In Defense of a Liberal Education, Hardcover

Awards🏆Nominee (1998) - Boston Book Review - (Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Martha C. NussbaumHow can higher education today create a communit...

Reducere. A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal education Not so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley J...

Reducere. There is a constant drumbeat of commentary claiming that STEM subjects--science, technology, engineering, and math--are far more valuable in today'...

Reducere. DescriptionPrisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals-- even low-level nonviolent offenders-- enter our dysfunctional c...

Reducere. In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, ...

Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In fear of the horrors of totalitarianism should we su...

A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in...

Reducere. From the author of the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma comes this bracing and eloquent manifesto that shows readers how they might start making ...

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Reducere. Greg Johnson's In Defense of Prejudice collects 45 essays, speeches, reviews, and opinion pieces on a wide range of topics, including White Nationa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Giorgos KallisEditor: Aaron VansintjanBuy the book directly from the publisher at www.indefenseofdegrowth.comThe idea of de...

Reducere. After being forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange is now in a high security prison in London where he faces extradition to t...

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Reducere. DescriptionBringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing ...

Reducere. In Defense of Hunting: Yesterday and Today, Paperback

Joshua Stuchlik defends the principle of double effect, according to which there is a morally significant difference between intentional and incide...

DescriptionWhy should we read? We assume that reading is good for us, but often we cannot articulate exactly what it does for us. In this fascinati...

Should African and Muslim-majority countries be obliged to protect LGBT rights, or do such rights violate their cultures? Should Western-based corp...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our dev...

Rebellious Conservatives analyzes three movements, the anti-abortion/pro-life movement, the anti-illegal immigration movement, and the Tea Party, t...

Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation.

Reducere. In this illuminating celebration of the political world, Bernard Crick asserts that politics, with its compromises and power struggles, remains the...

Publisher: Crossway BooksAuthor(s): K. Scott OliphintNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 22Cover type: Paperback / so...

The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious terror...

The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare bo...

A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, ...

Reducere. "We can still learn much from Judah Halevi... his serene allegiance to history and the long-range forces of destiny, high above the immediate brute...

In The Conscience of a Liberal Paul Krugman, one of the US's most respected economists and outspoken commentators, lays out his vision of a New Dea...

In this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political life of a modern national society, Paul A. Hanebrin...

Reducere. Has modern scholarship debunked the traditional Christ? Has the church suppressed the truth about Jesus to advance its own agenda? What if the real...

Reducere. " A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways....You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Defense of Loose Translations is a memoir that bridges the personal and professional experiences of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Having spent...

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Designed as a practical resource for Christian families and churches, the book empowers and inspires Christians to reform international adoption an...

This book examines how attorneys enable a meaningful opportunity for parole release for individuals sentenced to life as juveniles. The work will b...

In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environme...

The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in ``skills, `` unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy o...

Reducere. Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American d...

Reducere. Contrary to warnings about the dangers of populism, Donald F. Critchlow argues that grassroots activism is essential to party renewal within a demo...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Mahesh AnanthNumber of pages: 254Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 231 x 18Cover type: Paperback / ...

The respect for religious difference has formed the bedrock of our nation and made equality possible. Yet today we are told that "moral values"--co...

Reducere. Bartolom\u00e9 de Las Casas championed the rights of the Indians of Mexico and Central America, disputing a widely held belief that they were "beas...

Reducere. Too Heavy a Load celebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most promine...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dietrich Von HildebrandForeword by: Alice Von HilderandPreface by: Leo ScheffczykA probing meditation on the nature, value,...

Reducere. Rumors of deception have surrounded claims of Jesus' resurrection ever since the soldiers appointed to guard his tomb made their report to the Jewi...

Reducere. When did kindess become a sign of weakness? What if kindness actually has the power to change the world? Culture is at a crossroads when it comes t...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Willi ReschkeIllustration(s): over 120 b/w photographs, victory and loss listsNumber of pages: 288Publ...

Publisher: Regnery Publishing IncAuthor(s): Bruce GilleyNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 30Cover type: HardbackRed...