Download or read book Men Who Wish to Drown written by Elizabeth Fama and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Falmouth Historical Society Collection Cited as the only extant firsthand record of a mermaid encounter in New England waters, this deathbed letter from a great-grandfather to his great-grandson is more likely an instructive fiction--a parable of regret. Supposedly corroborating the mermaid story, a ship's log (in the collections of the Provincetown Historical Museum) of the schooner Hannah, which plucked Mr. Stanton from South Weepecket in 1788, indicates that the crew saw two figures on the island prior to his rescue, but failed to locate a second victim. However, regarding accuracy and reliability, this is the same crew, under Captain John Merriweather, that reported sightings of a ghost ship and not one, but two sea monsters. ~~James S. Rucker, Archivist, Family Collections, Falmouth Historical Society, 1924 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water written by Angie Cruz and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK · REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVER From GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana, an electrifying new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story “Will have you LAUGHING line after line...Cruz AIMS FOR THE HEART, and fires.” —Los Angeles Times "An endearing portrait of a FIERCE, FUNNY woman." —The Washington Post Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight. Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruz’s most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.
Download or read book The Urantia Book written by Urantia Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This priceless and inexhaustible resource is the ultimate synthesis of science, philosophy and truth, of reason, wisdom and faith, and of past, present and future. This book comes in either red or blue.
Download or read book Depression The already drowning Man Second Edition written by John Swallow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Consultant Psychiatrist has described this book as "special" and "really helpful." The Second Edition of this acclaimed book is written by a sufferer with depression and is aimed at other sufferers and their family and friends to help them analyse and deal with their feelings. The average of the hundreds of reviews for the First Edition was over 9 out of 10. By using the method explained in the book sufferers have said they have been able for the first time to self analyse how they feel and talk to those around them. Family and friends have said that for the first time they can begin to understand depression and help the sufferer they know and love in a much more effective way. This book could really make a difference!
Download or read book Spider Man Drowned in Thunder written by Christopher L. Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing conflict between Spider-Man and crusading newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson takes on a new, personal dimension after a robot attack on Manhattan injures Peter Parkers students and Jameson blames Spider-Man. Original.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Drowning Man written by Helen Moss and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Scott, Jack and Emily rescue a drowning man from the waves they are keen to hear his story, but their new friend can't remember how he came to be stranded at sea! The friends are instantly on the case - with enthusiastic assistance from Drift the dog - determined to find the truth and solve the mystery of the drowning man.
Download or read book The Routledge Book of World Proverbs written by Jon R. Stone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Book of World Proverbs draws together proverbs that transcend culture, time and space to provide an enduring collection that is both useful and enjoyable.
Download or read book Primitive Culture written by Edward Burnett Tylor and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Primitive Culture written by Edward Tylor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book The Ethics of Killing written by Jeff McMahan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-03 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
Download or read book Practical Bioethics written by J.K. Miles and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Bioethics offers a mix of theory and readings, presented in a format that is succinct and approachable. Each chapter begins and ends with a case study, illustrating the core issues at play and emphasizing the practical nature of the dilemmas arising in medicine. Primary source texts are provided to flesh out the issues, and each of these is carefully edited and presented with interwoven explanatory comments to assist student readers. Throughout, J.K. Miles shows the importance of health-care ethics to us all, whether we be medical providers, patients, or both.
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Download or read book Suicide Century written by Andrew Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide Century investigates suicide as a prominent theme in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. Andrew Bennett argues that with the waning of religious and legal prohibitions on suicide in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the increasing influence of medical and sociological accounts of its causes and significance in the twentieth century, literature responds to the act and idea as an increasingly normalised but incessantly baffling phenomenon. Discussing works by a number of major authors from the long twentieth century, the book explores the way that suicide makes and unmakes subjects, assumes and disrupts meaning, induces and resists empathy, and insists on and makes inconceivable our understanding of ourselves and of others.
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Download or read book Do No Evil written by Michael E. Berumen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07-14 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An effective integration of ethics, morality and business practices including extensive discussions of social justice, animal rights and the environment the author elucidates the many layers of the managerial and corporate environment, deftly analyzing the fiduciary, social and moral relationships between the players in a corporation. A fresh, convincing ethical examination." -Kirkus Discoveries Being good is not good enough to be moral. In Do No Evil, Michael Berumen debunks the notions that moral judgments are subjective preferences and that there are no universal standards of morality. He analyzes leading normative theories and gives biographical highlights on several important philosophers. Berumen then sets forth his own theory: the only basis for universal morality is the avoidance of death and suffering, in contrast to conventional conceptions of promoting good, which he shows cannot form a basis for universal rules of conduct. Berumen then examines the concepts of property, exchange, competition, and inequality, and shows why capitalism occupies the default position of morality, and why socialism is problematic. With that said, he also explains why property rights are not unlimited, and how morality serves to constrain capitalist acts. The last part of the book deals with business-related topics. Berumen demonstrates that a business is property and not primarily an instrument for delivering social justice, and he covers such areas as governance, fiduciary responsibility, marketing, globalism, the environment, duties to animals, and moral courage.
Download or read book The Moral Wager written by Malcolm Murray and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the following chapters, I offer an evolutionary account of morality and from that extrapolate a version of contractarianism I call consent theory. Game theory helps to highlight the evolution of morality as a resolution of interpersonal conflicts under strategic negotiation. It is this emphasis on strategic negotiation that underwrites the idea of consent. Consent theory differs from other contractarian models by abandoning reliance on rational self-interest in favour of evolutionary adaptation. From this, more emphasis will be placed on consent as natural convergence rather than consent as an idealization. My picture of contractarianism, then, ends up looking more like the relativist model offered by Harman, rather than the rational (or pseudo-rational) model offered by Gauthier, let alone the Kantian brands of Rawls or Scanlon. So at least some of my discussion will dwell on why it is no loss to abandon hope for the universal, categorical morality that rational models promise. In the introduction, I offer the betting analogy that underwrites the remaining picture. There are some bets where the expected utility is positive, though the odds of winning on this particular occasion are exceedingly low. In such cases, we cannot hope to give an argument that taking the bet is rational. The only thing we can say is that those predisposed to take this kind of bet on these kinds of occasions will do better than those with other dispositions, so long as such games occur often enough.
