Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postcolonial period. Joseph A. Massad engages recent scholarly debates on nationalism and richly fulfills the analyti...(展开全部)

Written by Brad Meltzer; Art and cover by Rags Morales and Michael Bair "The IDENTITY CRISIS mystery uses all of Mr. Meltzer's skills as a thriller novelist." —The New York Times "If it's been ages since you read a superhero comic, start with this one." —The New York Post "A genuine comics landmark." —Publishers Weekly New York Times best-selling novelist Brad Meltzer (The Zero...(展开全部)

Novelist Brad Meltzer’s #1 New York Times best-selling miniseries that rocked the DC Universe and influenced new storylines for years to come. When Sue Dibny, wife of the Elongated Man, is murdered in her own home, the superhero community is devastated. They come together in mourning, hold their loved ones closer, and immediately begin a worldwide search to find her killer. B...(展开全部)

Novelist Brad Meltzer’s #1 New York Times best-selling miniseries that rocked the DC Universe and influenced new storylines for years to come. When Sue Dibny, wife of the Elongated Man, is murdered in her own home, the superhero community is devastated. They come together in mourning, hold their loved ones closer, and immediately begin a worldwide search to find her killer. B...(展开全部)

Written by Brad Meltzer; Art and cover by Rags Morales and Michael Bair "The IDENTITY CRISIS mystery uses all of Mr. Meltzer's skills as a thriller novelist." —The New York Times "If it's been ages since you read a superhero comic, start with this one." —The New York Post "A genuine comics landmark." —Publishers Weekly New York Times best-selling novelist Brad Meltzer (The Zero...(展开全部)

From Library Journal This book is primarily a historical account of the modernist protest against the disengaged and instrumental modes of thought and action that arose when theistically grounded morality crumbled, but that themselves focused too little upon our inner life, i.e., our powers of creative imagination and the substantive goods of ordinary life, which Taylor alleges...(展开全部)

From Library Journal This book is primarily a historical account of the modernist protest against the disengaged and instrumental modes of thought and action that arose when theistically grounded morality crumbled, but that themselves focused too little upon our inner life, i.e., our powers of creative imagination and the substantive goods of ordinary life, which Taylor alleges...(展开全部)

'Most of us are still groping for answers about what makes life worth living, or what confers meaning on individual lives', writes Charles Taylor in Sources of the Self. 'This is an essentially modern predicament.' Charles Taylor's latest book sets out to define the modern identity by tracing its genesis, analysing the writings of such thinkers as Augustine, Descartes, Montaign...(展开全部)