Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393313031
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Previously published: New York : Basic Books, 1977. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author: Joanna Ruth Meyer
Publisher: Page Street YA
ISBN: 1645671712
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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The forest is a dangerous place, where siren song lures men and women to their deaths. For centuries, a witch has harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow her domain. When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one of her tree-siren daughters, Seren, saves his life instead of ending it. Every night, he climbs over the garden wall to see her, and every night her longing to become human deepens. But a shift in the stars foretells a dangerous curse, and Seren’s quest to become human will lead them into an ancient war raging between the witch and the king who is trying to stop her.

Author: Frank Lentricchia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521398930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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White Noise, the story of a professor of Hitler Studies and his family, has received much attention and critical acclaim. This collection of essays provides an overview of the author as well as the controversial novel.

Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393356922
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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The classic New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction by E.J. Dionne Jr. When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch’s identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was groundbreaking. His diagnosis of American culture is even more relevant today, predicting the limitless expansion of the anxious and grasping narcissistic self into every part of American life. The Culture of Narcissism offers an astute and urgent analysis of what we need to know in these troubled times.

Author: Sarah Lahey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1647422108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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“A thrilling and immersive work of speculative climate fiction.” —Kirkus Reviews The second installment in the topical, award-winning Heartless Series, Nostalgia Is Heartless delves into a world on the brink of climate catastrophe. Pregnant, unemployed, and living back home with her father, scientist Quinn Buyers wonders how she got to this point. Her famous scientist mother is still mysteriously missing, the planet is at risk from a massive solar storm, the pesky Transhumans want to take a colony to Titan, and her assisted living companion, a robotic meerkat, is showing clear signs of anxiety and depression. But her biggest challenge is her partner. How can she reconcile her long-distance relationship with this reserved, enigmatic cyborg? This time, Quinn’s adventures take her across the globe to Antarctica . . . where it rains all day, every day. Full of humor and whimsy, Nostalgia Is Heartless will delight readers as they follow Quinn’s race to save her family, her planet, and—hopefully—her love life.

Author: Anne Elisabeth Stengl
Publisher: Bethany House
ISBN: 0764207806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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A princess's heart is the prize in this Tolkein-esque world of dragons and knights; a blend of fantasy with a love for the ages.

Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348423
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594

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"A major and challenging work. . . . Provocative, and certain to be controversial. . . . Will add important new dimension to the continuing debate on the decline of liberalism." —William Julius Wilson, New York Times Book Review Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between two ideas: one is the idea of progress - an idea driven by the conviction that human desire is insatiable and requires ever larger production forces. Opposing this materialist view is the idea that condemns a boundless appetite for more and better goods and distrusts "improvements" that only feed desire. Tracing the opposition to the idea of progress from Rousseau through Montesquieu to Carlyle, Max Weber and G.D.H. Cole, Lasch finds much that is desirable in a turn toward moral conservatism, toward a lower-middle-class culture that features egalitarianism, workmanship and loyalty, and recognizes the danger of resentment of the material goods of others.

Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393313719
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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This text challenges American notions of democracy and ambition, culture and civic responsibility, charting a decline in democratic values and debate. It states that this change is due to the "new elites" who, having lost their sense of communitarianism, will not accept ties to nation and to place.

Author: Timothy W. Luke
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061547
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Explores how certain aspects of power work in contemporary, information-based societies

Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812218145
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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"The late Lasch, college history professor and the author of The Culture of Narcissism (1979), among other seminal works, so despaired of his graduate students' writing that he began to compile a list of common compositional errors. This list soon evolved into a full-fledged writing guide. . . . Lasch's wry, distinctive voice is evident throughout."—Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist