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  • You Say, I Say

    Staying Alive with Literature, Language, and Friendship

    de Robert Waxler, David Beckman ...
    In September, 1962, two 18-year-old freshmen at Brown University named Bob Waxler and David Beckman first crossed paths. They quickly discovered they had a lot in common, especially an abiding fascination with language, literature, and the life of art. Four years later, as college seniors, they collaborated on a small book of poems, which brought them a flurry of attention, then faded into memory ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Risk of Reading

    How Literature Helps Us to Understand Ourselves and the World

    de Professor Robert P. Waxler ...
    The Risk of Reading is a defense of the idea that deep and close readings of literature can help us to understand ourselves and the world around us. It explores some of the meaning and implications of modern life through the deep reading of significant books. Waxler argues that we need "fiction" to give our so-called "real life" meaning and that reading narrative fiction remains crucial to the ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Why Reading Books Still Matters

    The Power of Literature in Digital Times

    de Martha C. Pennington, Robert P. Waxler ...
    Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

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    An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths

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    The New York Times –bestselling author on the universal language of symbols, expressed through dream and myths, and how they illuminate our humanity.National Book Award Finalist"There has been a crying need for exactly this kind of book . . . to guide the layman in reaping some of the wisdom and insights from his dreams. . . . The remarkable value of this timely book lies in the fact that ... ... Leer más

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  • How To Read A Poem

    And Fall in Love with Poetry

    de Edward Hirsch ...
    From the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning poet and critic: "A lovely book, full of joy and wisdom." — The Baltimore SunHow to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry, feeling, and human nature. In language at once acute and emotional, Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Courage to Create

    de Rollo May ...
    What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around?In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement.A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Walking on Water

    Reflections on Faith and Art

    de Madeleine L'Engle, Sara Zarr, Lindsay Lackey ...
    In this classic book,Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as the prime tasks of an artist: to listen, to remain aware, and to respond to creation through one's own ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • 100 Poems to Break Your Heart

    de Edward Hirsch ...
    "A really beautiful book" of poems that delve into—and help us transcend—suffering, loss, fear, and loneliness, by the author of How to Read a Poem ( The Boston Globe).Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering—not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our ... Leer más

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  • You Are What You Read

    A Practical Guide to Reading Well

    de Robert DiYanni ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literatureWe are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD

  • Awakended Imagination

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    de Neville Goddard ...
    “I want this book to be the simplest, clearest, frankest work I have the power to make it, that I may encourage you to function imaginatively, that you may open your "Immortal Eyes inwards into the Worlds of Thought," where you behold every desire of your heart as ripe grain "white already to harvest." Truth depends upon the intensity of the imagination, not upon external facts. Facts are the ... Leer más

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  • The Christian Imagination

    The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

    de Leland Ryken ...
    The Christian Imagination brings together in a single source the best that has been written about the relationship between literature and the Christian faith. This anthology covers all of the major topics that fall within this subject and includes essays and excerpts from fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Sayers, and Frederick Buechner. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Freedom and Destiny

    de Rollo May ...
    The popular psychoanalyst examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny."May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist. . . . Freedom's characteristics, ... Leer más

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