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Christian contradictions and the world revolution: Letters to my son 2 reviews
Andre Kehoe
Glendale, 1991
Shocking - will challenge your comfortable world views
When I read this book 10 years ago I was stunned. Only in the last couple of years it seems have even the BBC started to discuss issues such as East Timor, the World Bank etc in a realistic manner. If you you feel that your world is the 'civilised', 'good', 'honorable', 'tolerant', 'fair' world... then read this; especially 'The Escalating Arms Race' chapter. It will shock and probably disgust ...
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Contradictions2 reviews
Alfred Corn
Copper Canyon Press, 2008
uncommon tapestry
To a common reader, like myself, "Contradictions" may at first seem more than you can bear, the lines are so finely spun and the whole cloth blinds in its shimmering (and shifting) vision. As the book's title suggests, life and art never present a single, clear set of directions. But if you open this book and read the poems one by one, looking up unfamiliar words as the poet intended, letting ...
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Detours and Contradictions: The Challenges of Being an Entrepreneur2 reviews
Lawrence J. Spiegel
1st Books Library, 2004
Excellent Resource For Entrepreneurs
I really enjoyed Detours and Contradictions. I found the conversational tone of the book very engaging and appreciated all the concrete and useful ideas the chapters provided. The interviews from successful entrepreneurs in the field also lent an immediacy to the book that many business books lack-I was able to hear from real people how they made their business a success, from start to finish. ...
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The Contradiction2 reviews
Julian Vaughan Hampton
Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2003
The Contradiction is Awesome!!!
This is a fantastic book! I read it in one sitting and kept biting my fingernails anticipating what was coming next. I can't wait to see what's next from this writer.
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The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life6 reviews
Parker J. Palmer
Ave Maria Press, 1980
Magnificent
Congratulations (AGAIN...) to Jossey-Bass for a really smart strategic move --- originally published in 1980, Jossey-Bass (John-Wiley & Sons) purchased the rights, including the Introduction by Henri Nouwen and Voila!!! --- Like I said, another strategic masterpiece by Jossey-Bass.
I needed to read this book. As an avowed Christian, I benefit from the struggles of others who claim the name of ...
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Beautiful Contradiction:Sacred relationship secrets for attractive women (AUDIO CD)3 reviews
Dr. Tiffany Denmark
On Track Record Co., 2008
Attractive Single Women
I purchased this book for a family member who is a beautiful successful woman but always has 'man' trouble. I thought this was the typical 'improve your personality and/or looks' type of message but I was wrong. This message talks about problems outside the woman's control. Excellent!
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The Iran contradictions13 reviews
James A. Scott
AAFTON Research and Media, Inc, 2005
A definite page turner
Well, I have just added another person to my list of must read auhtors. This is definitel my kind of book to read! Loaded with intrigue, thrills and action galore! Mr. Scott has written a real winner here and I highly recommend that others take it up as well!
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Aporias (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)6 reviews
Jacques Derrida
Stanford University Press, 1993
disagree
Derrida has Heidegger wrong. Supposedly Heidegger understands death as the possibility of impossibility as such, and hence Dasein is the sein-zum-TOd, or the being towards the possibility of impossibility as such. Derrida denies the as such and asks, how can dasein be towards such an 'as such'? Heidegger says no such thing however. Dasein is not sein zum Ende, rather Dasein, correctly ...
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Paradoxical Thinking: How to Profit from Your Contradictions4 reviews
Jerry L Fletcher, Kelle Olwyler
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1997
Managing your personal paradox
When I heard about this book, I did not quite know what to expect. Reading things like 'How to profit from your contradictions' and 'bringing together the paradoxical sides of yourself to achieve outstanding results', I feared it might turn out to be kind of vague and superficial. But I decided to give the book the benefit of the doubt, because I quite liked Jerry Fletcher's previous book ...
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Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction3 reviews
MANSOUR OMAR EL-KIKHIA
University Press of Florida, 1997
First Rate Brilliance
As a political science major at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and also a frequent student of Dr. El-Kikhia, having read this book I can say that it is absolutely essential to an understanding of Libya's past and present political course and journey. Dr. El-Kikhia's unique perspective and special knowledge presents both the average reader and political science student with a powerful ...
