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A Tale of Three Cities

The 1962 Baseball Season in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco

By: Steven Travers

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A Tale of Three Cities

The 1962 Baseball Season in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco

By: Steven Travers

Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants battle it out.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597976172

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Lincoln

The Ambiguous Icon

By: Steven Johnston

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In this book, political theorist Steve Johnston explores Lincoln’s thought and political philosophy, but also his intentional and shrewdly calculated ambiguity – enabling him to be maximally politically effective in the face of unprecedented challenges.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442261315

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Theology from the Great Tradition

By: Steven D. Cone

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Theology from the Great Tradition

By: Steven D. Cone

This textbook provides complete and comprehensive coverage of the theological tradition of Aquinas, Maximus, Luther, Irenaeus, Lonergan, von Balthasar, Schmemann, Meyendorf and Barth. Each section of this textbook explores a wide variety of questions – who are we? Is there a God, and if so, what is his nature? Who is Jesus? What does it mean that we live both in sin and righteousness? It consists of 15 modules that are comprised of 46 chapters. Each module has two parts: there are systematic chapters that discuss and explain each module's topic; and the final chapter of each module examines 4 to 6 primary sources that are important for each topic. This textbook includes an extensive range of pedagogical features: - Sample tests in which each objective question has been quality tested by classroom use (with a discrimination index) - A discussion guide for each chapter - Learning objectives linked to each chapter - The text includes bold-faced terms, boxed text sections that identify central figures and points of debate, study question, chapter summaries, glossary

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567670015

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The Everything Guide To Being A Paralegal

Winning Secrets to a Successful Career!

By: Steven Schneider

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The Everything Guide To Being A Paralegal

Winning Secrets to a Successful Career!

By: Steven Schneider

The Everything Guide to Being a Paralegal is the ideal handbook for new paralegals, professionals looking to further or reevaluate their careers, or those considering the profession. Tackling the concerns of real law professionals, chapters include: Paralegal Career Options Paralegal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Pre-Trial Preparation Individual chapter attention to the top types of law practice More and more people are opting for a career as a paralegal-and this book is their pathway to success in this growing field!

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Simon and Schuster

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1605503401

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What to Do When a Loved One Dies

Taking Charge at a Difficult Time

By: Steven D. Price

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What to Do When a Loved One Dies

Taking Charge at a Difficult Time

By: Steven D. Price

At some point in everyone’s life, everyone will be placed in the position of dealing with the death of a loved one. Arranging all the necessary details at such a difficult time can prove overwhelming. However, help is now at hand in this guide that covers all the essential aspects: Ways to avoid probate and other estate problems while you’re still alive through gifts and trusts Pre-funeral formalities, such as when the loved one dies in another state or country Selecting a funeral parlor and working with its director and clergy with regard to the funeral service Disposition of the remains, whether burial or cremation Probating the will or marshalling the assets if the deceased died intestate Survivor benefits and other financial and tax matters Mourning and grief therapy Drawing from the counsel of funeral directors, clergy, attorneys, estate planners, and psychologists and with references to Web sites and other sources of further information, this book provides straightforward and reassuring advice that is both practical and comforting at this difficult time.

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Simon and Schuster

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1628732679

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American Propaganda from the Spanish-American War to Iraq

War Stories

By: Steven R. Brydon

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American Propaganda from the Spanish-American War to Iraq

War Stories

By: Steven R. Brydon

In this book, Steven R. Brydon analyzes American war propaganda spanning from the Spanish-American War through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Brydon argues that many of these wars were fought based on false or misleading narratives, beginning with blaming Spain for the sinking of the Maine and continuing, most recently, with charges that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11. Research has shown that well-told stories can affect the public’s beliefs, attitudes, and actions, and Brydon has identified some of these recurring stories that have been told to support and sustain each war during this time period. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, Brydon critically evaluates these “war stories” to determine if they possessed narrative coherence and fidelity that provided good reasons to go to war, rather than simply the appearance of these qualities. The responsibility, Brydon stresses, is on the media and on academics to view future war narratives through a critical lens, in order to best inform the American people. Scholars of media studies, history, military studies, American studies, and international relations will find this book particularly useful.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793626146

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Imitation, Knowledge, and the Task of Christology in Maximus the Confessor

By: Luke Steven

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Imitation, Knowledge, and the Task of Christology in Maximus the Confessor

By: Luke Steven

Maximus the Confessor's combustive historical era, committed doctrinal reflection, and loud and influential voice took him on a turbulent career of traveling and writing around the Mediterranean. Maximus was a spiritual teacher, an ascetic and a contemplative, but he was also a polemicist, a crafter of dogma, an embattled Christologian, a premeditating rhetorician. In this study, Luke Steven binds together these two disparate sides of the man and his writings by showing that throughout his oeuvre the Confessor positions imitation as the key to knowledge. This lasting epistemology characterizes his earlier ascetic and spiritual works, and in his later works it prominently defines his dogmatic Christological method – that is, the means by which he communicates and persuades and brings people to understand and encounter Jesus Christ, the one with two natures, divine and human. This multifaceted study offers a deep assessment of Maximus’s forebears, new insight on the animating assumptions of his thought, and an unprecedented focus on the rhetoric and method of his christological writings.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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0227177525

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The Unvarnished Doctrine

Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution

By: Steven M. Dworetz

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The Unvarnished Doctrine

Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution

By: Steven M. Dworetz

In The Unvarnished Doctrine, Steven M. Dworetz addresses two critical issues in contemporary thinking on the American Revolution—the ideological character of this event, and, more specifically, the relevance of "America’s Philosopher, the Great Mr. Locke," in this experience. Recent interpretations of the American revolution, particularly those of Bailyn and Pocock, have incorporated an understanding of Locke as the moral apologist of unlimited accumulation and the original ideological crusader for the "spirit of capitalism," a view based largely on the work of theorists Leo Strauss and C. B. Macpherson. Drawing on an examination of sermons and tracts of the New England clergy, Dworetz argues that the colonists themselves did not hold this conception of Locke. Moreover, these ministers found an affinity with the principles of Locke’s theistic liberalism and derived a moral justification for revolution from those principles. The connection between Locke and colonial clergy, Dworetz maintains, constitutes a significant, radicalizing force in American revolutionary thought.

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Duke University Press

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0822314703

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Gearhead at Large

A Backroad Tour of Automotive History and the Old Car Hobby

By: Steven Rossi,West Peterson

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Gearhead at Large

A Backroad Tour of Automotive History and the Old Car Hobby

By: Steven Rossi,West Peterson

A popular feature in Antique Automobile magazine, Steven Rossi's columns open up the world of old cars, transporting readers to earlier times from the age of horseless carriages through the evolution of cars and car culture. This compilation from a decade's writings draws on a lifetime of knowledge and experience amassed in the antique auto hobby, the enthusiast community and the automotive industry to explore topics large and small. The selected essays, edited and with photographs provided by award-winning Antique Automobile editor West Peterson, include informative treatments of historical subjects and technical matters, whimsical observations, important brand and model analyses, profiles of compelling personalities and an abundance of fascinating excursions down side roads of the automotive map. For the curious, think of this collection as a crash course in automotive history. For those already immersed in the old car universe, it offers fresh insights and an authoritative perspective on topics of lasting interest.

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McFarland

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1476639817

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Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia

An Encyclopedia

By: Steven A. Riess

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Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia

An Encyclopedia

By: Steven A. Riess

A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of leagues, teams, institutions, major competitions, the media and other related industries, as well as legal and social issues, economic factors, ethnic and racial participation, and the growth of institutions and venues. Also included are biographical entries on notable individuals—not just outstanding athletes, but owners and promoters, journalists and broadcasters, and innovators of other kinds—along with in-depth entries on the history of major and minor sports from air racing and archery to wrestling and yachting. A detailed chronology, master bibliography, and directory of institutions, organizations, and governing bodies—plus more than 100 vintage and contemporary photographs—round out the coverage.

