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David R. Mason

These homilies, lectures, and essays vigorously champion the author's conviction that it is reasonable to believe in a God of "pure unbounded love" and, also, that the best religion is a reasonable religion. That is, "the God of Love" is "the God of Reason" and, as a seventeenth-century Cambridge preacher put it, "If you would be religious, be rational in your religion." Thus, these essays challenge both the New Atheists and Fundamentalists, who are twins like Tweedledum and Tweedledee. An...

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Hachette Military Collection

‘Since its creation in 1831, the French Foreign Legion has become the stuff of myth, fiction and dreams... Anyone thinking of joining up would be well advised to read this book first’ - The Sun HeraldA real-life boy's own adventure, Marching With The Devil is an account of David Mason's five years in the infamous French Foreign Legion.David Mason graduated from the Australian National University with a law degree and an ho...

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David Mason

David Mason was a science-fiction writer, who published in pulp fiction magazines.In this collection, you will find three short stories by this author, full of innovation, adventure and mystery.

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David Mason

Includes episodes on: hitchhiking cross-country and provoking arrest to get out of the cold, being itinerant in Europe, sleeping off an amphetamine high on the floor in William Burrough's Spanish hotel room, working at a bookbindery in Spain doing a special commission (in white morroco) for the Pope, and blackmailing the head of the Royal Ontario MuseumChapters about his youth are as much about the beat movement & drug culture as they are about booksSnapshot of book culture...

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David Mason

A memoir of friendship, history, and longing in a Greek village that "introduces us to a rich cast of writers and ex-pats, shepherds and urbanites" (A.E. Stallings, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry finalist).In his twenties, an American manual laborer and poet found himself living with his beautiful wife in a village in southern Greece. Their first encounter with that country would prove an unrecoverable dream of intimate magic, but through decades of steadfast affection,...

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James Grady, a seasoned Terran trader, has learned to survive by respecting the customs of alien worlds, and on the swampy planet of Pru'ut he seems to have done more than survive. Among the native Kya, whose laws are intricate, rigid, and absolute, he earns trust, takes a native wife, and becomes almost one of them through patience, practical intelligence, and careful obedience. But one accidental misstep destroys everything: stepping on the shadow of a chief strips him of his name and st...

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An American President anxious about his re-election needs publicity. An American Indian Tribe is found who have not signed a treaty with the Government. He can't travel to the other side of the country; the Army won't help,he promotes a Midshipman to form an escort of Sailors, led by a clerk from the Dept., for Indian affairs who turns out to be the Widow of an Army Colonel......a tough cookie. A truly unusual and fascinating story.

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David Mason

FORMER COLORADO POET LAUREATEFrom the volcanic landscapes of the Pacific Rim to the mythic echoes of Greece and India, Cold Fire is a radiant meditation on memory, nature, and the enduring sparks of love and creation.David Mason’s poetry circles the globe. The urgent and beautiful poems of his new book, Cold Fire, have settings in Australia, India, Greece, Turkey and the American West. A t...

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David Mason

This is a merger between 'Mixed Bits' and a Chapbook 'La Triviata'. Herein, for your edification, lie Poems, Stories, even a couple of short Plays.Enjoy.

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David J Mason

Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia, the first installment of the trilogy, takes place in 1864, near the end of the American Civil War, on the slave-holding Jacob Williams' middle-class family farm. During the Southampton Insurrection, the farm came under attack by Nat Turner and his insurgents, an event that haunts Jacob. Before the Civil War began, Parson started discussing human rights and the political implications of abolishing slavery with his two brothers. In December 1864, ...

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David J Mason

The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enlistment in the Union Army by David J. Mason is a riveting historical fiction novel that places its protagonist at the heart of the Civil War's most challenging and transformative moments. At only seventeen, Parson Sykes is an African-American youth navigating from the oppressive "contraband of war" status to becoming a soldier in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) as a member of the XXV Army Corps. It's important to note that although The Self-Li...

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David J. Mason

In the Return to Southampton County, the story ends with Parson accomplishing his mission and achieving his goal. Parson Sykes will buy property to farm and live by the principles he postulated: that all members of a society have equal standing in terms of political power and influence; you judge people based on their merits as opposed to their identity, such as race, gender and age; you allow for competition and choice via a system of equal opportunity; a system that uses taxes on the ric...