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Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. 2026 jan.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Used good, Text appears to have minimal markings. Cover has wear. Spine is in very good condition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; ISBN: 0321580885. ISBN/EAN: 9780321580887. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561017218.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good in Dustjacket. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Reading. 1990. Addison Wesely. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0201121948. 216 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Gary Koepke. keywords: Europe Romania American Literature. DESCRIPTION - When an excerpt from this book first appeared, The Nation called it 'a remarkable essay the sort of social-cultural-political analysis the mind longs for when it's been fed for months on Wonder Bread while roaring for raw meat.' This analysis could only have come from Andrei Codrescu: born in Stalinist Romania, exploring the world during the turbulent 1960s, and now an American poet, essayist, and commentator. In the late twentieth century, he writes, people fear the Outside - that which holds everything beyond our control and current understanding. We yearn to escape into the familiar, not into the unknown. Minds are no longer open to mystery. The rulers of the Eastern bloc tried to close off the Outside with barbed wire and censorship, driving away creative minds. An exile himself, Codrescu looks at Czeslaw Milosz, whose literary Lithuania has become more famous than the region itself; Vàclav Havel, recently a prisoner of the Czechoslovak state and now its leader; Milan Kundera, who sought a free press and now refuses all interviews; and many other authors who fled and fought oppression. Now popular revolutions are bringing East and West together. Codrescu was once so unwelcome in Romania that his name could not appear in crossword puzzles; in December 1989, he relates, he returned and was invited to go on national television. Yet here in the West, Codrescu points out, the Outside is blocked by billboards, drowned out by commercials. There is free expression, but can we really think about what anybody says? What will flow eastward through the cracks in the Iron Curtain - freedom of thought or 'freedom to shop'? Part memoir of crossing East and West, part critique of our current world literature, and part jeremiad against how we ignore imagination as a force in our lives, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE OUTSIDE is an extraordinary piece of writing that holds challenges for years ahead. inventory #14899.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Eighth Edition. Text appears to be clean. Cover has wear. Spine is in good condition. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 6. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; ISBN: 0321434137. ISBN/EAN: 9780321434135. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561031076.

Zustand: Gebraucht / Used. 1982. Hatdcover with d.j. vii,232pp. 8°. Bibliogr. Inedx.

red & blue 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing so stated (& #1 in # line). xii+283p. notes. bibliography. index. UFO. religion. psychic phenomena. apparitions. psychology. mythology. folklore. ~ "Just when we thought there was nothing new to be said . here comes Angels and Aliens, as original and provocative a book as you're likely to run into this year. Keith Thompson has issued a bold new challenge to our imagination, and our perception." ~George Leonard Contributing Editor, Esquire. In a brilliant stroke, Keith Thompson takes a subject usually confined to checkout~counter tabloids and reveals its surprising literary richness, intellectual energy, and symbolic depths. By offering a new, open~ended perspective which avoids the dogmatism of true believers and debunkers alike, Angels and Aliens invites readers to enter a fascinating world with profound implications for our understanding of the human spirit. It was Carl Jung who first spoke of the UFO phenomenon as "a modern myth in the making," and Joseph Campbell who insisted that the first function of myth is "opening mind and heart to the utter wonder of all being." Now Keith Thompson makes it possible for us to share that sense of wonder as he explores the UFO against the timeless backdrop of visionary experience: angelic visitations, neardeath experiences, shamanic journeys, religious miracles, and folkloric encounters with fairies and dwarfs. Angels and Aliens offers a compelling interpretive history of the UFO phenomenon, beginning in 1947 when the first reports came in describing nine disc~shaped objects moving in the sky "like a saucer skipping over water." In Thompson's even~handed telling it is difficult to decide which is more outrageous: the stories of temptresses from outer space disembarking for impregnation by sexually self~confident farmers, or the government's ham~handed explanations for ambiguous events that nonetheless did take place, having been confirmed by both radar and independent visual sightings. Thompson argues that the need for clear distinctions in the Western mind obscures the rich sense in which the UFO phenomenon becomes not less real but more so for its mythic, metaphoric, allegorical dimension. No matter whether the reported sightings were caused by literal aliens from another galaxy or summoned from some poorly understood dimension of the human psyche, we may come to fathom the distinctively modern longing to recover lost intimacy with deeper currents of the universe. Angels and Aliens prepares us for the provocative conclusion that, where mind and matter intersect, what we term reality may in fact be a limited spectrum within a much larger realm of possibilities.

Zustand: Good. 11th. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Gebraucht / Used. Hardcover with dustwrapper. Very good. Xiv,242pp. Owner's blind book stamp on titlepage.