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Routledge

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1317459466

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More Than Sympathy

Essential Advice on Funerals, Money, Family, and Grief After the Death of a Loved One

By: Steven D. Price

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More Than Sympathy

Essential Advice on Funerals, Money, Family, and Grief After the Death of a Loved One

By: Steven D. Price

Making sensible decisions during a time of grief is never easy. Losing a husband, wife, father, mother, child or another near and dear person forces you to make a multitude of decisions, some large and life-changing, some small but emotionally charged. And if substantial amounts of money or conflicting wishes of friends and relatives are involved, making arrangements can become overwhelming. More Than Sympathy is designed to help you through these difficult circumstances. It covers: - Preliminary formalities, such as securing the residence and valuables immediately following the loved one’s death - Selecting the funeral home - Planning the funeral or memorial service, including suggestions for eulogies - Grief counseling and therapy - Probating the Will or administering an intestate estate - Survivor benefits, pensions, and other financial and tax consequences - Estate planning to avoid probate and other estate issues through gifts, trusts, and other instruments - And more Drawing from the counsel of funeral directors, clergy, attorneys, estate planners, and psychologists and with references to websites and other sources of further information, More Than Sympathy provides straightforward and reassuring advice that is both practical and comforting at this difficult time.

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Simon and Schuster

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162873888X

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Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law

By: Steven Shavell

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Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law

By: Steven Shavell

What effects do laws have? Do individuals drive more cautiously, clear ice from sidewalks more diligently, and commit fewer crimes because of the threat of legal sanctions? Do corporations pollute less, market safer products, and obey contracts to avoid suit? And given the effects of laws, which are socially best? Such questions about the influence and desirability of laws have been investigated by legal scholars and economists in a new, rigorous, and systematic manner since the 1970s. Their approach, which is called economic, is widely considered to be intellectually compelling and to have revolutionized thinking about the law. In this book Steven Shavell provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of the economic approach to the building blocks of our legal system, namely, property law, tort law, contract law, and criminal law. He also examines the litigation process as well as welfare economics and morality. Aimed at a broad audience, this book requires neither a legal background nor technical economics or mathematics to understand it. Because of its breadth, analytical clarity, and general accessibility, it is likely to serve as a definitive work in the economic analysis of law.

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Harvard University Press

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0674043499

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9780674043497

The Complete Guide to Creating Your Own Living Trust

A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, and Ensure Your Wishes Are Fulfilled

By: Steven D. Fisher

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The Complete Guide to Creating Your Own Living Trust

A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, and Ensure Your Wishes Are Fulfilled

By: Steven D. Fisher

If you want to protect your assets and make sure they are distributed according to your wishes, think about establishing a living trust. It can be designed to manage your investments now and provide broader financial management later to make provisions for a surviving spouse, children, or others, and reduce the impact of estate taxes or avoid probate. This book explains the complicated issues, terminology, and planning strategies of living trusts to the layperson. When you meet with a qualified attorney you will be well prepared, versed in the language, and ready to discuss issues and strategies, which saves time, legal fees, and ensures peace of mind. Get started today!

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Atlantic Publishing Company

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1601381131

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Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England

By: Steven Gunn

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Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England

By: Steven Gunn

The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his regime stood his new men, low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and military skills who enforced the king's will and in the process built their own careers and their families' fortunes. Some are well known, like Sir Edward Poynings, governor of Ireland, or Empson and Dudley, executed to buy popularity for the young Henry VIII. Others are less famous. Sir Robert Southwell was the king's chief auditor, Sir Andrew Windsor the keeper of the king's wardrobe, Sir Thomas Lovell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer so trusted by Henry that he was allowed to employ the former Yorkist pretender Lambert Simnel as his household falconer. Some paved the way to glory for their relatives. Sir Thomas Brandon, master of the horse, was the uncle of Henry VIII's favourite Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk. Sir Henry Wyatt, keeper of the jewel house, was father to the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt. This volume, based on extensive archival research, presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of the new men. It analyses the offices and relationships through which they exercised power and the ways they gained their wealth and spent it to sustain their new-found status. It establishes their importance in the operation of Henry's government and, as their careers continued under his son, in the making of Tudor England.

