Bøger af Eric Nelson

Three tales of American life back in the 1970's.

America lies in ruins. Destroyed by seven high altitude nuclear explosions, the country is now being run by a skeleton government based in Anchorage, Alaska. From there, Kyle Johnson, is dispatched to Australia to undertake a covert mission to help save what remains of America. And it's in Wodonga, Australia, where it all falls apart.

What has Kyle Johnson been up to the last ten years? Both his strong willed girlfriend, Lisa, and the politically ambitious mayor of Cherry Valley are dying to find out. Kyle has recently returned home to set up shop as a painting contractor. It sounds as American as apple pie, but... He starts his journey with very little working capital, no employees, and minimal experience. In other words almost no chance. His response is "so what?" Seemingly out of the blue he lands a big contract for the painting of US Senator James Boyle's mansion. As he prepares for his breakout job he is faced with the dark underbelly of a corrupt city hall, a shady painter's union, and his own personal demons. He chooses to bend rules and break laws to accomplish his goals. As the summer unfolds the stakes are raised. Severe storms, attacking black bears, fist fights, and police intervention are only a part of the story that ends in a stunning and unexpected twist. Join Kyle and company on an often humorous wild ride into a world few people ever see. And maybe answer the question: Is Kyle Johnson a modern day American hero or something else entirely?

The complete three novels of Two Coats/ Side Tracked/ All In.

Back in the summer of 1978, Tyler Goodwin was a meter reader on the move. He had reached higher and achieved more than any Gas Man in the long history of Northern Plains Gas. And, sadly, he had fallen further. Now, Tyler is trying to crawl out of that abyss. Will he ever see the light again? Can he get that Goodwin mojo back? Join him in his crazy adventure. Discover the way things really were in America back in 1978.

The complete Gas Man collection. Tyler Goodwin was a meter reader for Northern Plains Gas. Back in the 1970's the times were tough but Tyler was tougher. Join him for the good times and the bad.

Mel Bays new fingering and scale chart for saxophone is an indispensable reference guide for saxophonists as well as educators. The fingering diagrams are clear and easily understandable, with clear photographs of the keys of the saxophone. The scales can be used together with those of other instruments in the series. Included in the chart are:

Horse Not Zebra, we learn in the title poem of this collection, refers to advice given to medical students-to look first to "the common, not the exotic" when diagnosing patients. Eric Nelson embraces that advice in his poems, exploring the common rituals of daily life-family interactions, gardening, long walks with or without dogs, even the clomp of a neighbor's boots can be, for him, a call to attention. He acknowledges the darker moments of history he has lived through and faces intimations of his own mortality, yet persists in doing the hard work of learning how to laugh. His poems invite us to find joy in the quotidian and a way to "sing ourselves beyond ourselves." -Grace Bauer

Originally published in 2003. Justice and Violence brings together a fascinating and varied volume that focuses on the ethics of both political violence and pacifism. Incorporating historical, geopolitical and cultural case studies, it takes a unique look at comparative analyses of these two phenomena and contending world views.

The founding fathers were rebels against the British Parliament, Eric Nelson argues, not the Crown. As a result of their labors, the 1787 Constitution assigned its new president far more power than any British monarch had wielded for 100 years. On one side of the Atlantic were kings without monarchy; on the other, monarchy without kings.

Originally published in 2003. Justice and Violence brings together a fascinating and varied volume that focuses on the ethics of both political violence and pacifism. Incorporating historical, geopolitical and cultural case studies, it takes a unique look at comparative analyses of these two phenomena and contending world views.

Modern liberal political philosophy is closely associated with post-1945 secularism. But Eric Nelson contends that the liberal tradition founded by John Rawls is an unwitting outgrowth of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. When we understand this, we can better untangle the knotted strands of liberal political thought.

THE SILK CITY SERIES pulls readers into the everyday lives of working-class residents of Paterson, New Jersey. Originally published serially in Nelson's acclaimed zine-Silk City Series-this collection presents a diverse cross-section of characters based on the author's own childhood neighbors. The stories capture a post-industrial city in a state usually not known for its beauty. In the heart of a city, where wealth lies in the surrounding suburbs, neighbors live on top of each other. Families struggle to stick together. Most find solace in each other. And the city, a character in itself, changes all who reside in its boundaries.

This study focuses on the Society of Jesus in France following the collapse of the Catholic League, and looks at how the Jesuits became an influential feature of the French church as well as their relationship with the authority of the monarchy.

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization - the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. This title argues that this familiar story is wrong.