Lucero (Morales Yuyi)(Pevná vazba)

Lucero (Morales Yuyi)(Pevná vazba)

From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Dreamers comes a heartbreakingly beautiful story about growth, empowerment, and finding one's own voice, simultaneously released in Spanish. Child, you are awake!You are alive!You are a bright star, Inside our hearts. Told with a combination of

Dreamers (Morales Yuyi)(Pevná vazba)

Caldecott Honor artist and five-time Pura Belpr Award winner Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story in this picture-book tribute to the transformative power of hope . . . and reading. In 1994, Yuyi Morales left her home in Xalapa, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left

Bright Star (Morales Yuyi)(Pevná vazba)

From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Dreamers comes a heartbreakingly beautiful story about growth, empowerment, and finding one's own voice. Child, you are awake You are alive You are a bright star, Inside our hearts. Told with a combination of powerful, spare language and sumptuous

Moral Passion and Christian Ethics (Gill Robin)(Pevná vazba)

Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics (Rae Scott)(Pevná vazba)

Outlining the distinctive elements of Christian ethics, Moral Choices is the standard text for college ethics courses.Moral questions are at the core of life's most vital issues. But today, we see a breaking down of humanity's ability to distinguish between right and wrong. After describing a

Moralia (Plutarch)(Pevná vazba)

Plutarch's Moralia, Moral Essays reflecting his philosophy about living a good life, is a treasury of information concerning Greco-Roman society, traditions, ideals, ethics, and religion. But access to the riches of this collection of over seventy essays has long been hindered by lack of any

Murder on Principle (Kuhns Eleanor)(Pevná vazba)

Will Rees faces a moral dilemma when a slaveholder is murdered while attempting to recapture a former slave: should he pursue lawful justice or should he let the killer go free? November 1800, Maine. After helping their long-time friend Tobias escort his wife, along with a liberated slave and her

Privatization: Nomos LX (Schwartzberg Melissa)(Pevná vazba)

A distinguished group of scholars explore the moral values and political consequences of privatization The 21st century has seen a proliferation of privatization across industries in the United States, from security and the military to public transportation and infrastructure. In shifting control

The Guardian (Moyer J. D.)(Pevná vazba)

'Complexity and moral ambiguity enough to make this a serious, engrossing story'-Analog SF Reclaimed Earth Book 2 In the year 2737, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations. Tem, the nine-year-old son

Ambivalence: A Philosophical Exploration (Razinsky Hili)(Pevná vazba)

Ambivalence (as in practical conflicts, moral dilemmas, conflicting beliefs, and mixed feelings) is a central phenomenon of human life. Yet ambivalence is incompatible with entrenched philosophical conceptions of personhood, judgement, and action, and is denied or marginalised by thinkers of

Black Snow Falling (MacWhirter LJ)(Pevná vazba)

This is a story about hope overcoming evil, written with satisfying moral complexity. Ruth's devastation breaks apart time. She sees that her hopes and dreams are a visceral halo of rainbow colours spinning to white... and that evil dream thieves are severing these halos from sleeping victims, many

Black Book of Secrets (Higgins F.)(Pevná vazba)

Perfect for teaching: multiple narrative perspectives stories within a story theme of moral dilemmas. Waterstone's Children's Book Prize

Kindness of Strangers - How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code (McCullough Michael E.)(Pevná vazba)

Why do we give a damn about

Untraceable (Lebedev Sergei)(Pevná vazba)

A Russian novel about poisons of all kinds - physical, moral, political - all rooted in the recent history of Russia's state assassinations and Putin's continuation of the most degraded traditions of his country's

Rethinking Virtue Ethics (Winter Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Introduction1. Moral Realism and Virtue Ethics2. A Sketch of an Aristotelian Science of Ethics 3. How Are Ethical Principles Known?4. Some Challenges to the Deductive Model Appendix: Can Unconditional Moral Principles be

A brief history of thrift (Hulme Alison)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, and via key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles, and Henry

The Water Thief (Hajaj Claire)(Pevná vazba)

From the award-winning author of Ishmael's Oranges comes a searing novel with a profound moral conflict at its heart. When a heart attack kills his father, young architect Nick abandons his comfortable London life to volunteer abroad for a year - a last chance to prove himself, and atone for old

Moral Essays (Seneca)(Pevná vazba)

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and

Afropessimism (Wilderson Frank B.)(Pevná vazba)

Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery--in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms--continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence such a predominant feature not only in the

Analects (Confucius)(Pevná vazba)

Confucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with arcane metaphysics, but with practical issues of life and

The Virtues of Vengeance (French Peter a.)(Pevná vazba)

Although most moral philosophers reject vengeance as a barbaric sentiment, Peter French argues that it has fallen into disrepute without being seriously examined with respect to its real moral value. In beginning his philosophical examination of the virtues of vengeance, he investigates the use of

Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger (Morales Rene)(Pevná vazba)

This volume surveys the acclaimed work of Dara Friedman, exploring her innovative approach to 16mm film and video art. The book features stills from numerous works spanning more than 20 years of creative production, as well as essays on Friedman's oeuvre and an extended interview with the artist

Pineapple: A Global History (O'Connor Kaori)(Pevná vazba)

Poet Charles Lamb described the pineapple as -too ravishing for moral taste . . . like lovers' kisses she bites--she is a pleasure bordering on pain, from fierceness and insanity of her relish.- From the moment Christopher Columbus discovered it on a Caribbean island in 1493, the pineapple has

Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition (Churchland Patricia)(Pevná vazba)

In her brilliant work Touching a Nerve, Patricia S. Churchland, the distinguished founder of neurophilosophy, drew from scientific research on the brain to understand its philosophical and ethical implications for identity, consciousness, free will, and memory. In Conscience, she explores how moral