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Oxford University Press

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0191634883

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Imperial Inquisitions

Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian

By: Steven H. Rutledge

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Imperial Inquisitions

Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian

By: Steven H. Rutledge

Delatores (political informants) and accusatores (malicious prosecutors) were a major part of life in imperial Rome. Contemporary sources depict them as cruel and heartless mercenaries, who bore the main responsibility for institutionalising and enforcing the 'tyranny' of the infamous rulers of the early empire, such as Nero, Caligula and Domitian. Stephen Rutledge's study examines the evidence to ask if this is a fair portrayal. Beginning with a detailed examination of the social and political status of known informants and prosecutors, he goes on to investigate their activities - as well as the rewards they could expect. The main areas covered are: * checking government corruption and enforcing certain classes of legislation * blocking opposition and resistance to the emperor in the Senate * acting as a partisan player in factional strife in the imperial family * protecting the emperor against conspiracy. The book includes a comprehensive guide to every known political informant under the early empire, with their name, all the relevant primary and secondary sources, and an individual biography.

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Routledge

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1134560605

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Pratt's Long-Term Care

Managing Across the Continuum

By: Steven Chies MHA HSE LNHA FACHCA

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Pratt's Long-Term Care

Managing Across the Continuum

By: Steven Chies MHA HSE LNHA FACHCA

Covering the full spectrum of long-term care, Pratt’s Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum, Fifth Edition is an ideal introduction to management in this dynamic industry. Concise, yet complete, it begins with a look at recent changes in long-term care and health care reform, before examining the various long -term care providers and their interaction with competition, payment systems, quality, and ethical issues. It moves on to explore managing in the long-term care system looking at administration, leadership, culture change, technology and community relations, and concludes with a look at future trends and managing continuing change. The Fifth Edition is a comprehensive revision reflecting new Federal Requirements of Participation from CMS for skilled nursing facilities and changes the Medicare-fee-for-service payment system (PDPM). It also addresses the Affordable Care Act and its impact on long-term care, as well as the growth of technology in care, and more.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284184331

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The People's Tycoon

Henry Ford and the American Century

By: Steven Watts

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The People's Tycoon

Henry Ford and the American Century

By: Steven Watts

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He believed in giving his workers a living wage, though he was entirely opposed to union labor. He had a warm and loving relationship with his wife, but sired a son with another woman. A rabid anti-Semite, he nonetheless embraced African American workers in the era of Jim Crow. Uncovering the man behind the myth, situating his achievements and their attendant controversies firmly within the context of early twentieth-century America, Watts has given us a comprehensive, illuminating, and fascinating biography of one of America’s first mass-culture celebrities.

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Vintage

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0307558975

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason

By: Steven Nadler

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason

By: Steven Nadler

Originally published: New York: Farrar. Straus, and Giroux, 2008.

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Princeton University Press

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0691145318

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The Madness of Knowledge

On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing

By: Steven Connor

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The Madness of Knowledge

On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing

By: Steven Connor

Many human beings have considered the powers and the limits of human knowledge, but few have wondered about the power that the idea of knowledge has over us. Steven Connor’s The Madness of Knowledge is the first book to investigate this emotional inner life of knowledge—the lusts, fantasies, dreams, and fears that the idea of knowing provokes. There are in-depth discussions of the imperious will to know, of Freud’s epistemophilia (or love of knowledge), and the curiously insistent links between madness, magical thinking, and the desire for knowledge. Connor also probes secrets and revelations, quarreling and the history of quizzes and “general knowledge,” charlatanry and pretension, both the violent disdain and the sanctification of the stupid, as well as the emotional investment in the spaces and places of knowledge, from the study to the library. In an age of artificial intelligence, alternative facts, and mistrust of truth, The Madness of Knowledge offers an opulent, enlarging, and sometimes unnerving psychopathology of intellectual life.

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Reaktion Books

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178914101X

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Fate, Logic, and Time

By: Steven M. Cahn

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Fate, Logic, and Time

By: Steven M. Cahn

This book is the first full-length treatment of the philosophical problem of fatalism, the thesis that the laws of logic alone suffice to prove that no person ever acts freely. After a critical examination of the history of the problem, from Aristotle through Stoic and medieval thought, Cahn analyzes contemporary discussions of the issue, revealing how a belief in free will is logically connected to specific assumptions about the truth-value of propositions and the nature of time.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1592446426

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Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon

By: Steven Matthews

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Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon

