A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values local authors Largely eschewing senior cabinet appointments

Largely eschewing senior cabinet appointments and other high-profile roles

which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written

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But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes

A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values local authors Largely eschewing senior cabinet appointmentsOur whole society may be obsessed with "family values," but as John Gillis points out in this entertaining and eye opening book, most of our images of "home sweet home" are of very recent vintage. A World of Their Own Making questions our idealized notion of "The Family," a mind set in which myth and symbol still hold sway. As the families we live with become more fragile, the symbolic families we live by become more powerful. Yet it is only by