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New Books for Philosophy, Religion, Psychology and all other related majors!In recent years, the problem of consciousness has developed into one of the most important and hotly contested areas in the philosophy of mind. Many philosophers regard consciousness as an entirely physical phenomenon, yet it seems to elude scientific explanation. On the other hand, viewing consciousness as a nonphysical phenomenon brings up even larger issues. If consciousness is not physical, how can it be explained?
Bible. Old Testament Proverbs X-XXXI (10-31), English. Fox. 2009: a New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (BOOK): by Michael V. Fox
As in his previous volume on the early chapters of Proverbs, the author here translates and explains in accessible language the meaning and literary qualities of the sayings and poems that comprise the final chapters. He gives special attention to comparable sayings in other wisdom books, particularly from Egypt, and makes extensive use of medieval Hebrew commentaries, which have received scant attention in previous Proverb commentaries. In separate sections set in smaller type, the author addresses technical issues of text and language for interested scholars.
Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking (BOOK): by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior.
Cruelty: Human Evil and the Human Brain (BOOK): by Kathleen Taylor
In Cruelty, neuroscientist Kathleen Taylor explores the factors behind violence, sexual abuse, genocide, and other atrocities. Drawing on history, politics, philosophy, psychology, and especially neuroscience, she sets cruelty in the context of human evolution and our current understanding of brain function. She begins with an example from Lithuania in World War II, in which a young man beat a group of prisoners to death, one by one, as a crowd of civilians cheered. Can the killer and his audience be described as mentally ill? Could we ever be like them? Taylor explores the beliefs, emotions, and even instincts which can lead normally decent and law-abiding people to commit shocking acts of murder.
How Do You Know?: the Economics of Ordinary Knowledge (BOOK): by Russell Hardin
How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? You might think I am acting irrationally--against my interest or my purpose--until you realize that what you know and what I know differ significantly. My actions, given my knowledge, might make eminently good sense. Of course, this pushes our problem back one stage to assess why someone knows or believes what they do. Russell Hardin supposes that people are not usually going to act knowingly against their interests or other purposes. To try to understand how they have come to their knowledge or beliefs is therefore to be charitable in assessing their rationality. Hardin insists on such a charitable stance in the effort to understand others and their sometimes objectively perverse actions.
Inside Jihadism: Understanding Jihadi Movements Worldwide
(BOOK): by Farhad Khosrokhavar
In studies on radical Islam that has been overwhelmed in the West by junk ideological literature and fake expertise, Farhad Khosrokhavar stands out as a true and distinguished expert with first hand and intimate knowledge. One great advantage of his approach is that it combines discourse analysis and sociology including first hand sociological research according to the best tradition of social sciences. His study of Jihadism, defined as the most radical and violent brand of Islamic fundamentalism, is a most welcome and useful addition to the serious literature on this most complex of global sociopolitical phenomena. –Gilbert Achcar, Professor at SOAS of the University of London
Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jamaat: History, Belief, Practice (BOOK): by Simon Ross Valentine
"The Ahmadiyya Jama'at is a very personal book, written from the position of a participant observer. It is the firs
t accessible study of this Muslim community and is comprehensive in its coverage of their history, beliefs, and current existence. Simon Ross Valentine offers an inside view that will be of value to non-Muslims working with Muslims, and it is a view given with great respect." – Francis Robinson, University of London
Making Religion, Making the State: the Politics of Religion in Modern China (BOOK): edited by Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank
"This is an outstanding and much-needed contribution to the social-scientific study of religion in the modern PRC. The unifying theme is that religion occupies a certain 'space' in modern Chinese polity and society, and that that space is in constant negotiation among a multitude of actors: the central state, local state authorities, nationwide religious organizations, local religious organizations, individual religious institutions, and local society. This is an advance over previous scholarship, which tended to pit an essentialized 'religion' against an all-powerful 'state' in a two-way struggle in which the 'state' enjoyed the advantage." —Charles Jones, The Catholic University of America
On Kindness (BOOK): by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
Kindness is the foundation of the world’s great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If
we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it a pleasure we often deny ourselves? And why—despite our longing—are we often suspicious when we are on the receiving end of it?
Bursting with often shocking insight, this brief and essential book will return to its readers what Marcus Aurelius declared was mankind’s “greatest delight”: the intense satisfactions of generosity and compassion.
Perception and Cognition: Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology (BOOK): by Gary Hatfield
How do we see? This question has fascinated and perplexed philosophers and scientists for millennia. In visual perception, mind and world meet, when light reflected from objects enters the eyes and stimulates the nerves leading to activity in the brain near the back of the head. This neural activity yields conscious experiences of a world in three dimensions, clothed in colors, and immediately recognized as (say) ground, sky, grass, trees, and friends. The visual brain also produces nonconscious representations that interact with other brain systems for perception and cognition and that help to regulate our visually guided actions. But how does all of this really work? The answers concern the physiology, psychology, and philosophy of visual perception and cognition.
