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After God
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 22.50Religion, Mark C. Taylor argues in After God , is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more influential than any of us realize. Our world, Taylor maintains, is shaped by religion even when it is least obvious. Faith and value, he insists, are unavoidable and inextricably interrelated for believers and... more...
Crisis on Campus
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 24.00A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future. In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor?chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College?expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely... more...
The Picture in Question
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 17.50A rich exploration of the possibilities of representation after Modernism, Mark Taylor's new study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind Tansey's art. Taylor examines how Tansey uses structuralist and poststructuralist thought as well as catastrophe, chaos, and complexity theory to... more...
Refiguring the Spiritual
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 29.99Mark C. Taylor provocatively claims that contemporary art has lost its way. With the art market now mirroring the art of finance, many artists create works solely for the purpose of luring investors and inspiring trade among hedge funds and private equity firms. When art becomes a financial instrument, grounded in nothing but itself, it loses its... more...
Field Notes from Elsewhere
Columbia University Press 2009; US$ 26.99In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days a team of forty doctors, many of whom thought he would not live, fought to save him. Taylor would eventually recover, but only to face a new threat: surgery for cancer. "These experiences have changed... more...
Rewiring the Real
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 26.99Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing the way we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments for bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired,... more...
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
Crossway 2009; US$ 13.99Celebrate sex for what God made it to be and fight what sin has turned it into. This book has something for all—men and women, married and single. more...
Beyond the Bounds
Crossway 2003; US$ 13.99Twelve pastors and teachers explain why the God of open theism is not the God of biblical Christianity. Provides readers with a thorough understanding of what is at stake when exhaustive divine foreknowledge is denied. more...
Southern Journeys
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 29.50The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics. Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows the southern United States offers visitors a rich variety... more...
Action Research for Teacher Candidates
R&L Education 2010; US$ 31.99This book has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training?that is, teacher candidates?with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies that help students succeed. more...









