The Western Reader

Author : Jim Kitses
Publisher : Limelight
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Reader written by Jim Kitses and published by Limelight. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly-illustrated collection of writings on western movies covers close to a century of American cinematic achievement and includes almost a half-century of essays, commentary, and interviews. The history, mythology, and landscape of the western are skillfully explored.

Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Women's Reader written by Lillian Schlissel and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2000 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking anthology compiles writing and photography from women who have called the American West home for the past three centuries. These women helped shaped the nation's history by leading protest movements and making their voices heard.

Author : John Mark Reynolds
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441259902
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Books Reader written by John Mark Reynolds and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Books programs have become increasingly popular among Christian colleges, high schools, and even home schoolers. This one-of-a-kind book is designed for those who do not have the opportunity to attend such a program but are still interested in directly engaging with the Western Canon. It contains substantial excerpts from thirty of the most important books in history, with each excerpt followed by an essay placing the work in historical and Christian context. Readers can learn directly from such authors and thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, de Tocqueville, Freud, and Chesterton. Selected as one of 2011's Best Books for Preachers by Preaching Magazine

Author : The Hillsdale College History Faculty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780916308278
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Heritage written by The Hillsdale College History Faculty and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Reader written by James Hall and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140230262
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portable Western Reader written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the Portable Wester Reader, William Kittredge has assembled stories, poems, essays, and excerpts that transcend the Western myth and explore the vast range of Western experience. With selections from more than seventy authors, and an introduction and headnotes by William Kittredge. The Portable Western Reader redefines the Western literary landscape.

Author : Callihan Wesley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989702867
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aeneid Workbook - Old Western Culture written by Callihan Wesley and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438446128
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Splendor of the True written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998), the leading figure in the perennialist school of comparative religious thought, remains one of the most provocative voices on religion. Bridging the divide between seeker and scholar, Schuon challenges the prevailing notion that religion should be studied with agnostic neutrality. He speaks to those who are looking for greater interfaith understanding and a deeper penetration to the esoteric heart of specific traditions, while turning the tables on an increasingly noisy chorus of skeptics. In Splendor of the True, James S. Cutsinger selects essential writings that reflect the full range of Schuon's thought on religion and tradition, metaphysics and epistemology, human nature and destiny, sacred art and symbolism, and spirituality and contemplative method. In addition to Schuon's essays, the book includes a number of poems, artworks, and previously unpublished materials drawn from his letters, personal memoirs, and private texts for disciples. An introductory chapter provides a careful examination of Schuon as perennial philosopher, Sufi shaykh, and teacher of gnosis.

Author : Burgess and Morgan, publishers, Cincinnati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Reader written by Burgess and Morgan, publishers, Cincinnati and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hubert Dreyfus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439101704
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Things Shining written by Hubert Dreyfus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our culture offers us no clear way to choose. This predicament seems inevitable, but in fact it’s quite new. In medieval Europe, God’s calling was a grounding force. In ancient Greece, a whole pantheon of shining gods stood ready to draw an appropriate action out of you. Like an athlete in “the zone,” you were called to a harmonious attunement with the world, so absorbed in it that you couldn’t make a “wrong” choice. If our culture no longer takes for granted a belief in God, can we nevertheless get in touch with the Homeric moods of wonder and gratitude, and be guided by the meanings they reveal? All Things Shining says we can. Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly illuminate some of the greatest works of the West to reveal how we have lost our passionate engagement with and responsiveness to the world. Their journey takes us from the wonder and openness of Homer’s polytheism to the monotheism of Dante; from the autonomy of Kant to the multiple worlds of Melville; and, finally, to the spiritual difficulties evoked by modern authors such as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Gilbert. Dreyfus, a philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, for forty years, is an original thinker who finds in the classic texts of our culture a new relevance for people’s everyday lives. His lively, thought-provoking lectures have earned him a podcast audience that often reaches the iTunesU Top 40. Kelly, chair of the philosophy department at Harvard University, is an eloquent new voice whose sensitivity to the sadness of the culture—and to what remains of the wonder and gratitude that could chase it away—captures a generation adrift. Re-envisioning modern spiritual life through their examination of literature, philosophy, and religious testimony, Dreyfus and Kelly unearth ancient sources of meaning, and teach us how to rediscover the sacred, shining things that surround us every day. This book will change the way we understand our culture, our history, our sacred practices, and ourselves. It offers a new—and very old—way to celebrate and be grateful for our existence in the modern world.