The age of reason / by Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980

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Scorched Earth : environmental warfare as a crime against humanity and nature by Kreike, Emmanuel, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…A global way of war in the age of reason: Environcide and genocide in 18th-century America, Africa and Asia --…”


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Selected short stories of Irwin Shaw by Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984

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Science wars : the battle over knowledge and reality by Goldman, Steven L., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Science and Social Reform in the Age of Reason --…”


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Man of reason : the life of Thomas Paine by Aldridge, Alfred Owen, 1915-2005

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A civil servant -- The summer time of wit -- An uncivil rebel -- The modern Tacitus -- The Deane Affair -- State clerk and diplomatic agent -- A bonus, a bank, and a bridge -- A political bridge -- The rights of man -- A republican manifesto for France -- The revolution of the world -- Continuation of the rights of man -- Where liberty is not -- The rights of man on trial -- A king on trial -- A firebrand on trial -- In Luxembourg Prison -- Return to the convention -- The age of reason -- Friendship with Monroe -- Amateur diplomat once more -- Relations with the directory -- Baltimore and Washington -- New Rochelle and New York -- Jarvis and Carpenter -- The defense of New York -- Feud with Cheetham -- Last days -- Recapitulation.…”


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Franklin of Philadelphia by Wright, Esmond

Table of Contents: “…A tradesman in the age of reason -- A city upon a hill -- Journeyman printer -- we, the middling people -- The old England man -- The prime mover -- Two views of empire -- One community with one interest -- The ungrateful incendiary -- Bonhomme Richard -- Plenipotentiary for the congress -- Patriarch of free men -- Father of all the Yankees?…”


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Blasphemy : verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie by Levy, Leonard W. (Leonard Williams), 1923-2006

Table of Contents: “…The origins of the offense -- The Jewish trial of Jesus -- Christianity transforms blasphemy -- Compelling heretics -- Protestantism rediscovers blasphemy -- The fires of Smithfield -- Socinian anti-Trinitarians -- The Ranters : antinomianism run amok -- The early English Quakers -- Christianity becomes the law of the land -- Early colonial America : Gorton and the Quakers -- America from 1660 to 1800 -- England's Augustan age of toleration -- Blasphemy and obscenity -- The "Age of reason"? -- Eaton to Carlile : deism for the people -- Carlile's shopmen and free expression -- Early American state cases -- England reconsiders the law of blasphemy -- English prosecutions of the 1840s -- Bible burning and a debate revived -- Bradlaugh, Foote, and Coleridge's decency test -- The age of John W. …”


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Building : 3000 years of design engineering and construction by Addis, William, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-A.D. 500 -- The medieval era : 500-1400 -- The Renaissance : 1400-1630 -- Global trading and the age of reason and enlightenment : 1630-1750 -- Engineering becomes a profession : 1750-1800 -- The harmony of theory and practice : 1800-1860 -- The birth of the modern building : 1860-1920 -- Architectural engineering : 1920-1960 -- The computer age and the greening of construction : 1960-present -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Appendix 1. …”


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