By any standards, Howard Zinn has led a remarkable life as teacher, writer, and social activist, a life in which those three categories are viewed not as compartmentalized tasks but as part of a unified identity. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, a title taken from his advice to students about his take on American history and current events, is a powerful testament to that life.
This collection of essays is driven by the question of how we know what we know, and in particular how we can be certain about something even when we know it is an illusion. The contention of the book is that this age-old question has acquired a new urgency as certain trends in science, technology and ideas have taken the discussion of consciousness out of the philosophy department and deposited it in the world at large.
Peter Thompson has had some pretty weird teachers in his time. By the time he discovers that his newest teacher glows in the dark, he's flying away from Earth in a spaceship full of aliens, and there's no one he can call. How do you report an alien to the FBI anyway? Before Peter can do anything, he's taken on the strangest field trip of his life! His friends, his father, his school -- all are suddenly a million miles away!
Volume Two of the Homecoming saga, continuing the story of Nafai, his family, and the few others selected by the Oversoul to leave Basilica. Now as the Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen and taken control of a great army using forbidden technology. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue?
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 27 September 2011
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Halloween
A novel by Curtis Richards based on the screenplay by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Tricked by his cunning... Treated to his savagery ... Annie, Linda and Laurie ... fresh, pretty, ready to be taken...stalked by a sadistic power who has returned to claim new victims, on this ... the most frightening night of the year.
