books about: imagining     books:       Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category2 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 America: Stories from the Promised Land, Revised Edition4 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.             The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Old Church7 reviews Diana Butler Bass The Alban Institute, 2004 Thinking off the page I actually heard Dr. Butler Bass present this material at a clergy day in my diocese last year. Her work is both insightful and challenging. I especially appreciate her willingness to admit the shortcomings of her theories, not just gloss over them. The three-dimensional grid was particularly helpful, especially for those of us in the lower left quadrant -- progressive emergers. It can seem ...             Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy4 reviews Stephen Duncombe New Press, 2007 Dream on: You must read this book. While there is a lot of rumbling on the political left (or anyone who is not fanatically right) solutions are rarely put forward. The less than inspiring way that the Democrats triumphed this November (by default) makes this clear. Duncombe's book is one of the first books that takes as its model the possibility that joy and dreams can be fundamental in not only creating the models for solutions ...             Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir11 reviews Jay Neugeboren Rutgers University Press, 2003 A Moving Memoir I absolutely loved this book. Reviewers here have complained that it's not just about Robert, but about the author and his life. I loved that fact. I too have a brother w/ a mental illness, and I too am a teacher and I like to write. I found all of these stories -- the story of Robert, Jay's connection to him, Jay's struggle to tell Robert's story, and Jay's life as a father -- all equally ...             Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush1 review Herbert J. Gans University of Michigan Press, 2008 A liberal manifesto for our age. I have urged my friends who share my vision of a just and prosperous USA to read this book carefully. Gans is essentially writing a manifesto of what should and should not be done, but this book reads more like a novel about three real and interesting people--future presidents of the USA--and not like a lecture on political phiilosophy. Strongly recommended.             Imagining Egypt4 reviews Mark Millmore Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2007 Imagining Egypt review This is a great book whether you're a new or confirmed Egyptophile. The artwork is fabulous, especially the recreations of ancient sites. The information is clear without being condescending; a good read for anyone interested.             Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life5 reviews Beverly Lowry Anchor, 2008 Very insightful - brings history to reality Very insightful - brings history to reality; I'm at Amazon now looking for other books by this author. She has fit so many details found from so many places to truly work a story. The author, like "the General" herself, is an excellent story teller. I couldn't wait to read more each night! Too, I liked that the author used third person to tell the story in an artful way, allowing me to both ...             Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy Yuval Levin Encounter Books, 2008 An examination of the meaning of science and technology for American democracy, comparing in particular the contrasting ways liberals and conservatives have thought about science, tradition, and the future.             British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire (Hodder Arnold Publication) Steven Sarson A Hodder Arnold Publication, 2005 This book combines the histories of colonies and empire-usually distinct fields of inquiry-in a sweeping introduction to and interpretation of the British-American New World, arguing that while settlers created colonies, the early empire remained a largely imaginary construct. This account examines the way in which the New World was invented and offers a convincing analysis of the loss of the First British Empire.             Imagining Anne1 review Elizabeth Epperly Penguin Group (Canada), 2008 Too much I am a huge Lucy Maud Montgomery fan and have read anything I can find on this author. Dr. Epperly, the author of this book is without a doubt a leading authority on LMM. While I appreciate the thought behind this book, I just did not think that it translated all that well to paper. I thought that by reading this book, I would get into Maud's world - understand her more - be able to live ...             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 The Big Open Lisa Nicholas University of Utah Press, 2003             Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity1 review Henry Kamen Yale University Press, 2008 Myths and Half-Truths Mr. Kramer's books are always entertaining and provocative and this one is no exception. His knowledge of Spanish history is vast and his prose style is clear and agreeable. His point of view is often, if not always, diametrically opposed to that of the majority, thence the appeal his books have for me even, when I do not agree with his conclusions. The myths he examines in this book have been ...             Lincoln & Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 (American Political Thought)1 review Brian R. Dirck University Press of Kansas, 2001 Two of the Same Halves There are so many books on Abraham Lincoln, that choosing one can be extremely daunting. But this books presents the two candidates for the Presidency in 1860, one for the USA and the othe, the CSA. Clearly, Lincoln is presented, and rightfully so, as a man whose morals play a large role in the great man he becomes. For Davis, his morals, as conditioned by his Southern upbringing, lay the path ...             Imagining Multilingual Schools: Language in Education and Globalization (Linguistic Diversity and Language ...1 review Multilingual Matters Limited, 2006 Very Late Arrival !!!! I just wanted to say that Amazon didn't make clear that the book I ordered would come from the U.K. They also didn't make clear that why pay for 2 day shipping when the book takes a month and a half to arrive. They might ship in two days but that's when they receive it. So they take your money for expedite shipping for no reason. Extremely disappointed !!!             Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women10 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 ...             Imagining a Sermon (Abingdon Preacher's Library) Thomas H. Troeger Abingdon Press, 1990             Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier Susan Kollin The University of North Carolina Press, 2001 An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact functioned to alleviate larger social anxieties about nature, ethnicity, and national identity. Kollin pays special attention to the ways in ...             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 ...              search for books 1500-1800, 1809-1865, 1919-1950, american, colonies, congregation, democracy, diversity, education, ethnography, generation, globalization, historical, identity, imagining, jonestown, linguistic, multilingual, national, ourselves, political, postcolonial, practicing, progressive, promised, publication, re-imagining, religion, together, transgender books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen electronics: First Alert Public Alert Radio with S.A.M.E leave a comment home  impressum - about us