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Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Study Guide Edition)by Nancy R. Pearcey and Phillip E. Johnson List Price: $25.00 Available from Amazon $16.50 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly As a religiously adrift young adult in the 1960s, Pearcey found her way to the Swiss retreat, and the intellectually rigorous faith, of the Calvinist maverick Francis Schaeffer. This book continues the Schaeffer-inspired project that Pearcey and Chuck Colson began in How Now Shall We Live?—awakening evangelical Christians to the need for a Christian "worldview," which Pearcey defines as "a biblically informed perspective on all reality." Pearcey gives credibly argued perspectives on everything from Rousseau's rebellion against the Enlightenment, to the roots of feminism, to the spiritual poverty of celebrity-driven Christianity. She also provides a layperson's guide to the history of America's anti-intellectual strain of evangelicalism. Unfortunately for the book's chance at a wide audience, several chapters are devoted to a critique of Darwinism and defense of Intelligent Design—with no substantive engagement with the many thoughtful Christians (John Polkinghorne, Ken Miller, Nancey Murphy, etc.) who dissent from Intelligent Design's scientific and philosophical program. Still, Pearcey deftly applies Schaeffer's core insight that modernity has been built on a "two-story" view of reality—with "facts" on the ground floor and "values" up in the air. Her critique of this view is compelling, and her final chapters, which begin to sketch an integrated Christian way of living and thinking, are exceptional. This is the rare long book that leaves one wanting to read more. Copyright © Reed business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Christian Education and Publications, November 2004 An outstanding writer… If you buy only one book this year, this would be at the top of the list." |
The Writing Lifeby Annie Dillard List Price: $11.00 Available from Amazon $8.47 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Product Review Annie Dillard has spent a lot of time in remote, bare-bones shelters doing something she claims to hate: writing. Slender though it is, The Writing Life richly conveys the torturous, tortuous, and in rare moments, transcendent existence of the writer. Even for Dillard, whose prose is so mellifluous as to seem effortless, the act of writing can seem a Sisyphean task: "When you write," she says, "you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. Is it a dead end, or have you located the real subject? You will know tomorrow or this time next year." Amid moving accounts of her own writing (and life) experiences, Dillard also manages to impart wisdom to other writers, wisdom having to do with passion and commitment and taking the work seriously. "One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place. Something more will arise for later, something better." And, if that is not enough, "Assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients," she says. "That is, after all, the case. What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?" This all makes The Writing Life seem a dense, tough read, but that is not the case at all. Dillard is, after all, human, just like the rest of us. During one particularly frantic moment, four cups of coffee and not much writing down, Dillard comes to a realization: "Many fine people were out there living, people whose consciences permitted them to sleep at night despite their not having written a decent sentence that day, or ever." --Jane Steinberg
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The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practiceby Georg Feuerstein, Ken Wilbur is NOT editor, and but wrote a foreword! List Price: $29.95 Available from Amazon $18.87 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page From Booklist Feuerstein is a renowned yoga scholar and a tireless communicator, sharing his knowledge in more than two dozen books on the subject as well as translations of key yoga scriptures. Most Westerners have a limited understanding of what the term yoga, which means "union," implies. Feuerstein describes yoga as a "spectacularly multifaceted phenomena," and performs a truly yogic feat by combining commentary with translated Sanskrit teachings, history with theory, the spiritual with the practical, and the classical with the contemporary. He illuminates every facet and phase of yoga from its roots in shamanism to its connections to the complex and dynamic spirituality of India, especially yoga's relationship with Hinduism and Buddhism. Feuerstein explicates the different yogic schools and profiles key yoga teachers. Yoga is a vast and vital universe maintained over the centuries by the discipline and persistence of its practitioners, who strive to join the physical with the spiritual, the "individual self with the supreme Self." No more adept or comprehensive study of yoga aimed at a Western audience is to be found. Donna Seaman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Ken Wilber, author of A Brief history of Everything. Without a doubt the finest overall explanation of Yoga Destined to become a classic. |
Textbook of Ayurvedaby Vasant Lad List Price: $39.95 Available from Amazon $27.97 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon, M.D.; Founders, The Chopra Center for Well Being; La Jolla, California; cover of book (item) "his latest work, textbook of Ayurveda, attests to his indisputable role as the foremost expert in this ancient healing science." Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri); Author Yoga and Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Healing, and others; cover of book (item) "series is bound to revolutionize the study and practice of Ayurveda worldwide. All students of Ayurveda should seriously examine it." |
Star Wars and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy)by Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl, and William Irwin List Price: $17.95 Available from Amazon $11.67 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page The Bookwatch, September 2005 holds implications for all with its solid link between popular culture, philosophy, and social insights. Book News, Inc., May 2005 Just the thing to read while queuing for tickets, or perhaps as a source of readings for your theme wedding. |
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophyby William Barrett List Price: $12.95 Available from Amazon $9.97 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and interprets the impact of their thinking on literature, art, and philosophy. Publisher Description Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and interprets the impact of their thinking on literature, art, and philosophy. |
Island (Perennial Classics)by Aldous Huxley List Price: $13.95 Available from Amazon $10.74 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Saturday Review "A mirror for modern man. . . Should be read and reread." -- Time "An intellectual teaser in the best Huxley Tradition." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
Les Miserables: Complete and Unabridged (Signet Classics)by Victor Hugo and Norman MacAfee Available from Amazon $7.95 On 7-21-2006
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