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  • My Early Years in Europe, Africa, and Asia
    George Lowell Tollefson
    This book was written in response to two questions: What was it like, during the post-World War II period of the expansion of American power, to spend most of one’s early childhood in Paris, France, Morocco, and Germany, and one’s preteens and teens in the Philippines and Japan? And then, after seven formative years in East and Southeast Asia, what was it like to experience the...
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    10,02 €

  • Key to the Philosophy of Immaterialism
    George Lowell Tollefson
    This is a summary of the philosophical system developed in the book, The Immaterial Structure of Human Experience. It serves as a key to the principal terms of the larger work by providing a brief definition for each concept without recourse to the extensive argumentation and development characteristic of the full exposition. ...
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    5,52 €

  • Thoughts on Creativity, Spirit, and the Ethical Life
    George Lowell Tollefson
    This is a collection of miscellaneous notes by the author of The Immaterial Structure of Human Experience, The Limits of Reason, and The Thinking Process. These thoughts represent an exploration of spiritual and creative concerns, covering such topics as literature, art, philosophy, and human behavior. ...
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    15,08 €

  • The Thinking Process
    George Lowell Tollefson
    Why is it that an appreciation of a Rembrandt painting cannot be explained on a neurological basis? It is because the material perspective does not encompass the whole of experience. This book explores the mind’s functions in terms of an active consciousness which is involved in the construction of perception and thought. It expands upon previous discussions of the dominant rol...
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    11,38 €

  • The Limits of Reason
    George Lowell Tollefson
    Why is it that so much in human experience-consciousness, artistic insight, and emotional awareness-is left unaccounted for by mathematics and the physical sciences? And why is it that the faculty of reason becomes self-contradictory at the most exacting levels of scientific investigation? This book explores the underlying limitations of the gift of reason. 3 ...
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    10,76 €

  • A Healer of Nations
    George Lowell Tollefson
    Through the millennia, Christianity has focused on the cross and resurrection. But Jesus did have a teaching mission. What was he trying to convey? Did a unified vision inform his parables and sayings? This book examines the text to answer these questions. 3 ...
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    7,09 €

  • The Immaterial Structure of Human Experience
    George Lowell Tollefson
    The Immaterial Structure of Human Experience is a philosophical work, a system. It is a quest into the workings of the human mind from the perspective of epistemology and philosophy of mind. Focusing on human experience from a subjective point of view, it does not attempt the kind of empirical approach which would be centered in the senses, as would be the case with one of the ...
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    13,14 €

  • What Is War?
    G. Lowell Tollefson
    Why do nations go to war? Is war ever just? What attitudes and actions are reasonable to expect from our warriors? This book uses a combination of stories and essays to discuss these questions and to expand our understanding of the moral dilemmas inherent on both the personal and national levels in the act of war. It is based on G. Lowell Tollefson's experiences as a U.S. M...
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    8,38 €

  • Unbridled Democracy
    George Lowell Tollefson
    This is a book designed not to please. It is meant to raise questions, disturb norms, and encourage thinking in new directions. The present volume exhibits a relaxed and random selection of topics, brief in treatment and considering such subjects as observations on the subjective character of politics and political economy, the influence of institutional practices on spiritual ...
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    10,47 €

  • Bigger Than The Facts
    G. Lowell Tollefson
    Bigger Than The Facts continues G. Lowell Tollefson's Portrait of America series with stories that juxtapose the pain of war with the complexities of relationships at home. Sometimes searing, sometimes comic, these stories once again explore the human psyche and our interaction with one another, nature, and the events in our lives. 3 ...
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    9,00 €

  • God Save The Queen
    G. Lowell Tollefson
    The second in G. Lowell Tollefson's Portrait of America series, God Save The Queen contains stories set in locations across America as well as overseas. This collection paints a portrait of America in the second half of the Twentieth century. Its stories explore desire, both physical and emotional, at every stage in life and in a variety of situations. Each is an exploratio...
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    10,47 €

  • Season of Mists
    G. Lowell Tollefson
    Thuy thinks war is glorious and heroic. But he's about to discover that heroism and glory are not as simple as they seem.The Vietnamese village Thuy grew up in is surrounded by the American conflict. At sixteen, he feels he's ready to join the Viet Cong, despite his mother's qualms.When he does, Thuy is catapulted almost immediately into something he never imagined-...
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    6,05 €

  • Lonely People
    G Lowell Tollefson
    Lonely People is a collection of short stories that together paint a portrait of America in the second half of the Twentieth century.The first in the Portrait of America series by G. Lowell Tollefson, Lonely People contains stories set in locations across America as well as in its conflicts overseas: in living rooms, bars, ranches, suburbs, cities, rice paddy hamlets, and milit...
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    9,12 €

  • Vietnam War Elegy
    G. Lowell Tollefson
    This poem was born on a hilltop in Vietnam in 1967. It concerns the experiences both of its author and the Vietnamese people. Its many fragments came together into final form twenty-five years later. The length of time it took to develop this elegy is a testament to the enduring impact of the Vietnam conflict on our national psyche and the men and women who served there.This is...
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    5,62 €

  • From The Deer Forest
    G. Lowell Tollefson
    Before Europeans arrived in the Pacific Northwest rainforest, deer, wolves, elk and man lived in balance. This story follows a single pack of wolves in the pristine wilderness of what we now call the Olympic Mountains and the Hoh River valley as they give birth, raise their young, fight for survival, and endure as part of the majestic web of life in this very special place. 3 ...
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    4,69 €

  • Barnyard Fable
    Lowell Tollefson
    Can a chicken fall in love? This one does. He and the barnyard's martially-inclined duck live life on their own terms. The antics of these barnyard fowl and their irreverent observations about life and love will leave you laughing!A NEW MEXICO/ARIZONA BOOK AWARDS FINALIST. 3 ...
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    5,88 €