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A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
Category: History | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about ...Show more
A Is for Archive - The Archive of Andy Warhol from A to Z by Matt Wrbican; Abigail Franzen-Sheehan (Editor); Blake Gopnik; Neil Printz
Category: Art | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
A riveting excursion through Warhol's incomparable personal collections, from the bizarre to the illuminating Andy Warhol (1928-1987) remains an icon of the 20th century and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He also was an obsessive collector of things large and small, ordinary and quirky. Since ...Show more
Amongst the Ruins - Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear by John Darlington
Category: No Category | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilisations, the collapse of ruling elites and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising seas or sands, and the carcasses of 20th-century building ...Show more
Spain - The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country by Michael Reid
Category: History | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political c ...Show more
The Complete Works - Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments by Epictetus; Robin Waterfield (Editor, Translator)
Category: Reference | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity. "Some things are up to us and some are not." Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE, and, upon being granted his freedom, he set himself up as a philosophy teacher. After being expell ...Show more
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Luke Hal; Rendell Whitehead
Category: Nature | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples of the tra ...Show more
The End Of The Fucking World (2nd ed.) by Chuck Forsman; Charles Forsman (Artist)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Fantagraphics is proud to publish this first-ever hardcover edition of TeotFW in conjunction with the 2017 television drama on UK's Channel 4 (with distribution via U.S. streaming to follow soon thereafter). Originally released to critical and public acclaim in 2013, Charles Forsman's graphic novel debu ...Show more
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