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The Complete Works - Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments by Epictetus; Robin Waterfield (Editor, Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity. "Some things are up to us and some are not." Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE, and, upon being granted his freedom, he set himself up as a philosophy teacher. After being expell ...Show more
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Luke Hal; Rendell Whitehead
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples of the tra ...Show more
The End Of The Fucking World (2nd ed.) by Chuck Forsman; Charles Forsman (Artist)
Category: Fiction | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Fantagraphics is proud to publish this first-ever hardcover edition of TeotFW in conjunction with the 2017 television drama on UK's Channel 4 (with distribution via U.S. streaming to follow soon thereafter). Originally released to critical and public acclaim in 2013, Charles Forsman's graphic novel debu ...Show more
The Extraordinary Part - Book One: Orsay's Hands by Florent Ruppert; Jerome Mulot; M. B. Valente (Translator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
This first book in a two-volume graphic novel series is set in a near-dystopian present, where mysterious creatures called "whols" coexist with humans since their sudden appearance a few years earlier. At first, they aroused curiosity and wonder, then their seemingly harmless presence became commonplace ...Show more
The House (HB) by Roca, Paco
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The graphic novel The House is at once deeply personal (dedicated to Roca's own deceased father) and entirely universal. Three adult siblings return to their family's vacation home a year after their father's death. They each bring their respective wives, husbands, and children with the intention to cle ...Show more
The Northern Silence - Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture by Andrew Mellor
Category: Film | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
An essential exploration of Nordic composers and musicians, and the distinctive culture that continues to shape them Once considered a musical backwater, the Nordic region is now a musical powerhouse. Conductors from Denmark and Finland dominate the British and American orchestral scene. Interest in the ...Show more
The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality TV by Liv Stromquist
Category: Western | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Strömquist's The Reddest Rose is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of 20-something models? Her answer -- in the form of this collection of well-researched, humorous comics essays -- tracks ho ...Show more
The Sonnets of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke; Rick Anthony Furtak (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Romano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the "poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a prophet of things to come." The complexity of Rilke is, then, "highly relevant to modern Man." Decades after Guardini's assessment, the reader who rediscovers ...Show more
We're All Just Fine by Ana Penyas
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Artist Ana Penyas's grandmothers Maruja and Herminialive alone in their respective Spanish towns, largely neglected by their children and relatives, who never visit. But when Ana comes to see them, she realizes that these women, whose day-to-day existences now seem mundane, experienced firsthand an incr ...Show more