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Virtue and the Moral Life brings together distinguished philosophers and theologians with younger scholars of consummate promise to produce ten essays that engage both academics and students of ethics. The volume explores the role virtues play in identifying the good life and the good society with special reference to family ethics, public responsibilities, and interreligious dialogue.

This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Plate Gauger. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Plate Gauger

To live well one must be able to die well and vice versa. Life and death are two faces of the same coin but with a fundamental transformation when one moves from the spiritual dimension to the physical and back to the spiritual. Actually, there is but one thing: Life without beginning and without...

Few historical problems are more baffling in retrospect than the conundrum of how Hitler was able to rise to power in Germany and then command the German people – many of whom had only marginal interest in or affiliation to Nazism – and the Nazi state. It took Ian Kershaw – author of the standard...

Le texte intégral de l'œuvre philosophique et un dossier pédagogique complet ! Le petit guide d'Épictète destiné aux apprentis philosophes. Le contexte Né en Phrygie, Épictète (50-130) suit à Rome l'enseignement d'un maître stoïcien (Musonius Rufus) puis ouvre une école...

Le texte intégral de l'œuvre philosophique et un dossier pédagogique complet ! Une œuvre fondatrice de la pensée marxiste. Son introduction constitue un ouvrage à part entière ; elle est, en France, habituellement édité de façon indépendante. Contexte En 1846, Marx comme Engels...

Popular celebrity weeklies such as Star Magazine and In Touch Weekly explore and report on the glamorous world of popular entertainers and celebrities. It is difficult not to harbor any envy when glossy magazines and popular television shows provide picturesque layouts of palatial estates, and reports...

Sean and the Scarecrow is a short story about a boy who has a wonderful adventure with his new friend, Steve the scarecrow. So come along with Steve and Sean as they meet other friends on their great adventure.

Décryptez Les Grandes espérances de Charles Dickens avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir des Grandes Espérances, ce roman de formation dans l'Angleterre victorienne ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous...

Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics.

The rise and fall of the American Filibusters belong to the history of the Nineteenth Century. From time to time their deeds have been recounted by actors in the stirring scenes, by contemporary observers, and, incidentally, by travellers in Spanish America who lingered for a moment over the romantic...

While there has been for the past two decades a lively and extensive academic debate about postcolonial representations of imperialism and colonialism, there has been little work which focuses on 'placed' materialist or critical geographical perspectives. The contributors to this volume offer such...

This book looks at two ‘revolutions’ in philosophy – phenomenology and conceptual analysis which have been influential in sociology and psychology. It discusses humanistic psychiatry and sociological approaches to the specific area of mental illness, which counter the ultimately reductionist...

The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan...