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Book Synopsis Three Kinds of Lucky by : Kim Harrison
Download or read book Three Kinds of Lucky written by Kim Harrison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luck is its own kind of magic, in this first book in an electrifying new contemporary fantasy series from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Hollows novels. Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic—and that’s never going to change. But as a sweeper first-class, she’s parlayed her rare ability to handle dross—the damaging, magical waste generated by her more talented kin’s spellwork—into a decent life working at the mages’ university. Except Grady’s relatively predictable life is about to be upended. When the oblivious, sexy, and oh-so-out-of-reach Benedict Strom needs someone with her abilities for a research project studying dross and how to render it harmless, she’s stuck working on his team—whether she wants to or not. Only Benedict doesn’t understand the characteristics of dross like Grady does. After an unthinkable accident, she and Benedict are forced to go on the run to seek out the one person who might be able to help: an outcast exiled ten years ago for the crime of using dross to cast spells. Now Grady must decide whether to stick with the magical status quo or embrace her own hidden talents . . . and risk shattering their entire world.
Book Synopsis The Hobbit and Philosophy by : Gregory Bassham
Download or read book The Hobbit and Philosophy written by Gregory Bassham and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic—just in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of the best-loved fantasy books of all time and the enchanting "prequel" to The Lord of the Rings. With the help of some of history's great philosophers, this book ponders a host of deep questions raised in this timeless tale, such as: Are adventures simply "nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things" that "make you late for dinner," or are they exciting and potentially life-changing events? What duties do friends have to one another? Should mercy be extended even to those who deserve to die? Gives you new insights into The Hobbit's central characters, including Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Gollum, and Thorin and their exploits, from the Shire through Mirkwood to the Lonely Mountain Explores key questions about The Hobbit's story and themes, including: Was the Arkenstone really Bilbo's to give? How should Smaug's treasure have been distributed? Did Thorin leave his "beautiful golden harp" at Bag-End when he headed out into the Wild? (If so, how much could we get for that on eBay?) Draws on the insights of some of the world's deepest thinkers, from Confucius, Plato, and Aristotle to Immanuel Kant, William Blake, and contemporary American philosopher Thomas Nagel From the happy halls of Elrond's Last Homely House to Gollum's "slimy island of rock," this is a must read for longtime Tolkien fans as well as those discovering Bilbo Baggins and his adventures "there and back again" for the first time.
Book Synopsis Unlearning: Incomplete Musings on the Game of Life and the Illusions that Keep Us Playing by : Alejandro R. Jadad
Download or read book Unlearning: Incomplete Musings on the Game of Life and the Illusions that Keep Us Playing written by Alejandro R. Jadad and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will take you on a guided tour through the evolution of the human mind, culminating with the greatest challenges we face at the dawn of the 21st century. Along the way, you will recognize how our lives have become a highly interactive virtual game, driven by powerful illusions that force us to keep playing.
Book Synopsis Principles of Social Justice by : David Miller
Download or read book Principles of Social Justice written by David Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social justice has been the animating ideal of democratic governments throughout the twentieth century. Even those who oppose it recognize its potency. Yet the meaning of social justice remains obscure, and existing theories put forward by political philosophers to explain it have failed to capture the way people in general think about issues of social justice. This book develops a new theory. David Miller argues that principles of justice must be understood contextually, with each principle finding its natural home in a different form of human association. Because modern societies are complex, the theory of justice must be complex, too. The three primary components in Miller's scheme are the principles of desert, need, and equality. The book uses empirical research to demonstrate the central role played by these principles in popular conceptions of justice. It then offers a close analysis of each concept, defending principles of desert and need against a range of critical attacks, and exploring instances when justice requires equal distribution and when it does not. Finally, it argues that social justice understood in this way remains a viable political ideal even in a world characterized by economic globalization and political multiculturalism. Accessibly written, and drawing upon the resources of both political philosophy and the social sciences, this book will appeal to readers with interest in public policy as well as to students of politics, philosophy, and sociology.