By: Steven Matthews

This study re-evaluates the religious beliefs of Francis Bacon and the role which his theology played in the development of his program for the reform of learning and the natural sciences, the Great Instauration. Bacon's Instauration writings are saturated with theological statements and Biblical references which inform and explain his program, yet this aspect of his writings has received little attention. Previous considerations of Bacon's religion have been drawn from a fairly short list of his published writings. Consequently, Bacon has been portrayed as everything from an atheist to a Puritan; scholarly consensus is lacking. This book argues that by considering the historical context of Bacon's society, and his conversion from Puritanism to anti-Calvinism as a young man, his own theology can be brought into clearer focus, and his philosophy more properly understood. After leaving his mother's household, Bacon underwent a transformation of belief which led him away from his mother's Calvinism and toward the writings of the ancient Church Fathers, particularly Irenaeus of Lyon. Bacon's theology increasingly came to reflect the theological interests of his friend and editor Lancelot Andrewes. The patristic turn of Bacon's belief in the last two decades of the reign of Elizabeth significantly affected the development of his philosophical program which was produced in the first two decades of the Stuart era. This study then examines the theology present in the Instauration writings themselves and concludes with a consideration of the effect which Bacon's theology had on the subsequent direction of empirical science and natural theology in the English context. In so doing it not only offers a new perspective on Bacon, but will serve as a contribution toward a better understanding of the religious context of, and motivations behind, empirical science in early modern England.

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Routledge

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1351144707

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The Philosophy of Death

By: Steven Luper

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The Philosophy of Death

By: Steven Luper

The Philosophy of Death is a discussion of the basic philosophical issues concerning death, and a critical introduction to the relevant contemporary philosophical literature. Luper begins by addressing questions about those who die: What is it to be alive? What does it mean for you and me to exist? Under what conditions do we persist over time, and when do we perish? Next, he considers several questions concerning death, including: What does dying consist in; in particular, how does it differ from ageing? Must death be permanent? By what signs may it be identified? Is death bad for the one who dies? If so why? Finally he discusses whether, and why, killing is morally objectionable, and suggests that it is often permissible; in particular, (assisted) suicide, euthanasia and abortion may all be morally permissible. His book is a lively and engaging philosophical treatment of a perennially fascinating and relevant subject.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139480979

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Thomas Aquinas on the Jews

Insights Into His Commentary on Romans 9-11

By: Steven C. Boguslawski

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Thomas Aquinas on the Jews

Insights Into His Commentary on Romans 9-11

By: Steven C. Boguslawski

Steven Boguslawski maintains in this provocative book that Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary on Romans uses predestination and election as hermeneutical keys to understand Romans 9-11 and to sustain a positive theological view of the Jewish people. Thomas' positions in the Summa Theologiae on significant policy questions of his time regarding the Jews are set against the socio-historical context in which Thomas wrote. He integrates predestination and election, as treated in the Summa, with their use in the Commentary on Romans. Then he draws a comparison between Thomas's position and that of Augustine. In conclusion he asserts that Thomas's way of reading Romans 9-11 not only corrects and develops the received tradition but also sustains a positive theology of Judaism.

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Paulist Press

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0809142333

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Charles Brandon

Henry VIII's Closest Friend

By: Steven Gunn

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Charles Brandon

Henry VIII's Closest Friend

By: Steven Gunn

The first biography of the lifelong companion and trusted confidante of Henry VIII

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445641941

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Jesus and the God of Classical Theism

Biblical Christology in Light of the Doctrine of God

By: Steven J. Duby

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Jesus and the God of Classical Theism

Biblical Christology in Light of the Doctrine of God

By: Steven J. Duby

Christianity Today 2023 Book Award (Theology - Academic) In both biblical studies and systematic theology, modern treatments of the person of Christ have cast doubt on whether earlier Christian descriptions of God--in which God is immutable, impassible, eternal, and simple--can fit together with the revelation of God in Christ. This book explains how the Jesus revealed in Scripture comports with such descriptions of God. The author argues that the Bible's Christology coheres with and even requires the affirmation of divine attributes like immutability, impassibility, eternity, and simplicity.

