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  • Fenollosa: the Far East and American Culture

    by Lawrence W Chisolm ...
    Lawrence W. Chisolm's Fenollosa: The Far East and American Culture is a comprehensive biography of Ernest Fenollosa, the influential scholar, collector, and advocate of East Asian art whose work helped bridge the cultural gap between Japan and the West. A key figure in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Fenollosa played a crucial role in preserving and promoting traditional Japanese painting, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Life You Save May Be Your Own

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    by Paul Elie ...
    A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year: "A fascinating multiple biography of four of the most influential Catholic literary figures of the 20th century." — BooklistWinner, PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction * Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award * An Atlantic Monthly Book of the Year * A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year * A San Jose Mercury News Top Book of the ... Read more

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  • Japanese Design

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    **Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2015**This Japanese design book presents the arts, aesthetics and culture of Japan with over 160 stunning color photos and extensive historical and cultural commentary .The Japanese sensibility often possesses an intuitive, emotional appeal, whether it's a silk kimono, a carefully raked garden path, an architectural marvel, a teapot, or a ... Read more

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  • The Great Wave

    Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

    by Christopher Benfey ...
    When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern state, ultimately transforming itself, in the ... Read more

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  • Fables Of Abundance

    A Cultural History Of Advertising In America

    by Jackson Lears ...
    Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States. ... Read more

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  • Witness to Freedom

    by Thomas Merton ...
    Witness to Freedom is the fifth and final volume in the extraordinary correspondence of "one of the most original and challenging minds of the mid-twentieth century" (John Tracy Ellis, The New York Times Book Review). Dramatic and revealing, these letters deal with periods of serious crisis in Thomas Merton's life and vocation, giving readers, in his own words, the details and behind-the-scene ... Read more

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  • Gurdjieff And Orage

    by Paul Beekman Taylor ...
    A fascinating look at the introduction of the Gurdjieff "work" into North America and an intimate view of the relationship between G.I. Gurdjieff and A.R. Orage, the two people most prominently responsible for its migration from Europe. Filled with deeply insightful material about these two unique and highly influential men and the nature and origins of the spiritual path that they taught. ... Read more

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  • The Blue Sapphire of the Mind

    Notes for a Contemplative Ecology

    by Douglas E. Christie ...
    "There are no unsacred places," the poet Wendell Berry has written. "There are only sacred places and desecrated places." What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that it is no longer possible to imagine it as something separate from ourselves, or to live without regard for its well-being? To understand the work of seeing things as an utterly involving moral and spiritual ... Read more

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  • Beauty Will Save the World

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    by Gregory Wolfe ...
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    The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment.Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates ... Read more

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  • Henry David Thoreau

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