"The spectacle is not a collection of images," Debord writes, "rather, it is a social relation among people, mediated by images." The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which "passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity". Degradation of human lifeĭebord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation: "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation." Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing." This condition, according to Debord, is the "historical moment at which the commodity completes its colonization of social life." The work is a series of 221 short theses in the form of aphorisms. Debord published a follow-up book Comments on the Society of the Spectacle in 1988. The book is considered a seminal text for the Situationist movement. The Society of the Spectacle (French: La société du spectacle) is a 1967 work of philosophy and Marxist critical theory by Guy Debord, in which the author develops and presents the concept of the Spectacle.
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You may read Philip Gulley’s essays in every issue of INDIANAPOLIS MONTHLY and THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. "An illuminating spiritual memoir from America’s favorite Quaker storyteller shows how beliefs learned early must often be unlearned so that more helpful and enduring understandings can thrive." Gulley's 22nd book entitled "Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe" will be released on September 25, 2018. In addition, Gulley, with co-author James Mulholland, shared their progressive spirituality in the books "If Grace Is True" and "If God Is Love,"" followed by Gulley’s books "If the Church Were Christian," "The Evolution of Faith," and "Living the Quaker Way." Philip Gulley is a Quaker minister, a best-selling author, and a master storyteller who is often compared to Garrison Keillor and Mark Twain. Gulley’s memoir, "I Love You, Miss Huddleston" was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Gulley also authored the best-selling "Porch Talk" essay series. He has written 21 books, including the "Harmony" series recounting life in the eccentric Quaker community of Harmony, Indiana and the the "Hope" series which continues the exploits of Sam Gardner, first introduced in the "Harmony" series. Gulley is a Quaker pastor, writer, and speaker from Danville, Indiana. Philip Gulley has become the voice of small town American life. The novel demonstrates the historical significance of the epidemic, which took an estimated five thousand lives, and gives readers a glimpse of public health crises and medical treatments available in the eighteenth century. Demonstrating the ongoing alarm over unknown illnesses during this time, Fever 1793 provides a sense of the daily life of Philadelphians in the early national period. 1961) depicts 1793 America through the eyes of Mattie, who, when the fever hits in late August, struggles to live in a city overtaken by fear. The historical novel by Laurie Halse Anderson (b. Published in 2000, Fever 1793 is a young adult novel that tells the story of a 14-year-old girl named Mattie Cook, who fights to survive the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, the Place that Loves You Back. The present review deals with the analysis of the cytological processess occurring during tissue regeneration in the tail and limb of lizards. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The lizard model is usually neglected in the literature despite the fact that the lizard is an amniote with a basic histological structure similar to that of mammals, and it is therefore a better model than the salamander (an a- mniote) model to investigate regeneration issues. This condition offers a unique opportunity to study at the same time mechanisms that in different regions of the same animal control the success or failure of regeneration. Lizards represent the only amniotes that at the same time show successful organ regeneration, in the tail, and organ failure, in the limb (Marcucci 1930a, b Simpson 1961, 1970, 1983). The term “regeneration” is intended here as “the ability of an adult organism to recover damaged or completely lost body parts or organs.” The process of recovery is further termed “restitutive regeneration” when the lost part is reformed and capable of performing the complete or partial physiological activity performed by the original, lost body part. The present review covers a very neglected field in regeneration studies, namely, tissue and organ regeneration in reptiles, especially represented by the lizard model of regeneration. Even though I grew up on my family’s stories of Cuba, this story was one that hadn’t been shared with me before, and as a writer, I was gripped with the question: If you were forced to flee the only home you’d ever known and you didn’t know when you would be able to go back, what would you choose to save for when you could return? From that question, Next Year in Havana was born. In the summer of 2016, my father told me a family story-of a night before my father and grandparents left Cuba in 1967 when the family met under the cover of darkness and buried their most valuable possessions in the backyard of their home since they couldn’t take them with them in exile. What inspired you to write Next Year in Havana? If I find it on other international retail sites, I’ll share the information here. The hardcover and ebook are also available from Amazon. If you’re outside of Spain, you can order a hardcover copy of the Spanish edition from Book Depository. It released in Spain from the Spanish publisher Maeva in November 2020. This has been at the top of my wishlist for a long time. Yes! I am so thrilled to share that Next Year in Havana has been translated into Spanish. Will Next Year in Havana be translated into Spanish? These initiatives have functioned as a potent political decoy to avoid more fundamental reforms and racial redress. Not only could black banks not "control the black dollar" due to the dynamics of bank depositing and lending but they drained black capital into white banks, leaving the black economy with the scraps.Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap. Instead, housing segregation, racism, and Jim Crow credit policies created an inescapable, but hard to detect, economic trap for black communities and their banks.The catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty. Studying these institutions over time, Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the myth that black communities could ever accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. As he leaves to get Nelson and the car, an irritated Harry is oppressed by the chaos of the apartment: The couple’s two-and-a-half-year-old son Nelson is with Rabbit’s parents. She is six-months pregnant and irritable. Just yesterday, it seems to him, she stopped being pretty. She is a small woman whose skin tends toward olive and looks tight, as if something swelling inside is straining against her littleness. There, he finds his wife Janice sitting in an armchair with an Old-fashioned, watching television turned down low. When he finishes his game, he heads home to his apartment in Mount Judge, a suburb of the much larger 100,000-resident city of Brewer. In fact, at the very, very beginning of John Updike’s 1960 novel Rabbit, Run, the 26-year-old, 6’ 3” Harry is playing pickup basketball with some kids, young enough to know nothing of his fame a decade earlier. Rabbit was a high school athlete, a star basketball player, known for scoring and never getting called for a foul. His hands lift of their own and he feels the wind on his ears even before, his heels hitting heavily on the pavement at first but with an effortless gathering out of a kind of sweet panic growing lighter and quicker and quieter, he runs. At the end, he is running willy-nilly, without direction, into the unknown. Later, he is running to - to the hospital. At the start, Harry Angstrom, nicknamed Rabbit, is running away. and alter the destiny of humankind forever.Ĭombining the historic scope of The Da Vinci Code with the relentless thrills of today's best action novels, James Rollins's Black Order is a classic adventure - an ingenious and breathtaking tour de force that explodes with revelations. Now it is up to Gray Pierce to save both Painter and Lisa - and a world in jeopardy - as SIGMA Force races to expose a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order. Lisa's only ally is a hidden pilgrim, Painter Crowe - director of SIGMA Force, an elite command of American scientists and Special Forces operatives - who is already showing signs of the baffling malady that destroyed the minds of the monks. Lisa Cummings, a young American doctor investigating the atrocity, is suddenly a target of a brutal assassin working for clandestine forces that want the affair buried at any cost. and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland.Ī continent away, madness ravages a remote monastery high in Nepal, as Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism and torture. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. Librarian's note: This is an Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0752876457 ISBN13: 9780752876450.Ī sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she’s known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn’t just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined. Relief and happiness coursed through her. Ildiko closed her book and offered him a drowsy smile. He leaned against the door frame and crossed his arms. This slowburn romance follows Brishen and Ildiko. Brishen stood at the threshold, dressed down to undertunic and trousers, his feet bare and his hair damp. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Book 1 and 2 of The Wraith Kings series, following the love of Brishen and Ildiko, by Grace Draven. Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. "Radiant.A dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism." - New York Times Book ReviewĪ powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into a cult's acts of terrorism. The Incendiaries arrives at precisely the right moment." - The Washington Post "The most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be.unusual and enticing. " Religion, politics, and love collide in this slim but powerful novel reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, with menace and mystery lurking in every corner." - People Magazine |