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FIN is a near magical tale with a deft comic touch, composed of
three inter-related novellas (THE MANDALA SOCIETY, PAVANNE FOR THE
SELFISH GENE, and THE DINNER PARTY) with recurring, vividly real
characters and Fin, named after the American five dollar bill, as
the common, unifying narrator. He is a wealthy Canadian idler
claiming, for lack of better, to be an amateur theologian ("never
been proven wrong") while traveling the U.S. and the wilder shores
of love with varying results. He explores San Francisco and its
elites, a Vermont academic world featuring murder most foul and the
Lake Champlain monster, and Greater Boston super-achievers, all at
the dawn of the disorienting twenty first century. To quote Russell
Banks, "Alonso is, before all else, an artist...we cannot separate
his metaphysics any more than we can from Wallace Stevens." And to
quote from Lyle Rexer, "I envy everyone coming to Juan Alonso's
work for the first time. Their heads will be buzzing and their
moral sensibilities challenged, and it won't even hurt. My hope is
that this volume heralds an Alonso revival bringing past writings
into the main stream and his current work into the spotlight, where
it belongs."
Four Americans venture deep into the Moroccan Sahara, hoping to
find a celebrity holy man named Calvin Bild. Lara, a middle-aged
professional beauty, her troubled son Eric, her lover Wally, and
their would-be mascot, a Hollywood composer rightly known as Judas,
self-confessed producer of music-like noises, step warily away from
the civilization they know into a blinding landscape of uncertain
possibility. Once found, Calvin Bild turns out to be a cheerful old
West Point man, a physician of unusual warmth and even more unusual
artistic powers. And out in the Sahara, when the seekers of their
God-within ask Calvin Bild for guidance, he tells them, among other
things, that while he claims to be no intellectual, "the desert
does not answer the great and painful questions, it heals them."
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
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Tanto el desarrollo sostenible como el decrecimento son paradigmas
recientes del mundo. Las contradicciones, atributos, oportunidades
y riesgos en estos topicos son reflexiones y soporte del debate en
el siguiente libro. El lector encontrara argumentos claros y
preguntas trascendentes acerca de los fenomenos recientes de la
globalizacion asociados al medio ambiente, a la sociedad y al
hombre contemporaneo. Las crisis recientes de la economia, los
cambios y evidencias de ambiental en el mundo entero, los saldos de
la deuda ecologica y los pasivos ambientales, hacen reflexionar
sobre el momento trascendental del hombre en la actualidad y los
impactos colectivos y particulares del quehacer social y economico.
Los cuestionamientos al papel del crecimiento economico son amplios
y el diagnostico sobre la crisis ambiental, la entropia y el papel
del ser humano, se analizan desde el decrecimiento y la
sostenibilidad, identificando puntos focales de ilustracion. Los
juicios de valor quedan a libertad del lector."
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ El Mundo Hasta Jesucristo: Discurso Familiar Sobre La Historia
Universal Antigua Juan Alonso y Eguilaz en Casa del Autor, 1861
History; Ancient; General; History / Ancient / General
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