Author: Howard Fast
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: paine, tom, citizen
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1994-05-05
List price: $13.50
ISBN-10: 080213064X
ISBN-13: 9780802130648
Among Howard Fast’s historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine-one of America’s all-time best-sellers-occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine’s revolutionary passion as the authentic roots of our national beginnings. Fast gives us "a vivid picture of Paine’s mode of writing, idiosyncrasies, and character-generous, nobly unselfish, moody, often dirty, frequently drunken, a revolutionist by avocation"-Library Journal
Author: Mine Okubo
Publisher: University of Washington Pre
Keywords: citizen
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 1983-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0295959894
ISBN-13: 9780295959894
Author: Jess Walter
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: vince, citizen
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0061577650
ISBN-13: 9780061577659
At 1:59 a.m. in Spokane, Washingtoneight days before the 1980 presidential electionVince Camden pockets his stash of stolen credit cards and drops by an all-night poker game before heading to his witness-protection job dusting crullers at Donut Make You Hungry. Along with a neurotic hooker girlfriend, this is the total sum of Vince’s new life. But when a familiar face shows up in town, Vince realizes his sordid past is still too close behind him. During the next unforgettable week, he’ll negotiate a coast-to-coast maze of obsessive cops, eager politicians, and assorted mobsters
Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: George Braziller, Inc.
Keywords: citizen, class, second
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 1983-02-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0807610666
ISBN-13: 9780807610664
"One of the most informative books about contemporary African life that I have read."Alice Walker.A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women and countless setbacks to achieve an independent life for herself and her children.
Author: Thomas Hobbes
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: cive, homine, citizen, man
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 1991-04
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0872201112
ISBN-13: 9780872201118
This title contains the most helpful version of Hobbes’ political and moral philosophy available in English. It includes the only English translation of "De Homine", chapters X-XV. It features the English translation of "De Cive" attributed to Hobbes.
Author: Douglas Wilson
Publisher: American Vision
Keywords: citizen, christian, letter
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0915815753
ISBN-13: 9780915815753
Last year, Sam Harris made headlines and topped bestseller lists with his angry and honest Letter to a Christian Nation. At its heart, this little book was an atheist complaint against Christians: Harris pointed an accusing finger at the church, telling Christians that they weren t as nice as they thought they were and warning fellow atheists that the Christians were out to get them. Prominent intellectuals and anti-Christians were quick to praise this little book; as one Harvard professor wrote, Reading Harris Letter to a Christian Nation was like sitting ring side, cheering the champion,
Author: Richard P. Feynma
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: scientist, citizen, thoughts, meaning
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2005-04-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0465023940
ISBN-13: 9780465023943
In this series of lectures originally given in 1963, which remained unpublished during Richard Feynman’s lifetime, the Nobel-winning physicist thinks aloud on several "meta"--questions of science. What is the nature of the tension between science and religious faith? Why does uncertainty play such a crucial role in the scientific imagination? Is this really a scientific age? Marked by Feynman’s characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures provide an intimate glimpse at the man behind the legend. "In case you are beginning to believe," he says at the start of
