The enemy within : a history of espionage by Crowdy, Terry

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When the kissing had to stop : cult studs, Khmer newts, Langley spooks, techno-geeks, video drones, author gods, serial killers, vampire media, alien sperm-suckers, satanic therapi... by Leonard, John, 1939-2008

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Approaches to teaching Voltaire's Candide

Table of Contents: “…Voltaire's Candide : distortion in the age of reason /…”


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Voices in dissent; an anthology of individualist thought in the United States,

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The Columbia history of Western philosophy

Table of Contents: “…China and Western Philosophy in the Age of Reason /…”


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Thomas Paine reader by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809

Table of Contents: “…The case of the officers of excise -- African slavery in America -- Reflections on the life and death of Lord Clive -- Liberty tree -- Common sense -- The American crisis -- Public good -- Six letters to Rhode Island -- Letter to the Abbé Raynal -- Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money -- The rights of man -- Letter addressed to the addressers on the late proclamation -- An essay for the use of new republicans in their opposition to monarchy -- Reasons for preserving the life of Louis Capet -- The age of reason, part one -- Dissertation on first principles of government -- Agrarian justice -- Letter to George Washington -- To the citizens of the United States -- The construction of iron bridges -- Constitutional reform.…”


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Collected writings by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809

Table of Contents: “…Common Sense, The Crisis, and Other Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters -- Rights of Man -- The Age of Reason.…”


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The best of the Nation : selections from the independent magazine of politics and culture

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Thomas Paine : representative selections by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Paine - Introduction: Religious and ethical ideas -- Political ideas -- Economics -- Humanitarianism -- Education -- Literary theory and practice ; Chronological tables ; Selected bibliography: Texts -- Biographies -- Interpretation and criticism ; Selections: the major pamphlets: Common sense -- The crisis -- The rights of man -- Part I -- Part II -- The age of reason -- Agrarian justice ; Miscellaneous selections ; Notes.…”


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A history of the world in 6 glasses by Standage, Tom, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt: Stone-age brew -- Civilized beer -- Wine in Greece and Rome: The delight of wine -- The imperial vine -- Spirits in the colonial period: High spirits, high seas -- The drinks that built America -- Coffee in the age of reason: the great soberer -- The coffeehouse internet -- Tea and the British Empire: Empires of tea -- Tea power -- Coca-cola and the rise of America: From soda to cola -- Globalization in a bottle.…”


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Image of America; our literature from Puritanism to the space age. by Foerster, Norman, 1887-1972

Table of Contents: “…The Puritan age: the word of God as the law of man -- The Neo-classic age: human reason and natural order -- The Romantic movement: individualism in feeling and imagination -- The Rise of realism: the texture of ordinary living -- The Realistic movement and new directions: disillusionment and the search for values.…”


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A history of Western morals by Brinton, Crane, 1898-1968

Table of Contents: “…Origins: the ancient near east -- Origins: the Jews and the Greeks -- Greece: the great age -- The Greco-Roman world -- The beginnings of the Judaeo-Christian tradition -- The Middle Ages -- The reformation -- The Renaissance -- The seventeenth century -- The age of reason -- The nineteenth century -- The twentieth century -- The problem of moral progress -- Conclusion: in which nothing is concluded.…”


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The letter and the cosmos : how the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world by De Looze, Laurence

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Ancient Greek letters -- Latin letters and the enduring influence of Roman scripts -- Christian letters : the middle ages -- The letters of humanism -- Baroque variations and the search for a universal language -- Logical letters : the alphabet in the age of reason -- The alphabets of the industrialized world -- From modern experiments to post-modern experiences -- Into the new millennium.…”


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America aflame : how the Civil War created a nation by Goldfield, David R., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…A nation reborn -- Crusades -- Empire -- Revolutions -- Railroaded -- Blood on the Plains -- Revival -- The boatman -- The tug comes -- Just causes -- Shiloh awakening -- Born in a day -- Blood and transcendence -- A new nation -- War is cruelty -- One nation, indivisible -- The age of reason -- Aspirations -- A golden moment -- The golden spike -- Political science -- Let it be -- Centennial.…”


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Earthly powers : the clash of religion and politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War by Burleigh, Michael, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Age of reason, age of faith -- The Church and the revolution -- Puritans thinking they are Spartans run amok in eighteenth-century Paris -- The alliance of throne and altar in Restoration Europe -- Chosen peoples : political messianism and nationalism -- Century of faiths -- New Men and sacred violence in late-nineteenth-century Russia -- Rendering unto Caesar : church versus state, state versus church -- The churches and industrial society -- Apocalypse 1914.…”


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Before Darwin : reconciling God and nature by Thomson, Keith Stewart

Table of Contents: “…Charles Darwin and William Paley -- An age of science, an age of reason -- Problems at home -- John Ray : founding father -- Difficulties with the theory, and the argument extended -- Fossils and time : Dr. …”


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A history of Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim perspectives on war and peace by Frost, J. William (Jerry William)

Table of Contents: “…Contents of v. 1: Introduction: the past in the present -- The Hebrew scriptures and war -- The New Testament and war -- The Greeks and war -- Rome: pagan and Christian -- The religions of the East I: Hinduism -- The religions of the East II: Buddhism nonviolence and statecraft -- Islam in peace and war -- Medieval Europe -- Splintering of Christian traditions -- War and peace in the age of reason -- Revolutions as just war -- Religion, nationalism, and war in the nineteenth century -- A civilized way to peace.…”


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Impotence : a cultural history by McLaren, Angus

Table of Contents: “…The impenetrable penetrator: manhood in Greece and Rome -- When "desire refuses service": impotence in the Christian west -- The "infirmity of others": laughing at fumblers in early modern Europe -- "Shameful to wives, ridiculous for husbands, and unworthy of tribunals": impotence in the age of reason -- Neurasthenia, decadence, and nineteenth-century manhood -- Marketing manly vigor: Victorian medicine versus quackery -- Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes, and "the love of civilized man" -- Sex glands, rejuvenation, and eugenics between the wars -- The "impotence boom": from Kinsey to Masters and Johnson -- Viagra: hard science or hard sell?…”


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Costume and fashion in colour, 1550-1760 by Cassin-Scott, Jack

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Dissent : the history of an American idea by Young, Ralph, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Dissent and America -- The "free aire of a new world" -- Dissent in an age of reason -- Revolution -- Discord in the new republic -- Slavery and its discontents -- Reformers and dissidents -- Expansion and conflict -- Dissent imperils the union -- A nation divides -- Liberation and suppression -- Protest and conflict in the West -- Workers of the world unite! …”


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