What Are People For?: EssaysRanging from Americas insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and Americas attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next. He speaks candidly about the ills plaguing America and the growing gap between people and the land. Despite the somber nature of these essays, Berrys voice and prose provide an underlying sense of faith and hope. He frames his reflections with poetic responsibility,

He delves into such areas as uniform weights and measurements

first published in 1956

life under occupation

and end just two days before his death in October 1967

Baldwin fearlessly articulated issues of race and democracy and American identity in such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto

and we find it

In the eighteenth century this image shifted: the garden became a symbol of worldly power and politics

tokens are suddenly everywhere

especially The Symbolism of the Cross

the meaning of duration and the work of love

spirituality

the Islamic Texts Society has included the translation of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s own Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences which gives the reasons that caused him to write the work