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  • Closer to Home
    J. Hayes Hurley
    Closer to Home is J. Hayes Hurley’s sixth hexalogy. In the first novel, Gal Friday Week, we follow the fortunes of a young woman who works in a modern publishing house. In the second novel, Nothingness, The Novel, we put a Japanese twist on existential thought. In the third novel, The Wise and the Learned, we give a modern interpretation to Ecclesiastes. In the fourth novel, Th...
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    19,44 €

  • Falling Through Time
    J. Hayes Hurley
    Falling Through Time is J. Hayes Hurley’s fifth hexalogy. It the first novel, 'Maxie Howell Versus Clock Time,' a young man brought up in the late Vaudeville days, believes he can pass through space, or even out of it. But can he defeat time? In the second novel, Missing Persons,' a struggling New York detective uses a time device to solve a case. In the third novel, 'Shell Gam...
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    20,57 €

  • Somewhat Deeper Thoughts
    J. Hayes Hurley
    There are six novels in Somewhat Deeper Thoughts. In Bossa Nova at the Copinette, a Young Turk in cognitive studies finds both true love and a love of Brazilian music. In Doney and Danny, we examine Solon’s question: can we call a man happy while he lives? In Saturday Afternoons at the Ear, reincarnation visits an iconic New York bar.In The Filmore Intuition, a philosopher urge...
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    20,95 €

  • The Madagascar Novels
    J. Hayes Hurley
    There are three Madagascar novels. The first, Madagascar in the Time of Covid, follows an elderly novelist to Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, where he is confined in his hotel for months thanks to the COVID pandemic. While there, he writes a meta-novel about Madagascar, using some real people in his hotel as characters, but mixing them in with characters he imagines, a...
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    31,74 €

  • Traces of Fire
    J. Hayes Hurley
    Traces of Fire is J. Hayes Hurley’s third hexalogyThere are six novels in Traces of Fire. Diamond House: an artist living in the Caribbean pushes the envelope of Gestalt perception. Rimbaud Redux: a lyrical poet keeps on working past his teenage years. The Noble Melancholy of the Blind Poet: individualism goes astray at a beautiful lakeside. The Speed of Light/The Taste of Brea...
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    24,04 €

  • Earthly Ties
    J. Hayes Hurley
    In novel one, Asher and Oliver, an aged novelist goes on a spontaneous road trip in search of new material. In novel two, Cezar and the Sixers, a cosmologist tries to find a connection between the vastness of space and the life of his mentally handicapped brother. In novel three, Claude and Eddie, two young men walk up Broadway while exploring the scope of narrative and history...
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    24,11 €

  • Drinking up the Sea
    J. Hayes Hurley
    Drinking up the Sea contains six novels subtitled 'A Hurley Hexalogy.' Included are 'The Last Existentialist,' in which a ninety-year-old philosopher is on his way to accept an award; 'Auteur,' the story of boy meets girl as interpreted by an art cinema director; 'Villas and Horizons,' where an obscure copywriter compares his visions with those of Nietzsche and Tiberius; 'Under...
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    31,63 €

  • Priests of Time
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    The Priests of Time contains ten short novels. The first five are located in Manhattan, and include settings in Washington Square, the Chelsea Hotel, Times Square during the 1960’s, the East Village, and Battery Park. The second five are located 'Elsewhere.' The novels are to do with artists, poets, actors, novelists, and philosophers. Altogether, they show both the creative po...
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    26,96 €

  • The Boxer and the Deep
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    The Gilgamesh Epic is the oldest known piece of writing. Its themes are Friendship versus Love, and the Quest for Immortality. In 'The Boxer and the Deep,'' the entire tale is updated to fit into a Manhattan setting, and the principles are now heavyweight boxers. Action centers around the Overthrow Boxing Club on Bleecker Street. ...
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    17,77 €

  • Performance-Based Fire Safety Design
    Eric R. Rosenbaum / Morgan J. Hurley
    This book demonstrates how fire science can be used to solve fire protection problems in the built environment. It also provides an understanding of the performance-based design process, deterministic and risk-based analysis techniques, development of design fire scenarios, trial design development and analysis, and building lifecycle management ...
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    89,62 €

  • Fourth Trilogy
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    In Fourth Trilogy, 'Witness to the Clearing' follows the fate of an ex-seminarian who is entrapped in a James L. Cain noir murder plot. 'A Comedy Closing off Broadway' looks into the fate of a young fiction writer on the Upper West side of Manhattan in the 1960’s. And 'The Hector Index' pits a budding philosophical poet against the analytic philosophical community. ...
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    19,76 €

  • Third Trilogy
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    In Third Trilogy: 'Corvus at Rest' follows the historical musings of a one hundred year old Roman dictator. 'Thou Saw the Fields' chronicles the fate of three young Harvard grads leading ex-pat lives in Barcelona. And 'The Chinese Gentleman Dream' uncovers a delightful Heideggarian solution for a billionaire’s social anhedonia. ...
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    19,76 €

  • Quiet Man Wearing Bow Tie
    J. Hayes Hurley
    Little Albert Gachot had only one modest ambition in life. That was to own his own men’s accessories store. Finally settling in Marseille, France, his only chance to fulfill his dream is to borrow money from 'The Little Duck,' the local underworld chief. The two men become improbable friends until circumstances draw our poor bow tie man into a fateful trap.J. Hayes Hurley is th...
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    15,23 €

