Growing up in Illinois and dreaming of driving a tractor some day, seven year old Soldier Boy's world changes when his father is reassigned to an Air Force Base forty miles northwest of Paris, France.

"Understanding German Idealism" provides an accessible introduction to the philosophical movement that emerged in 1781, with the publication of Kant's monumental "Critique of Pure Reason", and ended fifty years later, with Hegel's death. The thinkers of this period, and the themes they developed revolutionized almost every area of philosophy and had an impact that continues to be felt across the humanities and social sciences today. Notoriously complex, the central texts of German Idealism...

Air Force Sergeant Rock Hanigan is a decorated WWII vet married to blues singer Annie McBreen. Transferred, he leaves Annie and six kids behind to survive the harsh Illinois winters in an old farmhouse on the prairie. Returning years later, he takes his family from Illinois to France, Germany, Oklahoma, South Carolina and finally to Washington State. Told through the eyes of the middle child, life among the Hanigans is never dull as gamblers, farmers, grocery store owners, rednecks, nuns, ...

Immanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. His transcendental idealism claims to overcome the skepticism of David Hume, resolve the impasse between empiricism and rationalism, and establish the reality of human freedom and moral agency. A thorough understanding of Kant is indispensable to any philosopher today. The significance of Kant's thought is matched by its complexity. His revolutionary ideas are systematically interconnected and he presents them u...

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made a great impact on film scholarship today, including Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei...

God’s Story: From Beginning to God’s Return is the perfect supplement to your family’s Bible study time. This beautifully illustrated book offers a classic presentation of God’s salvation plan. Author, Becki Dudley, retells over 120 stories from the Old and New Testament in a way that captivates children, teens, and adults helping all see the big picture of God’s love for mankind expressed through Jesus Christ, our Savior.Uniquely designed to help you intentionally discipl...

Five exciting novelisations set in Earth's past history, featuring the Doctor and his companions.In Doctor Who - The Gunfighters the TARDIS arrives in the heart of the Old Wild West, just as Wyatt Earp's in town.In Doctor Who - The Highlanders the scene is the Battle of Culloden, 1746, where the Scots are fighting the English.In Doctor Who and the War Games the Doctor and friends seem to arrive in the trenches of the First World War, but appearances can be deceptive...

If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. Ayer was only 24 when he finished LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC, yet it shook the foundations of Anglo-American philosophy and made its author notorious. It became a classic text, c...

With a new foreword by Dermot Moran‘the work here presented seeks to found a new science – though, indeed, the whole course of philosophical development since Descartes has been preparing the way for it – a science covering a new field of experience, exclusively its own, that of "Transcendental Subjectivity"’ - Edmund Husserl, from the author’s preface to the English EditionWidely regarded as the principal founder of phenomenology,...

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is arguably the single most important work in western philosophy. The book introduces and assesses:* Kant's life and background of the Critique of Pure Reason* the ideas and text of the Critique of Pure Reason* the continuing relevance of Kant's work to contemporary philosophy.Ideal for anyone coming to Kant's thought for the first time. This guide will be vital reading for all students of Kant in philo...

The eminent philosopher delivers an illuminating interpretation of Kant's magnum opus in what is itself a significant work of Western philosophy.The text of Martin Heidegger's 1927–28 university lecture course on Emmanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason presents a close interpretive reading of the first two parts of this masterpiece of modern philosophy. In this course, Heidegger continues the task he enunciated in Being and Time as the problem of dismantling the his...

"[An] invaluable contribution . . . changes the world—if only a little bit—by helping us to understand how we ought to understand ourselves." —Jensen Suther, Radical PhilosophyHegel claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, The Science of Logic. The book presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists can only be properly understood as a "logic," or a "sc...