Psychology: Pythagoras to Present (BOOK): by John C. Malone
Certain ideas have preoccupied thinkers since ancient times: the nature of mind, the sources of knowledge and belief, the nature of the self, ethics and the best way to lead our lives, the question of free will. In this book, John Malone examines these ideas in the writings of thinkers from antiquity to the present day and argues for their importance not just as precursors of modern views but as ideas that are frequently better than current ones.
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia (BOOK): by John Garrard and Carol Garrard
Savagely persecuted, the Russian Orthodox Church has experienced a remarkable revival in the past two decades. Led by its patriarch, Aleksy II, the renaissance has not been as simple as picking up where 1917 left off. The historical Church was too intimately connected with czarist autocracy for that. Examining the restoration process, the Garrards touch on certain reconnections with the pre-revolutionary Church in consecrations conducted in the beautiful Orthodox liturgy of church buildings and monasteries returned to it by post-Communist Russian governments. But they also focus on Aleksy II’s agenda both to reroute Russian Orthodoxy to its claim as the true apostolic succession in Christendom (a challenge to Roman Catholicism’s rival claim) and to re-identify it with Russian nationalism. An important work for students of contemporary Russia. – Gilbert Taylor
The Great Divorce: a Dream
'Mr. Lewis rouses curiosity about life after death only to sharpen awareness of this world.' Guardian "Lewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions." –Los Angeles Times
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (BOOK): by Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell
Twenge and Campbell, psychologists and authors of previous books on self-admiration, team up for a thorough look at a troubling trend that has broad cultural implications. They begin by chronicling changes in American culture that have brought us Botox, fake paparazzi, and MySpace. The authors distinguish between self-esteem and narcissism, drawing on scientific research, but focus on narcissistic personality traits “among the normal population” and cultural narcissism that goes deep into social values. The authors debunk myths about narcissism—that it is necessary in order to be competitive and that narcissists are actually overcompensating for low self-esteem. Although young girls have been hit hardest by the narcissism epidemic, with unrealistic notions of physical beauty, the scourge has affected us all—witness Wall Street greed and the mortgage crisis with its overblown sense of materialism and entitlement. The authors argue that the nation needs to recognize the epidemic and its negative consequences, and take corrective action. — Vanessa Bush
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy (BOOK): edited by Jean
Decety and William Ickes
"Social neuroscience is providing compelling, novel insights into fundamental human capacities, such as the ability to understand the minds of others to empathize with them. This volume provides readable, up-to-date reviews of theories and research that cross levels of analysis from groups to neurons, with applications ranging from education to psychotherapy. Experts and students alike will benefit from this timely review. A superb read for all those interested in the social brain."
—Todd F. Heatherton
Art Majors, Art Education Majors, and the Art Community will appreciate these new books."[It] chronologically covers the history of thought about art from antiquity to postmodernism. Art theory, art criticism and art history, as well as philosophy, rhetoric, myth, literature, mathematics, theology, semiotics, the natural sciences, psychology, music, linguistic theory, psychoanalysis, Marxism and feminism (among others), are drawn upon to yield reflections on art. Particular emphasis is laid in this extraordinarily fluid synopsis on the relationship between art and knowledge." The Art Newspaper
Educating in the Arts: the Asian Experience, Twenty-four Essays (BOOK): edited by Lindy Joubert
Arising out of the need to promote not only arts and educational practices but also the research and evaluations being achieved in the field this book explores Asian artists and their practices. Writing about their own practical experiences, the authors explore linkages between creativity and discipline; of social organization and individual expression and how inventiveness and economic productivity are inextricably linked.
The Creative Ice Age Brain: Cave Art in the Light of Neuroscience (BOOK): by Barbara Olins Alpert
Mystery surrounds the magnificent Ice Age art that is found mainly in the caves of Western Europe. In this substantial new study, scholar Barbara Alpert approaches this art using information from psychology and discoveries in neuroscience. Techniques such as computerized tomography (CT) scans and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have demonstrated an enormous amount about the working of the brain. By examining the oldest-known human-made images in the light of this new information, Alpert reveals many of the impulses that underlie their creation. She shows how the art is based on a visual language found worldwide--one that appears to be universal for our species.
The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End (BOOK):
Alisa LaGamma and Christine Giuntini
This informative and beautiful volume sheds light on the enduring significance of textiles as a major form of aesthetic expression across Africa, relating long-standing cultural practices to recent creative developments. Some of the finest and oldest preserved examples of West African textile traditions are presented, and both their artistic and technical qualities are examined. Wrapped around the body, fashioned into garments, or displayed as hangings, these magnificent textiles include bold strip weavings and intricately patterned indigo resist-dyed cloths.