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The New Hegemony in Literary Studies : Contradictions in Theory2 reviews
Tony Hilfer
Northwestern University Press, 2003
social scientists take note
The New Hegemony in Literary Studies: contradictions in Theory, is Professor Tony Hilfer's analysis of postmodernist epistemology -- of Theory. He is an eminent professor of English interested primarily in addressing his own colleagues. His analysis, however, will be of great interest to social scientists as well. Practitioners of Theory -- which is not a theory but a methodology -- claim that ...
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On the grotesque: Strategies of contradiction in art and literature2 reviews
Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Princeton University Press, 1982
A thorough discussion that goes beyond Kayser and Bakhtin
In this book, Harpham develops his own theory of the grotesque by exploring its history and previous critical works. Since the grotesque is present in many different forms of art it is impossible to present a wholly functional definition. Harpham traces the origins of the grotesque back to our mythic past, as autochthonous mans deal with a reality steeped with myth, in which Nature and Chaos, ...
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Way of Cross: Sign of Contradiction2 reviews
John Paul II
Pauline Books & Media, 2004
Heartfelt
This collection of prayers and meditations were led by his holiness John Paul II at the Colosseum in 2003, but was originally given in 1976 to Pope Paul VI and the Roman Curia. It was revived for John Paul II's fiftieth anniversary as pope. The images accompanying the meditations are from Marble surrounded mosaic's from St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Imogene, Iowa.
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Sign of Contradiction: Good Friday and Beyond2 reviews
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Saint Joseph Communications, 2003
Magnificent
This is an execellent recording of Archbishop Sheen's historic Good Friday talk. This is a remarkable Lenten reflection for Good Friday. Archbishop Sheen takes the listener to Jerusalem and let's you "see" events and they unfolded. Listeners will be moved to tears and to think. Thank goodness this magnificent talk was recorded.
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The Black White Divide in America Still: The Inherent Contradiction in Partial Equality1 review
Marlin Foxworth, Ralph Gordon
Regent Press, 2008
Solid and recommended reading for discussion on this touchy social issue
State sponsored segregation has been ended, but it doesn't means segregation vanished. "The Black White Divide in America ...Still" takes an examination to the strong division that America still faces racially. Race still plays a huge role in America, despite having potentially the first black president in roughly a few weeks. A scholarly discussion on the subject and how the country could move ...
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Are There Contradictions in the Bible? (Muncaster, Ralph O. Examine the Evidence Series.)1 review
Ralph O. Muncaster
Harvest House Publishers, 2002
For Belivers and Skeptics Alike
For the believer it helps you deal with the questions that the skeptics will ask. For the skeptics, it answers your questions. Yes, there are things in the Bible that on the surface appear to be contradictory. But when placed in the correct context, these things make perfect sense. It's a short book (I read it in just over an hour). It gives you just the bare basics to answer some of the ...
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Bible Difficulties and Seeming Contradictions1 review
William Arndt, Robert G. Hoerber, ...
Concordia Publishing House, 1987
Bible Difficulties and Seeming Contradictions
This book is a wonderful tool for understanding and explaining away misconceptions that there are contradictions in God Word.
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The Oswald Affair An Examination of the Contradictions and Omissions of the Warren Report2 reviews
Leo Sauvage
The World Publishing Company, 1965
Great book
Sauvage did a wonderful job analyzing the peculiar stuff that went on in Dallas and Washington about the murder of Jack Kennedy.
He makes mincemeat of the totally absurd doings of the Warren Commission and of the Dallas police.
I cannot help but wonder why this book is not better known or why it was not used by the Stokes Committee on Assassinations.
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The Atheist's Bible Companion to the New Testament: A Comprehensive Guide to Christian Bible Contradictions1 review
Mike Davis
Outskirts Press, 2009
Will become a standard
This book will surely become the standard reference for Christian Bible contradictions. As far as I can tell, no other book comes close to listing as many contradictions as this one does. It is presented in the format of a traditional Bible commentary, going through the entire New Testament by chapter and book, resulting in over 450 pages of critical commentary that will provide many new insights ...
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Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War ...1 review
John P. Hawkins
University Alabama Press, 2005
Excellent Book for Undergraduate Classes
This is a first-rate ethnography of a little known but important community: forward-deployed American solidiers, stationed in Germany at the height of the Cold War. Hawkins mixes profound structural analysis with intimate conversational portraits, to paint a picture of a military community torn between the competing demands of army life and family responsibilities. I used the text in a large ...
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