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Encounter: A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Korea (Voices from Asia)
$29.95
A must-read tour-de-force for anyone with even a slight interest in Korean history or literature. Tasan was a highly regarded Confucian scholar, who chose a life of poverty and scholarship, and to learn more about Catholicism, which had just entered Korea via the Jesuits in China (a Bible was brought from Beijing during one of Korea's regular tributary visits to its suzerain leader). Less than a Christian testament, this exceptional narrative reveals a precise picture of 18th and 19th century Korean life, politics, class and culture. Hahn explores a deeply thoughtful and informed internal struggle, and how Confucian and Christian ideals, when realized, are compatible. This is a Korean literary classic, in translation.

Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels
$24.95
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she had ¡Èinvented a Jesus to fulfill my own wishes,¡É she determined to read the Gospels as literature and to study Jesus as a character. What results is a vibrantly fresh and personal journey through the Gospels, as Gordon plumbs the mysteries surrounding one of history's most central figures.

In this impassioned and eye-opening book, Gordon takes us through all the fundamental stories?the Prodigal Son, the Temptation in the Desert, the parable of Lazarus, the Agony in the Garden?pondering the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, the unresolved more ambiguities, the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscovers?and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardness?is a rich store of overlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feel both familiar and tantalizingly elusive.

It is this unsolvable conundrum that rests at the heart of Reading Jesus and with which Gordon keeps us in thrall on every page.

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness
$15.95
It was a good presentation. They may have overused the Schrodinger box concept a bit. It is very important but not appropriate in all example explanations. Not enough emphasis was given at the end that some of the consciousness theories are barely hypothesis. Actually, the whole discussion of consciousness was very brief and ineffectual. However, that doesn't take away from the overall value of this book.

Why Obama's Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster (Encounter Broadsides)
$5.99
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3I1YCTGKWBW6I More government isn't reform, it's devolution. Gratzer's suggestions are what I call reform and the stuff of change and hope. An excellent book indeed.