Shadows of Time Review

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(More customer reviews)This book continues a conversation about myth that has passed through thinkers such as Joseph Campbell, James Joyce, and Olivier Messiaen. The force of these images, in the order they are viewed, offers a force that sums the force of the sun, the darkness, ancient man and technology into one cohesive piece, challenging the viewer to follow myth over time. This book is in refutation of the 'entertainment' mind of the 21st century, there are no spoon-fed ideas, but instead these images honor the reader by giving the starting points that will lead a critical and alive mind to run.....

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Critically acclaimed photographs framed in a Marshall McLuhan context.

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Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia Review

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(More customer reviews)Unfortunate honesty... only review here is from my mother, Judy Rae Smith. Loving she is, but unbiased she is not. Ok.
I think the book does a decent job of explaining why some large oil-exporting countries evince political instability while most others don't. One thing I think it does well, and innovatively, is to establish the conditional effects of oil wealth--which some immensely smart scholars like Thad Dunning, Miriam Lowi and others have also elucidated. But it is imperfect, and I enjoy reviewing the article and book-length manuscripts by others who challenge, elaborate, my arguments in Hard Times. Mostly I was after accumulation of knowledge in writing it, and truthfully so many good pieces of research have come my way in the last three years that I am confident that has happened. See my author's page for contact information if you want directions to such research. --Ben Smith

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