Wright in Name God

Galeano, Eduardo [translated By Mark Fried; Woodcuts By Jose Francisco Borges]: Walking Words, NY W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1995
ISBN: 0-393-03782-7 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Roberto De Vicq De Cumptich; Book Design By Margaret M. Wagner; Dust Jacket Illustrations By Jose Francisco Borges

328pp. Dark blue quarter-cloth, dark blue paper boards, gilt spine lettering, blue ink embossed front cover design. Dust jacket price 23.00. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to front endpaper. 'Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is an Uruguayan journalist whose books have been translated into many languages. His works transcend orthodox genres, combining documentary, fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history. The author himself has denied that he is a historian: "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." Galeano was born in Montevideo. He started his career as a journalist in the early 1960s as editor of Marcha, an influential weekly journal which had such contributors as Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Benedetti, Manuel Maldonado Denis and Roberto Fernandez Retamar. For two years he edited the daily Epoca and worked as editor-in-chief of the University Press. In 1973, a military coup took power in Uruguay; Galeano was imprisoned and later was forced to flee. He settled in Argentina where he founded the cultural magazine, Crisis. In 1976, when the Videla regime took power in Argentina in a bloody military coup, his name was added to the lists of those condemned by the death squads, and he fled again; this time to Spain, where he wrote his famous trilogy: 'Memoria del fuego' (Memory of Fire ). At the beginning of 1985 Galeano returned to Montevideo, where he continues to live. 'Las venas abiertas de America Latina'(The Open Veins of Latin America) is arguably Galeano's best-known work, a powerful indictment of the exploitation of Latin America by foreign powers from the 15th century onwards. It was the first of his many books to be translated by Cedric Belfrage into English that matches the brilliance of the original. It is a classic among students of Latin America. 'Memoria del fuego' (Memory of Fire) is a three-volume narrative of the history of America, North and South. The characters are historical figures; generals, artists, revolutionaries, workers, conquerors and the conquered, who are portrayed in brief episodes which reflect the colonial history of the continent. It starts with pre-Columbian creation myths and ends in the 1980s. It highlights not only the colonial oppression that the continent underwent but particularly the long history of resistance, from individual acts of heroism to mass revolutionary movements. 'Memoria del fuego' was widely praised by reviewers. Galeano was compared to John Dos Passos and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Ronald Wright wrote in the Times Literary Supplement: "Great writers... dissolve old genres and found new ones. This trilogy by one of South America's most daring and accomplished authors is impossible to classify." In New York Times Book Review Jay Parini praised as perhaps his most daring work 'The Book of Embraces', a collection of short, often lyrical stories presenting Galeano's views on emotion, art, politics, and values, as well as offering a scathing critique of modern capitalistic society and views on an ideal society and mindset. ('The Book of Embraces' was the last book Cedric Belfrage translated before he died in 1991.) Galeano is also an avid football fan; 'Soccer in Sun and Shadow'(1995) is a review of the history of the game. Galeano compares it with a theater performance and with war; he criticizes its unholy alliance with global corporations but attacks leftist intellectuals who reject the game and its attraction to the broad masses for ideological reasons.' - wikipedia. "Reading this delightful retelling of Latin American folklore, it's surprising to realize this is the same author who wrote the three-volume, heart-rending, and unconventional history of America, Memory of Fire. Teaming up with Brazilian woodcut artist Jose Francisco Borges, Galeano depicts the various and delicious ironies of life at the end of this century. For instance, in "Story of the Second Visitation of Jesus," the character in question "arrives hanging from an open umbrella . . . the son of God can't keep the breeze from raising his gown and uncovering his human nudity." All the pieces in this book are short, some as short as a breath. Borges' woodcuts are raw and to the point, a wonderful balance to the luscious words they illustrate. This book offers further proof that Galeano is one of Latin America's most innovative writers." - Booklist. Book and dust jacket appear in as new, unread condition. No remainder markings. Signed and Inscribed By Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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"G. Ernest Wright. THE RULE OF GOD: Essays in Biblical Theology. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1960 1st prtg.

First edition. Hardcover, original cloth. Ex-seminary library copy. Old paper label on spine, name stamped on title page, otherwise a clean, tight book in very good condition.

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Wright (Robert): Three Scientists and their Gods - Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information - Fredkin - Wilson - Boulding, TimesBooks 1988
Contents, Chapitres : Acknowledgments, Contents, A note to readers, xi, Text, 324 pages - 1. Edward Frekin : Flying solo - Fredkin's island - A finely mottled universe - The moment of discovery - The road to riches - The billiard ball computer - Deus ex machina - The meaning of life - 2. Information in formation : What is information - What is meaning - 3. Edward O. Wilson : Unity - Ants - People - Culture - Mutiny - God - 4. Social cement : What is communication - What is complexity - 5. Kenneth Boulding : Seminar at the sage - The Boulding papers - Ambush at the Eagle Tavern - The organizational revolution - Dinner at the Penington - Pierre and Adam and Kenneth - The ultimate synthesis - Epilogue : The meanings of the meaning of life - Selected bibliography top of the spine very lightly torn, withoutv missing, name of the former owner on the first page, otherwise fine copy

1st edition Book Condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, under dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 335 pages Malicorne, France

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Wright, Robin B.; Wright, Robin: In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 1989
ISBN: 0671672355 Good

Library withdrawal in the plastic, protective covers. First blank page clipped by the library. Stamped at the page edge, this edition is still useful and presentable. Economically priced for your needs.

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