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Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold

Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold

Tessa Virtue

The Canadian skaters who won the 2010 Olympic gold medal in ice dancing share their story, from their childhoods to world stardom, and discuss the behind-the-scenes reality of competitive skating.
Twelve: A Tuscan Cook Book

Twelve: A Tuscan Cook Book

Tessa Kiros

Tessa Kiros was born in London to a Finnish mother
Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach to Environmental ...

Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach to Environmental ...

Brian Treanor

Philip Cafaro, “Virtue Ethics (Not Too) Simplified” in Auslegung: A Journal of Philosophy 22: 49–67. Emphasis mine. 31. Philip Cafaro, “Thoreau, Leopold, and Carson: Toward and Environmen- tal Virtue Ethics” in Environmental Virtue Ethics, ...
Justice As a Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective

Justice As a Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective

Jean Porter

" In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it -- and as most people think ...
Virtue Ethics, Old and New

Virtue Ethics, Old and New

Stephen Mark Gardiner

And this suggests that we should already be in a good position to assess its appeal."—from the IntroductionIn Virtue Ethics, Old and New, ten philosophers seek to enrich the contemporary understanding and development of virtue ethics ...
Stolen in the Night: A Novel

Stolen in the Night: A Novel

Patricia MacDonald

Twenty years after helping to convict a man for the heinous murder of her sister, an adult Tessa DeGraff learns that DNA evidence may have exonerated the original suspect, a possibility that forces Tessa to return to the New Hampshire town ...
John Virtue: London, Venice Monotypes

John Virtue: London, Venice Monotypes

John Virtue

In 2006 Marlborough invited John Virtue to participate in an annual Artists International Print Project, run by Paupers Press, at the Scuola de Grafica in Venice.
Harvest of Rubies SAMPLER

Harvest of Rubies SAMPLER

Tessa Afshar

Tessa Afshar was voted "New Author of the Year" by the Family Fiction sponsored Reader's Choice Award 2011 for her novel Pearl in the Sand.
Latin American Society

Latin American Society

Tessa Cubitt

Tessa Cubitt. Collier, D. (1975) Squatter settlements and policy innovation in Peru. In Lowenthal, A. (ed.) The Peruvian experiment: community and change under-military rule. Princeton University Press, Princeton and London. Colman, D .
Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes

Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes

Tessa Kiros

These recipes are the recipes from Tessa Kiros from her life in mnay countries and recipes that have stayed with her and she wants to share.
Run to You Part Four: Fourth Shadow

Run to You Part Four: Fourth Shadow

Clara Kensie

Part Four in the riveting romantic thriller about a family on the run from a deadly past and a first love that will transcend secrets, lies and danger… With no more secrets keeping them apart, Tessa and Tristan explore Tessa's developing ...
The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics

The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics

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In Ronald Sandler and Philip Cafaro (eds.), Environmental Virtue Ethics. Lanham , MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 121–134. Gambrel, Joshua and Cafaro, Philip. 2010. “The Virtue of Simplicity.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics  ...
Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad

Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad

Naomi Reshotko

An account of how Socrates integrates notions of desire, virtue, and happiness to give an ethical and psychological theory.
Duty, Virtue and Practical Reason in Kant's Metaphysics of ...

Duty, Virtue and Practical Reason in Kant's Metaphysics of ...

Vicente De Haro Romo

Despite the necessary limits of these reflections, and of the methodological risk that they involve, I have been convinced by Jeanine Grenberg's argument that if one does not understand the enemy that kantian virtue is confronting then one ...
Augustine and Roman Virtue

Augustine and Roman Virtue

Brian Harding

The book seeks to revise a common reading of Augustine's critique of ancient virtue by focusing on that dialogue, while showing that his attitude towards those authors is more sympathetic, and more critical, than one might expect.
Daily Guidance from Your Angels

Daily Guidance from Your Angels

Doreen Virtue

Begin each morning by communing with your angels, using the 365 channeled meditations in this beautiful gift edition by best-selling author Doreen Virtue.
Angel Medicine

Angel Medicine

Doreen Virtue

When Doreen Virtue visited Santorini Island in Greece recently, she was contacted by a powerful group of angels calling themselves the "angels of Atlantis.
Virtue and Venom: Catalogs of Women from Antiquity to the ...

Virtue and Venom: Catalogs of Women from Antiquity to the ...

Glenda McLeod

"Virtue and Venom 'traces a general history of ., . the catalog of women - focusing especially on ... the close of the Middle Ages' (1).
Ecclesia and Ethics: Moral Formation and the Church

Ecclesia and Ethics: Moral Formation and the Church

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Tolerance is a virtue, but when it becomes the supreme virtue it leads to moral relativism or what sociologist Robert Brenneman has called 'whatever-ism'.2 In essence, this approach still accepts that a drawn line is what determines if someone ...
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of ...

Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of ...

Charles Pierce

How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free Charles Pierce ... Inc. Book design by Elizabeth Rendfleisch Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Pierce, Charles P. Idiot America: how stupidity became a virtue in the Land ...
The Cubist Painters

The Cubist Painters

Guillaume Apollinaire

This is the principal virtue of the new translation, yet this virtue is not simply one of fidelity, for Read's translation also serves to clarify the position of Apollinaire's 1913 text in relation to other early accounts of Cubism. . .
The Credibility of Transnational NGOs: When Virtue is Not Enough

The Credibility of Transnational NGOs: When Virtue is Not Enough

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London: Earthscan. Kennedy, David 2004. The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism. Princeton University Press. Khan, Ajaz Ahmed. 2012. “The Impulse to Give: The Motivations of Giving to Muslim Charities,” in ...
Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society

Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society

Tibor R. Machan

Machan argues that generosity is an important virtue for citizens of a free society and that it can be cultivated only through freedom.
Archangels 101: How to Connect Closely with Archangels ...

Archangels 101: How to Connect Closely with Archangels ...

Doreen Virtue

In this uplifting nondenominational book, Virtue explains how to connect to 15 archangels. She includes true stories from people who received protection, miraculous healings, and amazing guidance from these beloved heavenly beings.
Solomon's Angels

Solomon's Angels

Doreen Virtue

In Solomon's Angels, Doreen Virtue's first novel, which is based on thoroughly researched historical, biblical, archaeological, and culturally
Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue

Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue

Richard Davies

The book also offers fresh interpretations of key passages of the Meditations . Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue offers an original reassessment of some of the most important bodies of work in Western Philosophy.
Human Rights, Virtue, and the Common Good: Untimely ...

Human Rights, Virtue, and the Common Good: Untimely ...

Ernest L. Fortin

Untimely Meditations on Religion and Politics Ernest L. Fortin J. Brian Benestad. some benefit with a view to virtue (arete). Socrates goes on to say that he and his friends explore the writings of the wise, extract whatever good is to be found, ...
The Logic of Desire: Aquinas on Emotion

The Logic of Desire: Aquinas on Emotion

Nicholas E Lombardo

It is interesting to compare Aquinas and Ashmore to George Terzis's critique of virtue ethics (though Terzis does not specifically criticize Aquinas). Terzi centers his critique on the alleged failure of virtue ethics to provide a foundation for ...

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