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Beyond Boundaries: Reflections of Indian and U.S. Scholars
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Beyond Boundaries-Reflections of Indian and U.S. Scholars documents experiential learning of exchange scholars from India and the U.S.A. These essays from Fulbright Scholars, Post-Doc Researchers, Humphrey Fellows, and participants of International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), and East-West Center, provide a diverse spectrum of their cultural and academic experiences. The personal essays in this collection are interesting, shocking, and unforgettable. Anyone interested in studying in the United States or going to India ought to read this book for it provides a rare perspective that comes from observing a country from the students' point of view. Here, students learn, share and make the connections that go on to the making of a better and safer world for us and for future generations. While these essays do not necessarily present a representative picture either of India or the U.S.A., the sketches do describe exchange experiences of interest to anyone who is concerned with people, cultures and diversity. The production of this book was partially sponsored by the Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology. www.FulbrightAcademy.org
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Fantastic collection of Essays.......2007-04-02
I really enjoyed reading the reminices of Fulbright Scholars from India to U.S. It is a fantastic collection and a handful respurce for Cultural Communications/Study classes.
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From the Editor.......2007-03-25
This book presents a wonderful collage of 61 Essays, 34 from Indian Scholars visiting the U.S., and 27 from their U.S. counterparts visiting India, between 1959 and 2006 and for durations ranging from 6 weeks to couple of years. Spanning 47 years of exciting history of the Fulbright Program, these intimate narratives of Fulbright Scholars, Post-Doc Researchers, Humphrey Fellows, participants of International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), and East West Center Fellows from the two largest democracies in the world reveal the multidimensional images of India and U.S. to the citizens of both countries. These interesting renderings also foreground how global calamities and cataclysms require to be addressed not from the narrow grooves of ideas and ideologies but from the vantage point of healing fountains of human compassion and friendship.
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An analysis of the use of the mirror as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool for children and adolescents.
Dr. Paulina F. Kernberg, the founder of a clinical program for children of divorced families at New York Presbyterian/Westchester Hospital, was an authority on personality disorders and on the emotional effects of divorce on children. She was one of the experts appointed to evaluate the custody case of Elián González in 2000.
Beyond the Reflection is the result of her extensive research on a new diagnostic technique in child development: a child's behavior in front of a mirror. Kernberg convincingly demonstrates that this behavior is paradigmatic of the mother- child relationship. The pleasure of self-recognition, or the discomfort and anxiety a child experiences in front of a mirror, is directly linked to the ways he relates to his original looking glass—the mother—and in turn determines his subsequent sense of self-worth.
This fascinating study explores Lacan's pioneering theory of the mirror stage; the correlation between theory, clinical observation, and systematic developmental studies; and recent advances in neuroscience and ethology, which contribute to ongoing research in the field of child development and its clinical application.
The Kernberg Mirror Behavior Checklist and the Kernberg- Buhl-Nielsen Mirror Behavior Interview, the diagnostic tools utilized in these clinical observations, will be of particular interest to researchers eager to find a concrete basis for studying the origin of selfhood. Twelve black & white line drawings throughout.
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Beyond Stitch and Bitch collects essays exploring the emotional and spiritual experiences common to women (and men) who knit. "Women Are So Lucky Sometimes" shows the ways knitting brings women together and adds purpose to their lives. "Elizabeth Zimmerman" describes the way a single woman turned the work of her hands into a legacy for generations of others. "Stitch and Bitch" offers a lighthearted look at a Thursday-evening knitting circle and its eccentric regulars. Neither a how-to nor a collection of patterns, this wide-ranging book finds much more in knitting than might be imagined. Author Afi-Odelia Scruggs, a knitter for four decades, mines a wealth of insight from the craft's colorful yarns, flashing needles, and the feelings they inspire and draw out. Photographs are included in this collection of thoughtful writings.
