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Robert A. Jensen

The owner of the world's leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead.You have seen Robert A. Jensen—you just never knew it. As the owner of the world's largest disaster management company, he has spent most of his adult life responding to tragedy. From the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, and the Bali bombings, to the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, Hurri...

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Robert Jensen

The End of Patriarchy asks one key question: what do we need to create stable and decent human communities that can thrive in a sustainable relationship with the larger living world? Robert Jensen's answer is feminism and a critique of patriarchy. He calls for a radical feminist challenge to institutionalized male dominance; an uncompromising rejection of men's assertion of a right to control women's sexuality; and a demand for an end to the violence and coercion that are at the h...

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Robert Jensen

Jensen is a regular lecturer/writer/guest on radio and TV on issues of politics, race and gender. Citizens of the Empire (2004) was very successful and created a high level of visibility for Jensen, who will follow up on that success with another tour and roster of speaking engagements. Much like Citizens, this is a plain-spoken, practical and personal approach to a very complex set of issues, one which will help both students and adults think through issues of race and racism.

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Robert Jensen

We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The "news" has degenerated into sensationalist sound bites, and the idea of debate has become a polarized shouting match that precludes any meaningful discussion.It's also a time of anxiety, as we're faced with economic and ecological crises on a global scale, with stakes that seem higher than ever before. I...

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Robert Jensen

In more than four decades as president of The Land Institute, Wes Jackson became widely known as one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture movement for his work on perennial grains and Natural Systems Agriculture. But Jackson’s contribution to contemporary intellectual and political life goes well beyond plant breeding. Ever since he created one of the first university environmental studies programs in the early 1970s, Jackson has been exploring the human predicaments around susta...

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Robert C. Jensen

The story begins on the south side of Chicago. It is a quiet neighborhood with mostly wooden framed houses built in the early 1900's. There are some brick houses, which were built in the early 1960's. I lived in one of those wooden framed two -story house. It had a hedge around the front with two evergreens behind it. The boys from the south side of town included Tom, Dan, Ron, and me. Me, I'm Bob, I came from a family of seven. The seven of us included my two brothers; one older one young...

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Robert C. Jensen

This book tells the story of my career in the American penal system as a Correctional Officer, Juvenile Correctional Officer, Transport Officer, and Jailer. Section One enumerates some of the stories of working in a federal prison with 2,200 Inmates. This section tells the story of what happens with officers in a prison. Section Two describes the problems inmates have - usually problems caused by other inmates. Section Three deals with inmate – transportation problems. I transported inmate...

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Robert Jensen

This I Don’t Believe confronts the common fear that life has no intrinsic meaning, then describes one path to fulfillment without it. Mixing memoir and philosophy, Robert Jensen invites readers to ponder the possibility of life without transcendence. Rejecting common sources of meaning—belief in God, spirituality, Nature mysticism, and free will—need not leave us stuck with nihilism. Drawing on his work as a journalist and professor, Jensen suggests that a life of thinking and wor...

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Gordon A. Jensen

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Lutheran Quarterly Books

Gordon Jensen's careful analysis of the 1534 Luther Bible uncovers the central truth of Martin Luther's prodigious translation efforts: Luther's commitment to producing this physical object was founded in his desire that receiving the Gospel might become a lived experience. Contrary to popular perception, Luther's works were not the first, the freshest, or even the most user-friendly German biblical translations of the time. Rather, their power came in Luther's utter comm...

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Robert Jensen

In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement, Robert Jensen reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century. The commercial success of modernism, he argues, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was in...

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Robert Jensen

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Michael Toms

Jensen's perspective from within the conservative halls of a southern state university names the United States as an empire driven by the desire to create puppet governments in key areas around the world. He reminds us that every empire in the history of the world has been destroyed, usually in a burst of brutality. Jensen invites each of us to take steps to dismantle this empire, but he also tells us how we can do it in a nonviolent way.

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Robert Jensen

There was nothing out of the ordinary about Jim Koplin. He was just your typical central Minnesota gay farm boy with a Ph.D. in experimental psychology who developed anarchist-influenced, radical-feminist, and anti-imperialist politics, while never losing touch with his rural roots. But perhaps the most important thing about Jim is that throughout his life, almost literally to his dying breath, he spent some part of every day on the most important work we have: tending the garden.