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The Children's Bible
Charles Foster Kent, Henry A. Sherman
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This book develops an original and comprehensive theory of
political liberalism. It defends bold new accounts of the nature of
autonomy and individual liberty, the content of distributive
justice, and the justification for the authority of the State. The
theory that emerges integrates contemporary progressive and
pluralistic liberalism into a broadly Aristotelian intellectual
tradition. The early chapters of the book challenge the traditional
conservative idea of individual liberty-the liberty to dispose of
one's property as one wishes-and replace it with a new one,
according to which liberty is of equal value to all persons,
regardless of economic position. The middle chapters present an
original theory of socio-economic justice, arguing that a society
in which every citizen enjoys an equal share of liberty should be
the distributive goal of the State. It is argued that this goal is
incompatible with the existence of large disparities in wealth and
economic power, and that (contra conservative and libertarian
economic arguments) such disparities are harmful to the overall
health of national and global economies. The final chapters provide
an original argument that the State has both a moral duty and a
moral right to pursue this program of socio-economic justice
(contra conservative and libertarian moral arguments), and that
only the measures necessary to implement this program lie within
the morally justifiable limits on the State's authority. Though
primarily a political work, it spans most areas of practical
philosophy-including ethical, social, and legal theory; and
meta-ethics, moral psychology, and action theory. And though
fundamentally a philosophical work, it incorporates research from a
number of fields-including decision theory, economics, political
science, and jurisprudence; primatology, neuroscience, and
psychology; and history, anthropology, sociology, and ecology-and
is sure to be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students.
A fatal fire, an abandoned boy, a family ripped apart by lies and
infidelity ... and the reporter who kept a small town's dirty
secrets-for three decades. Haunted by the past, reporter Andrea
Roberts seeks redemption when a stranger shows up asking questions.
March 1978: A horrified Scoop Cuttler, shotgun on ready, lurks in
the shadows as savage pit bulls fight to the death. A safe distance
away, Scoop's young son huddles in a cold dark pickup truck,
anxiously waiting as a storm rages. But Scoop never returns.
Present-Day: Jo Satella, single and unemployed, stumbles across an
old newspaper clipping while snooping through her widowed mother's
Santa Monica, California, bungalow. The clipping describes how a
distraught livestock hauler named Scoop Cuttler set fire to a barn
full of pricey show horses only to brutally die in the blaze.
Curious, Jo reaches out to Andrea Roberts, the reporter who covered
the story, only to make a shocking discovery... Scoop's son, now
thirty-eight, is Jo's brother-a brother Jo never knew she had. A
promising job interview on the East Coast eventually leads Jo to
the close-knit New Jersey town in search of her brother, the
brilliant, hot-tempered Luke Cuttler. But first Jo must win over
the trust of the one person standing in her way-Andrea Roberts.
They have taken the form of immigrants, invaders, lovers, heroes,
cute creatures that want our candy or monsters that want our flesh.
For more than a century, movies and television shows have
speculated about the form and motives of alien life forms. Movies
first dipped their toe into the genre in the 1940s with Superman
cartoons and the big screen's first story of alien invasion (1945's
The Purple Monster Strikes). More aliens landed in the 1950s
science fiction movie boom, followed by more television appearances
(The Invaders, My Favorite Martian) in the 1960s. Extraterrestrials
have been on-screen mainstays ever since. This book examines
various types of the on-screen alien visitor story, featuring a
liberal array of alien types, designs and motives. Each chapter
spotlights a specific film or TV series, offering comparative
analyses and detailing the tropes, themes and cliches and how they
have evolved over time. Highlighted subjects include The Eternals,
War of the Worlds, The X-Files, John Carpenter's The Thing and
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.
This book fills a lacuna in the intellectual history of the
seventeenth century by investigating the role that skepticism plays
in the declining prestige of memory. It argues that Shakespeare and
Donne revolutionize the art of memory, thanks to their skepticism,
and thereby transform literary strategies like mimesis,
exemplarity, and pastoral.
More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time
travel - stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by
centuries, journeys to the past or the (often dystopian) future.
