This important guide presents numerous strategies for analyzing values without teaching a particular moral viewpoint. Through more than 75 intriguing and stimulating question-and-answer exercises, this book makes readers aware of their individual feelings, ideas, and beliefs so they can make choices based on their own value systems.
Deeply moved by his mother's memories of a waning era and rapidly disappearing lifestyle, John Ise records the adventures and adversities of his family and boyhood neighbours, the early homesteaders of Osborne County, Kansas, presented here in this work.
Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and prosperity as a wrangler, teamster, and trapper. He lives all over the unplotted West, helping to open trails, harvesting fur, befriending mountain men, ...
Volume 2 begins with Carson carrying the news of the conquest of California across the country to Washington, D.C., stopping en route to see his wife in Taos, New Mexico. The older Carson consolidates his fame as a courier, scout, soldier, and Indian agent. Americans, avid for newfound gold, turn to him as an authority on trail lore, and the ...
Gays and lesbians have traveled a long road from persecution to toleration and from fashionable to establishment. Terms of abuse that have long been weapons used to oppress the gay community have now been reclaimed as expressions of liberation and freedom. With wit and panache, Queer explores all avenues of gay life from avant-garde fashion to ...
Claude Simon's highly autobiographical novel, written when he was 88, recalls Proust in its evocation of the past by way of sense impressions from the present--chiefly, in this case, the trolley the narrator took to school when he was a boy. His descriptions of that journey become tied to his journey into oblivion as an old man on a hospital bed. ...
In the early 1940s, all sorts of rumours about impending and presently occurring race wars were circulating throughout the South among white Southerners: once docile and passive African Americans, it was claimed, were - with the aid of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, liberals, Yankees, New Dealers, and "bad niggers" - stockpiling ice picks in ...
These handy paperbacks are packed with essential tips for today's competitive business world. Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from this innovative new series that covers a wide range of business topics. The compact volume slips easily into a briefcase or a portfolio. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large ...
Once famous above all for his classic novel series about the misdeeds of English society in the 1950s and 1960s, "Alms for Oblivion", Simon Raven is now also recognized as a travel writer, a reporter at large of the seamier side of English upper-class life, and a commentator on the sexual mores of gay London. Expelled from Charterhouse "for the ...
"Neurology: A Queen Square Textbook" is a remarkable fusion of modern neuroscience with traditional neurology that will inform and intrigue trainee and experienced neurologists alike. Modern neuroscience has penetrated exciting and diverse frontiers into the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of neurological disease. Clinical neurology, whilst ...
How can can one man fall? How long does it take before one's bad life choices reap their consequences? Just when he thought things couldn't get worse...they do! And Ethan Falls, a former hero, loses the one thing that was more important to him than life itself.
Three top surgeons at Manhattan's University Hospital Center--on the threshold of perfecting a technique to dramatically revolutionize modern medicine--are marked for murder in a devastating act of terrorism.
For over 30 years, the authors have been studying transracial and intercountry adoptions. The families they have studies include white parents, African-American, Hispanic, and Korean children, and Jewish Stars of David families, among others. This book summarises their findings and compares them with other studies. It is a source of data on the ...
"Transracial adoption is a controversial area of research and practice in child welfare. The authors, a sociologist and a social worker, have contributed much to its understanding through a series of studies that began in 1972 of white families that have adopted nonwhite (mostly black) children. This book reports on the latest phase of their ...
This volume describes the experiences of foreign born adoptees and their families. Countries discussed include the United States, Canada, Norway, West Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Israel. Agency sponsored inter-country adoption (ICA) first began with the end of World War II when European orphans were adopted by American families. This ...
Covers a vast range of subjects, from the frivolous to the deadly serious, from issues of image and identity to gay icons and the gay world. It examines the history, struggles and influence to the gay community, and includes a magnificent spread of personalities and superb photo archive.
In this challenging and illustrated study, Simon Varey relates the idea of space in the major novels of Defoe, Fielding and Richardson to its use in the theory and practice of eighteenth-century architecture. Concepts of divine design, expressed in the work of philosophers and theologians, introduced an ideological element to the notion of space ...
Ethan Falls was once a respected super-hero - until his drinking got the better of him. Now he finds he is unable to provide for his young family, and his own sense of failure starts to beckon him towards easy money...and a life of crime. As Ethan lapses deeper into his illegal life, his erstwhile teammates uncover his secret and Ethan finds that ...
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