moral courage

Timebomb

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Reichman, Lee / Hopkins Tanne, Janice / Tanne, Janice Hopkins, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Companies, ""A chilling account of... the global resurgence of this disease..."--"The New York Times ""Tuberculosis--a nineteenth century disease--has come back with a vengeance... "Timebomb "is the extraordinary story of courage and cowardice in confronting the global TB epidemic."--Donna E. Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, President of the University of Miami"

Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schaffer, Ronald, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, World War II--"the good war"--is here viewed from a new angle of vision, one that sheds fresh light on how major decisions were reached. More than just a book on the strategy and outcome of American bombing in World War II, Wings of Judgment tells about choices in war, decisions that determined whether hundreds of thousands of people lived or died and whether famous cities and great monuments of civilization survived or were destroyed. It is about the bombing of Dresden and Berlin and of dozens of cities and towns all over Germany and about the preservation of Rome and Florence. It is about the incineration of Tokyo, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the sparing of one of Japan's most beautiful and holy places, the city of Kyoto. Describing U.S. air raids that terrified inhabitants of enemy nations and citizens of enemy-occupied countries, it raises serious questions about the military and moral effects of American bombing. It also tells of American efforts to avoid killing civilians needlessly. Taking us behind the scenes at military headquarters, Schaffer shows that even the toughest warriors occasionally found themselves offering moral arguments for their actions, arguing that they were made right by enemy atrocities, by the justness of the Allied cause, and by the numbers of lives of American servicemen that Allied bombing might save.

Cougar Woman

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hartman, Jane E., PUBLISHER: Aquarian Systems, Captured at the age of ten, the fearless rider with the long black hair was keenly attuned to the forces of nature and to her adopted tribe's struggle for survival. Later guided by a vision quest, she found the courage and wisdom needed to defend her rights, protect her people, and, in time, become their leader. "Cougar Woman" recounts the trials and triumphs of the 19th-century Absaroke (Crow) warrior and chief.

Robinson Crusoe

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Defoe, Daniel / Keymer, Thomas / Kelly, James, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values, society, and man's abiding acquisitiveness. This new edition includes a scintillating Introduction and notes that illuminate the historical context.

War Horse

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Morpurgo, Michael, PUBLISHER: Egmont Books (UK), Brimming with more than 140 dramatic images, this is the stunning, visual companion to Steven Spielberg's epic adventure, set in rural England and Europe, about a young man and his horse and their separate journeys through the battlefields of the First World War. One of the great stories of friendship and war, the successful novel "War Horse" not only inspired the award-winning stage play, but also inspired one of the great directors in film history to commit his talent, vision, and resources to make this extraordinary movie, which was shot in the countryside of England. "I first fell in love with the story of "War Horse" because I was moved by the relationship between a boy and an animal in Michael Morpurgo's novel and the screenplay by Richard Curtis and Lee Hall," writes Steven Spielberg in his foreword. "But, ultimately, I made it because of what the book and the screenplay say about courage. I t is about the courage of the horse Joey and what he endures to survive, and the courage of Albert in his attempt to find his best friend in a time of war. With every frame of this film, it was my hope to issue a call for courage in our daily lives. A call to 'be brave.'" Additional forewords by producer Kathleen Kennedy, novelist Michael Morpurgo, and co-screenwriter Richard Curtis reveal their feelings about the story and the process of moving it from page to screen. The main body of the book is divided into three sections: Part 1: "Joey's Journey"--A visual retelling, along with script excerpts and filmmakers' comments, of the journey taken by Joey, the horse trained by his beloved Albert, from the striking verdant countryside of Dartmoor, Devon, to training in the British cavalry, to trench warfare in France. Part 2: "The Making of War Horse"--An insider's glimpse of the movie-making process highlighted with fascinating insights from the international cast and the crew about the casting, locations, costumes, horse training, and much more. Part 3: "The History of War Horses"--An illuminating section on the role of horses in battle, illustrated with iconic images from history, vivid drawings, paintings and photographs. This beautiful book is a testament to what can be done when people become impassioned about a goal. As producer Kathleen Kennedy expresses in her foreword: ""War Horse" was one of those unusual productions that comes together in an incredibly short time, and for all the right reasons. Everyone involved understood the film's potential, the richness of the characters, the depth of emotion, and the strength of the story's message."

