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Book Synopsis Cost of Arrogance by : H Mitchell Caldwell
Download or read book Cost of Arrogance written by H Mitchell Caldwell and published by Nine Innings Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A despicable client hell-bent on being executed, a vengeful and formidable opponent, and a reluctant Supreme Court confront Jake Clearwater as he undertakes a daunting and unforgiving challenge. Clearwater, a law professor and former prosecutor, is urged by a group named the Death Penalty Project to help stem the tide of wrongful death penalty convictions by agreeing to represent Duane Durgeon, a hulking, hard-boiled bad ass, despite Durgeon's demand to be executed. What follows is a riveting tale of courtroom drama, suspense, and the exquisite working of law and ultimately of justice.
Book Synopsis Trust in an Age of Arrogance by : C FitzSimons Allison
Download or read book Trust in an Age of Arrogance written by C FitzSimons Allison and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is in the dock. Shall we convict him or forgive him? Shall we replace the God of Scripture with another of our choosing, mock and deride him, or ignore him? Shall we replace revelation with the chaos of speculation? We perceive ourselves, ratherthan God, as the center of the world and this universal condition leads to conflict with others and with God. Maintaining our center causes cheating, lying, litigation, divorce, wars, genocide, and human misery. Western civilization is giving up trust in the promise of God's mercy, justice, and forgiveness and replacing it with trust in the goodness of man. Jesus warned us to beware the teaching of the Sadducees and Pharisees. The Sadducees, who denied hope of eternal life, are a rough equivalent of our modern day secularists with their religious trust that this world is all there is. Replacing God with trust in flawed human nature is a mark of arrogance that even pagans would have characterized as hubris evoking divine wrath. The Pharisee's yeast of self-righteousness is a natural condition of us all. Even when cleansed it reappears in every tradition rendering forgiveness and transformation a promise only for those who think they have earned and deserve it. Such a distortion of God's word is congenial to our self-as-center, but it robs us sinners of the justice and mercy of a loving God. Following Jesus's warning we have the opportunity to wipe away the Sadducee arrogance and the Pharisee self-righteousness and discover anew the supreme power and joy of the Christian faith.
Book Synopsis Lethal Arrogance by : Lloyd J. Dumas
Download or read book Lethal Arrogance written by Lloyd J. Dumas and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a look at the danger caused by simple human fallibility in a world of incredibly dangerous weapons
Book Synopsis Exposing the "culture of Arrogance" in the Academy by : Gail L. Thompson
Download or read book Exposing the "culture of Arrogance" in the Academy written by Gail L. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There generally remains a gulf between the way most Black faculty perceive the racial climate at their institutions and the recognition by non-Black faculty and administrators that there are problems and that these perceptions have merit. This book is intended to promote a productive dialogue.This book weaves the authors' own experiences with the responses of 136 Black faculty to a questionnaire, and a smaller sample who were interviewed, to identify the factors that determine Black faculty's satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their jobs and institutions.Recurring themes underscore the importance of a supportive work environment that is built on mutual respect, full inclusion in the decision-making process, and an institutional climate that does not tolerate cultural insensitivity or racism. The qualitative and quantitative information and the authors' conclusions can help postsecondary institutions improve Black faculty satisfaction levels, and ultimately, retention rates.This book will resonate with any Black faculty who have felt frustrated enough to consider leaving a postsecondary institution and with those who are content at their current institutions. For non-Black faculty and for administrators of all races, the book illuminates the sources of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction, explains the reasons their Black colleagues leave or stay, and offers valuable recommendations for change. For anyone, at any level, interested in the issue of the racial climate at his or her institution, this book offers a constructive framework for discussion and action
Book Synopsis Pathology of the Elites by : Michael Knox Beran
Download or read book Pathology of the Elites written by Michael Knox Beran and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bracing collection of provocative essays, the author examines the false benevolence that characterizes the power classes in contemporary America. While they tragically conceive their desire for authority as a form of virtue, the elite classes have set about remaking schools, rewriting the U.S. Constitution, dehumanizing charity, and making war on tradition in the name of a crude form of Social Darwinism.
Book Synopsis Justified Arrogance by : Lamborghini Samora
Download or read book Justified Arrogance written by Lamborghini Samora and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you will discover how arrogance is the final ingredient that you need to execute your goals. You will discover why leaders are arrogant. You will discover how arrogance conquers all things such as, adversity, unemployment, homelessness, business failtures, depression, and Social media. Have you ever read a great book before? I'm pretty sure you read plenty of great books. The great books you read made you knowledgeable, but didn't get you tangible results. Great books give you knowledge. Tactical books give you tangible results. This tactical book will teach you aggressive action steps that will get you tangible results. Not like the other great books that taught you how to become a broke guy lled with knowledge.
