Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other ...
Paul Goodman
Kindle Edition
313
NYRB Classics
6
The "Young American" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics. In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers...
Casey Nelson Blake
Paperback
381
The University of North Carolina Press
0807842966
9780807842966
5
This illustrates children's picture book told in perfect rhyme teaches children and adults that acquiring things won't bring us lasting peace and happiness. Rather, the only way to be truly fulfilled is to feed our souls by feasting upon "the Word." He sprinkled Virginia all over the coast, Then swa...
Nathan Smith Jones
Hardcover
32
Shadow Mountain
1590388143
9781590388143
4
Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other ...
Paul Goodman
Paperback
312
NYRB Classics
1590175816
9781590175811
3
This new board book from Deanna Draper Buck highlights brief childhood stories from each of the sixteen latter-day prophets. Kids will enjoy reading about daring adventures and touching moments that helped build the testimonies of these beloved men. Great for your preschool children and grandchildre...
Deanna Draper Buck
Hardcover
36
Deseret Book Company
1606411551
9781606411551
2
Influenced by two decades of debate inside and outside the academy about the relationship among the arts, politics, and public policy, the essays collected in The Arts of Democracy represent the coming of age of one of the liveliest fields in contemporary academic life. Written by some of the most r...
Paperback
384
University of Pennsylvania Press
0812220013
9780812220018
13
Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization ...
Lewis Mumford
Paperback
178
Columbia University Press
0231121059
9780231121057
11
For Ray O'Brien, a summer in London as part of his graduate studies in theater was a chance of a lifetime. The presence of a handsome Argentinian fellow student, Eduardo, promises to make it truly extraordinary. It had to be too good to last. When a string of savage, sadistic murders culminates in t...
Casey Nelson
Paperback
256
Alyson Books
1555834922
9781555834920
7