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A Theory of Prudence

By: Dale Dorsey

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Much of knowing what to do is knowing what to do for ourselves, but knowing how to act in our best interest is complex---we must know what benefits us, what burdens us, and how these facts present and constitute considerations in favor of action. Additionally, we must know how we should weigh our interests at different times---past, present, and future. Dale Dorsey argues that a theory of prudence is needed: a theory of how we ought to act when we are acting for ourselves. A Theory of Prudence provides a comprehensive account of prudence, including the metaethics of prudential value, the nature of the personal good, the reasons of prudence, and the structure of prudential normativity over time.

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Oxford University Press

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0198823754

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Lost, Texas

Photographs of Forgotten Buildings

By: Bronson Dorsey

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Lost, Texas

Photographs of Forgotten Buildings

By: Bronson Dorsey

In Lost, Texas: Photographs of Forgotten Buildings, Bronson Dorsey takes us on a tour of old, abandoned buildings in Texas that evoke the mystique of bygone days and shifting population patterns. With a skilled photographer’s eye, he captures the character of these buildings, mostly tucked away in the far corners of rural Texas—though, surprisingly, some of his finds are in the midst of thriving communities, even, in one case, the Dallas metroplex. Most of the buildings are abandoned and in a state of decay, though a handful have been repurposed as museums, residences, or other functional structures. Encompassing all regions of the state, from the Piney Woods to the Panhandle, the images in Lost, Texas evoke distinctive memories of the past. They grant a sense of how those who preceded us lived and how the Texas of earlier days became the Texas of today. Some of the historic sites include a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Beeville, a lumberyard built over two generations, a beautiful, mission-style schoolhouse raised in a small farming community, the skeleton of a boomtown gas station near the Yates oilfield, and what remains of the only silver mining operation in Texas. With Dorsey as a guide, readers may explore these hidden and neglected gems and learn the basic facts of their origins and intended uses, as well as the principal reasons for their demise. Along the way and in the background, he quietly makes the case for preserving these buildings that, while no longer central to the ongoing function of their communities, still serve as important emblems of the past.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623496179

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9781623496173

The Limits of Moral Authority

By: Dale Dorsey

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The Limits of Moral Authority

By: Dale Dorsey

Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the normative significance of morality as simply a fact to be explained. But Dorsey argues that this traditional assumption is misguided. According to Dorsey, not only are we not required to conform to moral demands, conforming to morality's demands will not always even be normatively permissible---moral behavior can be (quite literally) wrong. This view is significant not only for understanding the content and force of the moral point of view, but also for understanding the basic elements of how one ought to live.

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Oxford University Press

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0191044725

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9780191044724

Whales and Nations

Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas

By: Kurkpatrick Dorsey

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Whales and Nations

Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas

By: Kurkpatrick Dorsey

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry. In Whales and Nations, Kurkpatrick Dorsey tells the story of the international negotiation, scientific research, and industrial development behind these efforts —and their ultimate failure. Whales and Nations begins in the early twentieth century, when new technology revived the fading whaling industry and made whale hunting possible on an unprecedented scale. By the 1920s, declining whale populations prompted efforts to develop “rational”—what today would be called sustainable—whaling practices. But even though almost everyone involved with commercial whaling knew that the industry was on an unsustainable path, Dorsey argues, powerful economic, political, and scientific forces made failure nearly inevitable. Based on a deep engagement with diplomatic history, Whales and Nations provides a unique perspective on the challenges facing international conservation projects. This history has profound implications for today’s pressing questions of global environmental cooperation and sustainability. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsLlM5KTx0

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University of Washington Press

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0295804947

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9780295804941

Mollie

The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866

By: Mollie Dorsey Sanford

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Mollie

The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866

By: Mollie Dorsey Sanford

Mollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. More particularly, it is the story of Mollie herself ?øjust turned eighteen when the Dorseys left Indianapolis for Nebraska Territory ? of her reaction to the transplantation and to her new life which included rattlesnakes, blizzards, Indians, and the hardships of pioneer life. ø Mollie describes her nearly three-year engagement to Byron Sanford, during which time she worked as a seamstress, teacher, and cook. Following her wedding Mollie?s life took a new turn. Catching ?Pike?s Peak Fever,? the Sanfords crossed the plains to Colorado to join others digging for gold. In mining camps and later, after the outbreak of the Civil War, in forts and army posts, Mollie?s strength and endurance were tried to the uttermost, but she reports her trials and tribulations with the same gaiety, courage, and common sense that she displayed in living through them. Lillian Schlissel?s introduction discusses the Sanfords? courtship, marriage, and their steadfast loyalty to each other.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803293070

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Fourth Down in Dunbar

By: David A. Dorsey

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Fourth Down in Dunbar

By: David A. Dorsey

For the young men of Dunbar—the low-income, historically segregated neighborhoods of Fort Myers, Florida—avoiding the path that leads to easy money as a drug dealer often means choosing complete devotion to football and dreams of NFL stardom. While such dreams remain out of reach for most, an astonishing number of Dunbar athletes, including NFL idols Deion Sanders, Jevon Kearse, and Earnest Graham, have achieved massive success. Fourth Down in Dunbar is the story of how one community, plagued by drugs and violence, where many children are fatherless, gave rise to so many stellar youth athletes. Using Sanders as the centerpiece of the story, David Dorsey explores Dunbar’s history to show how the same drug culture that ruined so many promising futures also served as motivation for football success. As a reporter for the Fort Myers News-Press, Dorsey had exclusive access to the players and their relatives. He shows the success of the wildly talented as well as the regrets of those who took the wrong path, while highlighting hope for the future of Dunbar. In this poignant tale of heartbreak and triumph, Dorsey reveals the true nature of these men who overcame the obstacles in their lives and made their families and their hometown proud.

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University Press of Florida

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0813047749

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9780813047744

Hirelings

African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland

By: Jennifer Hull Dorsey

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Hirelings

African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland

By: Jennifer Hull Dorsey

In Hirelings, Jennifer Dorsey recreates the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of inventing new identities, associations, and communities in the early nineteenth century. Free Africans and their descendants had lived in Maryland since the seventeenth century, but before the American Revolution they were always few in number and lacking in economic resources or political leverage. By contrast, manumitted and freeborn African Americans in the early republic refashioned the Eastern Shore's economy and society, earning their livings as wage laborers while establishing thriving African American communities. As free workers in a slave society, these African Americans contested the legitimacy of the slave system even while they remained dependent laborers. They limited white planters' authority over their time and labor by reuniting their families in autonomous households, settling into free black neighborhoods, negotiating labor contracts that suited the needs of their households, and worshipping in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Some moved to the cities, but many others migrated between employers as a strategy for meeting their needs and thwarting employers’ control. They demonstrated that independent and free African American communities could thrive on their own terms. In all of these actions the free black workers of the Eastern Shore played a pivotal role in ongoing debates about the merits of a free labor system.

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Cornell University Press

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0801461154

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9780801461156

Shifting Sands: Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa

By: James Michael Dorsey

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Shifting Sands: Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa

By: James Michael Dorsey

The Middle East and North Africa are experiencing the most fundamental transition in their post-colonial history. It is a transition that is changing the borders of nation states as well as their political and social structures. Conflicting visions of what those structures should look like have ensured that transition will take years, and these deep-seated differences have ensured that the transition process is volatile, brutal and bloody. The balance of power shifts like quicksand.Shifting Sands: Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa is a compilation of essays that constitute a first stab at exploring the importance of sports in general and soccer in particular in the political, social and cultural development of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of the 20th century. In doing so, the book provides a new, fresh and unique perspective that contributes to understanding the turbulence sweeping the region that is fundamentally changing its geopolitics and political and social structures.

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World Scientific

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9814689785

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9789814689786

Holding Their Breath

How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II

By: M. Girard Dorsey

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Holding Their Breath

How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II

By: M. Girard Dorsey

Holding Their Breath uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the looming threat of chemical warfare significantly affected the actions and attitudes of these three nations as they prepared their populations for war, mediated their diplomatic and military alliances, and attempted to defend their national identities and sovereignty. The story of chemical weapons and World War II begins in the interwar period as politicians and citizens alike advocated to ban, to resist, and eventually to prepare for gas use in the next war. M. Girard Dorsey reveals, through extensive research in multinational archives and historical literature, that although poison gas was rarely released on the battlefield in World War II, experts as well as lay people dedicated significant time and energy to the weapon's potential use; they did not view chemical warfare as obsolete or taboo. Poison gas was an influential weapon in World War II, even if not deployed in a traditional way, and arms control, for various reasons, worked. Thus, what did not happen is just as important as what did. Holding Their Breath provides insight into these potentialities by untangling World War II diplomacy and chemical weapons use in a new way.

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Cornell University Press

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1501768387

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9781501768385

Under His Blood

By: Althea Dorsey Gray

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Under His Blood

By: Althea Dorsey Gray

Then, she heard Mom's voice: 'Put God first...everything else will fall in place.' India closed her eyes to pray. India Reed wanted to make her parents proud. After graduation, India spreads her wings and accepts a position with the FBI in Washington, DC. Deep-rooted with religion and the cultural traditions of New Orleans, she finds the rest of the world isn't quite like back home and yearns to find a true love to help her forsake her loneliness. However, the dishonest and immoral behavior of those around her have her questioning her reasons for staying. With her momma's words ringing in her ears, India naively falls in love with a man twice her age, Special Agent Julian Devona "a relationship twisted with terrorism, lies, and betrayal. As troubles unfold, India returns home in search for answers from the one person she has denieda "God. Feeling free from the snares of wicked traps, India once again creates solid ground only to find that Julian isn't through with her yet. Can India find her way out of the darkness? Or will there she only be found Under His Blood.

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Tate Publishing

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1606969471

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My Reality Check Bounced!

The Gen-Y Guide to Cashing In On Your Real-World Dreams

By: Jason Ryan Dorsey

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My Reality Check Bounced!