Book Synopsis The Arrogance of Race by : George M. Fredrickson
Download or read book The Arrogance of Race written by George M. Fredrickson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the issue of race over a generation of labor
Book Synopsis The Arrogance of Ignorance by : Heidi Stampley
Download or read book The Arrogance of Ignorance written by Heidi Stampley and published by World of Wonder Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all make choices that guide the trajectory of our life. The Global Pandemic caused by Covid-19 has shaken our world and our realities. What will you do differently and how will you move forward? Are you ready to face the secret enemies that could be holding you back from a fulfilled life? Your marriage, your kids, your family and your money deserve the best version of you. Now is the time. This book offers practical understanding, spiritual application and radical solutions to the ills that society has made norms. Take a leap of self-discovery, for yourself, for your family, and for your future.
Book Synopsis The Arrogance Cycle by : Michael K. Farr
Download or read book The Arrogance Cycle written by Michael K. Farr and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the arrogance cycle? We've just lived through it. As market bubbles build, our confidence level rises (dis)proportionately. Everyone wants in on the action. We want to believe Wall Street, and once we do, the inevitable happens. The only problem was that it was all artificial. In The Arrogance Cycle, Farr examines the forces at work on individuals and markets and explains in clear, concise layman terms how we got to where we are.
Download or read book The Cost of Loyalty written by Tim Bakken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020 A courageous and damning look at the destruction wrought by the arrogance, incompetence, and duplicity prevalent in the U.S. military-from the inside perspective of a West Point professor of law. Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. The consequences are undeniably grim: failure in every war since World War II, millions of lives lost around the globe, and trillions of dollars wasted. Bakken makes the case that the culture he has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them. Despite fabricated admissions data, rampant cheating, epidemics of sexual assault, archaic curriculums, and shoddy teaching, the military academies produce officers who maintain their privileges at any cost to the nation. Any dissenter is crushed. Bakken revisits all the major wars the United States has fought, from Korea to the current debacles in the Middle East, to show how the military culture produces one failure after another. The Cost of Loyalty is a powerful, multifaceted revelation about the United States and its singular source of pride. One of the few federal employees ever to win a whistleblowing case against the U.S. military, Bakken, in this brave, timely, and urgently necessary book, and at great personal risk, helps us understand why America loses wars.
Book Synopsis Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture by : Michael P. Lynch
Download or read book Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture written by Michael P. Lynch and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • National Council of Teachers of English - George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language The “philosopher of truth” (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) returns with a clear-eyed and timely critique of our culture’s narcissistic obsession with thinking that “we” know and “they” don’t. Taking stock of our fragmented political landscape, Michael Patrick Lynch delivers a trenchant philosophical take on digital culture and its tendency to make us into dogmatic know-it-alls. The internet—where most shared news stories are not even read by the person posting them—has contributed to the rampant spread of “intellectual arrogance.” In this culture, we have come to think that we have nothing to learn from one another; we are rewarded for emotional outrage over reflective thought; and we glorify a defensive rejection of those different from us. Interweaving the works of classic philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Bertrand Russell and imposing them on a cybernetic future they could not have possibly even imagined, Lynch delves deeply into three core ideas that explain how we’ve gotten to the way we are: • our natural tendency to be overconfident in our knowledge; • the tribal politics that feed off our tendency; • and the way the outrage factory of social media spreads those politics of arrogance and blind conviction. In addition to identifying an ascendant “know-it-all-ism” in our culture, Lynch offers practical solutions for how we might start reversing this dangerous trend—from rejecting the banality of emoticons that rarely reveal insight to embracing the tenets of Socrates, who exemplified the humility of admitting how little we often know about the world, to the importance of dialogue if we want to know more. With bracing and deeply original analysis, Lynch holds a mirror up to American culture to reveal that the sources of our fragmentation start with our attitudes toward truth. Ultimately, Know-It-All Society makes a powerful new argument for the indispensable value of truth and humility in democracy.
