R L Franklin: 5 books

This book, first published in 1968, examines the complicated issues which surround the problem of freewill. Although it reaches a libertarian conclusion, its focus is largely on other questions. What ultimately is at stake in this debate? What difference would it make whether we had freewill or not?...

Against The Tides: Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs is a testimonial of the unyielding human spirit forging ahead despite the opposition and refusing to be conquered, even when the waves are contrary.--Anne McDuffie, Professor of English, Los Angeles Southwest College Against the Tides: Trials,...

The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...

What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century? In Museum Philosophy, twenty-four authors use the lenses of a variety of disciplines to answer this essential question. Museum professionals offer their answers alongside philosophers, historians,...

This book contains six speeches and three letters containing, in simple language that FDR used to address citizenship, the main actions of its program and policy justification but above all moral. One way frivolous and cavalier, hegemonic neoliberal thinking has eluded the history of capitalism without...