Ellen's Joyful Journey.Ellen loved nature and was a running enthusiast; her favorite pathway lay beneath tall, stately trees and meandered along a beautiful stream near her hometown. Sadly, after her third bout with cancer, her runs became walks. Despite her suffering, she continued to walk on days when she was able. In her last journal entry, she lamented the possibility that she would not be able to walk her beloved path, the scenic route she referred to as the beautiful trail.

When we are born, our birth date is recorded; and when we die, our death date is recorded, usually with a dash separating the two. That dash represents our whole life! It follows then that to gauge the quality of the life we lived, we must dissect that dash. That is what I have attempted to do here. Even though my dash is still active, I will bring you up to the present and leave life to determine the outcome. I welcome you as a friend and hope you feel likewise after you finish reading ab...

From its carnival origins to its current status as a global phenomenon, pro wrestling has a unique presence in popular culture. Part sport and part theatre, the impressive antics of its larger-than-life characters have captured the imaginations of generations of fans, and prompted endless speculation about behind-the-scenes machinations.Philosophy Smackdown is a study of pro wrestling as distinctive as pro wrestling itself: it is the first philosophical look at this major ...

The world is populated with many different objects, to which we often attribute properties: we say, for example, that grass is green, that the earth is spherical, that humans are animals, and that murder is wrong. We also take it that these properties are things in their own right: there is something in which being green, or spherical, or an animal, or wrong, consists, and that certain scientific or normative projects are engaged in uncovering the essences of such properties. In light of t...

This lively book recounts the story of the antagonism between the American colonists and the British armed forces prior to the Revolution. Douglas Leach reveals certain Anglo-American attitudes and stereotypes that evolved before 1763 and became an important factor leading to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.Using research from both England and the United States, Leach provides a comprehensive study of this complex historical relationship. British professional armed forces fir...

For the first time Truth: A Contemporary Reader brings together essays that have shaped two aspects of a fundamental philosophical topic: the nature of truth and the value of truth.Featuring 22 essays, this up-to-date reader includes seminal work by leading figures in contemporary analytic philosophy. It charts the development of the central 'grand proposals' about the nature of truth, and subsequently how their influence gradually diminished in face of new theories develo...

What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? The Metaphysics of Truth tackles these fundamental philosophical questions and proposes a distinctive metaphysical worldview. Douglas Edwards develops a detailed pluralist theory, which holds that there are different relationships between language and the world in different subject areas, or 'domains'. He explains what domains are; how diffe...

It was Celtic missionaries from Ireland who converted the heathen English in the AD sixth century and at the time Ireland was known as center of learning. Well after AD 700, if a monk in Europe could read and write both Latin and Greek, he was most probably of Irish provenance. But by 820, the Celtic Church had practically ceased to exist. Set against the age of the Viking terror, Hammeraxe traces the story of the wronged younger son of a Viking chieftain and his spirited Moorish wife. How...

Douglas Edward's book, Pushing On, consists of meaningful, non-fiction poetry. He has directed these poems towards the hearts of born again Christians. Those who want their souls to go to heaven, when they die from this mortal life, will find great meaning and purpose concealed in Edwards' poetry. Open this book, and embrace the feeling of God's love.

J. Douglas Edwards is the man who first introduced Tom Hopkins to professional selling. He was THE sales trainer of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He trained over 200,000 salespeople a year for over 20 years. Hired by corporations around the world, Mr. Edwards began a crusade to change the image of the stereotypical salesperson, and Tom Hopkins carries the mission forward today.In The Real Mad Men of Sales, you’ll learn:Assumptive tie-down test closes that let you kn...

A gem of nineteenth-century science fiction from mountaineer, philosopher and occasional novelist, Edward Douglas Fawcett. Stanley, a wealthy young socialist, is firmly opposed to revolution. But he finds himself on board the Attila, a coal-fired aeronef invented by the notorious anarchist Rudolph Hartmann, embroiled in a plot to bombard London from the air. Hartmann the Anarchist was republished, in part, in 1971 in the final issue of Forgotten Fantasy magazine, a forerunner to the celebr...