Download or read book Out Of Order written by Max Boot and published by . This book was released on 1998-05-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that has sparked controversy on both sides of the political fence. Investigative reporter Max Boot blows the whistle on what he sees as the most destructive branch of government-the judiciary. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Download or read book End of Arrogance written by Helmut Danner and published by East African Educ Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What determines the African social structure? What does this mean for the ethical orientation? Can the African Spirituality be considered to be 'metaphysical? Conversely, what are the foundations of the west that determine society, religion, politics and science? What do the mental and cultural differences mean for the relationship between Africa and the West? What impact do they specifically have on development cooperation? These are some of the questions Danner attempts to grapple with in "End of Arrogance: Africa and the West - Understanding their differences." A critical and honest observer will often notice a subtle condescension by Westerners towards Africans and resentment on the part of Africans towards the West. Where does this tensed and unfortunate relationship originate from? There are two essential reasons: Africa and the West have a common history that can neither be forgotten nor forgiven by Africans - contempt, subjugation, and exploitation through slave trade, missionary, and colonization. Both have never been able to appreciate or understand the cultural and mental orientation of each other. An approach of mutual understanding - contrary to quantitative measuring - might help counter the arrogance of the West and the distrust by Africans.
Book Synopsis Empathy & Arrogance by : Gurmeet Kaur
Download or read book Empathy & Arrogance written by Gurmeet Kaur and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the $1.3 trillion spent on digital transformation in 2018, it was estimated that $900 billion went to waste. Digital products are more than technology, they are about people-your customers. More so, these products solve human problems. Empathy & Arrogance: The Paradox of Digital Products is about how to build strong, lasting relationships with your customers through digital products. The book explores the intersection of business strategies, customer experience, technology, data and mindset. Author Gurmeet Kaur calls out to the digital community to be thoughtful and insightful when building products. Sometimes we think we know it all when, in reality, our assumptions and knowledge may have gaps. Tapping into human elements of empathy and arrogance helps us identify moments of blind arrogance and how to change them to empathetic arrogance. If you are a product builder or digital product enthusiast interested in exploring new mindsets, this innovative book is for you!
Book Synopsis Arrogant Capital by : Kevin Phillips
Download or read book Arrogant Capital written by Kevin Phillips and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that Washington is completely out of touch with the rest of the country. Now Kevin Phillips, whose bestselling books have prophesied the major watersheds of American party politics, tells us why. Washington - mired in bureaucracy, captured by the money power of Wall Street, and dominated by 90,000 lobbyists, 60,000 lawyers, and the largest concentration of special interests the world has ever seen - has become the albatross that Thomas Jefferson and our other Founding Fathers feared: a swollen capital city feeding off the country it should be governing. Throughout most of our history, the genius of American politics was that ballot revolutions every generation swept out failed establishments and created new ones. Now that can no longer happen. Feared and even hated by a majority of the citizenry, "Permanent Washington" has dug in. Using history as a chilling warning, Kevin Phillips parallels the present atrophy to that of formerly mighty and arrogant capitals like Rome, Madrid, andAmsterdam.,Unchecked, Washington will - like other great powers before it - lead the country to its inevitable decline and fall. To work again, Washington must be purged and revitalized. In his unique blueprint for a political upheaval, Kevin Phillips puts Washington on notice by sounding a cry for immediate action, offering us a wide variety of remedies - some quasi-revolutionary, others more moderate, but all sure to be controversial.
Book Synopsis The Arrogance of Power by : Anthony Summers
Download or read book The Arrogance of Power written by Anthony Summers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial New York Times–bestselling biography of America’s most infamous president written by a master of investigative political reporting. Anthony Summers’s towering biography of Richard Nixon reveals a tormented figure whose criminal behavior did not begin with Watergate. Drawing on more than a thousand interviews and five years of research, Summers traces Nixon’s entire career, revealing a man driven by addiction to power and intrigue. His subversion of democracy during Watergate was the culmination of years of cynical political manipulation. Evidence suggests the former president had problems with alcohol and prescription drugs, was mentally unstable, and was abusive to his wife, Pat. Summers discloses previously unrevealed facts about Nixon’s role in the plots against Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende, his sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks in 1968, and his acceptance of funds from dubious sources. The Arrogance of Power shows how the actions of one tormented man influenced 50 years of American history, in ways still reverberating today. “Summers has done an enormous service. . . . The inescapable conclusion, well body-guarded by meticulous research and footnotes, is that in the Nixon era the United States was in essence a ‘rogue state.’ It had a ruthless, paranoid and unstable leader who did not hesitate to break the laws of his own country.”—Christopher Hitchens, The New York Times Book Review “A superbly researched and documented account—the last word on this dark and devious man.”—Paul Theroux
Book Synopsis The Arrogance of Humanism by : David W. Ehrenfeld
Download or read book The Arrogance of Humanism written by David W. Ehrenfeld and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attacks nothing less than the currently prevailing world philosophy--humanism, which the author feels is exceedingly dangerous in its hidden assumptions.