Download or read book The Interpreter written by Alice Kaplan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-09-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Élysées. Yet liberation is a messy, complex affair, in which cultural understanding can be as elusive as the search for justice by both the liberators and the liberated. Occupying powers import their own injustices, and often even magnify them, away from the prying eyes of home. One of the least-known stories of the American liberation of France, from 1944 to 1946, is also one of the ugliest and least understood chapters in the history of Jim Crow. The first man to grapple with this failure of justice was an eyewitness: the interpreter Louis Guilloux. Now, in The Interpreter, prize-winning author Alice Kaplan combines extraordinary research and brilliant writing to recover the story both as Guilloux first saw it, and as it still haunts us today. When the Americans helped to free Brittany in the summer of 1944, they were determined to treat the French differently than had the Nazi occupiers of the previous four years. Crimes committed against the locals were not to be tolerated. General Patton issued an order that any accused criminals would be tried by court-martial and that severe sentences, including the death penalty, would be imposed for the crime of rape. Mostly represented among service troops, African Americans made up a small fraction of the Army. Yet they were tried for the majority of capital cases, and they were found guilty with devastating frequency: 55 of 70 men executed by the Army in Europe were African American -- or 79 percent, in an Army that was only 8.5 percent black. Alice Kaplan's towering achievement in The Interpreter is to recall this outrage through a single, very human story. Louis Guilloux was one of France's most prominent novelists even before he was asked to act as an interpreter at a few courts-martial. Through his eyes, Kaplan narrates two mirror-image trials and introduces us to the men and women in the courtrooms. James Hendricks fired a shot through a door, after many drinks, and killed a man. George Whittington shot and killed a man in an open courtyard, after an argument and many drinks. Hendricks was black. Whittington was white. Both were court-martialed by the Army VIII Corps and tried in the same room, with some of the same officers participating. Yet the outcomes could not have been more different. Guilloux instinctively liked the Americans with whom he worked, but he could not get over seeing African Americans condemned to hang, Hendricks among them, while whites went free. He wrote about what he had observed in his diary, and years later in a novel. Other witnesses have survived to talk to Kaplan in person. In Kaplan's hands, the two crimes and trials are searing events. The lawyers, judges, and accused are all sympathetic, their actions understandable. Yet despite their best intentions, heartbreak and injustice result. In an epilogue, Kaplan introduces us to the family of James Hendricks, who were never informed of his fate, and who still hope that his remains will be transferred back home. James Hendricks rests, with 95 other men, in a U.S. military cemetery in France, filled with anonymous graves.
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Book Synopsis Longman's Magazine by : Charles James Longman
Download or read book Longman's Magazine written by Charles James Longman and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Knowledge, Virtue, and Action by : Tim Henning
Download or read book Knowledge, Virtue, and Action written by Tim Henning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together recent work by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on the topic of virtue epistemology. The prospects of virtue-theoretic analyses of knowledge depend crucially on our ability to give some independent account of what epistemic virtues are and what they are for. The contributions here ask how epistemic virtues matter apart from any narrow concern with defining knowledge; they show how epistemic virtues figure in accounts of various aspects of our lives, with a special emphasis on our practical lives. In essence, the essays here put epistemic virtues to work.
Book Synopsis Virtue Ethics by : Nafsika Athanassoulis
Download or read book Virtue Ethics written by Nafsika Athanassoulis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is 'virtue'? And how can we lead moral lives? Exploring how contemporary moral philosophy has led to a revival of interest in the concepts of 'virtue', 'character' and 'flourishing', this is an accessible and critical introduction to virtue ethics. Comprising of three parts, the first part examines the work of key contemporary thinkers such as Elizabeth Anscombe and Bernard Williams in calling for a change of direction in moral philosophy and adopting a different approach to answering questions such as 'How should I live my life?'. The second part develops a detailed account of Aristotelian eudaimonistic virtue ethics, which considers the virtuous agent to be an ideal and highlights the importance of moral perception and practical wisdom. In the final part, Athanassoulis explores new challenges to virtue ethics from psychology, discusses the practical implications of educating for the virtues and finally considers the neo-Kantian response to virtue ethics. Virtue Ethics also includes chapter summaries and guides to further reading throughout to help readers explore, understand and develop a critical perspective towards this important school of contemporary ethical thought.
