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Missing Time and Other Stories: Thirteen Sidereal Crossings

NewParadigmPress.com, 2008

The stories in Jack Preston King's Missing Time and Other Stories alternately disturb me, haunt me, make me think, and send sinfully titillating tingles of delight running up and down my spine, often delivering all of these sensations at once... -- Vincent Casspriano, Jr., author of The Simplest Path to Personal and Planetary Transformation: FREE YOUR MIND

The Study of Politics

Taylor & Francis, 2007

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The Steady Clockwork Rise and Fall of Time: Poems 1990-2000

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NewParadigmPress.com, 2008

I Love How Jock Preston King Sees the World
In fact, I love every word this guy writes. I have his short story book Missing Time and Other Stories: Thirteen Sidereal Crossings, his wonderful "spiritual autobiography" Autobiography of an Earthling: One Man's Spiritual Journey To Embracing His Humanity, and now this poetry collection, and I can't stop reading and re-reading them all over and over again. Every time I do, I find something new. ...

Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South: Resistance and Non-Violence
Preston King

Routledge, 2007

This Book contains a succession of philosophical biographies. The subjects, located in the period 1850-2000, and even if later exiled, were chosen by virtue of birth and life in the American South on the assumption of the distinctiveness of Southern conditions. The "foundational" figures in Black Southern social and political thought are represented as Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall and Martin King are ...

Steal This Hero: An Abbie Hoffman Love Song In Two Verses, One Chorus and a Coda

NewParadigmPress.com, 2008

A new Paradigm Press DOLLAR DOWNLOAD! "Mom," I boldly offered one evening, "They're right. America is the Great Satan. We've trashed the Third World for two hundred years. It's about time they trashed us back." Stunned silence. Burning cheeks. "I can't believe you," she said. "You sound like a Communist. You sound like that Abbie Hoffman. Really?, I thought. Like Abbie Hoffman? The guy too dangerous to read? I remind you ...

Warriors, Peacemakers and the Embarrassing Question of Love: A Peacenik's Memoir of the 1991 Gulf War

NewParadigmPress.com, 2008

A New Paradigm Press DOLLAR DOWNLOAD! I didn't have any other example by which to explain my belief that peace was not attained by stopping war, but by learning to love and value our fellow human beings. The 1960s dropout Counter-culture was the only example I knew of a mass scale, American attempt to create communities of peace and love in the midst of war.Of this I was certain: To meet the violent hysteria of war with an equally hysterical ...

Trusting in Reason

Taylor & Francis, 2007

Martin Hollis (d.1998) was arguably the most incisive, eloquent and witty philosopher of the social sciences of his time. His work is appreciated and contested here by some of the most eminent of contemporary social theorists. Hollis's philosophy of social action, routinely distinguished between understanding (rational) and explanation (causal). He argued that the aptest account of human interaction was to be made in terms of the first. Thus he ...

The Weight That Isn't There: Anxiety and Finding the Courage to Be

NewParadigmPress.com, 2008

A New Paradigm Press DOLLAR DOWNLOAD! What better definition could you ask for the word ANXIETY? The weight that isn't there. The weight of wasted potential, of what might have been, of what's stalking us around life's next corner, of pending deadlines, the unmet expectations of others... The weight that isn't there makes everything light by comparison. The little joys in life stay small or vanish altogether in its shadow. The weight that ...

Friendship in Politics: Theorizing Amity in and between States
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Routledge, 2008

Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy , this volume throws light on the place of friendship in politics by connecting theoretical questions to empirical answers. Today, friendship and politics are most commonly viewed as distinct and mutually opposed concerns. Politics tends to be seen as general and impersonal, to do with power and hierarchy. Friendship, by contrast, is conceived as ...

Autobiographyof an Earthling: One Man's Spiritual Journey To Embracing His Humanity

NewParadigmPress.com, 2008

A New Paradigm Press DOLLAR DOWNLOAD!"So, um... What would happen if, like, after you join the church and stuff, like, maybe as an adult, a person sort of, like, decided to change religions or something?"Fire and Brimstone pressed his large hands together and broke into a wide, patient smile. "That's okay," he said. "Say a person starts out a Methodist, and decides later to become a Presbyterian or a Baptist. That's okay, because we're all ...

Thomas Hobbes: Critical Assessments (Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers)
Preston King

Routledge, 1992

Thomas Hobbes is arguably the greatest of all English philosophers. In the second half of the twentieth century, he has been the subject of sustained critical attention. Hobbes was capable of powerful argument on virtually any level, whether logical, scriptural or historical. And he has attracted attention in all these areas and more questions of historical method, language and linguistics, metaphysics, ethics, law, politics, science and ...

The Ideology of Order: A Comparative Analysis of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes

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Preston King

Routledge, 1999

Bodin and Hobbes
A good book from somebody that really knows the subject. Preston King have before organized lots of relevant articles about Hobbes, in four volumes. Now, he gifts us with an interesting comparative analyses of Bodin and Hobbes, about something that is important to everybody who was trying to understand State and sovereignity: how can we work with order and human beings?

The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity
Preston King

Routledge, 2000

In antiquity, it was not only Aristotle who assumed the people are more to be understood in relation to one another than as individual or solitary constructs. Friendship was vital to figures wuch as Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, because it supplied the tpe of bonding or fellowship without which they supposed no society could survive - a person ufil for communal life, for Aristotle, must be either a beast or a god. This examination considers the ...

Value of Tolerance
Preston King

Routledge, 2008

A companion volume to Preston King's Toleration, it makes the distinction between toleration and tolerance, and demonstrates tolerance's place within our moral code.

Federalism and Federation
Preston King

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982

This study of federalism and federation dissects certain problems which have arisen in the description and analysis of the federal form of government. The author does this by applying logical analysis to the necessary elements in the notion of federal union federalism as the expression of a political ideology or ideologies, and federation as an institution or pattern of institutions. He begins by establishing federal ideology as a type of ...

Designer booths 1990s style. (parking booths) (Physical Security): An article from: Security Management
Preston King

American Society for Industrial Security, 1991

This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on February 1, 1991. The length of the article is 1392 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Designer booths ...

Socialism and the Common Good: New Fabian Essays
Preston King

Routledge, 1996

Socialism and the Common Good brings together a set of writings by some of the leading social and political thinkers at work in Britain today. Its objective is to place before the public some seminal discussions of a central theme which is both theoretical and practical, namely the role of the state in achieving social justice in modern market systems from a socialist perspective. These essays touch many subjects, such as state ownership, ...

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