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Book Slights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kaaron Warren
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0007322429
  • Pages : 517 pages

Download or read book Slights written by Kaaron Warren and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'Wasp Factory' for the misery memoir generation. Stephanie is a killer. After an accident in which her mother dies, she has a near-death experience, and finds herself in a room full of people - everyone she's ever slighted. They clutch at her, scratch and tear at her. But she finds herself drawn back to this place, again and again, determined to unlock its secrets. Which means she has to die, again and again. And she starts to wonder whether other people see the same room when they die. SLIGHTS is a deeply intense, disturbing read. The misery memoir craze of the last few years has overshadowed genre fiction's impact with (allegedly) real-life experiences. Now it's time for horror and fantasy fiction to fight back.

Book The slighted invitation   And yet there is room

Download or read book The slighted invitation And yet there is room written by Invitation and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christ Slighted and Rejected  Two Sermons

Download or read book Christ Slighted and Rejected Two Sermons written by George Hunt Smyttan and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Goodwin

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Goodwin written by Thomas Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Goodwin  D D

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Goodwin D D written by Thomas Goodwin (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Goodwin     With General Preface by John C  Miller     and Memoir by Robert Halley

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Goodwin With General Preface by John C Miller and Memoir by Robert Halley written by Thomas GOODWIN (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Implicit Bias

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  • Author : Theresa M. Bouley
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-11-14
  • ISBN : 1475855893
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Implicit Bias written by Theresa M. Bouley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educator implicit bias is often experienced by students of varying identities as microaggressions. In this book the authors define implicit bias and microaggressions, identify ways students of varying identities such as race, gender/LGBTQ+, religion, socioeconomic, ability, linguistic and family dynamics, experience microaggressions in schools, and offer an educator’s guide to using culturally responsive teaching as an antidote to microaggressions. We also provide specific ways to interrupt microaggressions in schools.

Book Racism and Racial Identity

Download or read book Racism and Racial Identity written by Lisa V. Blitz and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Look Before You Step

Download or read book Look Before You Step written by Bonny Gainley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look Before You Step will help potential stepparents prepare personal strategies for facing the challenges involved in forming a stepfamily by analyzing their own values and goals in relation to the issues they will encounter. By considering the issues we describe, potential stepparents can objectively determine how they will handle the issues they are likely to face before the issues are upon them and fraught with emotion. Look Before You Step contains a collection of real experiences and advice from real stepparents, intended to spark conversations for couples contemplating forming a stepfamily, because while every stepparenting experience is different, there are many common threads. We do not want to discourage stepfamily marriages; we want to help potential stepparents understand what they are undertaking so that they can avoid some of the anguish others before them have faced. Look Before You Step is based on in depth original interviews, surveys, personal experience and research. The text contains studies, survey results, self-inventories, advice and discussion questions meant to prompt potential stepparents to recognize similarities with their own situations so that they can easily choose appropriate topics to discuss with their partners.

Book The United States of Anonymous

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeff Kosseff
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2022-03-15
  • ISBN : 1501762397
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book The United States of Anonymous written by Jeff Kosseff and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The United States of Anonymous, Jeff Kosseff explores how the right to anonymity has shaped American values, politics, business, security, and discourse, particularly as technology has enabled people to separate their identities from their communications. Legal and political debates surrounding online privacy often focus on the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, overlooking the history and future of an equally powerful privacy right: the First Amendment's protection of anonymity. The United States of Anonymous features extensive and engaging interviews with people involved in the highest profile anonymity cases, as well as with those who have benefited from, and been harmed by, anonymous communications. Through these interviews, Kosseff explores how courts have protected anonymity for decades and, likewise, how law and technology have allowed individuals to control how much, if any, identifying information is associated with their communications. From blocking laws that prevent Ku Klux Klan members from wearing masks to restraining Alabama officials from forcing the NAACP to disclose its membership lists, and to refusing companies' requests to unmask online critics, courts have recognized that anonymity is a vital part of our free speech protections. The United States of Anonymous weighs the tradeoffs between the right to hide identity and the harms of anonymity, concluding that we must maintain a strong, if not absolute, right to anonymous speech.

Book Prozac as a Way of Life

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  • Author : Carl Elliott
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2016-08-15
  • ISBN : 1469617080
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Prozac as a Way of Life written by Carl Elliott and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America. Their use in the treatment of a multitude of disorders--from generalized anxiety disorder and premenstrual syndrome to eating disorders and sexual compulsions--has provoked a whirlwind of public debate. Talk shows ask, Why is Prozac so popular? What, exactly, do these drugs treat? But sustained critical discussion among bioethicists and medical humanists has been surprisingly absent. The eleven essays in Prozac as a Way of Life provide the groundwork for a much-needed philosophical discussion of the ethical and cultural dimensions of the popularity of SSRI antidepressants. Focusing on the increasing use of medication as a means of self-enhancement, contributors from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, bioethics, and the medical humanities address issues of identity enhancement, the elasticity of psychiatric diagnosis, and the aggressive marketing campaigns of pharmaceutical companies. They do not question the fact that these antidepressants can, in some cases, provide great benefit to alleviate real suffering. What they do question is the abundant popularity of these drugs and that popularity's relationship to American culture and ideas of selfhood. Contributors: Tod Chambers, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago David DeGrazia, George Washington University James C. Edwards, Furman University Carl Elliott, University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics David Healy, University of Wales College of Medicine Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University Peter D. Kramer, Brown University Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Lauren Slater, AfterCare Services, Boston Susan Squier, Pennsylvania State University Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University Center for Genetic Medicine, Chicago

Book The Taming of the Shrew

Download or read book The Taming of the Shrew written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays discussing aspects of William Shakespeare's comedy portraying the ageless battle between the sexes.