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good stories and reflections.......2006-10-20
This book is a series of essays on knitting, life, and spirituality. It is full of wonderful stories about all the things that make knitting such a meaningful activity for so many people. The author explores family, spirituality, and social activism and how knitting fits into all of them. For those looking for a quick, light read, you need look no further. (One thing to keep in mind is that this book is not part of Debbie Stoller's Stitch 'n Bitch series. The title caused me a little confusion.)
a treasure.......2006-01-21
I started this book late last night, and finished it first thing this morning. The writing is lovely. This book opened new ways of seeing my passionate love of knitting, and also sent me off looking at my life, and seeing ways to live with more meaning. I recommend it to all knitters, or people with an artistic, sensual passion and a desire to make things of beauty. If you also enjoy reading, this book will be a joy. I look forward to more of this author's thoughts.
very good book.......2005-03-13
I really enjoyed this book. The writing is honest and thoughtful. The book itself is short and easy to read. The author covers many aspects of knitting and spirituality without getting preachy. This book would make a wonderful gift for any person interested in knitting or needlecrafts.
Great followup to Stitch and Bitch.......2004-09-22
While the original book is a great tutorial, this book focuses more on the pleasure derived from knitting. Anyone who loves to work with yarn and create beautiful originals will understand and relate to the theory presented by Ms. Scruggs. This was a quick and enjoyable read.
Not just another 'how to knit' book.......2004-06-03
Beyond Stitch & Bitch isn't just another 'how to knit' book: it's a gathering of informed and informative of essays writing about the craft, hobby and joy of knitting and exploring the emotional and spiritual satisfactions of knitters. As such, Beyond Stitch & Bitch makes the perfect inspiration gift for that beginning knitter with a needlecraft oriented self-help focus to life.
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- My Nile
- As close to a personal memoir as we get with McMurtry
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
Larry McMurtry
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Do you really want to listen to a cranky old man ramble on about his childhood, his heart surgery, his hobbies, his son, and the way things, in general, aren't what they used to be? It turns out you do. In Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Larry McMurtry comes the old pardner, and the result is a powerful elegy for the lost spaces in American life. He takes as his starting point an afternoon he spent at the Dairy Queen in Archer City, Texas, reading the pensées of early 20th-century German philosopher Walter Benjamin. At the time Benjamin was writing, McMurtry's grandparents were settling dusty reaches of west Texas, and McMurtry crosscuts neatly between Benjamin's spent, smoky Europe and his own grandparents' America: "While my grandparents were dealing with almost absolute emptiness, both social and cultural, Europe was approaching an absolute (and perhaps intolerable) density." McMurtry demonstrates a confidence almost bordering on naiveté in the way he appropriates the great thinking of Europe and applies it to his own history. He apologizes neither to the highfalutin Europeans nor to the down-home Americans, but makes them lie down together any way he sees fit. This brio makes Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen a thrilling read.
McMurtry's book-length essay loops outward from Archer City to encompass a polemic against computers, a foray into the world of book collecting, a family biography, an account of his soul-loss after heart surgery, and finally an elegy for the cowboy. This last lament casts a shadow back over what we've read. Not just over this book, but over McMurtry's whole body of work. A man who's lived his whole life in print gives us a glimpse of what has fed him, and, strangely, it's loss. "Because of when and where I grew up, on the Great Plains just as the herding tradition was beginning to lose its vitality, I have been interested all my life in vanishing breeds." The master of storytelling is finally revealed as a master of melancholy. --Claire Dederer
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In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.
Using as a springboard an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small-town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the virtues of everything from a lime Dr. Pepper to the lost art of oral storytelling, and describes the brutal effect of the sheer vastness and emptiness of the Texas landscape on Texans, the decline of the cowboy, and the reality and the myth of the frontier.
McMurtry writes frankly and with deep feeling about his own experiences as a writer, a parent, and a heart patient, and he deftly lays bare the raw material that helped shape his life's work: the creation of a vast, ambitious, fictional panorama of Texas in the past and the present. Throughout, McMurtry leaves his readers with constant reminders of his all-encompassing, boundless love of literature and books.
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My Nile.......2007-01-28
Larry McMurtry is, as Proust and Virginia Woolf are to him, my Nile of literature. The quality of his prolific output has been inconsistent, but I find myself constantly returning to his work. Like all writers, McMurtry has his faults. But he is the best I have encountered in warding off, to paraphrase Harold Bloom, that dark inertia to which we are all susceptible.