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Baker Academic

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1493420577

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A Philosopher's Journey

Essays from Six Decades

By: Steven M. Cahn

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A Philosopher's Journey

Essays from Six Decades

By: Steven M. Cahn

For over fifty years Steven M. Cahn has been a prolific contributor to discussions of philosophical and educational issues. In this volume he has chosen his favorite articles from the 1960s to the present, reflecting his long-standing interests in the concept of free will, the rationality of religious belief, the insights of John Dewey, the affirmative action debate, the aims of higher education, and the nature of living well. Also included are several philosophical puzzles. Professor Cahn is a noted teacher and lecturer, and these essays reflect his skills at explaining complex ideas with clarity and defending challenging positions with cogency. His work demonstrates how philosophical inquiry can be both engaging and enlightening.

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1725267918

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Law Dictionary

By: Steven H. Gifis

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Law Dictionary

By: Steven H. Gifis

Updated to reflect recent modifications in federal and state law, this book is a quick-reference source for lawyers, law students, legal professionals, and interested laypersons. The author defines more than 5,000 legal terms, using nontechnical language that remains legally accurate. Terms are documented with citations and apply to civil procedure, commercial and contract law, constitutional law, criminal law, property law, and torts. This is a "mass-market-size" paperback. This Law Dictionary is also available from Barron's in a trade edition that features larger pages with large type.

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Puzzles & Perplexities

Collected Essays

By: Steven M. Cahn

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Puzzles & Perplexities

Collected Essays

By: Steven M. Cahn

A revised edition of Steven Cahn's book of short philosophical essays.

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0739121162

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Not knowing (no saber)

el arte de transformar la incertidumbre en una oportunidad

By: Steven D'Souza,Diana Renner

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Not knowing (no saber)

el arte de transformar la incertidumbre en una oportunidad

By: Steven D'Souza,Diana Renner

Con el fin de prosperar en esta época de incertidumbre, este fascinante libro nos propone dirigirnos hacia lo desconocido, en vez de alejarnos de él. Reestructura el concepto del No Saber desde un lugar de miedo e ignorancia para llegar a un lugar donde el No Saber ofrece una brillante oportunidad, donde no te verás limitado por lo que ya sabes, si no que profundizarás en tu conocimiento, surgirán nuevas posibilidades y ganarás sabiduría. Aprenderás, mediante casos reales, cómo el No Saber rescata a una empresa de la bancarrota y la convierte en una de las que tiene mayor crecimiento en los Estados Unidos; cómo una pequeña empresa en Colombia aumenta sus ventas anuales de forma excepcional, cómo un ingeniero y un chef descubren por error la "salsa secreta" que les lleva tres años reproducir o cómo un vicepresidente de una empresa mediana dirige a su equipo hacia lo desconocido. Este libro te llevará por el viaje del No Saber. Te animará a desarrollar la mentalidad adecuada para que te enfrentes a lo desconocido y avances, en vez de meramente sobrevivir. Desarrollarás la capacidad de no solamente tolerar lo desconocido, sino también de usarlo en tu beneficio.

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Editorial Almuzara

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8416624100

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Twentieth-Century Countertenor Repertoire

A Guide

By: Steven L. Rickards

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Twentieth-Century Countertenor Repertoire

A Guide

By: Steven L. Rickards

This significant reference of over 600 entries compiles and catalogues information about repertoire composed specifically for the countertenor from 1950 to 2000. Representing more than 350 composers, it provides a resource for countertenors and voice teachers to identify and become more familiar with contemporary works for countertenor.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810861038

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The Case for Polytheism

By: Steven Dillon

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The Case for Polytheism

By: Steven Dillon

The philosophy of religion has been dominated by monotheists and atheists for centuries now. But, polytheism deserves to be restored to its respected position, and The Case for Polytheism sets out some reasons why. By developing a notion of godhood and employing a set of novel and neglected arguments, the author constructs a rigorous but accessible case for the existence of multiple gods.

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1782797343

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Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger

By: Steven Crowell

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Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger

By: Steven Crowell

Steven Crowell has been for many years a leading voice in debates on twentieth-century European philosophy. This volume presents thirteen recent essays that together provide a systematic account of the relation between meaningful experience (intentionality) and responsiveness to norms. They argue for a new understanding of the philosophical importance of phenomenology, taking the work of Husserl and Heidegger as exemplary, and introducing a conception of phenomenology broad enough to encompass the practices of both philosophers. Crowell discusses Husserl's analyses of first-person authority, the semantics of conscious experience, the structure of perceptual content, and the embodied subject, and shows how Heidegger's interpretation of the self addresses problems in Husserl's approach to the normative structure of meaning. His volume will be valuable for upper-level students and scholars interested in phenomenological approaches to philosophical questions in both the European and the analytic traditions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107276780