Book On Taking Offence

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  • Author : Emily McTernan
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 0197613098
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book On Taking Offence written by Emily McTernan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The subject of this book is an emotion that philosophers have largely overlooked and yet one that is the target of intense public debate: taking offence. This is an everyday emotion, often taken at small and ordinary slights of daily life. However, especially in an era of public criticism of those deemed too easily offended, it is easy to overlook offence's significance and social value. This book aims to rehabilitate taking offence. Rather than addressing the question familiar from jurisprudence of whether the state ought to regulate offensive behaviour, I ask the philosophically neglected questions of whether we ought to take offence, when, and within what limits. My focus is the offended, and not those who cause offence. Against the widespread popular perception of offence as a civic vice, this book defends taking offence as often morally appropriate and socially important. Within societies marred by hierarchies of unequal social standing, and when taken by those who face systematic attributions of lower social standing, an inclination to take offence at the right things and to the right degree is a civic virtue"--

Book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne  Volume 7  Part 1

Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne Volume 7 Part 1 written by John Donne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for previous volumes: "This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." -- Chronique This is the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the scribal collection -- which contains unique authorial versions of several of the sonnets -- inscribed by Donne's friend Rowland Woodward in the Westmoreland manuscript.

Book Aristotle and the Virtues

Download or read book Aristotle and the Virtues written by Howard J. Curzer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle is the father of virtue ethics—a discipline which is receiving renewed scholarly attention. Yet Aristotle's accounts of the individual virtues remain opaque, for most contemporary commentators of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics have focused upon other matters. In contrast, Howard J. Curzer takes Aristotle's detailed description of the individual virtues to be central to his ethical theory. Working through the Nicomachean Ethics virtue-by-virtue, explaining and generally defending Aristotle's claims, this book brings each of Aristotle's virtues alive. A new Aristotle emerges, an Aristotle fascinated by the details of the individual virtues. Justice and friendship hold special places in Aristotle's virtue theory. Many contemporary discussions place justice and friendship at opposite, perhaps even conflicting, poles of a spectrum. Justice seems to be very much a public, impartial, and dispassionate thing, while friendship is paradigmatically private, partial, and passionate. Yet Curzer argues that in Aristotle's view they are actually symbiotic. Justice is defined in terms of friendship, and good friendship is defined in terms of justice. Curzer goes on to reveal how virtue ethics is not only about being good; it is also about becoming good. Aristotle and the Virtues reconstructs Aristotle's account of moral development. Certain character types serve as stages of moral development. Certain catalysts and mechanisms lead from one stage to the next. Explaining why some people cannot make moral progress specifies the preconditions of moral development. Finally, Curzer describes Aristotle's quest to determine the ultimate goal of moral development, happiness.

Book Conflict and Resolution  The Ethics of Forgiveness  Revenge  and Punishment

Download or read book Conflict and Resolution The Ethics of Forgiveness Revenge and Punishment written by Paula Satne and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the current climate of political division and global conflict it is not surprising that there has been an increasing interest in how we ought to respond to perceived wrongdoing, both personal and political. In this volume, top scholars from around the world contribute all new original essays on the ethics of forgiveness, revenge, and punishment. This book draws on both historical and contemporary debates in order to answer important questions about the nature of forgiveness, the power of apology, the relationship between punishment and revenge, the path to reconciliation, the morality of blame, and the role of forgiveness in political conflict. Chapter 16 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Book The Family Silver

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Krieger
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1996-10-21
  • ISBN : 0520917057
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Family Silver written by Susan Krieger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-10-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an inventive and controversial collection of essays, sociologist Susan Krieger considers the many forms of wealth, both material and emotional, that women pass on to each other. This domestic heritage—the "family silver"—is the keystone for a discussion of mother-daughter relationships, intimate relationships between lesbians, ties between students and feminist teachers, the dilemmas of women in academia as well as in the broader work world, and the importance of female separatism. Drawing on her experiences as a lesbian, a feminist, and a teacher, Krieger presents a stunning critique of higher education. She argues for acknowledging gender in all areas of women's lives and for valuing women's inner realities and outer forms of expression. Krieger has developed a distinctly feminist approach to understanding and scholarship. Her style is self-revelatory, emotional, and at the same time deeply analytical. Her essays pioneer a new method of locating, defining, and honoring female values. The Family Silver includes a thought-provoking discussion of gender roles among women, including the author's experience of being mistaken for a man; an exploration of teaching in a feminist classroom; and a description of the controversy that resulted when the author refused to allow a hostile male student to take one of her courses. Beautifully written,The Family Silver addresses issues of central concern to feminists, postmodernists, and queer theorists and encourages new insights into how gender profoundly affects us all.