{"product_id":"peripheral-visions-learning-along-the-way-9780060926304","title":"Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Catherine Bateson, author of \u003cem\u003eComposing a Life, \u003c\/em\u003e is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. \u003cem\u003ePeripheral Visions\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks. Bateson's reflections bring theses narratives homes, proposing surprising new vision of our own diverse and changing society and offering us the courage to participate even as we are still learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBateson, Mary C.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Mary Catherine Bateson is Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University. She received an undergraduate degree from Radcliffe and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has written and coauthored numerous books on life history, lectures internationally, and is president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York City. She divides her time between New Hampshire and Virginia.","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662089752850,"sku":"9780060926304","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f1a1a854-0e16-4bb0-8015-67a78dc6c75d.jpg?v=1733511984","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/peripheral-visions-learning-along-the-way-9780060926304","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}