Download or read book Virtue Animal Senses Book 14 written by Jacqueline Paige and published by Jacqueline Paige. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drama of her entire clan insisting on living close to one another was the reason Calla joined the Alliance team. She loved her family and clan but needed to see more than limited territory. It wasn’t exciting being on the coordination team, but she was on the road and seeing new places. When asked to do more to help the teams track down those responsible for the abduction and imprisonment of their kind, Calla agreed without hesitation. She takes a chance when she has the opportunity to get closer to the traitors who betrayed their clan. It seemed like the thing to do at the time. Now, all she must do is figure out where to go from here— without getting herself killed in the process. Bear’s childhood was not fun. His parents clearly hadn’t thought through naming their lion-shifter son Bear. As an adult, he’d come to realize that all the taunting had taught him that a sense of humor was better than fighting everyone. Since joining the Alliance teams, he’d had to work hard even to find a reason to smile. The atrocities shifters from all clans had suffered because of one-forms and traitors made him sick. After the teams accomplished some huge wins, he decided he was in this until all his kind were free. He was proud to do his part. Of course, if he happened to meet his mate while he traveled with the others, that was fine by him. He always wondered what sort of personality fate would give his other half and couldn’t wait to find out. If she was like other women of his clan, that was all right too; he was a patient, accepting man.
Download or read book Trust Animal Senses book 13 written by Jacqueline Paige and published by Jacqueline Paige. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failure isn’t an option. It only takes one thing to change the path of a child’s life. If no one steps in for them, the consequences can have long-term impacts, and the outcome is usually not favorable. Zain Sanders had one of those moments when he was nine. Since then, he’s been hidden, protected, and prepared for when it all fell apart. He can’t ask his friends for their help—he already made that mistake years ago and won’t put anyone else at risk. This time, he’s going to end it for good. He just needs to pull off three impossible tasks to do it. An outsider to her clan, she has been left on her own, constantly moving from one area to another so they can’t find her and take her back home. She’s had so many names she can’t remember what her real name is. This year, it’s Oaklyn Mays—next year, it could be different. She’s gotten good at staying off the radar of the men who want to bring her home and those who hunt her kind. No one is deciding her future for her. After an accident three years ago, she could have died. If it hadn’t been for one man, she would have. When he calls her with a task he can’t ask anyone else to do, she jumps at the chance to pay her debt to him. She won’t let anything get in her way. Failing isn’t a possibility she will accept.
Download or read book Dependent Rational Animals written by Alasdair MacIntyre and published by Open Court. This book was released on 1999-08-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MacIntyre--one of the foremost ethicists of the past half-century--makes a sustained argument for the cetnrality, in well-lived human lives, of both virtue and local communities of giving and receiving. He criticizes the mainstream of Western ethics, including his own previous position, for not taking seriously the dependent and animal sides of human nature, thereby overemphasizing the powers of reason and the pursuit of reason and the pursuit of autonomy. . . . This important work in ethics is essential for the professional philosopher and is highly readable for students at all levels and for thoughtful citizens." --Choice
Download or read book First Eclipse written by J. Risk and published by Jacqueline Paige. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal feelings were black and white, either negative or positive—not the wishy-washy, in-between, unsure emotions that humans felt. Fauna didn’t understand people, and communicating with them was very trying and frustrating. Was she even a human herself? She didn’t know. Her housemates/sisters were a mix from other realms. She knew she was, too, but still hadn’t decided if she wanted to know what she was. Other realms. It was insane that they existed—but it also was the only thing that made everything else in her life make sense. Overnight, her life went from the quiet routine of practically being invisible to all except those she lived with to levels of crazy that she was struggling with. She, along with her ‘sisters’ were supposed to be the solution for an evil plot trying to end all realms. It was all too much for her to grasp. If she were a bird, she would fly away and never look back. For fifteen years in his long life, Tim stood beside a gate on the Day King’s side of the Alterealm kingdom. Each day, he wished for something more exciting to happen. He got his wish in a way he never imagined. He was assigned to guard The Huntress Queen. There was no looking back after that. Guarding an Alterealm royal was anything but boring. The things he had seen and experienced since trying to keep up with the high-energy, unpredictable Queen were off the charts of what anyone could fathom. He loved his job but secretly hoped for a few moments of calm before madness accelerated—and it would, of that, he had no doubt. All of the royal family, and many from other realms, were to be part of some big battle—they just had to piece together all the parts to figure it out first. If they failed, the realms would be no more. 6 worlds work together to save each other. J. Risk’s Realms Books span 6 different series with common characters and an ongoing, suspense-filled plot. First Eclipse is the 14th in the Realms Books
Download or read book The Book of Virtues written by William J. Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 2005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.
