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Living With Contradiction: An Introduction to Benedictine Spirituality

2 reviews
Esther De Waal

Morehouse Publishing, 1998

Living in the tension
The first word of the Rule of St. Benedict is 'Listen'. This rule, composed centuries ago for Benedict's community, and continued by communities across the world to this day, is a powerful way of living into the fullness of God's grace and love. However, as the title of this text by Esther de Waal indicates, it is not always an easy rule, nor one that is immediately grasped and completely ...

Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship (Global, Area, and ...
Charles R. Hale

University of California Press, 2008

Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate the knowledge and leadership of their informants directly into the process of knowledge production. What ethical, political, and practical tensions arise in the course of such work? In this wide-ranging and ...

Self-Contradictions of the Bible (Forgotten Books)

6 reviews
William Henry Burr

Forgotten Books, 2007

Self-Contradictions of the Bible
I consider William Henry Burr's Self-Contradictions of the BibleEa smashing success. Burr truly brings out simple fact that the belief that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and literally true word of God - thrives on ignorance, not just of a general sort, but an ignorance of the Bible itself. Because of critical thinkers like William Burr, the Apologetics are nowadays working evermore ...

The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

1 review
Franklin E. Zimring

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Praise for The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment
"Zimring does us a great public service in examining the United States' retention of a primitive and brutal punishment long after it was abandoned by other developed nations. This book will help insure that the inevitable abandonment of capital punishment by the United States is not delayed for another generation." Stephen Bright Director, Southern Center for Human Rights "Frank Zimring's book ...

Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays

1 review

Plume, 1996

Good Scala of the Afro--American Theatre
The plays presented in this lovely book are a fair representation of the African-American playwrights of the 20th Century. There are naturally many more that could have been added in this volume, but these give a fair representation of the Afro-American playwriting genre.

Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer
Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu, ...

Wiley, 2008

To an outsider, Toyota is hard to understand. The company moves forward gradually while also advancing in big leaps. It is frugal with its resources while spending extravagantly on people and projects. It is both efficient and redundant; it cultivates an environment of stability and paranoia; it is hierarchical and bureaucratic, but encourages dissent; it demands that communication be simplified while building complex communication networks. ...

9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press

22 reviews
David Ray Griffin

Interlink Publishing Group, 2008

David Ray Griffin has an exceptional gift for grasping significant distinctions
The mind of David Ray Griffin is refreshingly clear and logical. His meticulous research and critical analysis of documentary evidence is astute and compelling. In "9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press," Dr. Griffin presents a logical sequence of irrefutable facts drawn from actual documents and testimony that demonstrate twenty five internal contradictions in the ...

Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

5 reviews
Robert Venturi

"The Museum of Modern Art, New York", 1977

Gateway towards looking at architecture
I had to read this book for a class specifically regarding Robert Venturi and the postmodernism movement that he became a leading proponent of. However, this book is NOT a manifesto for a postmodern vacabulary- rather, this book looks at all architecture from the Parthenon to the common family home. Let me say that I have read many architectural theory books, but nothing that really inspired me ...

Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation
Rodney Clapp

Westminster, 2008

In this brief book, I will focus on the [America s great] contradictions . . . [its] simultaneous embrace of holiness and hedonism, its pining love of tradition as it carries on a headlong romantic affair with progress, its extreme individualism coursing beside a gigantic, gaping yearning for community, and its insistence on innocence at the same time it revels in violence. I will gnaw at the marrows of these American bones bones of contention ...

The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism: 20th Anniversary Edition

5 reviews
Daniel Bell

Basic Books, 1996

A thoughtful and detailed analysis of modernity
The first thing you realize when reading the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism is that Daniel Bell is smarter than you. That's a good thing, because he interprets the classic philosophers (Marx, Aristotle, Weber) in the context of the 20th century, and reveals problems in society that I never quite realized. He's not quite as cogent as Aristotle, and I think he's only witty in person, ...

The Law of Non-Contradiction

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

The Law of Non-Contradiction -- that no contradiction can be true -- has been a seemingly unassailable dogma since the work of Aristotle, in Book G of the Metaphysics. It is an assumption challenged from a variety of angles in this collection of original papers. Twenty-three of the world's leading experts investigate the "law," considering arguments for and against it and discussing methodological issues that arise whenever we question the ...

Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States

1 review
Alan Wallach

University of Massachusetts Press, 1998

Wonderful essays by a first-rate scholar
"Exhibiting Contradictions" is a terrific collection. It may well be unique in its field, moreover, for containing NO academic jargon. No sites are contested, no subject positions are occupied. Amazing! The clear writing makes it an excellent book both for specialists and for those with a general interest in art and art history, the changing role of museums, and the quote-unquote politicization ...

Living With Contradiction: Reflections on the Rule of St. Benedict

1 review
Esther De Waal

HarperOne, 1989

Living in the tension...
The first word of the Rule of St. Benedict is 'Listen'. This rule, composed centuries ago for Benedict's community, and continued by communities across the world to this day, is a powerful way of living into the fullness of God's grace and love. However, as the title of this text by Esther de Waal indicates, it is not always an easy rule, nor one that is immediately grasped and completely ...

In Contradiction: A Study of the Transconsistent
Graham Priest

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

In Contradiction advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a view that flies in the face of orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The book has been at the center of the controversies surrounding dialetheism ever since its first publication in 1987. This second edition of the book substantially expands upon the original in various ways, and also contains the author's reflections on developments ...

Mormonism Unmasked: Confronting the Contradictions Between Mormon Beliefs and True Christianity

49 reviews
R. Philip Roberts

B&H Publishing Group, 1998

The Truth about Polygamy and Joseph Smith
Dr. Phillip Roberts in his book Mormonism Unmasked (Nashville: B & H Publishing, 1998) provides an easy to read and thorough understanding of historic Mormonism as it relates to the subject of polygamy in the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) church. This group broke from the Latter Day Saints years ago when the LDS changed its views on polygamy. States Roberts on this subject: "Joseph ...

On Practice and Contradiction (Revolutions)
Mao Zedong

Verso, 2007

In this dazzling new series, philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek interrogates key writings on revolution. These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's ...

The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood

1 review
Sharon Hays

Yale University Press, 1998

Interesting, but the methods are questionable
An interesting book for anyone who has ever grappled with balancing work and motherhood. However, Hays' review of secondary sources on family life throughout the ages reads like an undergraduate term-paper. Hays' analysis of child-rearing manuals concludes that while people are buying these manuals, the effect upon them is unknown. The meat of her analysis is based upon interviews with 38 ...

Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History

10 reviews
Hans Schmidt

University Press of Kentucky, 1998

war is for big business
anyone who questions the validity of going to war needs to read this book.

Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

1 review
Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

Basic Books, 1977

A classic work on the intersection of education and the class structure of the economy
Bowles and Gintis argue that schooling is designed to prepare students for to be dominated by the system of industrial capitalism. The authors argue that schooling has more to do with disciplining the workforce than it does with anything like critical thinking or creativity. This is a landmark book that has had a wide influence on the field of education. Its findings are still quite relevant ...

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