Robert Shields: 7 books

Paige Wheeler and Storm Lancaster, intelligent expellees, serendipitously meet at a garage sale and end up approaching sex in an awkward textbook fashion. They view the relationship through the lens of economics as if sex were a commodity. As they grow closer, Paige’s promiscuous past comes to light...

Following years of persecution at the hands of Vivica Vance, Daphne Downing levels the playing field wielding her No. 2 lead pencil. She belatedly enters the world of witchcraft joining the Mysterious Girls’ Secret Bathroom Society, and finds the politics of witchcraft are daunting and deadly. ...

Following years of persecution at the hands of Vivica Vance, Daphne Downing levels the playing field wielding her No. 2 Ticonderoga pencil as she belatedly enters the world of witchcraft. Daphne becomes part of the Mysterious Girls’ Secret Bathroom Society and finds out that the politics governing...

This new and updated edition of Christopher Shields and Robert Pasnau's The Philosophy of Aquinas introduces the Aquinas' overarching explanatory framework in order to provide the necessary background to his philosophical investigations across a wide range of areas: rational theology, metaphysics,...

Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.   Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom...

This book introduces Thomas Aquinas's own principal fascinations in philosophy: rational theology, metaphysics, human nature, philosophy of mind, and value theory. It offers an introduction to his overarching explanatory framework in a distinctive deployment of an approach familiar from Aristotle.

Ulysses S. Grant began his military service in 1839 when he entered the U.S. Military Academy. Upon graduation in 1843, he was assigned to an infantry regiment that was destined for duty in the Mexican War. Grant participated in most of the major Mexican War campaigns and after the War would continue...