Foster: 1773 books
by Hal Foster
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised
A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts—that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.
While...
by Mark Costello, David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Finally back in print--David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.
Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively...
From Old Hollywood to New Brunswick
Memories of a Wonderful Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Imagine receiving a mysterious invitation from Charlie Chaplin, doing jigsaw puzzles with Marilyn Monroe, having a heart-to-heart with Jack Kennedy, or being kissed by Greta Garbo. All of these and more are the sensational memories of UK-born, honorary Maritimer Charles Foster. After an unlikely childhood,...
Communicating at the End of Life
Finding Magic in the Mundane
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This enlightening volume provides first-hand perspectives and ethnographic research on communication at the end of life, a topic that has gone largely understudied in communication literature. Author Elissa Foster’s own experiences as a volunteer hospice caregiver form the basis of the book. Communicating...
Ghosts of the Confederacy
Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1987
After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals...
by Michael Foster
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
“I see the faces of war every night in my nightmares. I see the faces of the soldiers and the story that they want to tell.” --Michael Foster, Specialist, Mortuary Affairs
Faces of War: Iraq, the Road to Heaven or Hell is a story of a small team of eight soldiers who work in Mortuary Affairs...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest,...
by Lee Foster
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
What is it like growing up in America? The answer depends partly on the time and place. More specifically, what was it like growing up in a mid-America Minnesota around mid-20th century?
This book provides an answer to the question.
Minnesota Boy: Growing Up in Mid-America, Mid-20th...
Colonial Consequences
Essays in Irish Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Colonial Consequences contains sixteen essays in Irish literature and culture by Belfast-born, Vancouver-based critic John Wilson Foster. The essays survey texts, genres and cultural backgrounds, from eighteenth-century landscape verse, the origins of Irish modernism, Yeats's great poem 'Easter 1916',...
Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition
Finding the Heart's True Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and...
Life with God
Reading the Bible for Spiritual Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“If you want to discover new ways of entering the Bible, and letting it enter you, you will find no better guide than Richard Foster.”
— Lauren F. Winner, Duke Divinity School, author of Girl Meets God
“Foster’s work is not for those readers who are seeking quick answers or a behavioral...
The Sacred Journey
The Ancient Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Have Christians rejected pilgrimage?
The Israelites knew it. David knew it. The writer of Hebrews knew it. John Bunyan knew it. "Blessed are those whose strength is in You. They have set their hearts on pilgrimage" (Psalm 84:5). We are strangers and pilgrims here. We're passing through this...
by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Praise for Foster and Magdoffs The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination...