With prevalent life issues--stress, addictions, loneliness, health, and violence, to name a few--as its point of departure, Challenges and Pleasures sets out to explain the various roles values and ethics can play for us. It proceeds by demonstrating how the quality of our lives and living morally are inextricably bound. As part of this explanatory process, the text investigates the nature of values and an ethical life. Written in a colloquial voice, the book employs numerous examples of everyday situations encountered by many individual people to serve in its exposition of ideas. End Notes refer the reader to sources which inspired many of the notions within the book, allowing the reader to explore the issues from other points of view and in greater depth.
With prevalent life issues--stress, addictions, loneliness, health, and violence, to name a few--as its point of departure, Challenges and Pleasures sets out to explain the various roles values and ethics can play for us. It proceeds by demonstrating how the quality of our lives and living morally are inextricably bound. As part of this explanatory process, the text investigates the nature of values and an ethical life. Written in a colloquial voice, the book employs numerous examples of everyday situations encountered by many individual people to serve in its exposition of ideas. End Notes refer the reader to sources which inspired many of the notions within the book, allowing the reader to explore the issues from other points of view and in greater depth.
The animal trainer recounts her Dublin childhood, her travels, her marriage, and her experiences as a dog trainer, horse breaker, importer of polo ponies, author, and television personality
When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, 'Civil To Strangers', three novellas and an autobiographical essay, Pym's only written commentary on her writing career.
The animal trainer recounts her Dublin childhood, her travels, her marriage, and her experiences as a dog trainer, horse breaker, importer of polo ponies, author, and television personality
Haunted by the tragic early deaths of her entire family from Hodgkin's disease, Barbara Condos (Beautifully Kept) used her beauty and her wit to get through her extraordinary life--a life filled with fame, riches, heartbreak, and at last self-acceptance.
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