Roger: 3830 books

There's a certain intimacy about the word "embedded." I don't know who came up with it, but once it was in common usage, we talked about it endlessly in the pub. Embedded, being there, part of the action, eyewitness news on the front line. Embedded became a term shared by the media and the...

Tokyo Performance is* *set in the pre-internet age, brilliantly captures the zeitgeist of Japan at the time. In this riveting, entertaining and wholly poignant tale, a Japanese celebrity receives a phone call while live on air that will change his life forever. Nori, a high profile Tokyo-based...

When Percy Vosper inaugurates a literary festival in his home town in the north of England, little does he realise the place will be shaken to its foundations when a dysfunctional travelling theatre company and a stream of larger than life literati descend on it. Leading literary critic Graham...

In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study, Roger Kennedy looks at the roots of tolerance and intolerance as well as the role of the stranger and strangeness in provoking basic fears about our identity. He argues that a fear of a loss of attachment to one’s home might account for many prejudiced...

Two college students hiking the southwest discover a strange cavern of beauty and intrigue. The site appears very old but there is no explanation for the complex way it was constructed deep into solid rock. Grant Cameron, a young Washington, D.C. reporter has a lot to learn about how Washington hides...

En este ensayo Roger Bartra discute, desde distintas áreas del conocimiento (filosofía, neurología, psicología), la existencia real de la libertad en el ser humano y su capacidad para ejercer su voluntad y ser responsable de sus actos. El autor construye su argumentación como una crítica a las...

En La democracia fragmentada, el autor reúne las ideas que expresan, de manera integral, su postura sobre la situación política en México y el mundo, además de su visión de la izquierda a escala mundial. Durante la última década, Roger Bartra ha publicado una gran cantidad de artículos...

Una obra clave en el ámbito de la interpretación de la cultura nacional y de la filosofía de lo mexicano. Continuación de las reflexiones desarrolladas en La jaula de la melancolía, este libro es sin duda un clásico de la llamada "crítica de la cultura", es decir, del trabajo...

A lo largo de siete ensayos, Roger Bartra explora el tema del terror y la alteridad, así como sus consecuencias en la sociedad contemporánea. Desde una visión antropológica, la obra muestra cómo el extranjero, el marginal, el salvaje y el bárbaro representan al otro que confronta, amenaza y...

Roger Bartra cree firmemente que para entender a la sociedad en que vivimos no hay más remedio que sumergirse una y otra vez en la sombra del futuro, este libro es un cuidadoso análisis del cambio de régimen político en México, abarcando muchas etapas que ayudan a comprender cómo se caracteriza el primer decenio del siglo XXI y cómo se atisba el país del mañana.

Architecture: Gothic And Renaissance by T. Roger Smith.

About the bookThis is a heartwarming story about a man whose wife was dishonest and unfaithful, and who then meets a woman who is totally opposite. After his wife dies, he pursues her. But will he be successful in his pursuit? This is the author’s sixth book in The Christian Fiction Library™ series.

About the bookThis is a different kind of story from this author in The Christian Fiction Library series. It follows the lives of two bachelor brothers, who are ranchers content to live out their days watching television in the evening and making interesting commentary on the news of the day. That...

A university graduate assistant, Greg Stevens,studying physics, learns that a giant meteor he has been tracking is going to cross the moon's orbit. It actually hits the moon, slowing it and shattering it into small rocks and dust, which fall to Earth. During the twenty-eight day spiraling descent...