The Newspapers Handbook

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Keeble, Richard, PUBLISHER: Routledge, The Newspapers Handbook is the first comprehensive guide to the job of the newspaper reporter. It offers advice on a range of different types of newspaper writing, looks at how newspapers cover events and shows how reporting styles can differ in mainstream and non-mainstream newspapers. In this new edition, Richard Keeble explores the theoretical, moral and political dimensions of a journalist's job and examines changing newspaper ownership structures and recent ethical controversies.

John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hamburger, Joseph, PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press, John Stuart Mill is one of the hallowed figures of the liberal tradition, revered for his defense of liberal principles and expansive personal liberty. By examining Mill's arguments in "On Liberty in light of his other writings, however, Joseph Hamburger reveals a Mill very different from the "saint of rationalism" so central to liberal thought. He shows that Mill, far from being an advocate of a maximum degree of liberty, was an advocate of liberty "and control--indeed a degree of control ultimately incompatible with liberal ideals. Hamburger offers this powerful challenge to conventional scholarship by presenting Mill's views on liberty in the context of his ideas about, in particular, religion and historical development. The book draws on the whole range of Mill's philosophical writings and on his correspondence with, among others, Harriet Taylor Mill, Auguste Comte, and Alexander Bain to show that Mill's underlying goal was to replace the traditional religious basis of society with a form of secular religion that would rest on moral authority, individual restraint, and social control. Hamburger argues that Mill was not self-contradictory in thus championing both control and liberty. Rather, liberty and control worked together in Mill's thought as part of a balanced, coherent program of social and moral reform that was neither liberal nor authoritarian. Based on a lifetime's study of nineteenth-century political thought, this clearly written and forcefully argued book is a major reinterpretation of Mill's ideas and intellectual legacy.

War and Self-Defense

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rodin, David, PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press, When is it right to go to war? The most persuasive answer to this question has always been 'in self-defense'. In a penetrating new analysis, bringing together moral philosophy, political science, and law, David Rodin shows what's wrong with this answer. He proposes a comprehensive new theory of the right of self-defense which resolves many of the perplexing questions that have dogged both jurists and philosophers.

Rose in Bloom - Louisa May Alcott

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Louisa May Alcott, May Alcott, PUBLISHER: Book Jungle, As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone else what they intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say thatthere is no moral to this story. Rose is not designed for a modelgirl, and the Sequel was simply written in fulfillment of a promise, hoping to afford some amusement, and perhaps here and there ahelpful hint, to other roses getting ready to bloom. L. M. Alcott, September

War: Stories about Conflict

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Morpurgo, Michael, PUBLISHER: MacMillan Children's Books, The pity, the cruelty, the courage and the consequences of many different conflicts feature in brand-new stories from Joan Aiken, Eva Ibbotson, Jamila Gavin, Elizabeth Laird, George Layton, Geraldine McCaughrean, Margaret Mahy, Michelle Magorian, Michael Morpurgo, Eleanor Updale, Celia Rees, and other top children's authors. From the Crusades to 's Beirut, to the Falklands, many aspects of war are explored in a collection of work that speaks powerfully to today's young readers.

Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Laird, Thomas, PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Into Tibet is the incredible story of a American undercover expedition led by America's first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan -- a covert attempt to arm the Tibetans and to recognize Tibet's independence in the months before China invaded. It recounts a harrowing and unprecedented two-thousand-mile trek on foot and camel across China and the deserts of inner Asia. For the first time, Thomas Laird reveals how Mackiernan helped establish a covert intelligence pipeline from China to India; how he gathered atomic intelligence for the United States; how his partner Frank Bessac urged the Tibetan government to request covert U.S. military aid and then carried the signed request out of Lhasa; and, finally, how Dean Rusk and the CIA responded. Laird reveals how the clash between the State Department and the CIA, as well us unguided actions by field agents, hastened the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Commenting on American motivations during this operation for the first time, the Dalai Lama says bluntly, "The courage was not there." U.S. government actions were ultimately a kiss of death for Tibet and Mackiernan -- the first CIA agent ever killed during a covert operation. A gripping narrative of survival, courage, and intrigue among the nomads, princes, and warring armies of inner Asia, Into Tibet rewrites the accepted history behind the Chinese invasion of Tibet. "Laird does an exemplary job of investigating, reporting, and shaping the events and personalities that compose the tragic story." -- Bob Shacochis, author of The Immaculate Invasion

Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S.

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hernon, Joseph Martin, PUBLISHER: M.E. Sharpe, Hernon's title is a deliberate take-off of Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Unlike Kennedy's patriotic portrayal of various Senators, Hernon takes the position that the best-known U.S. Senators throughout history don't deserve their renown as much as some lesser-known (or completely unknown) ones who served at the same time. Each chapter of his book pairs a famous Senator with his lesser-known counterpart.

The Moral Dynamics of Economic Life: An Extension and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Finn, Daniel K., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Caritas in veritate (Charity in Truth) is the ''social'' encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, one of many papal encyclicals over the last 120 years that address economic life. This volume, based on discussions at a symposium co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, analyzes the situation of the Church and the theological basis for Benedict's thinking about the person, community, and the globalized economy. The Moral Dynamics of Economic Life engages Benedict's analysis of ''relation, '' the characteristics of contemporary social and economic relationships and the implications of a relational, Trinitarian God for daily human life. Crucial here is the Pope's notion of ''reciprocity, '' an economic relationship characterized by help freely given, but which forms an expectation that the recipient will ''reciprocate, '' either to the donor or, often, to someone else. This ''logic of gift, '' Benedict argues, should influence daily economic life, especially within what he calls ''hybrid'' firms, which make a profit and invest a share of that profit in service to needs outside the firm. Similarly, development - whether of an individual or of a nation - must be integral, neither simply economic nor personal nor psychological nor spiritual, but a comprehensive development that engages all dimensions of a flourishing human life. The essays, written by social scientists, theologians, policy analysts and others, engage, extend, and critique Benedict's views on these issues, as well as his call for deeper dialogue and a morally based transformation of social and economic structures.

The Right Way to Live: Plato's Republic for Catholic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Geraghty, Richard / Chervin, Rhonda D., PUBLISHER: CMJ Marian Publishers, Dr. Richard Geraghty, a philosophy professor and a seasoned expert on Plato, has written The Right Way to Live to make Plato's philosophical dialogues accessible to college aged students who, too often, do not have a solid understanding of Catholic moral principles. He takes the student by one hand and Plato by the other and shows how the truths of the old sage are both delightfully and challengingly perennial.

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Little Women

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Alcott, Louisa May, PUBLISHER: Puffin Books, Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature of the time, and has a telling message for the modern world.

In Their Own Words: True Stories and Adventures of the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Oleson, James A., PUBLISHER: iUniverse, More than 100 legendary pilots have granted and shared personal glimpses of their illustrious military careers to help create this tribute to the American Fighter Ace. "In Their Own Words: True Stories and Adventures of the American Fighter Ace" explores and illustrates the courage, resourcefulness and patriotism of America's fighter aces. These heroic flyers have given personal glimpses and recollections on what it took to fly, fight and survive combat missions in World War II and Korea.

Happy-People-Pills for All

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Walker, Mark, PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons Inc, "Happy-People-Pills for All" explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing.Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement of happinessA controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates the moral imperative for the development and mass distribution of 'happy-pills', to promote the wellbeing of the individual and societyBrings together the philosophy, psychology and biology of happinessMaps the development of the next generation of positive mood pharmacologyOffers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness

Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stauber, John / Rampton, Sheldon, PUBLISHER: Common Courage Press, The human death toll from British mad cow disease is doubling every three years. A version of mad cow disease unique to the U.S. is killing deer across North America; young hunters are dying from it. Did they get it from U.S. deer? Or from U.S. cattle or pigs that were fed" rendered byproduct" from slaughterhous waste? With a new chapter of their book, Rampton and Stauber reveal a terrifying tale of governmental neglect and industry malfeasance.