This book examines some of the roles time travel plays on screen in
science fiction and fantasy. Plot synopses and credits are listed
for TV series from England, Canada, the UK and Japan, as well as
for films from around the world. Tropes and plot elements are
highlighted. The author discusses philosophical questions about
time travel, such as the logic of timelines, causality (what's to
keep time-travelers from jumping back and correcting every
mistake?) and morality (if you correct a mistake, are you still
guilty of it?).
L. Frank Baum's novel, The Wizard of Oz, has spawned 39 official
sequels, over 100 unofficial sequels, well nearly 40 films, several
TV series, music videos, commercials, computer games, radio shows
and more. It has received a number of different interpretations: an
African-American slant, a Turkish low-budget fantasy, Japanese
anime, and American pornography, among others. This book provides
synopses and basic bibliographical information for the forty Oz
books in the original series and a number of related books by the
Royal Historians of Oz; synopses and credits for live performances
(videos and made-for-television performances are included here)
based on the Oz books and on Baum's non-Oz fantasies; comic book
and comic strip adaptations of Oz; synopses and credits for radio
shows and dramatic performances on audiobook or vinyl records;
synopses and credits for theatrical films and shorts; documentaries
and educational films; synopses and credits for television series
and episodes based on Oz; video and computer games; useful
websites; and short scenes on television or in movies that have an
Oz element.
American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by
the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American
way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the
movies--Nazi agents, Japanese-American spies, Communist Party
subversives, Islamic sleeper cells--as well as the science-fiction
threats that play to the same fears, such as alien body-snatchers
and android doppelgangers. The work also examines fears inspired by
World War I German spies, the Japanese-American internment and the
McCarthyite witch-hunts and shows how these issues, and others,
played out on screen.
This book develops an original and comprehensive theory of
political liberalism. It defends bold new accounts of the nature of
autonomy and individual liberty, the content of distributive
justice, and the justification for the authority of the State. The
theory that emerges integrates contemporary progressive and
pluralistic liberalism into a broadly Aristotelian intellectual
tradition. The early chapters of the book challenge the traditional
conservative idea of individual liberty-the liberty to dispose of
one's property as one wishes-and replace it with a new one,
according to which liberty is of equal value to all persons,
regardless of economic position. The middle chapters present an
original theory of socio-economic justice, arguing that a society
in which every citizen enjoys an equal share of liberty should be
the distributive goal of the State. It is argued that this goal is
incompatible with the existence of large disparities in wealth and
economic power, and that (contra conservative and libertarian
economic arguments) such disparities are harmful to the overall
health of national and global economies. The final chapters provide
an original argument that the State has both a moral duty and a
moral right to pursue this program of socio-economic justice
(contra conservative and libertarian moral arguments), and that
only the measures necessary to implement this program lie within
the morally justifiable limits on the State's authority. Though
primarily a political work, it spans most areas of practical
philosophy-including ethical, social, and legal theory; and
meta-ethics, moral psychology, and action theory. And though
fundamentally a philosophical work, it incorporates research from a
number of fields-including decision theory, economics, political
science, and jurisprudence; primatology, neuroscience, and
psychology; and history, anthropology, sociology, and ecology-and
is sure to be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students.
The Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional
Disorders in Children and Adolescents, based in groundbreaking
research from Jill Ehrenreich-May, David H. Barlow, and colleagues,
suggest that there may be a simpler and more efficient method of
utilizing effective strategies, such as those commonly included in
CBT and third-wave behavior therapies, in a manner that addresses
the broad array of emotional disorder symptoms in children and
adolescents. The Unified Protocols for children and adolescents
include a Therapist Guide with two full courses of therapy
described (a modular, individual therapy for adolescents; and, a
more structured, group therapy for children, complete with a full
parent-directed component), as well as two Workbooks, one for
children along with their parents or caregivers, and one for
adolescents. The child and adolescent Unified Protocols frame
effective strategies in the general language of strong or intense
emotions and promote change through a common lens that applies
across emotional disorders, including anxiety, depression,
obsessive compulsive disorders and others. Specifically, the child
and adolescent Unified Protocols help youth by allowing them to
focus on a straightforward goal across emotional disorders:
reducing intense negative emotion states by extinguishing the
distress and anxiety these emotions produce through emotion-focused
education, awareness techniques, cognitive strategies,
problem-solving and an array of behavioral strategies, including a
full-range of exposure and activation techniques.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.
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