In Living in Language, David Bosworth makes a compelling case for the power and relevance of the literary imagination throughout history. In a series of essays both lyrical and analytical, he examines how certain works have engaged the most pressing problems of their authors' ages even as they illuminate challenges that still haunt the world. The topics addressed are rich and various: the evolutionary significance of metaphorical reasoning; how Hitler's infatuation with an opera's plot pre...

Although the financial disaster of 2008 proved devastatingly quick, the evolution of the bad faith that drove the collapse is a more gradual story, and one that David Bosworth powerfully narrates in The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession, his sweeping history of the forces driving ethical, political, and economic change over the last sixty years. Here, Bosworth traces how the commercialization of public spaces and electronic information has create...

In Conscientious Thinking, David Bosworth cuts through all the noise of today’s political dysfunction and cultural wars to sound the deeper causes of our discontent. Americans are living, he argues, in a profoundly transitional era, one in which the commonsense beliefs of the first truly modern society are being undermined by the still crude but irreversible forces set loose by technology’s drastic revision of our everyday lives. He shows how this disruptive conflict between moder...

Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent voices in the humanities and social sciences provide a range of perspectives on a concentrated set of ethical questions dealing with such topics as family values, the morality of ...

This powerful volume brings together scholars, activists, artists and experts-by-experience offering a radical critique of immigration detention and border carceral regimes more broadly, testifying to their inherent harms.The contributors critically examine how COVID-19 intensified state control, abandonment, and marginalisation while highlighting inspiring acts of resistance and solidarity. Combining abolitionist and no-border perspectives alongside critical scholarly analysis, th...

Creation conjures emotion and thereby shapes how we think and act. People fear snakes and enclosed spaces, and delight in well-watered landscapes. Language about nature evokes these emotional meanings and their consequences. We may construe nature as a mother to enhance love of creation and motivate care for our common home. Mother nature becomes a caregiving source of life rather than an inert resource. Alternatively, we may focus on the dangers or uselessness of a swamp so that we may dr...

Von David Buckley.Der unverzichtbare Wegweiser durch die Musik von David Bowie. Album für Album informiert es detailreich über sämtliche Songs, die jemals von Bowie veröffentlicht wurden - von den ersten Demos und dem Debüt-Album 'David Bowie' über das legendäre 'Hunky Dory', mit dem ihm der Durchbruch gelang, bis zu 'Reality', seinem letzten Studioalbum. Zu allen Alben und Songs gibt das Buch Auskunft über die Entstehungsgeschichte der Platten, über die Orte, Daten und Produzenten...

Die wohl kraftvollste und ambitionierteste Biographie, die je über einen Rock'n'Roll-Künstler geschrieben wurde, urteilte der Rolling Stone über die englische Ausgabe dieser Biographie. Eine packende Analyse des musikalischen Phänomens Jimi Hendrix, der durch die Verschmelzung von Blues und Jazz dem durch Drogen angeheizten Psychedelic-Rock seinen einzigartigen Stempel aufgedrückt hat.Die komplette Geschichte dieses passionierten Gitarristen aus Seattle mit den Geschichten...

Father Udoekpo's work offers a thorough review of the theology of worship in the work of Amos of Tekoa, one of Israel's foundational prophets. It critically examines Amos 5 in its socio-historical and literary context and theologically reevaluates the application of Amos's message of ethical worship, judgment, and hope to two contemporary cultures: Nigeria and the United States of America. While intentionally down to earth and engaging in society and religion, this work discusses in a thou...

Peter Freestone war viele Jahre lang Freddie Mercurys persönlicher Assistent, lebte mit dem Sänger in London, München und New York und blieb bis zuletzt an seiner Seite.Er traf Stars wie Elton John, Elizabeth Taylor oder Rod Steward, sah Freunde, Fans und Liebhaber kommen und gehen und kennt die nackten Tatsachen hinter den Skandalen und Gerüchten um Mercurys faszinierendes Leben voller Sex, Drogen und Musik.In diesem Buch zeigt Freestone den Menschen hinter der Legende: ve...