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Christian and Muslim Perspectives
2013
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Tradition and Modernity focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking especially at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.
2020
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The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuses his attention on Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Aby Warburg, revealing how these influential thinkers inflected and transformed problems originally set out by Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Theodor Adorno, Hans Baron, and Leo...
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- Forerunners: Ideas First
2016
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The Celebrity Persona Pandemic explores how the construction of a public persona is fetishized in contemporary culture. As social media has progressively led to a greater focus on the production of the self, so this book looks at the most visible versions of persona through figures such as Stephen Colbert, Cate Blachett, and Justin Bieber, as well as fictional characters like Spock and Harry Potter. Ultimately, P. David Marshall closely studies how persona culture shapes our notio...
2018
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Written with the essence of cheap blues. I think that ought to make up fifty characters.
Mountain Man
John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
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- American Grit
2017
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“If you seek vicarious adventure, these pages await the armchair explorer.” —Providence JournalIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier. But when the journey was over, Colter stayed behind. He spent two more years trekking alone through dangerous and u...
2023
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I took more of a prose approach this time. I can say more when phrases don't have to rhyme.
2012
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This is a set of Haikus I have written throughout my life. These are my favourite form of poetry, so i felt it important to publish these works. Any likenesses are strictly coincidental.
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- Geoffrey GiulianoThe Ark
Unabridged
11 hours 12 min
2022
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Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.The first individuals to identify themselves as atheists lived in the 18th century during the Age of Enlightenment. The Frenc...
Passing Through
Book Number 4
2015
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To feel sorry for my sin, to feel such regret over my action, my intention, as to change one mind about my life story, repentant. I wrote my life story Passing Through book 1 too, and three it was true, but I left out something out. I didnt put in my book about when my grandmother, she was so good. But I didnt put in my book, and after I left school and got marry to Barbara Jean and came to Chicago, Illinois, with my wife and got a job as dishwasher at Nelsen Cafeteria. My father in law, h...
2017
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Written around the same time as what became Highways of America so it ended up being a precursor to that story. These are songs I wrote that didn't require a lot of orchestration and I can just play them on my own. You can probably tell it also wasn't written during a high point in my life.
Life Among the Cannibals
The Life and Times of Marilyn Monroe 1962 - 2003
2023
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Special 20th Anniversary Edition When Marilyn Monroe died in October 2003, she left behind the first volume of her memoirs (1926 to 1962), award-winning performances, and the memories of a thirty-five-year marriage. Now, after two and a half years of intensive research, (including interviews with noted figures such as Jane Fonda and Hilary Clinton, as well as Marilyn’s children, friends, and co-workers), a detailed accounting of the second half of this incredible life can be told. Utilizin...
2014
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This study of the Qur'an arises from an interest in a pressing contemporary issue, the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims ('the Ummah and the Other'). This text explores how the Qur'an comments on this relationship as it changed in the course of Muhammad's ministry. Particular attention is paid to the portrayal in the Meccan 'punishment-narratives' of a fascinating and complex triangular relationship between God, the powerless and persecuted believing community with Muhammad at i...











