Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: contemporary, artist, robert, irwin, life, sees, forgetting, name, thing, one, seeing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1982
ISBN-10: 0520045955
ISBN-13: 9780520045958

Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space

Author: Douglas Wilson
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
Keywords: press, comes, intervarsity, maturity, post, contours
Number of Pages: 66
Published: 2000-06-01
ISBN-10: 188576720X
ISBN-13: 9781885767202

"The Special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it. It says, in mockery of old devotees, that they believed without knowing why they believed. But the moderns believe without knowing what they believe - and without even knowing that they do believe it. Their freedom consists in first freely assuming a creed, and then freely forgetting that they are assuming it."-- G.K. Chesterton"And that goes double for postmodernists."-- Jube Tarbox

Author: Michael Gilsenan
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: arab, society, narrative, violence, lebanese, marches, lords
Number of Pages: 377
Published: 1996
ISBN-10: 0520205898
ISBN-13: 9780520205895

Michael Gilsenan looks at the relations between different forms of power, violence, and hierarchy in Akkar, the northernmost province of Lebanon, during the 1970s. Often regarded as backward and feudal, in reality this area was controlled primarily by groups with important roles in government and business in Beirut. The most "feudal" landowners had often done most to introduce capitalist methods to their estates, and "backwardness" was a condition produced by this form of political and social control.Gilsenan uses material from his stay in Akkar and a variety of historical sources to analyze t

Author: Gert Oostindie
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: forgetting, commemorating, silencing, years, five, netherlands, sixty, postcolonial
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2012-02-15
ISBN-10: 9089643532
ISBN-13: 9789089643537

The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies - Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in the Dutch language and culture as well as a strong rhetorical argument ("We are here because you were there!") were important assets of the first generation, facilitating its integration into the Dutch society. The current Dutch population counts two million non-Western migrants, and the past decade witnessed heated debates about multiculturalism, the most important ones centered on acknowledgement and inclusi

Author: Michael Gilsenan
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: arab, society, narrative, violence, lebanese, marches, lords
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 1996
ISBN-10: 0520205901
ISBN-13: 9780520205901

Michael Gilsenan looks at the relations between different forms of power, violence, and hierarchy in Akkar, the northernmost province of Lebanon, during the 1970s. Often regarded as backward and feudal, in reality this area was controlled primarily by groups with important roles in government and business in Beirut. The most "feudal" landowners had often done most to introduce capitalist methods to their estates, and "backwardness" was a condition produced by this form of political and social control.Gilsenan uses material from his stay in Akkar and a variety of historical sources to analyze t

Author: Chris F. Needham
Publisher: Now Or Never Publishing Co.
Keywords: heights, falling
Number of Pages: 163
Published: 2007-07-15
ISBN-10: 0973955813
ISBN-13: 9780973955811

Two voices, two families, two interweaving narratives with thirty years dividing them. In 1972 Birdie Cormack enters a highly controversial experiment in Toronto. Her story unfolds piece by fascinating piece, mostly by way of a compelling series of letters written to her parents. And in 2002 Jeremy Jacks returns to the West Coast after a failed bid to become a writer back east. As he grudgingly reassumes his role at home, his brother Robert, fuelled by fear and rage and a recent suspension from his teaching position at the local high school, reels off on a dangerous and destructive path, expos