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The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his
basement with a dog leash. He didn’t write a note. How Not to
Kill Yourself is an affirmation of life by someone who has tried to
end it multiple times. It’s about standing in your bathroom every
morning, gearing yourself up to die. It’s about choosing to go on
living anyway. In an unflinching account of his darkest moments,
Clancy Martin makes the case against suicide, drawing on the work
of philosophers from Seneca to Jean Améry. Through critical
inquiry and practical steps, we might yet answer our existential
despair more freely – and with a little more creativity.
Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for
Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do
differently? Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable
alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and
genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize everyday
life, our discipline-bound analyses often disguise more than they
illuminate. Written by a historian, literary critic, philosopher,
and theologian, The Happy Burden of History takes an integrative
approach to the problem of responsible selfhood. Exploring the
lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced
the ethical challenges of the Third Reich, it focuses on five
typical tools for cultivating the modern self: myths, lies,
non-conformity, irony, and modeling. The authors carefully dissect
the ways in which ordinary and intellectual Germans excused their
violent claims to mastery with a sense of 'sovereign impunity.'They
then recuperate the same strategies of selfhoodfor our contemporary
world, but in ways that are self-critical and humble. The book
shows how viewing this problem from within everyday life can
empower and encourage usto bear the burden of historical
responsibility - and be happy doing so.
When an anonymous e-mail alerts UpLink International's operatives
to suspicious activity on an exclusive island resort, Pete Nimec
goes undercover to investigate. What Nimec discovers is a plot to
drain oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserves and
sell it to outlaw nations. Original.
A new, annotated reader, The Philosophy of Love and Sex, presents
not only classic readings on love and sex from a diverse selection
of philosophical perspectives, but also groundbreaking work in this
rapidly changing field. Unlike existing readers, this comprehensive
reader takes an interdisciplinary approach, choosing to include the
voices of philosophers and philosophically minded thinkers from
many different traditions, emphasizing not only the core writers
who have defined the tradition, such as Plato and Stendhal, but
work as recent as 2015 from feminists, transgendered persons, and
others.
Bobby Clark is just sixteen when he drops out of school to follow
his big brother, Jim, into the jewelry business. Bobby idolizes Jim
and is in awe of Jim's girlfriend, Lisa, the best saleswoman at the
Fort Worth Deluxe Diamond Exchange. What follows is the story of a
young man's education in two of the oldest human passions, love and
money. Skilled at the art of persuasion, Bobby is drawn to Lisa,
but also to the myriad scams and frauds of the jewelry trade, where
the power to appraise also means the power to bait and switch and
cheat like hell. Clancy Martin's gripping debut novel takes us
behind the counter, where diamonds and watches aren't the only
precious commodity.
When an anonymous e-mail alerts UpLink International's operatives
to suspicious activity on an exclusive island resort, Pete Nimec
goes undercover to investigate. What Nimec discovers is a plot to
drain oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserves and
sell it to outlaw nations. Original.
Unspoiled. Uninhabited. Under attack…
On the wind-swept, ice-covered continent of Antarctica, Roger Gordian’s UpLink Technologies has established a scientific research facility called Cold Corners. But its testing of potential robotic landing craft for use on Mars is disrupted when one of the rovers disappears—along with the repair team sent out after it.
Fear of discovery has prompted a renegade consortium—that is illegally using Antarctica as a nuclear waste dump—to wipe out the UpLink base. Now, the men and women of Cold Corners have only themselves to rely on as the consortium mounts its decisive strike against the ice station—and the final sunset plunges them into the total darkness of a polar winter…
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