Pantheon imprint: 214 books
The Undead
Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting.
Dick Teresi, a science...
Birth of a Nation'hood
Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Birth of a Nation'hood elucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination.
As they pertain to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money,...
Phi
A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
This title is printed in full color throughout.
From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other—as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective...
by Donald Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The subject of Professor Meyer's superb study concerns the dissolution of the Protestant ethic, its relationship to a general failure of nerve within the American community, and the consequent rise of a pseudo-theology in the guise of a pseudo-psychology, as reflected through the work of certain "mind-cure"...
The Dragon's Village
An Autobiographical Novel of Revolutionary China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This extraordinary autobiographical story, compelling, candid, and deeply personal, plunges us into that tumultuous moment in China out of which the modern People’s Republic finally emerged. It is the first time a novelist has ever described that distant world in words that open it up to Western...
by Romano Guardini
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Monsignor Guardini’s book is first and foremost an introduction to prayer, but an introduction produced by a master. He anticipates the problems that will arise at every stage in the spiritual life, and encourages the beginner by showing him what promise is held out in the first steps of prayer,...
The Practice of Perfection
The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Robert Aiken, author of Encouraging Words and Taking the Path of Zen, is America’s most senior Zen Roshi. In this new book he presents the Ten Pãramitãs, of Transcendental Perfections—namely, giving, mortality, forbearance, zeal, focused meditation, wisdom, compassionate means, aspiration, spiritual...
Encouraging Words
Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
*"The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love."
—Robert Aitken
Encouraging Words* is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken...
Liberation Theology
The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Liberation theology has become an essential component of almost every major debate over Latin America today. It has changed the face of political life in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Haiti; contributed to the rise of “people power” in the Philippines; even played a role in the growing discontent...
by Georges Duby
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knight extraordinaire, the flower of chivalry. A marvel of historical reconstruction, William Marshal is based on a biographical...
by Lewin G. I Joel, II
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Covering every aspect of employment from the job interview to post-employment benefits, this invaluable resource focuses on employee rights guaranteed by law and explains how workers can be protected. In language praised for its clarity and accessiblity, this updated edition provides a strong foundation...
Somebody Else's Century
East and West in a Post-Western World
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West.
In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s endeavor to adopt Western technology and all that we consider modern. He underscores a crucial distinction...
by Peggy Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
At a time when the poor math performance of American school children has labeled us a "nation of underachievers," what can parents--often themselves daunted by the mysteries of mathematics--do to help their children? In Games for Math, Peggy Kaye--teacher extraordinaire and author of the highly praised...
The Nations Within
The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignity
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The message of The Nations Within is an urgent on, and should be read by anyone concerned with American Indian affairs today.
“Those of us who try to understand what is happening in North American Indian communities have learned to see Vine Delora, Jr., both as an influential actor in the ongoing...