Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
9 best books like Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings (Juana Inés de la Cruz): Season of Mists, The Souls of Black Folk, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, The Book of the City of Ladies, The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society), Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer, Il metodo del coccodrillo
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1563890356 |
Neil Gaiman is at his best when his imagination is peopled with gods and demons—magnificent, outsize personalities, ranging from the eerily transcendent to the surprisingly human—and the tale he chooses to tell in “Season of Mists” gives him ample room to create a godly and superior...
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
| Author | Jordan B. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0415922224 |
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? Jordan Peterson offers a provocative new hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern...
The Book of the City of Ladies
| Author | Christine de Pizan |
| ISBN | 0892552301 |
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral...
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.
In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which...
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
| Author | Linda Kay Klein |
| ISBN | 1501124811 |
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.
In the 1990s, a “purity industry”...
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
| Author | Karen McCarthy Brown |
| ISBN | 0520224752 |
Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic,...
Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0824519957 |
This popular and bestselling book of the renowned Franciscan challenges people to move beyond the comfort of a settled life toward an understanding of themselves that is rooted in their connection to God. Only when they rest in God can they find the certainty and the freedom to become all that they can...
Il metodo del coccodrillo
| Author | Maurizio de Giovanni |
| ISBN | 8804616113 |
Napoli, così, non l'avevamo vista mai. Una città borghese, inospitale e caotica, cupa e distratta, dove ognuno sembra preso dai propri affari e pronto a defilarsi. È esattamente questo che permette a un killer freddo e metodico di agire indisturbato, di mischiarsi alla folla come fosse invisibile....
