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  • Outside of Space

    by Timothy Burns ...
      "Just then, Tala teleported into the room. “Father! We are under attack! Even now a scout descends from the surface. What are your orders?”The king glared suspiciously at Pihn, then Sapphire and Kyri. In a tone that promised no tolerance or mercy he replied, “I will question him.”To Sapphire, he said icily, “If you are forerunners to an invasion, you and your entire nation will die.” " (Chapter ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Outside of Space

    by Timothy Burns ...
    In the depths of interstellar space, the ancient mile-long starship Zaspar's Pride encounters a massive and enigmatic alien artifact. What could have constructed an object larger than the average star, and more importantly, why?Tobar Rus, the technician whose blunder causes the Pride to become stranded far beyond any hope of rescue, must find out if he and his crew-mates are ever to leave.In the ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and the Body Politic

    by Timothy Burns, Pamela Jensen, Joseph Alulis, Robert Schaefer, Peter Meilaender, Nasser Behnegar, David Nichols, Timothy Spiekerman, George Anastaplo, Laurence D. Nee, Nalin Ranasinghe ...
    Metaphors animate Shakespeare’s corpus, and one of the most prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn in exquisite detail, variations on the body metaphor abound in the works of Shakespeare. Attention to the political dimensions of this metaphor in Shakespeare and the Body Politic permits readers to examine the sentiments of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Ghosts of the Void

    by Timothy Burns ...
    When the solar system passes through a vast cloud of dark matter, strange things start to happen. Electronics go haywire, unbreakable materials suddenly break, and enigmatic, ghostly creatures are sighted. To the inhabitants of Earth this is bad enough, but on Mars, where properly-functioning technology means the difference between life and death, this spells disaster on an unimaginable scale ... Read more

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  • In Search of Humanity

    Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

    by Andrea Radasanu, Timothy W. Burns, Brent Edwin Cusher, Donald Forbes, Bryan-Paul Frost, Ran Halévi, Henry Higuera, Robert Howse, S. N. Jaffe, Michael S. Kochin0, Noah Lawrence1, Mark J. Lutz2, Arthur M. Melzer3, Jeffrey Metzger4, Miguel Morgado5, Waller R. Newell6, Michael Palmer7, Lorraine Smith Pangle8, Thomas L. Pangle9, Marc F. Plattner0, Linda R. Rabieh1, Michael Rosano2, Susan Meld Shell3, Ryan K. Balot4, Paul A. Cantor5, Steven Forde6, Kenneth Hart Green7, L. Joseph Hebert Jr.8, Christopher Kelly9, William B. Parsons0, Diana J. Schaub1, Nathan Tarcov2, Richard Velkley3 ...
    This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Edith Stein's On the Problem of Empathy

    A Companion

    by Timothy A. Burns, Íngrid Vendrell Ferran ...
    Series series Edith Stein Studies
    Empathy (Einfühlung)—as a crucial concept for understanding ourselves, others, and communities—was a central topic of interest in the first half of the twentieth century amongst philosophers and in the emerging sciences of psychology and sociology. Edith Stein’s dissertation and inaugural publication, On the Problem of Empathy, introduces her unique take on empathy, embodiment, phenomenology, and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Edith Stein and Max Scheler in Dialogue

    Edited by Timothy A. Burns, Travis Lacy, Eric Mohr ...
    Series series Edith Stein Studies
    The breadth of shared intellectual debts and interests in the work of Edith Stein and Max Scheler demand that they be placed in conversation.This volume brings together philosophers and theologians to explore the convergences and divergences in Stein and Scheler's respective work. Both thinkers were early practitioners of the phenomenological method, drew from and reflected on theological ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education

    by Timothy W. Burns ...
    Series series SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
    The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education.Liberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood the emergence of liberal democracy and what is necessary to sustain and elevate it, Leo Strauss on ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    A Bit of Color (Unabridged)

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    by Arthur Macy ...
    Narrated by John Hayes, Kristopher Hunter, Pearl Shirey, Timothy Burns ...

    Unabridged

    32 min

    Step into the vivid world of "A Bit of Color" by Arthur Macy, an enchanting audiobook that paints life in hues of adventure and discovery. Set against the backdrop of a quaint coastal town, this tale unravels the extraordinary journey of a young artist, Clara, as she navigates through the complexities of love, loss, and the pursuit of her dreams. With every stroke of her brush, Clara unveils the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Future of Liberal Education

    Edited by Timothy Burns, Peter Lawler ...
    Liberal Education, once the whole of American Higher Education, has been displaced by technical training and career-oriented majors. But it has also suffered from the decline in genuine liberal learning found in humanities disciplines, owing to specialization, politicization, and the adoption of new literary and psychological theories. The social sciences, too, have arguably abandoned the kind of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Philosophy, History, and Tyranny

    Reexamining the Debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève

    Edited by Timothy W. Burns, Bryan-Paul Frost ...
    Series series SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
    The first comprehensive examination of the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on the subject of philosophy and tyranny.On Tyranny remains a perennial favorite, possessing a timelessness that few philosophical or scholarly debates have ever achieved. On one hand, On Tyranny is the first book-length work in Leo Strauss's extended study of Xenophon, and his "Restatement" retains a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

    Volume 17

    Edited by Timothy Burns, Thomas Szanto, Alessandro Salice, Maxime Doyon, Augustin Dumont ...
    Series series New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
    Volume XVIIPart 1: Phenomenology, Idealism, and Intersubjectivity: A Festschrift in Celebration of Dermot Moran’s Sixty-Fifth BirthdayPart 2: The Imagination: Kant’s Phenomenological LegacyAim and Scope:The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD