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Grey Wolf of Superior

Kearns, John
Grey Wolf of Superior
All over town, people could hear the explosive roar as smoke shot upward from the old abandoned warehouse.All eyes now looking toward the deafening roar and a long bright flame and smoke trail of the slow climbing rocket gaining speed.Fearful shouts of its a nuclear missile launch, in ten minutes Russian missiles will be reaching us.That started a panic, and everyone started running for shelter or trying to reach home to say goodbye to loved o...

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Grey Wolf of Superior

Kearns, John
Grey Wolf of Superior
All over town, people could hear the explosive roar as smoke shot upward from the old abandoned warehouse.All eyes now looking toward the deafening roar and a long bright flame and smoke trail of the slow climbing rocket gaining speed.Fearful shouts of its a nuclear missile launch, in ten minutes Russian missiles will be reaching us.That started a panic, and everyone started running for shelter or trying to reach home to say goodbye to loved o...

CHF 32.90

Worlds

Kearns, John
Worlds
Worlds" depicts four generations of the Logan family from Ireland in 1870 to New York City in 1998. In a mosaic of episodes arranged by theme, "Worlds" portrays a family through poetic shards of narrative. Through the lens of the Seven Deadly Sins/Lively Virtues, "Worlds" examines these representatives of four generations of Logans. __________________________________________________________________________________1) Seamus Logan: a broken-hear...

CHF 42.50

Principles of Deductive Logic

Kearns, John T.
Principles of Deductive Logic
Clear focus on its application of formal logic to ordinary English is the most distinctive feature of this textbook for the introductory course in deductive logic. Great care is taken with the appropriate translation into logical languages of ordinary English sentences. Evaluation of these translations promotes a more effective use of ordinary language. The Principles of Deductive Logic presents symbolic logic in a fuller and more leisurely fa...

CHF 125.00

Using Language: The Structures of Speech Acts

Kearns, John T.
Using Language: The Structures of Speech Acts
In a pioneer study of how language is actually used, Dr. Kearns combines the rigor of formal logic with a detailed analysis of natural language patterns. Through this double focus, he develops artificial languages that are syntactically more similar to the spoken word than first-order language itself. Numerous diagrams illustrate the evolution of these artificial languages, which represent a significant contribution to both the fields of lingu...

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Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherite...

Kearns, John T.
Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes
Kearns investigates representation and intentional activity to determine how experience contributes to propositional thought and belief, and how experience is based on neural states and events. This speech-act theory shows using language to be intentional (purposive) activity which cannot be explained computationally or causally. Learning language makes propositional thinking possible and provides conceptual structure to experience. The accoun...

CHF 125.00

Always Picked Last

Kearns, Kevin John
Always Picked Last
What started out as typical "boys will be boys" teasing and horseplay turned into a living nightmare for Kevin Kearns who learned that his once safe neighborhood turned into a war zone of bullies. Small for his age, and not as physically adept at playing sports, Kevin was soon the kid who was always picked last for games. After losing his father at a young age, Kevin felt adrift and alone&hellip, a perfect target for intensified bullying. ...

CHF 23.50

Principles of Deductive Logic

Kearns, John T.
Principles of Deductive Logic
Clear focus on its application of formal logic to ordinary English is the most distinctive feature of this textbook for the introductory course in deductive logic. Great care is taken with the appropriate translation into logical languages of ordinary English sentences. Evaluation of these translations promotes a more effective use of ordinary language. The Principles of Deductive Logic presents symbolic logic in a fuller and more leisurely f...

CHF 54.50

Dreams and Dull Realities

Kearns, John
Dreams and Dull Realities
A unified collection of stories, "Dreams and Dull Realities" plays variations on the theme of imagination's colliding with concrete reality. The collection's lyrical, comical, touching, and absurd stories portray seven male and five female Irish-American and Latino protagonists whose vibrant interior lives contrast sharply with their dreary exterior lives. Beginning with the prize-winning, "Flight, " the collection takes readers on a tour thro...

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The World

Kearns, John
The World
Why didn't they know? ... He could see the darkness of their souls, the void that drove them to huddle together at all times ... He saw the souls, too, of all the other swim clubs that he had joined or visited over the years, clubs filled with equal measures of hypocrisy, deceit, and meanness, each one seeming to its members, as primitive societies did to theirs, to be all that there is, the whole world." Saturated with what he has learned of ...

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