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Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism)

1 review
Jonathan Z. Smith

University Of Chicago Press, 1988

Analytical genius
Jonathan Z. Smith is the enfant terrible of the History of Religions discipline, although he's no longer young. From his first essays (collected in Map Is Not Territory) to his more recent musings in To Take Place and Drudgery Divine, he has outraged, stimulated, challenged, and restructured the study of religion in the modern academy. Each essay here is a little gem, and should be read and ...

Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women

10 reviews

New World Library, 2006

My friend, and all that...
My friend, who dropped by my office to take me out for dinner, saw the Imagining Ourselves book on my desk. "What's this?" she asked. "I just got it from Amazon, take a look" I said. "I don't think I'm gonna like it", she said, "all these books about women empowerment and all, I never connect with all this." My friend is a scientist. With her PhD in biology, working at an Ivy League university ...

Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art (The Modern American West)

1 review
Richard Etulain

University of Arizona Press, 1996

Fascinating inspection of views on the West
Etulain's book is an investigative historiographical "overview of the cultural and intellectual history of the twentieth century" (xiii). Generally well written and always interesting, he examines the boundaries and evolution of western historical thought. To effectively handle this matter he breaks his book into three parts, titled "The West as Frontier," "The West as Region," and "The West as ...

Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land, Revised Edition

4 reviews

Persea Books, 2003

Good for university classrooms
Excellent variety of multi-cultural American writing. Offers new materials for thinking about immigration, immigrants' experiences, etc. I've used it in an Introduction to Fiction class at a university with good success.

Imagining Argentina

20 reviews
Lawrence Thornton

Bantam, 1991

Impressive Novel
I was assigned Thornton's Imagining Argentina for my International Politics class last semester and dreaded the day that I would have to read the book. Much to my surprise, Imagining Argentina is a gripping novel about the tortures experienced in Argentina and throughout South America. Thornton's grasp of Magical Realism is astonishing, especially given his native tongue and land. Thornton shows ...

Imagining Reality

8 reviews
Lynn Galli

Outskirts Press, 2007

Made me want to read more
I found the tone of Lynn Galli's second book to be completely different from her first, but still very enjoyable. It was sweet and romantic, not what I was expecting from a story about Jessie. That's one of the reasons why I liked it so much. The switch back and forth from Jessie to Lauren's point of view gives us even more insight into this eclectic group of friends. Getting more of Austy and ...

Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category

2 reviews
David Valentine

Duke University Press, 2007

A Different World
If you're intrigued about people and society, how different groups form, how identity is shaped and created, read this. Anthropology isn't just about societies in the so-called Third World; it's about the so-called civilized world too, as Dr Valentine shows. Read it and be intrigued.

Imagining the Balkans

8 reviews
Maria N. Todorova

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

Unlearning the Balkans
As a longtime student of Ms Todorova's (I was under her tutelage for about four years and still correspond with her today), I found this book to be an excellent synopsis of her personal and professional opinions and anecdotes concerning the Balkans. It was like taking my class notes and one-on-one discussions, sifting out the dates, places and events and putting a binding on them. All of her ...

Imagining Multilingual Schools: Language in Education and Globalization (Linguistic Diversity and Language ...

Multilingual Matters Limited, 2006

Imagining a Sermon (Abingdon Preacher's Library)
Thomas H. Troeger

Abingdon Press, 1990

Imagining to Learn: Inquiry, Ethics, and Integration Through Drama

2 reviews
Brian Edmiston, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

Heinemann Drama, 1998

Easy to read and full of ideas!
IMAGINING TO LEARN is the most readable of the five books I have read on process drama. Wilhelm and Edmiston write with personality, which seems to be rare in the field. I found seventeen drama strategies scattered through the book. Having these strategies close at hand makes it easier to guide the students as they take off with a topic. The chapter on using drama for inquiry was ...

Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings (Joe ...
Magali M. Carrera

University of Texas Press, 2003

Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited. The discourse of calidad (status) and raza (lineage) on which the regulations were based also found expression in the visual culture of New ...

Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 (The New Cold War History)

1 review
Mark Philip Bradley

The University of North Carolina Press, 2000

ironies abound
From an already fragmentary record, Bradley describes a Vietnam in its last years of French and Japanese colonialism. A sense of piquancy pervades the narrative. We see how American officials tried to wean the French off their colonial role and to encourage indigenous ["native"] Vietnamese participation in their country's economy. There is also shown admiration by the Vietnamese of American ...

Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement

5 reviews
S. Ilan Troen

Yale University Press, 2003

Superb. A sweeping study of Zionist settlement of Palestine
This is a superb book. A sweeping study of the Zionist settlement of Palestine from the late nineteenth century to our own time, it analyzes the ideological, pragmatic, and ultimately strategic concerns that shaped the nature of Jewish communities in the State of Israel as well as the pre-state period. It succeeds in integrating the story of the building of Israel--from the kibbutz to Tel Aviv to ...

Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking About Time and Space

14 reviews
Rob, Bryanton

Trafford Publishing, 2007

Imagination is Good
There are times when those in academia are right to be critical of poorly conceived ideas but there are also times when such criticism only inhibits new ways of seeing. This book conveys a very different and unique way of looking at the universe. The author doesn't assume pre-existent dimensions of height, width, depth, and time, only an indefinable point that evolves into curved spaces, creating ...

Imagining Tibet: Realities, Projections, and Fantasies

2 reviews
Thierry Dodin

Wisdom Publications, 2001

Getting Real About Tibet
This is a great book if you want to learn more about the reality of Tibet, rather than the numerous romantic myths that have been spawned about it in the West. Having lived from my teens to mid-Twenties in a Canadian community where Tibetans were resettled, I can tell you first hand that they are no more good or bad in general than any other people group. Reading a book like this will save you a ...

Imagining America: Icons of 20th-Century American Art
John Carlin, Jonathan Fineberg

Yale University Press, 2005

How did artists of the twentieth century use their work to respond to their unique personal experiences and moment in history? This provocative question is explored in this engaging new book on American art. By focusing on broad, defining themes, embodied in the work of such pivotal artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, the authors look at how art provided a means for re-imagining America, ...

Imagining The Big Open
Lisa Nicholas

University of Utah Press, 2003

Business, Ethics, and the Environment: Imagining a Sustainable Future (Basic Ethics in Action)
Joseph DesJardins

Prentice Hall, 2006

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