The Man behind the Queen: Male Consorts in History by Charles Beem, Miles TaylorRequirements: .PDF reader, 2.2 MbOverview: From the fourteenth-century king consorts of Navarre to the modern European prince consorts of the twentieth century, the male consort has been a peculiar yet recurrent historical figure. In this impressively broad collection of essays on male […]
Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American 1970s by Charles TaylorRequirements: .ePUB reader, 529 KB Overview: When we think of ’70s cinema, we think of classics like The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and The Wild Bunch . . . but the riches found in the overlooked B movies […]
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles TaylorRequirements: Any PDF reader, 17.3 mbOverview: In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has […]
The Montreal Screwjob: Who Really Got Screwed in the WWE? by Charles TaylorRequirements: any PDF or EPUB or MOBI reader, 1.14MBOverview: It is, without question, an incident that defined an era in sports entertainment and marked – if not tainted – the legacies of two of the greatest professional wrestlers in modern history. It was […]
A Secular Age by Charles TaylorRequirements: ePUB Reader, 1.39 MBOverview: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society […]