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Letters to Ellen

Letters to Ellen

Gilbert Meilaender

In this collection of twenty-four imaginary and imaginative letters from a parent to a daughter in college, Gilbert Meilaender imparts sound yet gentle moral instruction to today's young adults.
Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics

Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics

Gilbert Meilaender

In Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics, Gilbert C. Meilaender explores some of the tension which Christian experience discovers in one such relationship, that of the bond of friendship.
Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, Third Edition

Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, Third Edition

Gilbert Meilaender

Christian vision -- Procreation versus reproduction -- Abortion -- Genetic advance -- Prenatal screening -- Suicide and euthanasia -- Refusing treatment -- Who decides?
Should We Live Forever?: The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging

Should We Live Forever?: The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging

Gilbert Meilaender

Nicolas de Condorcet, The Future Progress of the Human Mind. http://www. fordham.edu/halsall/mod/condorcetprogress.html.33.CarlL.Becker, TheHeavenlyCityofthe EighteenthCentury Philosophers (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1932), ...
Neither Beast Nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person

Neither Beast Nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person

Gilbert Meilaender

Preface -- Speaking of dignity -- Being human -- Human dignity -- Birth and breeding -- Childhood -- Loyalties -- Death -- Personal dignity -- Confusions -- Equal persons.
Things that Count: Essays Moral and Theological

Things that Count: Essays Moral and Theological

Gilbert Meilaender

Penned by a leading ethicist, this book is about "first things"--the bond of a man and a woman in marriage, sexuality, parents and children, politics and its limits, the place of suffering in our lives, friendship, God, and the beauties of ...
Should We Live Forever?: The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging

Should We Live Forever?: The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging

Gilbert Meilaender

" The six chapters of this book take multiple perspectives on issues surrounding aging and invite readers to consider whether "indefinitely more life" is something worth pursuing and, if humans are created for life with God, whether longer ...
Cass Gilbert: The Early Years

Cass Gilbert: The Early Years

Geoffrey Blodgett

Jan Cigliano and Sarah Bradford Landau, eds. (San Francisco: Pomegranate Art Books, 1994), 93-151. 2 1 . Cass Gilbert to E. C. Simmons, June 4, 1907, Cass Gilbert to W A. Johnson, Feb. 19, 1910, Cass Gilbert Letterbooks, OCA; St. Paul ...
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1958: July-December

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1958: July-December

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GILBERT, THOMAS F. Propadeutic algebra. ... Thomas F. Gilbert & John W. Jewett; 7 Aug;8; A350077. ... The first night Gilbert and Sullivan, containing librettos of the fourteen operas together with facsimiles of the first-night programmes.
Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: "Gilbert Amongst Whistler, ...

Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: "Gilbert Amongst Whistler, ...

Jason Edwards

Jason Edwards reveals both the diverse ways in which Gilbert's sculptures operated within the context of Aestheticism and also how these works provided a unique and provocative commentary on the history of masculine friendship and eroticism ...
The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; ...

The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

For the first time the complete works of the award-winning author Elizabeth Gilbert are collected together, highlighting her talents as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction.
Way beyond Words: Poetry on Reflection

Way beyond Words: Poetry on Reflection

Alan Gilbert

One among these is author Alan Gilbert. Way beyond Words: Poetry on Reflection is Gilbert’s fourth book of poetry—a collection of poems covering a myriad of feelings and emotions.
Stoic, Christian and Humanist

Stoic, Christian and Humanist

Gilbert Murray

This book collects together four essays by the very well-known academic Gilbert Murray that were first presented between 1914 and 1939.
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor.
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in ...

Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in ...

Alan Gilbert

In this thought-provoking history, Gilbert illuminates how the fight for abolition and equality—not just for the independence of the few but for the freedom and self-government of the many—has been central to the American story from its ...
Flight Of The Eagles

Flight Of The Eagles

Gilbert Morris

Gilbert Morris began a high school teaching career in 1956 after first pastoring several Southern Baptist churches in Arkansas.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a ...

Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a ...

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Excerpt from Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 I also beg Mr. A. H. Palmer to accept the expression Of my gratitude for his kind permission to use as a frontispiece to this book the ...
Human Nature and Suffering

Human Nature and Suffering

Paul Gilbert

This Classic Edition features a new introduction from the author, bringing Gilbert's early work to a new audience. The book will be of interest to clinicians, researchers and historians in the field of psychology.
The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel

The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel

Tara MacDonald

demonstrates the way in which Helen's diary is an instructive tool for Gilbert as well as Halford, in addition to its more ... detecting resemblances which I wondered had never struck me before.82 While Gilbert's odd use of quotation marks to ...
The Saint Pauls Magazine

The Saint Pauls Magazine

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No living dramatist, however, seems to show any strikingly original faculty, save only Mr. W. S. Gilbert. This gentleman, young as he is, has ... unlimited scope for Mr. Gilbert's odd, dry turns of thought. Take the following specimen, part of a ...
Paul Gilbert Intense Rock II

Paul Gilbert Intense Rock II

Paul Gilbert

In this companion to his immensely successful REH instructional video, Paul discusses improvising, phrasing, dynamics and feel.
The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 1, Origins

The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 1, Origins

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Peter Kuznick and James Gilbert, for example, dispute the notion that there was a monolithic postwar culture driven by national ... 5 Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert, “US Culture and the Cold War,” in Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert ( eds.) ...
The God Conspiracy

The God Conspiracy

Derek Gilbert

FBI Agent Joe Unes reluctantly teams with reclusive Internet radio host Barney Ison (from Sharon K. Gilbert's The Armageddon Strain) to expose the plot - and discovers that the enemy is not of flesh and blood.
Stumbling on Happiness

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert

In this fascinating and often hilarious work – winner of the Royal Society of Science Prize 2007 – pre-eminent psychologist Daniel Gilbert shows how – and why – the majority of us have no idea how to make ourselves happy.
Educational Psychology

Educational Psychology

D. N. Tutoo

T.F. Gilbert In I962, Thomas F. Gilbert and his associates developed a quite potential but controversial system of programming called, "mathematics”. The meaning of_ Greek word 'mathein' from which the coinage 'mathematics' has been ...
The Works of Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan

The Works of Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan

William S. Gilbert

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.

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