age ~64
from Bakersfield, CA
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen as having had the most influence on the way philosophy is practiced today in the West. His reputation is based not only on the quality of his philosophi...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
832
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199742847
EAN Code
9780199742844
ISBN #
10
Cameron Barnes, formerly of New York City, lives in a small town in upstate New York. After having nearly succumbed to AIDS, he's recently regained a measure of his health but his long-term lover has moved away and faces the daunting prospect of learning how to live with the idea of a future in mind...
Author
Paul Russell
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
358
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN #
0312209355
EAN Code
9780312209353
ISBN #
8
Paul Russell's delicately layered, richly textured novels have won him widespread acclaim as one of the finest contemporary American novelists. Sea of Tranquillity, possibly his most ambitious and rewarding novel, traces a disintegrating nuclear family across two tumultuous decades of American life ...
Author
Paul Russell
Binding
Paperback
Pages
384
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN #
0312303726
EAN Code
9780312303723
ISBN #
5
From the award-winning author of The Coming Storm comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel The Salt Point, which explores the lives of four people-Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia-and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in a Poughkeepsie mall, the Main Street to a new g...
Author
Paul Russell
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
210
Publisher
Dutton Adult
ISBN #
0525248323
EAN Code
9780525248323
ISBN #
4
Told through the alternating viewpoints of four individuals, The Coming Storm centers around a traditional upper-class boys' school in upstate New York. Louis Tremper, the headmaster at the Forge School, his wife, Claire, Tracy Parker, a twenty-five-year-old gay man recently hired to teach at the sc...
Author
Paul Russell, Russell
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
368
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN #
0312205147
EAN Code
9780312205140
ISBN #
9
In this book, Russell examines Hume's notion of free will and moral responsibility. It is widely held that Hume presents us with a classic statement of the "compatibilist" position--that freedom and responsibility can be reconciled with causation and, indeed, actually require it. Russell argues that...
Author
Paul Russell
Binding
Paperback
Pages
216
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195152905
EAN Code
9780195152906
ISBN #
7
Although it is widely recognized that David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1729-40) belongs among the greatest works of philosophy, there is little aggreement about the correct way to interpret his fundamental intentions.The solution to this riddle depends on challenging another, closely related...
Author
Paul Russell
Binding
Paperback
Pages
442
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199751528
EAN Code
9780199751525
ISBN #
6
In his novel based on the extraordinary life of the gay brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell re-creates the rich and changing world in which Sergey, his family and friends lived; from wealth and position in pre-revolutionary Russia, to the halls of Cambridge University, and the Parisian salon o...
Author
Paul Russell
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Cleis Press
ISBN #
1573447196
EAN Code
9781573447195
ISBN #
3