One of McMurtry's rare pieces of non-fiction, this is an intensely readable book - intentionally so, it seems, following the path of the oral tradition. McMurtry mourns the demise of this tradition, while at the same time seeking to find the positive in the historical developments that have killed it. McMurtry's yarns describe his childhood, his discovery of books, and his bouts with depression, including his ruminations on literature's place in his life, and his life's place in this country's physical, historical, and literary landscape.
All of the tributary themes of the book join together as the book progresses, through McMurtry's own White and Blue Nile of Proust (who I personally like) and Woolf (with whom I have never been able to connect)and into a general inspiration to literature. McMurtry says that he early identified books as the central and stable activity in his life. This book is a testament to the joys and comforts of doing the same.
As close to a personal memoir as we get with McMurtry.......2006-12-23
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry. Larry McMurtry was influenced by an essay he first read in a Texas Dairy Queen by Walter Benjamin. The essay he was reading was about the dissipation of memory and the loss of narrative power in fiction today.
Larry McMurtry writes about growing up on a ranch in Archer City, Texas. He shares discovering reading and books as a teen, going to college at Rice University, knowing virtually nothing about literature, transferring to North Texas State University to finish his bachelor's degree as a workaround for a troublesome Rice professor, and then doing his Master's at Rice University.
He tells some about writing, his love for books that leads to his becoming a book scout and antiquarian book dealer. Across from the Archer City court house he has a giant bookstore containing a quarter-million used books, and the dying legacy of the cowboy. He shares little about his personal life except his love for reading and his quadruple bypass surgery which was very traumatic. It may be as close to a personal memoir as we get with McMurtry. The work is well written, wide, but not deep. We do not get to know McMurty at a level most would like to experience.
Read and reviewed by Jimmie A. Kepler.
Very Enjoyable.......2006-11-20
This sat on my shelf for years and I finally pulled it down. I'm glad I did. He expounds on aging, the west, books, his own writing, and reading. His writing is conversational and comfortable. Very enjoyable!
A Life Explained in Detail........2005-09-25
In this melancholy memorir of sorts, he reminates about his life growing up on the Great Plains in small-town Texas, about the vast emptiness of the Texas landscape and it effect it has on the natives. There is a vast loneliness and he feels he has been born too late so he develops an interest in vanishing breeds. The Old West has come and gone. Some time ago, I reviewed his book, THE COLONEL AND LITTLE MISSIE.
He extolls the virtues of the Archer City Dairy Queen (no where else to go back then (we still have some of those places here in Knoxville) in the Eighties where he'd go to read as he drank a strasnge concoction of Dr. Pepper with lime. Now, you can get a lime Slushie with a real cherry at Sonic, the drive-in of today.
He'd started on a translation of the German philosophre, Walter Benjamin's 'Illuminations,' a group of essays. He particularly liked "The Storyteller," and refers to it often as he thinks back on his life "to think about place, his life, literature and his relation to it." For twenty-five years, he has been telling his stories in book form, some of which were turned into movies, like LONESOME DOVE, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, BUFFALO GIRLS and TERMS OF ENDEARMENT.
He compares Benjamin's life in Europe with that of his grandparents settling in Texas, "while my grandparents were dealing with vast emptiness...Europe was approaching density (absolute and perhaps intolerable." There is no comparison, as they were on completely opposite polars.
He'd gone on a lifelong quest to study European literature to learn their culture that spawned his own pioneer family, a quest which comes full circle, with his reminiscences for this book. He loves to remind folks of the way things used to be and this erudite elegy for the lost paces in American life and of the cowboy" comes forefront. He doesn't care much for Paul Theroux's early mentor, V. S. Pritchett.
He gives an intelligent assessment of his career and the demise of oral storytelling. He promotes the need for reading and appreciated the works of Proust. He comes across as a bitter, cranky old man as he tells about his childhood and feeling 'soul-less' after his heart surgery. He's had a great career studing life and writing some strange novels. Some others are THE EVENING STAR, TEXASVILLE, and STREETS OF LOREDO.
Reflections of a lime Dr. Pepper drinker.......2005-09-20
Influenced by an essay he first read in a Texas Dairy Queen (while drinking a lime Dr. Pepper) by Walter Benjamin about the dissipation of memory and the loss of narrative power in fiction today, McMurtry writes about growing up on a ranch in Archer City, Texas, discovering reading and books as a teen, going to college knowing virtually nothing about literature, becoming a book scout and antiquarian book dealer (he's turned his old hometown into a giant bookstore containing a quarter-million used books), and, of course, the dying legacy of the cowboy. He writes little or nothing about his persoanl life (except his love for reading and his quadruple bipass surgery). He expresses often a love for Proust and Virginia Woolf, but never tells why. It's a somewhat interesting book (for those who care about McMurtry as a writer), but it doesn't go very far beneath the surface.
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A Superb Discourse on the Moral Bankruptcy of Modernity.......2004-10-24
I remember when I was a kid my parents would take me into New York City to attend the Latin Mass given by Father Rutler at the old St. Agnes's church. I was very young, and didn't really appreciate then what a brilliant man he is. I've rediscovered him now, and I'm glad I did so.
In this work Father Rutler discusses a number of issues related to the modern world, focusing primarily on political and social issues but also discussing art, history, and the Catholic Church's role in the world today. He delivers some excellent criticism of the state of Catholic politicians in America today, who ignore every moral teaching of the Church by simply saying that it is a matter of "personal conscience". It is about time that more Catholic figures openly condemned such people. This book examines the modern world from many angles, and Father Rutler's criticism is insightful and accurate. Probably the thing I like best about this work is its extreme relevancy, it balances more abstract ideas with concrete discussions of the world today. The writing style is in many ways reminiscent of Chesterton. Some parts of the book can be difficult to follow, and most of the book is in the form of a homily, but it is well worth the effort to read this book. Five Stars!!
Get Ruttled!.......2000-10-24
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I purchased twenty copies. enough said........1999-01-17
Without a memory you wouldn't know the difference from a river ,a lake or an ocean. Read the book.....two times.
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A must read for people of every ethnicity!.......2006-01-05
This book provides a perspective on race relations rarely so eloquently articulated! A wonderful challenge to every individual to take personal responsibility on this issue!
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Ready to die...??.......2007-04-03
This short book provides an account of the author's near-death experience after injuries suffered in an accident. It was very interesting to read the progress of his emotional and spiritual condition - increasing closeness to God as he moved toward death. Later, when his physical condition turned around and he began to recover, he didn't feel any relief or thankfulness. Rather, he went into a state of grief and despair at being denied final union with God. Reading this account led me to think about how I would react in a similar situation. I'm not sure I would react in the same way at all... But death is something that comes to each of us in the end... Our days are numbered, but the number is uncertain. Perhaps we should strive toward being better prepared.
Did I miss something?.......2006-02-22
While this was an easy read and well written book, I felt like Nouwen kept repeating himself throughout. I don't doubt his experience and am happy for him that he found such peace and definition for his service in life. But as for myself, it did nothing to further my spirituality or make me feel comfortable or peaceful about death. This came highly recommended and I wound up speed-reading through the last third of the book to get through it.
A "Jewel" of spiritual books..........2005-10-17
I've had this book for a while and always go back to it. I've recommended it to many friends as I am always glad that it was recommended to me. Well worth the read, guaranteed!
Be Still and Know that I AM.......2003-11-25
Henri Nouwen examines his life after a near death accident in which he encounters the Living God.
Facing the possibililty of dying he is able to let go and let God's unconditional love come to him and accept himself as God sees him.
His recovery from the accident brings about many changes in his attitude towards his family, friends, acquaintances and yes even his enemies. The experience brought resolve and forgiveness for his sins and the sins of others.
To come back to the living and take his daily cross was very difficult, since he had already prepared himself for the next life with Christ. To return to the former routine seemed impossible at that time but before long he had gone back to his former ways and was constantly trying to keep the peace that he had found during his illness.
Another book that touches on going to the mountain top and coming back would be "Hind's Feet on High Places" Hinds' Feet on High Places an allegory by Hannah Hurnard.
Preparing for Home.......2002-12-31
This book is different from many of Nouwen's other writings in that he presents lessons learned and spiritual reflections from a very specific event in his life (an almost fatal accident). As he often does, Nouwen delves deep into his own mind and shares his fears and deepest thoughts as he faced death. His thoughts on forgiveness "in the very end" for others and by others, caused me to give great consideration to how I daily forgive. If you fear death or are not "ready" for it, this book provides comforting thoughts for preparing for our real home.
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