Download or read book After Virtue written by Alasdair MacIntyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
Download or read book Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues written by Marc Bekoff and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, thoughtful look at the science and ethics of research into animal behavior.
Download or read book Cleanness written by Garth Greenwell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Prix Sade 2021 Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Critics Top Ten Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by over 30 Publications, including The New Yorker, TIME, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and the BBC In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student’s confession recalls his own first love, a stranger’s seduction devolves into paternal sadism, and a romance with another foreigner opens, and heals, old wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit, and with our own fugitive selves. Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell’s beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared “an instant classic” by The New York Times Book Review. In exacting, elegant prose, he transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living writers.
Download or read book Bah Ethics in Light of Scripture Virtues and divine commandments written by Udo Schaefer and published by Udo Schaefer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a fundamental discrepancy between man as he is and man as he could be, if only he recognized his true being and purpose. Ethics is the discipline by which man can understand how he can pass from the first condition to the second. Udo Schaefer's Baha'i Ethics in Light of Scripture is an attempt to analyse the underlying structures and detect the interior architecture of the Baha'i moral system and is a step towards developing a Baha'i moral theology. Doctrinal Fundamentals, the first of two volumes, provides a historical overview of the Baha'i Faith, a systematic survey of it doctrines and an overview of the origin and derivation of moral values. It considers the metaphysical nature of human beings and human responsibilities, looks at reason and conscience, and explores liberty and its limits. Schaefer's second volume deals with concrete values - the virtues, divine commandments and principles of social ethics from a Baha'i perspective."
Download or read book Honor Animal Senses Series Book 11 written by Jacqueline Paige and published by Exordium Books (FRP). This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She left as a child and returned a woman armed with knowledge. Eighteen years ago, his life changed forever. His world was broken, and there was nothing that could fix it. Since that day, Asher has been working toward one objective, find those that killed his family and erase their lives. His work on one of the Shifter Alliance teams has brought his goal within reach—with every location they hit, he's closer to finding those responsible. Journee Snow never fit in with the children in her clan. She was more interested in hiding in the shadows and studying others than she was in playing tag or with dolls. When armed men caught several clan families off guard and took the young children, her sister included, Journee followed them and stowed away for a long trip to some remote island. Now, eighteen years later, she's made her way back to her clan with information that she will only share with her Alpha or the King himself. ~ In Jacqueline Paige's Animal Senses Series, hearts and tempers collide with wild passions and animal instincts. Animal shifters live among normal humans (one-forms) and have since the dawn of time. They blend in without any cause for notice until a crime organization finds out and starts hunting them to sell off across the globe. The shifter alliance is formed to protect all their kind. Their teams are working endlessly to rescue all of theirs from lives of servitude and shutting down any involvement in the underground organization.
Download or read book Beauty Animal Senses Series Book 12 written by Jacqueline Paige and published by Exordium Books (FRP). This book was released on 2023-06-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling and helping others is the perfect fit for Deva. Working for the Shifter Alliance gives her that. Her current assignment is to fly to a location where the most extensive operation the teams have undergone is taking place. She’s ready for it and will do whatever it takes for all involved to succeed. Before she can even get started, she meets a man that—even in her wildest dreams, she never imagined existed. He’s tall, dark, and dangerous and is her mate. Torn between helping the teams and the attraction to this man, she needs to figure out how she can do her job and not let the others down. Taggart Steele is wanted in so many countries; he’s lost count. His life has been a dangerous game of working in the shadows to rescue his kind from the leaders allowing atrocities to occur. He has a team of mercenaries that do what it takes to free others in danger. When their paths cross with the Shifter Alliance, he makes a deal with their king that will keep their relatives safe from harm. Together with the Alliance teams, they’re going to shut down the underground organization that hunts, cage, and torture shifters worldwide. After a few months in North America, he decides it will be his home. Until he came here, he could never have had a real one. Of course, nowhere in his plans was there the probability of finding his mate—but now that he has found her, he will make her a permanent part of his life just as soon as he can get her to agree. ~ In Jacqueline Paige's Animal Senses Series, hearts and tempers collide with wild passions and animal instincts. Animal shifters live among normal humans (one-forms) and have since the dawn of time. They blend in without any cause for notice until a crime organization finds out and starts hunting them to sell off across the globe. The shifter alliance is formed to protect all their kind. Their teams are working endlessly to rescue all of theirs from lives of servitude and shutting down any involvement in the underground organization.
