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."

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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