Date written was approximately 1708. Songs included: O Lord, I Have Sinned, Turn Thee Unto Me, How Doth the City Sit Solitary, Jesus, Seeing the Multitudes, I Will Cry Unto Thee, O God, Blessed Be the Lord, My Strength, Awake, Awake, Utter a Song, Let the Righteous Be Glad.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game: the Story of the Sensational Baseball Song (BOOK/SHEET MUSIC): by Amy Whorf McGuiggan foreword by Mike Veeck
Jack Norworth, a vaudeville headliner and Tin Pan Alley songwriter who had never even been to a game, was inspired by a subway advertisement to create the song that, though a hit in its day, did not become a time-honored tradition until broadcaster Harry Caray and team owner and marketing genius Bill Veeck Jr. reintroduced it during the 1970s. Here is America’s game and the American century seen through the prism of one impossibly catchy tune and illustrated throughout with vintage photographs, advertising images, and sheet music culled from America’s premier collections.
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career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s. Bullitt (DVD): An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.
Cinematographer Style (DVD): 110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.
Empire of the Sun (DVD): A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Garden of Evil (DVD): A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
Hollywood Shuffle (DVD): An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood.
It Happened Here (DVD): It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invaders for a quiet life. The protagonist, a nurse, is caught in the middle.
Journey to 10,000 BC (DVD): Experience the suspense and heart-pounding action of a woolly mammoth hunt. A single kill could feed the tribe for weeks. As the winters grow curiously colder and longer, this vital source of nourishment becomes even more critical.
L.A. Confidential (DVD): Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films. Based on the multi-layered James Ellroy novel.
Laramie Project (DVD): Moisés Kaufman and members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of Matthew Shepard. This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd's visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of "Angels in America" a year after Shephard's death.
Maggie Smith at the BBC (DVD): This three-disc set celebrates four of Dame Maggie Smith's leading roles for the BBC. The collection begins with two 1972 Plays of the Month, The Merchant of Venice and The Millionairess. In Shakespeare's morality tale, Smith's sharp-tongued socialite Portia disguises herself as a doctor to negotiate with money lender Shylock. In the Bernard Shaw comedy, she plays self-centered heiress Epifania who tries to live like a pauper to please a selfless Egyptian physician (Dr. Who's Tom Baker). In Alan Bennett's quietly devastating Bed Among the Lentils, one of his Talking Heads monologues, Smith portrays Susan, a deeply disillusioned vicar's wife, and in Sir Richard Eyre's intimate 1993 adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Suddenly, Last Summer, she takes on Mrs. Venable, a grief-stricken mother (a role assumed by Katharine Hepburn in the 1959 film).
For some fans, the supplements may surpass the features. They include a breezy 1973 chat with Norman Parkinson and Acting in the '60s, a candid 1967 conversation with Richard Goodwin and narration by Kenneth Tynan, who refers to the actress as "the most versatile girl on the English stage." Actor Kenneth Williams participates in both. Smith also appears in a radio version of The Country Wife, while A Portrait: Maggie Smith, an exclusive profile, offers commentary from Bennett, Eyre, and A Room with a View co-star Simon Callow. The viewing notes include an essay on her career and details about each production. This BBC set presents a worthy tribute to a tremendous talent.
Maquilapolis (DVD): Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive sweatshops often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations. Carmen and Lourdes work at maquiladoras in Tijuana, and it is there that they try to balance the struggle for survival with their own radicalization in this documentary.
Mononoke-hime (English:Princess Mononoke) (DVD): Set in feudal Japan a time of upheaval of samurai warriors and isolated villages comes this story of a gun-wielding, young brave princess who was raised by wolves named Princess Mononoke who is sent to an ancient, forested land to defend the forest from human encroachment which threatens to unbalance the forces of nature. Ashitaka intervenes to stop the two sides fighting and takes San back to the forest, but is injured in the process. With San's intervention, he is healed of his wounds - but not his curse - by the forest spirit.
Mrs. Doubtfire (DVD): After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend secret time with his children held in custody by his
Ex.
Murder on the Orient (DVD): In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before. It won an Oscar for best actress in a supporting role played by Ingrid Bergman.
Naked Lunch (DVD): After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Rawhide (DVD): A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveler find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.
Real Women Have Curves (DVD): Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college. Torn between her mainstream ambitions and her cultural heritage she agrees to work with her mother at her sister's downtown LA sewing factory. Over the summer she learns to admire the hardworking team of women who teach her solidarity and teamwork.
Senorita Extraviada (DVD): This gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border.
Stormy Weather (DVD): The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.
That's Dancing! (DVD): The history of dance depicted on film.