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Vendo le seguenti Cliff Notes IN LINGUA INGLESE, ottime per la preparazione degli esami universitari e l'esame di maturità: Shakespeare: Othello, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra; Crane: Red Badge of Courage; Faulkner: Light in August, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury; Poe: Short Stories; Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlett Letter; Melville: Moby Dick, Bily Bud and Typee; Thoreau: Walden; Dickinson: Selected Poems; T.S. Eliot: Prufrock/The Waste Land/Four Quartets/Murder in the Cathedral; Fitzgeradd: The Great Gatsby; James: The Portrait of a Lady, Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw; Ritiro zona Chirignago - Mestre - Padova, spedizione ?1,50.

Permissible Killing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Uniacke, Suzanne, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Do individuals have a positive right of self-defense? And if so, what are the limits of this right? Under what conditions, if any, does this use of force extend to the defense of others? These are some of the issues explored by Dr. Uniacke in this comprehensive philosophical discussion of the principles relevant to self-defense as a moral and legal justification for homicide. This is a lucid and sophisticated account of the complex notion of justification, revolving around a critical discussion of recent trends in the law of self-defense.

Ali, Child of the Desert

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: London, Jonathan / Lewin, Ted, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers, Captures the dramatic beauty and danger of the Sahara Seated atop his camel, Ali felt the desert roll beneath him. Three days' ride ahead lay the Moroccan market town of Rissani, at the edge of the Great Sahara, where Ali and his father would sell their camels. But suddenly, out of nowhere, the wind came howling, and the whirling sand swallowed the sun, the camel herd, and his father. Stranded on the vast Sahara, Ali must summon all his courage to first find food and shelter, then his father. In the process, he learns the true nature of the desert and its people.

The Day My Butt Went Psycho!

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Griffiths, Andy, PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Zack Freeman is ready to tell his story--the story of a brave young boy and his crazy runaway butt, the story of a crack butt-fighting unit called the B-team, a legendary Butt Hunter and his formidable daughter, and some of the biggest, ugliest and meanest butts ever to roam the face of Earth. Courage and endurance take Zack on a journey across the Great Windy Desert, through the Brown Forest and over a Sea of Butts before descending into the heart of an explosive buttcano to confront the biggest, ugliest and meanest butt of them all

Wilhelmina

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Taylor, Daphne Saxby, PUBLISHER: Ulverscroft Large Print, 'That was a remarkable performance, Miss Wilhelmina. I shall look forward to working with you.' The speaker was Frederick Chopin addressing the budding young concert pianist before him. Bur it was not to be. There were plans for this German family to migrate to Australia - to the Upper Hunter in New South Wales. Yet dashed dreams and family tragedy would not dampen Wilhelmina's spirit. Her faith and courage would be tested by the trials of pioneering in nineteenth-century Australia - not to mention a wayward husband - but these qualities would contribute to an amazing outcome...

The Mammoth Book of Heroic and Outrageous Women

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Alexander, Gemma / *, Editor, PUBLISHER: Running Press Book Publishers, Astounding adventures, reckless courage, and fierce independence are hardly the exclusive preserve of men, as this intriguing and surprising collection shows: courtesans from Nell Gwynne to Madame de Pompadour; femme fatales such as the pistol-packing concubine Lola Montez and Clara Bow, the It girl who turned Hollywood into her own party; the outlaws Phoolan "the Bandit Queen" Devi and seafaring, ship-raiding Anne Bonney; and heroines from the ancient British Queen Boadicea to Nancy Wake, who, dressed as a man, led a bazooka-assault against a Nazi redoubt in World War II.

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