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Author: Leiann B. Wrytes
Publisher: Urban Renaissance
Published: 2019-07-30
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1601629192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Losing everything in the wake of a devastating family secret, Michelle finds herself pitted against everyone she loves; while Sophie resists the man who broke her heart and Brianna struggles to recover from her ex's near-fatal attack.
Author: Leiann B. Wrytes
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03-15
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780985166472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Last month, Michelle tunneled into her family's history, triggering a truth bomb that exploded into an inferno scorching everyone in its wake. When the smoke cleared, Michelle had lost her father to the grave and her mother to a truth so painful recovery seemed improbable. Teetering along the edge of hopelessness, her grasp on reality is rapidly thinning as her world collapses. When infidelity strikes her last safe place, the effects of the betrayal are brutal, pitting Michelle against everyone and everything she loves. Sophie Lewis is in the midst of building a relationship with her estranged daughter, Brianna, when an old love returns, bringing a consortium of hurts along with him. Peter Baxter is intent on rekindling their flame but Sophie has good reason to be hesitant. His presence breathes life into parts of her she'd rather leave buried, further complicating her fragile situation. Will Sophie survive the revival of her past in her present, or will she be forced to disappear, again? After narrowly escaping death at the hands of her ex-lover, Javan, Brianna views life in a completely different light. Struggling to recapture the peace she once enjoyed, Brianna seeks comfort in all the wrong places. Desperation permits the unthinkable as she finds herself on the wrong end of a love story. Will this love offer her salvation, or will it bring death back to her door? They each soon learn that even a lie is stitched with a pocket of truth, as their lives continue to unravel and twist in ways they never imagined; cementing in their minds, above all else, that life isn't a game you venture to play...unless you're playing for keeps.
Author: Emma Williams
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1848883544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the concept of deception from a multidisciplinary perspective, reflecting how deception is considered across numerous fields ranging from literature and historical cases to psychological science.
Author: Doreen Virtue
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2020-07-28
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0785234225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Miraculous Story of a Hugely Successful New Age Teacher’s Conversion to Christianity In this brilliant, utterly captivating memoir, Doreen Virtue chronicles her journey in discovering everything she believed in was a lie. She poignantly shares the price she’s paid for following Jesus. New Age teachings are based on concepts that sound almost irresistible. But as Doreen discovered, they come with a hidden price: your eternal destiny. Here is a riveting, personal confessional of how a former false prophet learned to trust God after nearly wasting a lifetime being independent and willful—trying to predict and control the future—and how Jesus saved her soul from deception and opened her eyes to His truth. Deceived No More can help you learn how to discern dangerous teachings so you can detect and avoid deception. Topics include: How to spot New Age teachings, and why they’re dangerous Biblical ways to deal with persecution, spiritual warfare, and other post-conversion issues How to witness to a New Ager
Author: Unhae Park Langis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-05-26
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1441120246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Virtue, as a Renaissance ideal, was largely conceived as a rational governing of unruly passions. Revising this early modern commonplace, this study shows how Shakespeare dramatizes a discerning Aristotelian conception of virtue as a touchstone of excellence: executing just action at the best time, in the best way, and for the best end within the contingent world. Not only situational, Aristotelian virtue is, moreover, integrative, harmonizing passion and reason, will and understanding, towards personal and civil good. Yet as a surprising backfire on the misogynist streak in Aristotle, the resistant female characters in Shakespeare emerge as the exemplars of ethical action, appropriating traditionally male-inflected virtue. At the junction of ethical, psycho-physiological, cultural and gender studies, this approach of prudential psychology bridges an apparent but needless divergence of critical focus between affect and cognition, ethics and prudential action. Firmly situated in new historicist practices, prudential psychology goes beyond narrow discourses of power into the all-encompassing arena of virtue as the complete life, which recommends an interdisciplinary approach for a fuller understanding of Shakespeare's works.
Author: Bruce Frohnen
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism, Bruce Frohnen attempts to rescue the essence of conservative virtue from rationalists and materialists of whatever political colour. He argues that we have lost and must attempt to regain the conservative good life and the outlook which made it possible. The tools needed to do that, according to Frohnen, are humility and political action aimed at combating the centralising and materialistic structures and beliefs interfering with the formation and retention of family, church and neighbourhood.
Author: Charles Edward Weber
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780819199508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →C. Edward Weber brings insight into the practice of ethics with this pragmatic book of personal stories and ethical dilemmas of business men and women that clearly illustrate the human condition and are an integral part of the business experience.
Author: Tony Burke
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2020-07-21
Total Pages: 717
ISBN-13: 1467458163
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A compilation of apocryphal Christian texts, many translated into English for the first time, with comprehensive introductions. This second volume of New Testament Apocrypha continues the work of the first by making available to English readers more apocryphal texts. Twenty-nine texts are featured, including The Adoration of the Magi and The Life of Mary Magdalene, each carefully introduced, copiously annotated, and translated into English by eminent scholars. These fascinating texts provide insights into the beliefs, expressions, and practices of a range of Christian communities from the early centuries through late antiquity and into the medieval period.
Author: Jennifer Cole Wright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0190655151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The last thirty years have seen a resurgence of interest in virtue among philosophers, psychologists, and educators. Over time, this interdisciplinary conversation has included character cultivation and education, in addition to more abstract, theoretical discussions of virtue. As is often the case when various disciplinary endeavors become entwined, this renewed interest in virtue cultivation faces an important challenge--namely, meeting the varying requirements imposed by different disciplinary standards. For virtue in particular, this means developing an account that practitioners from multiple disciplines find sufficiently rigorous, substantive, and useful. This volume represents a response to this interdisciplinary challenge. This co-authored book not only provides a framework for quantifying virtues, but also explores how we can understand virtue in a philosophically-informed way that is compatible with the best thinking available in personality psychology. Its objective is twofold: first, drawing on whole trait theory in psychology and Aristotelian virtue ethics, it offers accounts of virtue and character that are both philosophically sound and psychologically realistic. Second, the volume presents strategies for how virtue and character can be translated into empirically measurable variables and, thus, measured systematically, relying on the insights from the latest research in personality, social, developmental, and cognitive psychology, and psychological science more broadly. This volume presents a major contribution to the emerging science of virtue measurement and character, demonstrating just how philosophical understanding and psychological research can enrich each other.
Author: Hugh Sockett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1136580913
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth. It offers a powerful example of how philosophy of education can be brought to bear on real problems of educational research and practice – pointing the reader to re-envision what it means to educate children (and how we might prepare teachers to take on such a role) by developing the person, instead of simply knowledge and skills. Connected intimately to the practice of teaching and teacher education, the book sets forth an alternative theory of education where the developing person is at the center of education set in a moral space and a political order. To this end, a framework of public and personal knowledge forms the content, to which personal dispositions are integral, not peripheral. The book’s pedagogy is invitational, welcoming its readers as companions in inquiry and thought about the moral aspects of what we teach as knowledge.
