Author: Paul Theroux File Type: epub Suave and accomplished . . . [The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic. Washington Postbr br Beneath the deceptive elegance of these stories, land mines lurk, and Theroux detonates them with gusto. *O, the Oprah Magazinebr br A family watches their patriarch transform into the singing, wisecracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector publicly destroys his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by as their father wages war on the raccoons living under their house. In this new collection, acclaimed author Paul Theroux shows us humanity possessed, consumed by compulsive desire, always with his carefully honed eye for detail and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life. Searing, dark, and sure to unsettle, Mr. Bones is a stunning display of Therouxs fluent, faintly sinister powers of vision and imagination (The New Yorker).br br Fans of Therouxs fiction will be pleased to observe, in the twenty stories collected in Mr. Bones, clear evidence of how little he has mellowed over time . . . Mr. Bones is a series of characteristically dark and sharply focused snapshots from the world that Paul Theroux has observedand invented. Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review***

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr File Type: epub A definitive collection of the theologian and public intellectual who was the conscience of the American Century. One of my favorite philosophers, remarked Barack Obama about the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971) in 2007. President Obama is but one of the many American political leadersincluding Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr.to be influenced by Niebuhrs writings. Throughout the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Niebuhr was one of the most prominent public voices of his time, probing with singular style the question of how to act morally in a fallen world. This Library of America volume, prepared by Niebuhrs daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, collects four indispensable books Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic (1929), Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944), and The Irony of American History (1952), along with a selection of essays, sermons, lectures, prayers, including his world-famous Serenity Prayer, and writings on current eventsProhibition, the Allied bombing of Germany, apartheid in South Africa, the Vietnam Warmany of which are collected here for the first time. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.**ReviewThe indispensable Library of America, the most useful publishing venture in American letters, has produced an edition of Niebuhrs major works, annotated by Niebuhrs daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, a highly regarded editor and publisher.It belongs in the library of every student of U. S. foreign policy.*Walter Russell Mead,Foreign Affairs hrReading his work today, amid our own challenges of social inequality and imperial hubris, suggests we still need Niebuhrs insight as much as ever.Adam Kirsch,*The New York Review of Books* A fine introduction to one of the 20th centurys most influential intellectuals. Barton Swaim,*The Wall Street Journal*From the Back Cover One of my favorite philosophers, remarked Barack Obama about the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971) in 2007. President Obama is but one of the many American political leadersincluding Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr.to be influenced by Niebuhrs writings. Throughout the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Niebuhr was one of the most prominent public voices of his time, probing with singular style the question of how to act morally in a fallen world. This Library of America volume, prepared by Niebuhrs daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, collects four indispensable books Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic (1929),Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944), andThe Irony of American History (1952), along with a selection of essays, sermons, lectures, prayers, including his world-famous Serenity Prayer, and writings on current eventsProhibition, the Allied bombing of Germany, apartheid in South Africa, the Vietnam Warmany of which are collected here for the first time.

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Author: Antoinette Errante File Type: pdf The studies of philosophy and history of education are under siege. These studies do not attract large grant funds and, to many, do not seem useful, even while much of educational research is dismissed as inconsequential or self-evident and the crisis in American education deepens. Philosophy and history of education have therefore been pushed to the margin--or beyond--in colleges and schools of education, commensurate with the decline of the humanities in higher education generally. Philosophy and History of Education examines the complex relationship between these studies, and the value of these related studies for improving educational knowledge, policy, and practice. From diverse perspectives, the philosophers and historians in this volume explore how bringing these disciplines together yields insights about unacknowledged or occult aspects of education problems that neither could achieve on their own.