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Hans-Georg MoellerPublication Details
BookColumbia University Press2009Availability
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The Moral Fool : A Case For Amorality
A Russian Diary : A Journalist’s Final Account Of Life, Corruption, And Death In Putin’s Russia
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Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait ; foreword by Scott SimonPublication Details
Book1st U.S. edRandom House2007Description
Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia?s most fearless journalists, was gunned down in a contract killing in Moscow in the fall of 2006. Just before her death, Politkovskaya completed this searing, intimate record of life in Russia from the parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the grim summer of 2005, when the nation was still reeling from the horrors of the Beslan school siege. In A Russian Diary, Politkovskaya dares to tell the truth about the devastation of Russia under Vladimir Putin?a truth all the more urgent since her tragic death. Praise for Anna Politkovskaya ?Anna Politkovskaya defined the human conscience. ?Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent, CNN ?Like all great investigative reporters, Anna Politkovskaya brought forward human truths that rewrote the official story. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DK510.763 .P655 2007 AVAILABLE
Beyond Power : On Women, Men, And Morals
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Marilyn FrenchPublication Details
BookSummit Books1985Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HQ1122 .F7 1985 AVAILABLE
Criminal Justice And Moral Issues
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Robert F. Meier, Gilbert GeisPublication Details
BookRoxbury Pub. Co2006Links
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV7419 .M43 2006 AVAILABLE
Love And Louis XIV : The Women In The Life Of The Sun King
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Antonia FraserPublication Details
Book1st U.S. edNan A. Talese/Doubleday2006Links
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The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. After a flirtation with his sister-in-law, his first important mistress was Louise de La Valli (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DC129 .F73 2006 AVAILABLE
American Mythos : Why Our Best Efforts To Be A Better Nation Fall Short
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Robert WuthnowPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2006Links
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HN90.M6 W867 2006 AVAILABLE
Strangers Nowhere In The World : The Rise Of Cosmopolitanism In Early Modern Europe
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Margaret C. JacobPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2006Description
The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of “brothers” in privacy and even secrecy–Margaret Jacob invokes all of these examples in Strangers Nowhere in the World to provide glimpses of the cosmopolitan ethos that gradually emerged over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HN380.Z9 M645 2006 AVAILABLE
The Last Friend : A Novel
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Tahar Ben Jelloun ; translated from the French by Kevin Michel Capé and Hazel RowleyPublication Details
BookNew Press2006Description
The Last Friend, the new novel from internationally acclaimed author Tahar Ben Jelloun, winner of the 2004 International Dublin/IMPAC award, is a Rashamon-like tale of friendship and betrayal set in twentieth century Tangier. Written in Ben Jelloun’s inimitable and powerfully direct style, the novel explores the twists and turns of an intense thirty-year friendship between two young men struggling to find their identities and sexual fulfillment in Morocco in the late 1950s, a complex and contradictory society both modern and archaic. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PQ3989.2.J4 D4713 2006 AVAILABLE
America’s Crisis Of Values : Reality And Perception
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Wayne BakerPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2005Links
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It looks at the question from a variety of angles, examining traditional values, secular values, religious values, family values, economic values, and others. Using unique data from the World Values Surveys, the largest systematic attempt ever made to document attitudes, values, and beliefs around the world, this book systematically evaluates the perceived crisis of values by comparing America’s values with those of over 60 other nations. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HN79.M6 B35 2005 AVAILABLE
Our Endangered Values : America’s Moral Crisis
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Jimmy CarterPublication Details
BookSimon & Schuster2005Description
Many of these matters are under fierce debate, and include pre-emptive war, women’s rights, terrorism, civil liberties, homosexuality, abortion, the death penalty, science and religion, environmental degradation, nuclear arsenals, America’s global image, fundamentalism, and the welding of religion and politics. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HN90.M6 C37 2005 AVAILABLE
Public Philosophy : Essays On Morality In Politics
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Michael J. SandelPublication Details
BookHarvard University Press2005Description
In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) JK468.E7 S36 2005 AVAILABLE
Losing Moses On The Freeway : The 10 Commandments In America
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Chris HedgesPublication Details
BookFree Press2005Description
The 10 Commandments — the laws given to Moses by God — are beyond the scope of human law. With each story, he reveals the universal nature of personal suffering, discovery, and redemption — and explores the laws that we have tried to follow, often unsuccessfully, for the past 6,000 years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BV4655 .H374 2005 AVAILABLE
City Of Dreadful Delight : Narratives Of Sexual Danger In Late-Victorian London
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Judith R. WalkowitzPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press1992Links
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From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HQ72.G7 W33 1992 AVAILABLE
American Values : Opposing Viewpoints
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Mary E. Williams, book editorPublication Details
BookGreenhaven Press2005Description
In this updated anthology, authors discuss the nature of such values as patriotism, consumerism, religion, and altruism. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) HN90.M6 A45 2005 AVAILABLE
War Against The Weak : Eugenics And America’s Campaign To Create A Master Race
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by Edwin BlackPublication Details
BookFour Walls Eight Windows2003Description
What’s not in the news are its origins in a racist 20th-century pseudoscience called eugenics. In the aftermath of world revulsion over Nazi atrocities, eugenics was reborn with a new name and new packaging: genetics. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HQ755.5.U5 B53 2003 AVAILABLE
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