It has been said that the poems of Vaughan's Silex Scintillans (1650; 1655) are the most biblical in English: this book revises our understanding of that claim, not by rejecting it, but by asking what it might have meant in the 1650s. Recovering the historical, literary, and scriptural context of Vaughan's poetry and his neglected prose works, particularly The Mount of Olives (1652), this study reveals the different ways in which Vaughan's work is shot through and fired by the Bible as it was read in the "Godly nation" of the mid-seventeenth century.

Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans: Scripture Uses

Literature & Fiction

West, Philip

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

From the Back Cover Yenching University was perhaps the most impressive example of Sino-Western cooperation in the twentieth century. In charting the ebb and flow of university life, this definitive work sheds light on the intellectual, social, and diplomatic forces at work in this transitional period in Chinese history. In his handling of intercultural history, West has a keen appreciation for the interplay of political forces and individuals. The demise of Yenching and the breakdown of Sino-Western relations generally are seen in terms of the individual behavior of Yenching personalities, the pressures of Communist ideology, and also Western diplomacy surrounding the Korean War.

Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916–1952 (Harvard East Asian Series, 85)

History

Asia

Harvard University Press

Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916-1952

This text examines the Pacific War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, from the perspective of those who fought the wars and lived through them. The relationship between history and memory informs the book, and each war is relocated in the historical and cultural experiences of Asian countries.

United States and Asia at War: A Cultural Approach: A Cultural Approach (Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center Books)

Levine, Steven I.

Hiltz, Jackie

History & Criticism

Routledge

This text examines the Pacific War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, from the perspective of those who fought the wars and lived through them. The relationship between history and memory informs the book, and each war is relocated in the historical and cultural experiences of Asian countries.

United States and Asia at War: A Cultural Approach (Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center Books (Paperback))

In contrast to the many books that use military, diplomatic, and historic language in analyzing the Korean War, this book takes a cultural approach that emphasizes the human dimension of the war, an approach that especially features Korean voices. There are chapters on Korean art on the war, translations into English of Korean poetry by Korean soldiers, and American soldier poetry on the war. There is a photographic essay on the war by combat journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Max Desfor. Another chapter includes and analyzes songs on the Korean War - Korean, American, and Chinese - that illuminate the many complex memories of the war. There is a discussion of Korean films on the war and a chapter on Korean War POWs and their contested memories. More than any other nonfiction book on the war, this one shows us the human face of tragedy for Americans, Chinese, and most especially Koreans. June 2000 was the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War; this moving volume is intended as a commemoration of it.

Remembering the Forgotten War: The Korean War Through Literature and Art (Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center Books (Hardcover))

Ji-moon, Suh

Gregg, Donald

Remembering the Forgotten War (Study of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center)

Arts & Photography

Chicano Experience/hs

Politics & Social Sciences

MacKlin

Social Sciences

Westview Press

Nothing but trouble awaits Philip Anders, a brilliant microbiologist, when he teams up with a pair of devious, sometimes crooked colleagues. They promise techniques and equipment that can deliver answers to the scientist’s most elusive puzzle. Philip, who finally succumbs to temptation, agrees to a partnership. In this Faustian chronicle of a scientist’s long and frustrating search into the hidden workings of human cells carries  a terrible price. Philip’s partnership with Christina Lourdes and Slade Markham leads him to encounters with a Latin plantation owner and his huge menacing brother, Fascinating descriptions show how the trio conducts the tedious research in their efforts to create biologically living robots. The creatures supposedly will deliver to the well-meaning plantation owner an easier life for his workers. The reader will find out there are many hazards along the way.

The Tank: A Story of Intelligent Deign

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Publishamerica Inc

The Hebrew Old Testament, which contains some of the world s most ancient religious texts, was written and repeatedly re-edited over the course of several centuries from about 1000 BCE. It reached its final form at the hands of editors who were monotheists. They believed that their god Yahweh was the only true God, and that he had been worshipped exclusively by their ancestors from the time of Abraham. They edited their sources to reflect this belief. However, we can strip away this veneer of later monotheism to view the ancient stories themselves. These bear witness to Israelite religion as practised before 600 BCE. Far from being monotheistic, this religion was a fascinating polytheistic paganism, close to the religion of the surrounding Canaanites. In this religion, Yahweh, far from being God as understood by modern western monotheism, was a distinctive tribal deity. This book will be of particular interest to the large numbers of western people who come from a broadly Christian or Jewish background but have left those faiths behind to explore paganism or New Age spirituality.

The Old Ones in the Old Book: Pagan Roots of The Hebrew Old Testament

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Moon Books

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