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Product Description: Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity draws new theoretical conclusions from a study of Spinoza's legacy in the age of Goethe and beyond, largely transmitted through the writings of Herder, that will have implications for the study of German intellectual history and, more broadly, the study of Religion and Literature...read more

Product Description: Inspired by ancient Japanese ukiyo-e artists and a polymath's myriad references, John Warwicker has for over ten years been one of the most original thinkers in the design and creative industries. A founding member of Tomato, the innovative London design collective, he established an international reputation in the 1990s and has been formative in shaping popular media...read more

Product Description: The churches in this book demonstrate the diverse range of denominations and sects that form the Charismatic Evangelical movement today. Materially and architecturally, the buildings reflect a Spiritualist church movement reacting against secular Material Rationalism and consumerism...read more

Product Description: What qualities make a good leader? Learn from the example of the best small group leader ever--Jesus!--as this step-by-step guide explores how leaders can serve and shepherd their groups. This easy-to-read guide educates novice or experienced group leaders who want to: Yield their hearts and ministries to God Equip themselves for service Become leaders after God's own hear...read more

Product Description: Sir Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie (c. 1582) has often been identified as a landmark along the path from poetry understood as imitation to poetry understood as creation. Critics are, however, far from agreeing on the defining features of Sidney’s transitional theory...read more

Product Description: Paul Graham's photographs touch upon the social fracture of America--the great divide between the included and excluded, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots. Taking on a simple topic, of late dealt with only through cliché photojournalism, American Night embraces neglected territory in a series of shocking images that sit on the fence between art and document...read more

Product Description: Description: Tree Tops Tall is a series of pictures made by Neil Drabble over the course of the last few years. It is a collection determined not by the type or site of the trees photographed but instead by the fact that tree tops against a bright sky provide a motif for a certain state of mind, for a formal expression of the self...read more

Product Description: Harlemville is a small community in North America that adheres to the philosophical writings of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner and his Waldorf schooling system. The community encourages freedom of expression, creativity and imagination, which in turn is meant to imbue an uninhibited self-confidence and self-awareness rarely present in mainstream American society...read more

Product Description: In German Idealism and the Jew, Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the redefinition of the Jews as irrational, oriental Others forms the very cornerstone of German idealism, including Kant's conception of universal reason...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Material is what we start with and material is what we are left with. It is all there is." So says Peter Fraser, who uses photography to investigate the physical substance of the world and to question the way in which we perceive our surroundings...read more

Product Description: With these monumental landscape photographs, David Parker is making a clear statement about what the art of photography still might achieve. His imagery is an intriguing blend of the objective and the subjective, the formal and the allegorical...read more

Product Description: "To Cage" is an intense photographic study of the artificial/natural environment of the zoo. Shot over a period of four years, "To Cage" explores the ambiguous spaces of distorted scale that constitute the major zoos of Europe. Drawing on his experience collaborating with the design team v23--famous for album and promotional art for groups like the Pixies, Lush, and the Breeders--Dominic Davies uses his exceptional visual skills to capture the staged reality of the zoo...read more

Product Description: For over thirty years, celebrated Swedish artist Dawid has been making series of photographically based artworks examining the nature of the medium and exploring issues of perception. He began taking photographs in the late sixties, documenting incongruous moments with a wry sense of humor, until he established his signature style of stark graphic illustration, initiated with the seminal Rost series...read more