That's Entertainment! III (DVD): Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From _Hollywood Revue of 1929, The (1929)_ to Brigadoon (1954) , from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain (1952) , are examined.
That's Entertainment! (DVD): Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favourite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
That's entertainment, Part II (DVD): Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
That's Entertainment. Treasures from the Vault (DVD): That's Entertainment: Treasures from the Vault, includes: "That's Entertainment: The Masters Behind the Musical" Outtakes jukebox: 16 deleted musical numbers MGM's 25th Anniversary That's Entertainment: 50 Years of MGM Just One More Time The Lion Roars Again Excerpts from the 2/20/76 broadcast of The Mike Douglas Show That's Entertainment III: Behind the Screen
The Gunfighter (DVD): Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner.
The Hitch-hiker (DVD): Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
The Nutty Professor (DVD): Grossly overweight Prof. Sherman Klump, desperate to lose weight takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love. It won an Oscar for best makeup.
The Wind and the Lion (DVD): At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers. The attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
Thelma & Louise (DVD): An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird.
Watchmen (DVD): In an alternate 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.
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Nominated for 7 Oscars.
Academy Awards (1995): Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role: Morgan Freeman, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Music: Original Score, Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Frank Darabont.
Golden Globes, USA (1995): Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama: Morgan Freeman, Best Screenplay - Motion Picture: Frank Darabont.
Grammy Awards (1995): Nominated Grammy Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television: Thomas Newman.
Read about one of the most prolific Russian composers of the 20th Century as he struggled with his strained relationship with the Stalinist Bureaucracy. “Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that,” said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of Stalin, with his unpredictable grounds for the persecution of artists. Solomon Volkov—who coauthored Shostakovich’s controversial 1979Testimony—describes how this lethal uncertainty affected the composer’s life and work.
Volkov, an authority on Soviet Russian culture, shows us the “holy fool” in Shostakovich: the truth speaker who dared to challenge the supreme powers. We see how Shostakovich struggled to remain faithful to himself in his music and how Stalin fueled that struggle: one minute banning his work, the next encouraging it. We see how some of Shostakovich’s contemporaries—Mandelstam, Bulgakov, and Pasternak among them—fell victim to Stalin’s manipulations and how Shostakovich barely avoided the same fate. And we see the psychological price he paid for what some perceived as self-serving aloofness and others saw as rightfully defended individuality.
This is a revelatory account of the relationship between one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers and one of its most infamous tyrants.
Fairclough (Editor), David Fanning (Editor)
As the Soviet Union's foremost composer, Shostakovich's status in the West has always been problematic. Regarded as a collaborator, and by others as a symbol of moral resistance, both he and his music met equally with approval and condemnation. The demise of the Communist state has, if anything, been accompanied by a bolstering of his reputation, but critical engagement with his multi-faceted achievements has been patchy. This Companion offers a new starting point and a guide for readers who seek a fuller understanding of Shostakovich's place in the history of music. Bringing together an international team of scholars, the book brings up-to-date research to bear on the full range of Shostakovich's musical output, addressing scholars, students and all those interested in this complex, iconic figure.
Shostakovich Reconsidered (BOOK): by Allan B. Ho and Dmitry Feofanov
"...a splendid celebration of this sublime musician..." -- The Guardian. "...devastating..." -- The Daily Telegraph. "It's very rare to come across a book that's so readable..." -- BBC. "...one of those 'indispensable' books on your shelf..." -- DSCH Journal. "...an immense torrent of facts..." -- Helsingin Sanomat. "...holds the attention to the end..." -- The Times Literary Supplement. "...formidable wealth of data..." -- American Record Guide. "...essential reading for anyone interested in Shostakovich..." -- The Washington Post.
Dmitry Shostakovich's memoirs, “Testimony”, `related to and edited by Solomon Volkov', have been the subject of fierce debate since their publication in 1979. Was “Testimony” a forgery, made up by an impudent impostor, or was it the deathbed confession of a bent, but unbroken, man? Even now, years after the fall of the communist regime, a coterie of well-placed Western musicologists have regularly raised objections to Testimony, hoping with each attack to undermine the picture of Shostakovich presented in his memoirs that of a man of enormous moral stature, bitterly disillusioned with the Soviet system. Here, Allan Ho and Dmitry Feofanov systematically address all of the accusations levelled at Testimony and Solomon Volkov, Shostakovich's amanuensis, amassing an enormous amount of material about Shostakovich and his position in Soviet society and burying forever the picture of Shostakovich as a willing participant in the communist charade. Allan B. Ho is a musicologist and Dimitri Feofanov a lawyer and pianist.
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (BOOK): by Elizabeth Wilson
A detailed portrait of the Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich, presented through the memories of those who knew and worked with him. The author - a cellist, broadcaster and writer - draws extensively upon interviews which she conducted in the Soviet Union with his contemporaries.
