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Book Review: Utopian Pedagogy - Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization edited by Mark Coté, Richard J.F. Day, and Greig de Peuter
It is through education that we gain our greatest leverage in resisting globalization.
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Book Review: Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak edited by Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur
Through personal stories, we begin to understand the challenge of living with hyphenated identities in America.
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Book Review: Islam: Between Globalization and Counterterrorism by Ali A. Mazrui
Mazrui considers whether, on a Toynbean theory of civilizations, the rise of Islam signals the end of the American empire.
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Book Review: Jesus - Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary by Marcus Borg
Borg searches for the historical Jesus, not to prove facts, but to reveal meaning.
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Book Review: The Future of the Page edited by Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor
In the shift from print to e-text, is the page losing its significance or is it taking on fresh meanings?
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Book Review: Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida by Roo Borson
"If reason is a sixth sense, does it, like the others, lie?"
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Book Review: The Magdalene Moment - A Vision for a New Christianity by Joanna Manning
Starting from the experience of female sexuality, Joanna Manning rethinks what it means to be a Christian in today's world.
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Book Review: Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire by Edward Shorter
Shorter traces our inexorable path to "total body sex" - a fuller engagement in our own sexuality.
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Book Review: The Good Works of Ayela Linde by Charlotte Forbes
Ayela Linde presents a fullness of character that is more than the sum of the words which give her life.
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Book Review: Pound For Pound by F.X. Toole
This is a novel about boxing the same way The Old Man and the Sea is a novel about fishing.
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