  • Cinéma Vérité in Hong Kong
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    Seven members of a film crew show up one at a time at Billy’s Bar, the famous watering hole at the American Club of Hong Kong. There they talk to the bartender, Ho, who has the power to elicit their deepest secrets and desires. Questions like what is art cinema, how does it work, and who is in charge are discussed, and before long cimema is touted not only as the dominant art f...
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    18,74 €

  • Quinton Wrigley
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    Quinton Wrigley, a professional bridge player, lives in Manhattan with his mother, Gertie. On Sunday nights they dress up in 18th Century costumes and delve into such archane subjects as The Mysteries of Egypt. But all that is about to change as Gertie is out looking for a young lover. ...
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    15,27 €

  • Alexander’s Last Painting
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    A successful abstract painter now living in an artists’ colony in upstate New York sits down with a short-story writer over a period of three days to discuss his life’s work. During the talks, there emerges a joyful, jazzlike riff recalling the painter’s fifty-year friendship with another abstract artist. The New York City art scene is featured along with tales of heartache and...
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    15,29 €

  • The Three Rs’ Press
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    A mysterious donor has given a gift to a New York publishing house to pursue the question 'Is there progress in philosophy?' A senior editor, Dan Snyder, forms a separate imprint called the Three Rs’ Press, named after the three philosophers Charles Ralston, Michael Radigan, and Eugene Robinson, who will work on this imprint. What follows is both highly comic and philosophicall...
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    28,77 €

  • Second Trilogy
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    Second Trilogy contains three short novels including: 'The Fence', a tightly-woven existentialist fable; 'Oblivion', a caustic look at the fate of certain houses, families, and literary efforts; and 'Just Cursing', the revised second edition of an earlier Hurley novel. ...
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    29,33 €

  • First Trilogy
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    First Trilogy contains three short novels including 'The Poet at Home', 'My Soul is Among Lions', and 'Professor Chamberlin'. The narrators of all three books are old men who reflect back on the wise and unwise lives they have led and the loves they have had and lost. ...
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    30,23 €

  • Maps of Amsterdam
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    Joe, a recent graduate from photography school, moves to Amsterdam to seek fame and fortune. Along the way he meets two beautiful Dutch girls, Hennie, a poet, and Danique, a painter. The trio collaborate on sophisticated installations that send Joe on his way to greatness. Joe ends his collaboration with Hennie by marrying her. He continues to use Danique and others while makin...
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    14,75 €

  • Motion and Rest
    J. Hayes Hurley
    Motion and Rest, now in its second edition, is a Gnostic Western. Robert Glin, a paperback writer of western genre pulp, yearns to write an authentic novel about the new American west. One day he meets an old drifter, Thomas Sligo, who claims to be a Messenger god fallen to earth and who, in fact, can perform minor miracles. They form a caravan and roam the new American west wh...
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    26,43 €

  • Twenty-four Days Under Another Sun
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    A young novelist and a newly minted philosopher take off on a road trip across America in a refurbished VW van. Along the way they meet a host of characters, discuss theories of perception and consciousness, read the novelist’s first novel, a Baudelairean feast, and recount the struggles of the philosopher when a student in a mythical graduate school. ...
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    31,14 €

  • The Genoa Dialogues
    J. Hayes Hurley
    An existentialist philosopher, Jack Ireland, is invited to Genoa, Italy, to search for a packet of missing letters supposedly left in a grand palazzo by Nietzsche in the 19th Century. He ends up living in the palazzo as tutor to a cognitive challenged aristocratic boy. What could be the value of philosophy for this child? What is it touches all human souls?J. Hayes Hurley is no...
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    18,82 €

  • Nikki and Caroline in Berlin
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    Nikki and Caroline are two beautiful city nymphs working in present day Berlin, though their memories sometimes carry back to ancient Greece. Through them four Berlin stories interlock. The first is called The Red Princess and concerns the sometimes silly, sometimes fateful doings of members of the now deposed German nobility. The second, Willing Peter, takes up the issue of wi...
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    18,60 €

  • The Clarksons
    J. Hayes Hurley
    From rural New Hampshire and on to New York, Paris, and London, The Clarksons is a panoramic tale of a multi-generational family of novelists and publishers, who play out sometimes loving, sometimes parasitic relationships with one another. J. Hayes Hurley is a novelist and a philosopher. He is the author of sixteen novels including 'Diary of the Attending Rays' and 'Those Brow...
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    39,11 €

  • Uncanny Wisdom
    J. Martin Hurley / JMartin Hurley
    'This is a must-read for any layperson as well as a good many ministers and professional religious workers about the big issues of faith and life.'-Everett C. Goodwin, Baptist Minister, historian and author of Down By the Riverside: A Brief History of Baptist Faith 'Uncanny Wisdom will unlock the truth which will set you free from your frustrations, when it comes to faith. You’...
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    18,42 €

  • Scientific Research Effectiveness
    J. Hurley
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    134,17 €

  • Hotel di Roma
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    Hotel di Roma by J. Hayes Hurley ...
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    22,57 €

  • Leaving Lisbon
    J. Hayes Hurley / JHayes Hurley
    Leaving Lisbon by J. Hayes Hurley ...
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    20,51 €

  • The Dreamer
    J. M. Hurley / JMHurley
    Summer Charard has started her Junior Year of High school and her biggest wish is to have a fun, care-free, popular life. But on her first day back she meets someone who changes her life, Zane VanLouge. Zane’s mysterious in a way that fascinates her but the more she gets to know him, the more she see’s that he’s hiding something, something big. On top of that she starts having ...
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    19,98 €


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