Download or read book Responsible Belief written by Rik Peels and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we believe and what we do not believe has a great impact on what we do and fail to do. Hence, if we want to act responsibly, we should believe responsibly. However, do we have the kind of control over our beliefs that such responsibility for our beliefs seems to require? Do we have certain obligations to control or influence our beliefs on particular occasions? And do we sometimes believe responsibly despite violating such obligations, namely because we are excused by, say, indoctrination or ignorance? By answering each of these questions, Rik Peels provides a theory of what it is to believe responsibly. He argues that we lack control over our beliefs, but that we can nonetheless influence our beliefs by performing actions that make a difference to what we believe. We have a wide variety of moral, prudential, and epistemic obligations to perform such belief-influencing actions. We can be held responsible for our beliefs in virtue of such influence on our beliefs. Sometimes, we believe responsibly despite having violated such obligations, namely if we are excused, by force, ignorance, or luck. A careful consideration of these excuses teaches us, respectively, that responsible belief entails that we could have failed to have that belief, that responsible belief is in a specific sense radically subjective, and that responsible belief is compatible with its being a matter of luck that we hold that belief.
Book Synopsis Powers of the Zodiac Boxset: Three Midlife Paranormal Romances and a Prequel Novella by : Kate Karyus Quinn
Download or read book Powers of the Zodiac Boxset: Three Midlife Paranormal Romances and a Prequel Novella written by Kate Karyus Quinn and published by Little Fish Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POWERS OF THE ZODIAC is a hilarious magical series from the authors of Down & Dirty Supernatural Cleaning Services! Crystal, Maddie, and Helena receive a desperate message from their husbands: I've been kidnapped and I need your help. Each women is asked to bring a magical object as ransom. It's only when they deliver the ransom that they discover their three husbands, Bobby, Burt, and Robert, are the same man! Even worse, the kidnapping goes off the rails. Their cheating husband is killed and the three women get blasted by a magical object, granting them powers based on their zodiac signs. Over the next year, Crystal, Maddie, and Helena find out what it means to be a magical middle-aged women. They also have to deal with goons determined to steal the magical object that gave them their powers. And, as if that wasn't enough, each women gets a second chance at love with a trio of sexy men who have amazing powers of their own. Along the way, the women also discover they have more in common than they originally thought, and that their greatest power of all - just might be their newfound friendship! If you're ready for love, laughter and magic, then join Maddie, Helena, and Crystal as they navigate their newly found magical midlife powers!
Download or read book Shooting Gallery written by Hailey Lind and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco’s art world is exhibiting murderous tendencies… Geez, make a splash in the world of art forgery at the age of seventeen and people can’t stop bringing it up. Lesson learned: genuine art is priceless, and forgery gets you arrested. Now Annie puts her artistic talents to honest use as a faux finisher in San Francisco. But carving out a new reputation can be a creative challenge… Modernism isn’t Annie’s thing, but even she is surprised to discover that the “sculpture” in a prestigious gallery’s grisly new exhibition is an all-too-real corpse—the artist’s. Meanwhile, a Chagall painting is stolen from the Brock Museum, and Annie’s old friend Bryan is accused of being in on the fix. To track down the missing Chagall, she’ll need the dubious assistance of a certain sexy art thief. And if Michael—or whatever his real name may be—isn’t distraction enough, Annie’s mother shows up in town, acting strangely. Annie’s got to solve these mysteries, and fast—because art is long, but life can be very, very short.
Book Synopsis The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by : Carveth Read
Download or read book The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions written by Carveth Read and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study explains a hypothesis that the human race has descended from some ape-like stock by a series of changes which began and, until recently, were maintained by the practice of hunting in pack for animal food, instead of being content with the fruits and other nutritious products of the tropical forest.
Book Synopsis Everything School Leaders Need to Know About Assessment by : W. James Popham
Download or read book Everything School Leaders Need to Know About Assessment written by W. James Popham and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With plain language and practical examples, Popham covers key understandings for school leaders, including validity, formative assessment, interpreting test results, instructional sensitivity, and more.
Book Synopsis Does the Mountain Pine Beetle Change Hosts in Mixed Lodgepole and Whitebark Pine Stands? by : Bruce H. Baker
Download or read book Does the Mountain Pine Beetle Change Hosts in Mixed Lodgepole and Whitebark Pine Stands? written by Bruce H. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Snow Cache Temperatures Suitable for Storage of Conifer Nursery Stock by : Russell A. Ryker
Download or read book Snow Cache Temperatures Suitable for Storage of Conifer Nursery Stock written by Russell A. Ryker and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book USDA Forest Service Research Note INT. written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
