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About The Book Reflections on a Tragedy is the title of the first of three books (volumes) which appear under the general heading: "A Texan Affair". This book, Reflections on a Tragedy, follows the fortunes, failures, and experiences of two young schoolteachers, Bill (American), Adam (English), who form an unusual friendship as colleagues working in a private high school on the plains of North Texas. Bill, very popular with the students, is ...

If we are skeptical about the truth of religious or moral belief, what should we do about those ways of talking and thinking? According to the fictionalist, they provide pragmatic benefits that do not depend on their truth. This volume examines religious fictionalism, moral fictionalism, and the relation between these views.

Ex-Special Forces solider Johnny Vince has won many battles, mentally and physically on and off the battlefield. But now, haunted and suppressed by the demons of the past, the 'black dogs' have found their victim: Johnny Vince.Not able to escape his PTSD, alcohol abuse, violence, self-harm, and detaching from society, he has ended up on the edge of life. Volatile at his lowest point, a light at the end of the tunnel is presented. With the emot...

The Higher Education of a Cottonmouth is the tale of Mick Lee and his grandfather John Pierce, a man both renowned and reviled for his many acts. The events take place over the course of two days, when Mick, preparing for a final confrontation with the Devil himself, writes his most important memories of his grandfather and how he came to inherit his conflict with "Ole Scratch." John Pierce was a man who could be mean as a snake, but always ap...

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Johnny Vince's next mission: to track and locate the Sumatra tiger poachers' stronghold, relatively easy for an ex-Special Forces, or so his boss said.With a truly strange turn of events, Johnny is emerged into a world that not even the complex himself can prepare to fathom.Even with Johnny's Elite skills, can he take this young, new squad into the hornets' nest with little knowledge and weaponry? You want action, adventure, and emotions-is th...

Maverick is the title of the first of three books (volumes) which appear under the general heading: "The Teachers". This book, Maverick, follows the fortunes, failures and experiences of two young school teachers, Bill(American), Adam(English) who form an unusual friendship as colleagues working in a private high school on the plains of North Texas. Bill, very popular with the students, is a Maverick, unwilling to submit to the authorities' or...

Following the success of this first novel, Operation Blue Halo, Richard Joyce has also published this second in the series Operation Last Assault, featuring that novel's hero, Johnny Vince, now retired from UK Special Forces. However, retirement is the last thing Johnny wants, and he accepts a contract as a mercenary. Filled with trouble from the outset, it turns into a race against time to rescue a wealthy American, Larry Schultz, from captiv...

Thirty chapters written by international leaders in the field on the connections between contemporary academic philosophy and evolutionary theory.

Can anything rescue Wildmoor from disaster? A deluded journalist with trouble distinguishing reality from fiction... A politician with a murky secret... A dubious educational establishment badly managed... Honey-traps and fake harassment charges... A 'play for our times', indeed. Enthusiastic young school actors observe their ambitious school production spiralling out of control, while all about them, their elders and betters pursue their own ...

This is a collection of twelve brand new chapters focused on a critical examination of the options available to the moral error theorist.

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This text develops an account of sovereignty that comes to terms with the complex relationship between international, national and local claims to determine the content of law, and provides a reconsideration of the concept of sovereignty in modernity.

Competing Sovereignties develops an account of sovereignty that comes to terms with the complex relationship between international, national and local claims to determine the content of law.

The connection between contemporary academic philosophy and evolutionary theory is a two-way street. In one direction, philosophers of biology make significant contributions to theoretical discussions about the nature of evolution, in the other direction, philosophers use Darwinian selection to illuminate traditional philosophical puzzles. The thirty chapters, written exclusively for this volume, include cutting-edge examples from both directi...

This volume draws together Richard Joyce's work from the last decade on moral skepticism, the view that there is no such thing as moral knowledge. Joyce's radical view is that in making moral judgments speakers attempt to state truths but that the world isn't furnished with the properties and relations necessary to render such judgments true.

In A Premature Affair, Richard Joyce's new novel, readers are transported to North Texas in the 1960s for a story about the precarious and fragile nature of young love and early friendships. "A Premature Affair" depicts an abortive love affair between Adam, a young English writer/teacher, and his determined English girl-friend. The affair ultimately shatters, as the lovers are driven apart by their own selfish aims and flaws of character, as ...

»Joyce, Sie wissen doch, dieser irische Gigant ... Der Zeitpunkt liegt so um 1909 herum. Da lebte der wortgewaltige Romancier in Triest und fristete sein Leben mühsam mit Sprachunterricht. Ja, und da hatte er eine Affäre mit einer Schülerin, kindjung anscheinend, doch von überzeugender Weiblichkeit. Ihr zuliebe schrieb er eben jenes Novellchen. Es steht alles drin, was einem reifen Mann passiert, wenn er sich vergißt. Und es ist eine Poesie, i...

Stanislaus Joyce (geboren am 17. 12. 1884 in Dublin, gestorben am 16. 6. 1955 in Triest) hat bis zu seinem Tod an diesem Erinnerungsbuch geschrieben, in dem er die Dubliner Jugendjahre seines Bruders schildert, gemeinsam erlebte und gemeinsam durchlebte Jahre, in denen sich Geist, Weltsicht und Genie von James Joyce herausbilden. Seite um Seite begegnen wir Elementen, die verwandelt in das Werk von Joyce eingegangen sind, aber nicht minder oft...

A debut novel for fans of David Walliams and Andy Stanton. Three unlikely friends - a new kid at school, a washed-up circus owner and a performing goat - all struggle to fit in. Ages: 9-11yrs.