The Gen-Y Guide to Cashing In On Your Real-World Dreams

By: Jason Ryan Dorsey

It’s time to cash your reality check and re-create your life on your own terms. In your twenties you expect to finally live life on your own terms. But it can seem like the world won’t cooperate. Roommates drive you crazy (but you can’t afford to lose them), entry-level jobs frustrate you (“Four hundred double-sided copies before lunch,”), and even a dream job can take over your nights and weekends, leaving you feeling like you are running hard but going nowhere. Jason Ryan Dorsey helps you turn this coming-of-age crisis into opportunity. He shows you the big secret of the real world—that you don’t realize how much control you have over your life until you use it. In My Reality Check Bounced! Jason shows you how to: Find the courage to climb out of your real-world rut Create a Future Picture that gets you off your “buts” Uncover opportunity and build a tag team to make the most of it Live like you mean it, and finally cash your reality check.

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Harmony

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0767924983

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9780767924986

Voodoo and Afro-Caribbean Paganism

By: Lilith Dorsey

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Voodoo and Afro-Caribbean Paganism

By: Lilith Dorsey

Few religions are as misunderstood as Afro-Caribbean traditions like Voodoo, Yoruba, Candomble, Shango, Santeria, and Obeah. Even the most wide-ranging books about Paganism rarely include a discussion of the African earth religions.

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Citadel Press

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0806527145

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9780806527147

The Purpose, The Passion, & The Power of Evangelism

The Ultimate Witnessing Tool

By: Evangelist John Wesley Dorsey

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The Purpose, The Passion, & The Power of Evangelism

The Ultimate Witnessing Tool

By: Evangelist John Wesley Dorsey

The Purpose, The Passion, & The Power of Evangelism by Evangelist John Wesley Dorsey navigates your Evangelism Team, Pastoral Team, Leadership, and Membership to successfully exercise wisdom with proven biblical and soul-winning techniques for these modern-day times. This keeps the Ekklsia (the church) in spiritual shape with biblical wisdom for everyday accountability when witnessing inside and beyond the church walls. Your team will be empowered by having insight along with heaven’s scriptures to reach your city and destroy the works of the enemy. This book is designed so your congregation will know appropriate functions when setting up Outreach Engagements, and what scriptures to use when debunking cults or handling tough questions so Evangelism can be effective. This manual takes away the nervousness of the body of Christ who wants to engage in everyday witnessing by keeping ministry simple, effective, and gives answers to tough subjects. John has come up with an extremely creative Evangelism book that can be used in many ways for personal, leadership development or all-hands-on-deck outreach manual, template, workbook, study guide, discipleship, mentorship, training, or sermon preparation. This guidebook positions your team to be involved in the everyday aspects of ministry for Soul Winning Techniques to the church's growth operations. Go into your Jerusalem and the world to fulfill the great commission with proven biblical solutions without reinventing the wheel. This book demands your team to quickly know and show the power of God through techniques and the word of God for biblical activities to ministering to cults, occults, new age movements, Atheists, wrongful living, and much more corruptive ungodly natures. Now enjoy the comfort of witnessing and bringing understanding to people who need the facts about riotous living and the Word of God for divine order. This book has been designed for your team to be a lovable and aggressive spiritual mailman to manage Kingdom responsibilities.

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WestBow Press

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9798385012909

Upper Hand

The Future of Work for the Rest of Us

By: Sherrell Dorsey

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Upper Hand

The Future of Work for the Rest of Us

By: Sherrell Dorsey

Learn how to secure a place at the professional table for Black, Latinx, and other marginalized groups In Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us, celebrated Founder and CEO of The Plug, Sherrell Dorsey, delivers a personal and eye-opening exploration of how to ensure that marginalized communities aren't left behind as technology continues its inexorable march forward. In the book, readers will learn to think about how we can strategically shape the coming decade to include Black and Brown communities. Upper Hand offers guidelines, insights, and frameworks for navigating the new world of work that is dominated by Silicon Valley-rooted technologies, inaccessible networks, and constant automation that continues to slash jobs in the Black and Latinx population. You'll find ways to: Help families and community leaders design clear pathways to understanding alternatives to obsolescence Thrive in an ever-changing, tech-driven economy that is beginning to leave people of color behind Embrace new strategies that guarantee a place for Black and brown people in the new economy The startling and insightful discussion in Upper Hand will earn it a place in the libraries of families, teachers, community advocates, workforce development leaders, professionals of color, as well as anyone interested in learning how to distribute the benefits of the new tech economy to those historically left out.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119839300

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The Limits of Moral Authority

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Whales and Nations

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Mollie

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Fourth Down in Dunbar

Fourth Down in Dunbar

Hirelings

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Shifting Sands: Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa

Shifting Sands: Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa

Holding Their Breath

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Under His Blood

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My Reality Check Bounced!

My Reality Check Bounced!

Voodoo and Afro-Caribbean Paganism

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The Purpose, The Passion, & The Power of Evangelism

The Purpose, The Passion, & The Power of Evangelism

Upper Hand

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