John Fleming
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English
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Euthanasia emerged as a talking point for progressives and secularists in the West in the 1960s. Given that they simply appropriated (without anyone's permission) control of national and private broadcasters, newspapers and university faculties, it became, eo ipso, a matter of public controversy. Other modish enthusiasms of that period, sexual licentiousness and psychotropic drugs for example, have long been, abandoned, but the quest for legislative...
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"In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth. Soon thereafter, however, the harmonious communion that God intended for mankind to live within was interrupted by a sinister intervention from the enemy. As days turned into years, this ancient agenda of corruption continued to intertwine even more deeply with the human story affecting the very makeup of mankind. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and...
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A little desert town gets a sexual charge from a crash-landed alien. A dysfunctional family tries to summit Everest with "discount Sherpas" and yakloads of emotional baggage. A teen messiah emerges from a game of 3-on-3. The stories in John Henry Fleming's Songs for the Deaf, the first story collection by the "marvelously inventive" and "winningly satiric" author of The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman, put an intimate and modern spin on the American...
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A story of big dreams and lost shoes, The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman examines how truth becomes fiction in a joyful and hilarious satire of Florida tourism. Josef Steinmetz is a young immigrant seeking fortune in 1880s South Florida. Earl Shank is a small-town postmaster with an entrepreneurial spirit. When fate delivers Josef like an errant letter into Earl's hands, their disastrous lives become the stuff of legend. Originally published in 1995,...
5) Frindle
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English
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When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
6) The dark side of the Enlightenment: wizards, alchemists, and spiritual seekers in the Age of Reason
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 414 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channeled into the darker pursuits of the esoteric and the occult. His topics include the stubborn survival of the miraculous, the Enlightenment roles of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry,...
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Pearson Prentice Hall
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
Rev. 7th ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 984 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
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English
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Hailed as the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey published in a single volume, this new revised edition is an authoritative and enlightened account of the history of art. It presents art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas-spanning from the primitive art of hunters 30,000 years ago to the most controversial art forms of today. The text is beautifully...
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ECW Press
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English
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Fans of Bones and Coroner will love Dr. Zol Szabo, a doctor who is out to solve medical mysteries before it's too late
After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria's secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and the murder of his daughter, trauma surgeon Dr. Hosam Khousa flees his fractured homeland with his wife and son. They make their way to Canada as refugees, where Hosam is forced to trade his prestigious scalpel...
12) Arms Race
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English
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Eric Swan thought he'd seen it all . . .
But when a successful weapons maker is found dead and his chief rival becomes the prime suspect, Swan discovers a frightening new development in the world of espionage: the Next Generation Soldier.
These bionic warriors, augmented with cutting-edge technology and superhuman abilities, are the ultimate weapon-for those who can afford them.
Swan uncovers a plot to sell these soldiers to the highest bidder, and...
13) Power Trip
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English
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Eric Swan can be killed - but he can never die. For a government agent hunting the most dangerous domestic terrorists, that comes in handy.
But Swan is beginning to question his own humanity. Is technology turning this Q2 secret agent into a monster himself?
Now villainous brother-sister twins, fueled by a lust for power and revenge, have set their sights on taking down the power grid. And they've hired an army of mercenaries to protect them.
The...
14) Quiet War
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English
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Eric Swan, the spy who can never die, is on the hunt.
He's chasing down the most destructive hacker of all time. This shadowy figure, known only as Ceti, is laying the groundwork for toppling the world's economy.
But few people know Ceti's true identity-and those who do have a habit of turning up dead.
Swan finds himself in a battle against time and a distorted public image. How can he prevent a villain from creating international chaos when people...
15) Field Agent
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English
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Super-spy Eric Swan is back in action! This time, he's investigating a tech billionaire who has curiously turned his attention to the country's food supply.
Jason Deele has the money and the resources to revolutionize an industry, but there's a sinister element to his plan.
Even more alarming, Deele has teamed up with a scientist harboring her own evil agenda.
Swan's pursuit of the diabolical pair takes him across the country and to South America.
Failure...
16) God Maker
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English
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Super-spy Eric Swan is back! This time, he must face not only his most cunning enemy yet, but also stare down his most crippling fears.
The brilliant scientist known as "God Maker", the mother of the Q2 program, has been kidnapped. She's held by a psychotic former Q2 operative who went dark but has now resurfaced with a sinister plan.
Swan must track down God Maker and her captor, while fighting back the fear that he, too, is damaged beyond hope.
Failure...
17) Poison Control
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English
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Superspy Eric Swan has given his life for his country. More than once. But each time he does it, he wonders how much of his soul he's sacrificing.
Now he must battle a treacherous madman intent on poisoning the water supply. But, this Nobel-winning brainiac isn't alone in his lust for revenge. Swan must outsmart a secret society of rogue scholars before they release their apocalyptic toxin. If he fails, millions of people will ultimately face a gruesome,...
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It's 1976 in South Africa.Written from the points-of-view of four young people living in Johannesburg and its black township, Soweto-Zanele, a black female student organizer, Meena, of South Asian background working at her father's shop, Jack, an Oxford-bound white student, and Thabo, a teen gang-member or tsotsi-this book explores the roots of the Soweto Uprising and the edifice of Apartheid in a South Africa about to explode.In the black township...