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Hegel's Critique of Liberalism

Rights in Context

By: Steven B. Smith

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Hegel's Critique of Liberalism

Rights in Context

By: Steven B. Smith

In Hegel's Critique of Liberalism, Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political concerns. Smith argues that Hegel reformulated classic liberalism, preserving what was of value while rendering it more attentive to the dynamics of human history and the developmental structure of the moral personality. Hegel's goal, Smith suggests, was to find a way of incorporating both the ancient emphasis on the dignity and even architectonic character of political life with the modern concern for freedom, rights, and mutual recognition. Smith's insightful analysis reveals Hegel's relevance not only to contemporary political philosophers concerned with normative issues of liberal theory but also to political scientists who have urged a revival of the state as a central concept of political inquiry.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226763501

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9780226763507

The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

By: Steven J. Gunn

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The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

By: Steven J. Gunn

War should be recognised as one of the defining features of life in the England of Henry VIII. Henry fought many wars throughout his reign, and this book explores how this came to dominate English culture and shape attitudes to the king and to national history, with people talking and reading about war, and spending money on weaponry and defence.

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Oxford University Press

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0198802862

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Strategies & Tactics for the MPRE

(Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam)

By: Steven L. Emanuel

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Strategies & Tactics for the MPRE

(Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam)

By: Steven L. Emanuel

Optimize your ability to pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE)! Strategies & Tactics for the MPRE is filled with questions released from the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). Thorough explanations of the correct and incorrect answers provide you with the analyses you need to master the MPRE. Strategies & Tactics for the MPRE features: Basic information about the MPRE and what to expect A recap of important terminology you will need to know Expert advice on how to avoid common mistakes and spot tricky questions 156 NCBE-released questions from past MPRE exams, all with answers In-depth, detailed answers to every question that explain not only why the correct answer is correct, but why the other choices are not Advice on how to benefit the most from the practice exam questions A detailed strategy for approaching the exam and logical rules to use to deconstruct each question

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154382000X

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Nothing but Victory

The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865

By: Steven E. Woodworth

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Nothing but Victory

The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865

By: Steven E. Woodworth

Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched directly into the heart of the Confederacy and won major victories at Shiloh and at the rebel strongholds of Vicksburg and Atlanta.Acclaimed historian Steven Woodworth has produced the first full consideration of this remarkable unit that has received less prestige than the famed Army of the Potomac but was responsible for the decisive victories that turned the tide of war toward the Union. The Army of the Tennessee also shaped the fortunes and futures of both Grant and Sherman, liberating them from civilian life and catapulting them onto the national stage as their triumphs grew. A thrilling account of how a cohesive fighting force is forged by the heat of battle and how a confidence born of repeated success could lead soldiers to expect “nothing but victory.”

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Vintage

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0307427064

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Authentic Cosmopolitanism

Love, Sin, and Grace in the Christian University

By: Steven D Cone,R J Snell

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Authentic Cosmopolitanism

Love, Sin, and Grace in the Christian University

By: Steven D Cone,R J Snell

Humans are lovers, and yet a good deal of pedagogical theory, Christian or otherwise, assumes an anthropology at odds with human nature, fixed in a model of humans as thinking things. Turning to Augustine, or at least Augustine in conversation with Aquinas, Martin Heidegger, the overlooked Jesuit thinker Bernard Lonergan, and the important contemporary Charles Taylor, this book provides a normative vision for Christian higher education. A phenomenological reappropriation of human subjectivityreveals an authentic order to love, even when damaged by sin, and loves, made authentic by grace, allow the intellectually, morally, and religiously converted person to attain an integral unity. Properly understanding the integral relation between love and the fullness of human life overcomes the split between intellectual and moral formation, allowing transformed subjects -authentic lovers - to live, seek, and work towards the values of a certain kind of cosmopolitanism. Christian universitiesexist to make cosmopolitans, properly understood, namely, those persons capable of living authentically. In other words, this text gives a full-orbed account of human flourishing, rooted in a phenomenological account of the human as basis for the mission of the university.

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0227901800

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