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A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
Category: History | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about ...Show more
A Is for Archive - The Archive of Andy Warhol from A to Z by Matt Wrbican; Abigail Franzen-Sheehan (Editor); Blake Gopnik; Neil Printz
Category: Art and Design | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
A riveting excursion through Warhol's incomparable personal collections, from the bizarre to the illuminating Andy Warhol (1928-1987) remains an icon of the 20th century and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He also was an obsessive collector of things large and small, ordinary and quirky. Since ...Show more
Accidental Conflict - America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives by Stephen Roach
Category: Business, Economics and Law | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship "A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a testy and rapidly changing global relationship."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the short span of four years, America and China have entered a ...Show more
Amongst the Ruins - Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear by John Darlington
Category: History | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilisations, the collapse of ruling elites and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising seas or sands, and the carcasses of 20th-century building ...Show more
Artichoke Tales by Megan Kelso
Category: Children's Graphic Novels | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Prior to cartoonist Megan Kelso's long-awaited 2022 release, Who Will Make the Pancakes, Kelso spent six years creating her first long-form graphic novel, 2010's Artichoke Tales. The book, a fantastic family saga spanning three generations and an entire continent, was a critical smash named to many 'Bes ...Show more
Hayek - A Life, 1899-1950 by Bruce Caldwell; Hansjoerg Klausinger
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The definitive account of the distinguished economist's formative years. Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek--economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics, and champion of classical liberalism. Hayek's erudite ...Show more
In Praise of Failure - Four Lessons in Humility by Costica Bradatan
Category: Culture | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their external success, courted failure throughout their years. From Simone Weil to Seneca and Gandhi, the greatest of us made meaningful lives by grasping ...Show more
John Andrews - Architect of Uncommon Sense by Philip Goad (Contribution by); Paolo Scrivano (Contribution by); Paul Walker; Mary Lou Lobsinger (Contribution by); Peter Scriver (Contribution by); Antony Moulis (Contribution by)
Category: Architecture | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Though he garnered global praise at the peak of his career from 1960 to 1990, Australian architect John Andrews faced waning fame as postmodern cultural transformations challenged modernist design values, and wider social and economic changes led to a withdrawal of government-funded institutional commis ...Show more
One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition by Paul Verlaine
Category: Poetry | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
French poet Paul Verlaine was a major representative of the symbolist movement during the latter half of the 19th century. Norman Shapiro's translations seek to display Verlaine's ability to transform into verse the essence of everyday life and make evident the reasons for his renown in France and throu ...Show more
Risky Business - Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do about It by Liran Einav; Amy Finkelstein; Ray Fisman
Category: Business, Economics and Law | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
An engaging and accessible examination of what ails insurance markets--and what to do about it--by three leading economists Why is dental insurance so crummy? Why is pet insurance so expensive? Why does your auto insurer ask for your credit score? The answer to these questions lies in understanding how ...Show more
Spain - The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country by Michael Reid
Category: History | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political c ...Show more
Staging the Table in Europe - 1500-1800 by Deborah L. Krohn
Category: Cook Books | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
A first of its kind exploration of early modern European culinary history. Staging the Table in Europe represents the first book-length study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century illustrated handbooks for cooking and dining that provided instruction for nearly every element of the dining experience, f ...Show more