After reviewing 20th-century history and the country and people of China, focuses on the current politics, the economy, society, culture, and China's changing place in the world. Argues that the country's rising fortunes does not warrant an alarmist response; that structural defects beset the economy despite its apparent success in gross figures; and that problems such as corruption, social unrest, and environmental pollution will grow with the economy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contemporary China

John Sexton

alan-hunter

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Exploring the Land 2002 Calendar

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Ventana Editions

Space Shuttle: An Inside Look 2002 Calendar

PTLIHU

Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub the Date: October 2006 Pages: 140 in Publisher by: Ventana Editions Recollections. John Sexton's highly anticipated fourth book. invites the viewer into of the contemplative landscapes and human-made environments as filled with viant luminosity. Seen through Sexton's eyes. his subjects are transformed into images of tranquility. wonder. and mystery. From the purity of a fresh snowfall in Yosemite Valley to the enigmatic rock forms of the Colorado Plateau. Sexton explores the subtle nuances of details rather than grand vistas. Scheduled for publication by Ventana Editions in October 2006. every detail of the project has been supervised by Sexton. The book has been elegantly designed by Cliff Rusch. and the large-format. black and white images have been magnificently reproduced on luxurious heavyweight paper by Dual Graphics. The fifty-five imag...

Recollections: Three Decades of Photography

Individual Artists

A love letter to America’s most beloved sport and an exploration of the deeper dimensions it revealsFor more than a decade, New York University president John Sexton has used baseball to illustrate the elements of a spiritual life in a wildly popular course at NYU. Using great works of baseball literature as well as the actual game’s fantastic moments, its legendary characters, and its routine rituals—from the long-sought triumph of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers to the heroic achievements of players like the saintly Christy Mathewson and the sinful Ty Cobb to the loving intimacy of a game of catch between a father and son—Sexton teaches that through the game we can touch the spiritual dimensions of life.Baseball as a Road to God is about the elements of our lives that lie beyond what can be captured in words alone—ineffable truths that we know by experience rather than by logic or analysis. Applying the inquiry usually reserved for the study of religion to the secular activity of baseball, Sexton reveals a surprising amount of common ground between the game and what we all recognize as religion: sacred places and times, faith and doubt, blessings and curses, and more.In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Baseball as a Road to God elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game or even a national pastime: It can be a road to a deeper and more meaningful life.

Baseball as a Road to God

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

Features include: ~ 856 full-color photos illustrating more than 350 of the finest Southern Bowies in existence. ~ Full historical and collector details on all known types of knives made in Confederate factories...including unidentified types and the Georgia and Alabama Contracts. ~ All your favorite makers, from Boyle &amp; Gamble and Louis Froelich to Nashville Plow Works and Thomas Leech &amp; Co. ~ Extensive, valuable coverage of locally made Southern knives, including the many identified makers as well as those whose origins are still unclear. ~ New research and freshly discovered makers...previously unpublished info. available nowhere else but here! ~ A full discussion of dug relic knives, with a large selection of intriguing examples shown and explained. ~ Perhaps the largest album of historical Confederate soldiers holding Bowie knives ever assembled. A truly amazing and beautiful resource.

Confederate Bowie Knives

Jack Melton

Josh Phillips

Andrew Mowbray Publishers, Inc.

In 1920 Lenin called on the Communist International to open a second front against the imperialist powers by fighting alongside nationalist and peasant movements in the colonies. Eighteen months later, leaders of fledgling East Asian communist parties and other revolutionaries gathered in Moscow to plan the way forward. The Congress of the Toilers of the Far East profoundly influenced the strategy of Communist Parties throughout the colonial world. But alliances with other parties were fragile and risky. East Asian Communist Parties suffered serious defeats in the years following the Congress until WWII revived their fortunes. This edited and annotated edition of the Congress minutes will be of interest to scholars and general readers alike

Alliance of Adversaries: The Congress of the Toilers of the Far East (Historical Materialism Book, 173)

History

Asia

BRILL

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