Download or read book American Virtues written by Jean M. Yarbrough and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1998-09-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early days of the republic, Americans have recognized Thomas Jefferson's distinctive role in helping to shape the American national character. As Founder and statesman, Jefferson thought broadly about the virtues Americans would need to cultivate in order to preserve and perfect their experiment in republican self-government. Now in an age preoccupied with rights and divided over questions of character in public and private life, Jefferson can help us to think more clearly about our most urgent concerns. American Virtues is the first comprehensive analysis of Jefferson's moral and political philosophy in over twenty years and the first ever to focus exclusively on the full range of moral, civic, and intellectual virtues that together form the American character. It asks what kind of character Americans as a people must cultivate to ensure their freedom and happiness and how we as a free society can nurture moral and intellectual excellence in our citizens and statesmen. Beginning with the Declaration of Independence, Jean Yarbrough explores how Jefferson's conception of rights helps to form the American character. In subsequent chapters, she examines the moral sense virtues of justice and benevolence; the "agrarian" virtues of industry, moderation, patience, self-reliance, and independence; patriotism and modern republicanism; slavery and agrarian vice; the effect of commerce on character; the virtues connected with private property; the civic virtues of vigilance and spirited participation; the meaning of virtue and happiness for women; the virtues of republican statesmen; the place of the Epicurean virtues of wisdom and friendship in liberal republicanism; and piety and the secularized virtues of charity, toleration, and hope. In broadening the examination of virtue to include not only civic or republican virtue but the whole range of moral and intellectual excellence that perfect the individual character, American Virtues moves beyond the liberal-republican debates and makes a fresh contribution to the Jeffersonian literature.
Download or read book The Senses and the English Reformation written by Matthew Milner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a commonly held belief that medieval Catholics were focussed on the 'bells and whistles' of religious practices, the smoke, images, sights and sounds that dazzled pre-modern churchgoers. Protestantism, in contrast, has been cast as Catholicism's austere, intellective and less sensual rival sibling. With iis white-washed walls, lack of incense (and often music) Protestantism worship emphasised preaching and scripture, making the new religion a drab and disengaged sensual experience. In order to challenge such entrenched assumptions, this book examines Tudor views on the senses to create a new lens through which to explore the English Reformation. Divided into two sections, the book begins with an examination of pre-Reformation beliefs and practices, establishing intellectual views on the senses in fifteenth-century England, and situating them within their contemporary philosophical and cultural tensions. Having established the parameters for the role of sense before the Reformation, the second half of the book mirrors these concerns in the post-1520 world, looking at how, and to what degree, the relationship between religious practices and sensation changed as a result of the Reformation. By taking this long-term, binary approach, the study is able to tackle fundamental questions regarding the role of the senses in late-medieval and early modern English Christianity. By looking at what English men and women thought about sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, the stereotype that Protestantism was not sensual, and that Catholicism was overly sensualised is wholly undermined. Through this examination of how worship was transformed in its textual and liturgical forms, the book illustrates how English religion sought to reflect changing ideas surrounding the senses and their place in religious life. Worship had to be 'sensible', and following how reformers and their opponents built liturgy around experience of the sacred through the physical allows us to tease out the tensions and pressures which shaped religious reform.
Download or read book Current Controversies in Virtue Theory written by Mark Alfano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue is among the most venerable concepts in philosophy, and has recently seen a major revival. However, new challenges to conceptions of virtue have also arisen. In Current Controversies in Virtue Theory, five pairs of cutting-edge philosophers square off over central topics in virtue theory: the nature of virtue, the connection between virtue and flourishing, the connection between moral and epistemic virtues, the way in which virtues are acquired, and the possibility of attaining virtue. Mark Alfano guides his readers through these essays (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction, succinct abstracts of each debate, suggested further readings and study questions for each controversy, and a list of further controversies to be explored.
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Download or read book Ethical Theory written by Russ Shafer-Landau and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Ethical Theory: An Anthology features a comprehensive collection of more than 80 essays from classic and contemporary philosophers that address questions at the heart of moral philosophy. Brings together 82 classic and contemporary pieces by renowned philosophers, from seminal works by Hume and Kant to contemporary views by Derek Parfit, Susan Wolf, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and many more Features updates and the inclusion of a new section on feminist ethics, along with a general introduction and section introductions by Russ Shafer-Landau Guides readers through key areas in ethical theory including consequentialism, deontology, contractarianism, and virtue ethics Includes underrepresented topics such as moral knowledge, moral standing, moral responsibility, and ethical particularism
Download or read book Material Virtue written by Mark Csikszentmihalyi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of both excavated and transmitted texts that link ethics and natural philosophy, Material Virtue narrates the history of a neglected tradition that argues virtue has physical presence in the body, and rewrites the formative period of Confucianism.
