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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- "the culture of congestion" -- and its architecture. "Manhattan," he writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)." Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New York's history, including the imposition of the Manhattan grid, the creation of Coney Island, and the development of the skyscraper. Delirious New York is also packed with intriguing and fun facts and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings, photographs, postcards, and maps. The spirit of this visionary investigation of Manhattan equals the energy of the city itself..
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A Delirious Summer: A Novel
To Neil Rucker, seven months, one week, and a day is too long to wait in between dates. But life as a Spanish language teacher to missionaries in Ecuador affords little opportunity for romance. When his worst student, Jay Jarvis, suggests a respite in Greenville, South Carolina, so begins Neil's delirious summer. Neil sees his chance to meet a sweet succession of southern women, but little does he know that the girls of Greenville are now more elusive than a snowflake in the Ecuadorian jungle. As they church-hop in search of the perfect man, Neil tries to find the perfect girl among the Neapolitan choices: a demanding redhead, a joy-riding blonde, and a very tardy but intriguing girl with raven hair and a pierced eyebrow. Who knew relational gumbo would look like this?.
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Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity
Composed after the collapse of his political hopes, Milton's great poems Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes are an effort to understand what it means to be a poet on the threshold of a post-theological world. The argument of Delirious Milton, inspired in part by the architectural theorist Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York, is that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate deliriously between two incompatible perspectives, at once affirming and denying the presence of spirit in what he creates. From one perspective the act of creation is centered in God and the purpose of art is to imitate and praise the Creator. From the other perspective the act of creation is centered in the human, in the built environment of the modern world. The oscillation itself, continually affirming and negating the presence of spirit, of a force beyond the human, is what Gordon Teskey means by delirium. He concludes that the modern artist, far from being characterized by what Benjamin (after Baudelaire) called "loss of the aura," is invested, as never before, with a shamanistic spiritual power that is mediated through art. (20070208).
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I Could Sing of Your Love Forever: Stories, Reflections and Devotions (Worship) (The Worship)
Go behind the scenes with Delirious? to uncover the biblical and personal inspiration for their inspiring worship songs. Made up of 20 stories, reflections and devotions, I Could Sing of Your Love Forever will take you on an in-depth journey of discovery with these extremely talented songwriters and musicians. See how this tight-knit band of brothers (4 of the 5 are related by marriage) came together to do what they love, making music and leading others to the feet of Christ in worship. In these short but potent readings, learn about the inspiration Stu G received when praying for his ailing father, how Martin wrote their first song, the words of prophecy that changed the course of a song, and how the Psalms have guided their search for truth and passion in their work and in their lives. Find out what s behind the Delirious? catalog of albums and the international concert tours: sold out hearts that want to make a difference in our generation..
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Delirious Summer
A Delirious Summer by Ray Blackston Author of FLABBERGASTED This is a Crossings Book Club Edition* Hardcover with illustrated book jacket.Introduction: Neil Rucker's tempted. His life as a Spanish language teacher affords little opportunity for romance. So when his worst student, stockbroker-turned-missionary Jay Jarvis, negotiates a trade of extra credit for a respite in Greenville, South Carolina, Neil's delirious summer begins. But the girls of Greenville aren't waiting for dates. They've crafted a plan-a database and an organization-to find Mr. Rights in every denomination and congregation.. A Delirious Summer begins....
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Delirious? - Songs from The Cutting Edge
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King of Fools
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