide a range of perspectives on a concentrated ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Where Men Hide

    de James B. Twitchell ...
    "If you ask men if they spend any time hiding, they usually look at you as if you're nuts. 'What, me hide?' But if you ask women whether men hide, they immediately know what you mean."—from Where Men HideWhere Men Hide is a spirited tour of the dark and often dirty places men go to find comfort, camaraderie, relaxation, and escape. Ken Ross's striking photographs and James Twitchell's lively ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Winnebago Nation

    The RV in American Culture

    de James B. Twitchell ...
    In Winnebago Nation, popular critic James B. Twitchell takes a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend the night in one's car. For the young the roadtrip is a coming-of-age ceremony; for those later in life it is the realization of a lifelong desire to be spontaneous, nomadic, and free. Informed by his own experiences on the road, Twitchell recounts the RV's ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Branded Nation

    The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld

    de James B. Twitchell ...
    Branding, says James Twitchell, is nothing more than commercial storytelling; brands are the stories that are associated with products. (For example, the special taste of Evian, says Twitchell, is in the brand, not the water.) Branding has become so successful, so ubiquitous that even institutions that we thought were above branding, antithetical to branding, have succumbed. Such cultural ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Voluntary Simplicity

    Responding to Consumer Culture

    de David Brooks, Duane Elgin, Richard B. Gregg, Edward N. Luttwak, A H. Maslow, Arnold Mitchell, David G. Myers, David Shi, Juliet Schor, James B. Twitchell, Charles Wagner, Amitai Etzioni, Robert Frank ...
    Series series Rights & Responsibilities
    A simpler life. In a shadow cast by the jarring beginning of the new millennium, simplicity has an undeniable appeal. Global conflicts, domestic security concerns, and a stalling economy can make keeping up with the Joneses feel like, at best, a misguided luxury. Now is not a time for excess; it is a time, it would seem, to focus on "what really matters." Thus the appeal of voluntary simplicity, a ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Look Away Dixieland

    A Carpetbagger's Great-Grandson Travels Highway 84 in Search of the Shack-up-on-Cinder-Blocks, Confederate-Flag-Waving, Squirrel-Hunting, Boiled-Peanuts, Deep-Drawl, Don't-Stop-the-Car-Here South

    de James B. Twitchell ...
    As a boy, James Twitchell heard stories about his ancestors in Louisiana and even played with his great-grandfather's Civil War sword, but he never appreciated the state and the events that influenced a pivotal chapter in his family history. His great-grandfather, Marshall Harvey Twitchell, a carpetbagger from Vermont, had settled in upstate Louisiana during Reconstruction, married a local girl, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Living It Up

    Our Love Affair with Luxury

    de James B. Twitchell ...
    Economic downturns and terrorist attacks notwithstanding, America's love affair with luxury continues unabated. Over the last several years, luxury spending in the United States has been growing four times faster than overall spending. It has been characterized by political leaders as vital to the health of the American economy as a whole, even as an act of patriotism. Accordingly, indices of ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Living It Up

    Our Love Affair with Luxury

    de James B. Twitchell ...
    Economic downturns and terrorist attacks notwithstanding, America's love affair with luxury continues unabated. Over the last several years, luxury spending in the United States has been growing four times faster than overall spending. It has been characterized by political leaders as vital to the health of the American economy as a whole, even as an act of patriotism. Accordingly, indices of ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • The Living Dead

    A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature

    de James B. Twitchell ...
    In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Shopping for God

    How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face

    de James B. Twitchell ...
    Not so long ago religion was a personal matter that was seldom discussed in public. No longer. Today religion is everywhere, from books to movies to television to the internet-to say nothing about politics. Now religion is marketed and advertised like any other product or service. How did this happen? And what does it mean for religion and for our culture?Just as we shop for goods and services, we ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Winnebago Nation

    The RV in American Culture

    de James B. Twitchell ...
    In Winnebago Nation, popular critic James B. Twitchell takes a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend the night in one's car. For the young the roadtrip is a coming-of-age ceremony; for those later in life it is the realization of a lifelong desire to be spontaneous, nomadic, and free. Informed by his own experiences on the road, Twitchell recounts the RV's ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • 25+ The World's Greatest Short Stories. Vol 1

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Gold Bug, Daisy Miller, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Call of Cthulhu and others

    de Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rudyard Kipling, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anton Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolay Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, W.W. Jacobs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft, Alexsandr Pushkin, G.K. Chesterton ...
    Traducido por Constance Garnett, H. Twitchell, S.E. Torrens ...
    The short story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with "the first men who told their stories round the savage campfire."The short story is today our most common literary product. It is read by everyone. Not every boy or girl will read novels after leaving school, but every boy or girl is certain to read short stories. It is important in the high ... Leer más

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