This unforgettable novel, at once touching and funny, presents Jerry Chariot, an ordinary American kid who writes letters to Superman, because Jerry really believes in The Man of Steel. He is a boy who yearns to be loved and yearns to be Super in an everyday world so filled with unfairness that he must create his own reality - until the book's shattering conclusion makes Jerry realize who Superman really is.

The Kryptonite Kid

Torchia, Joseph

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Henry Holt Company

Robert embarks on a passionate love affair with the inscrutable Julian, in a story of the search for identity and meaning amid the gay community of San Francisco

As If After Sex

Literature & Fiction

United States

Henry Holt Co.

Robert embarks on a passionate love affair with the inscrutable Julian, in a story of the search for identity and meaning amid the gay community of San Francisco

As If After Sex: A Novel (Stonewall Inn Editions, 10)

St Martins Pr

Macmillan London Ltd.

Students of St. Augustine might well assume that he identified restlessness exclusively with the impulses of the heart and the range of affectivities shaping human choices. But Augustine was also preoccupied with the dynamics of the restless mind prompted by curiosity. His extensive discussions of curiosity (which he identified with the lust of the eyes of Scripture) reveal a profound psychological discovery on his part, namely, the cognitive appetitiveness that provides the stimulus to our ongoing search for knowledge. This book explores the metaphysical, epistemological, and moral implications of curiosity in Augustines writings, against the background of the classical, scriptural, and patristic traditions. In broader terms, it puts Augustine in conversation with later currents of thought, assessing how his deliberations on the curious disposition say something significant about the scope and limits of human inquiry, particularly in the context of scientific investigation.

Restless Mind: Curiositas & the Scope of Inquiry in St. Augustine's Psychology (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Marquette Univ Pr

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