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How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of the intellectual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism, epistemic justification and reliabilism. Finally he examines the relationship of epistemology to religious belief, and the role of emotions and virtues in proper cognitive functioningProfessors will find this text, with its many examples drawn from everyday student experience, especially useful in introducing students to the formal study of epistemology..
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Drawing on the lives of some of the greatest political, intellectual and religious leaders of modern times, and the author's personal experience, Virtuous Leadership demonstrates that leadership and virtue are not only compatible, they are actually synonymous.

Virtuous Leadership defines each of the classical human virtues most essential to leadership magnanimity, humility, prudence, courage, self-control and justice. It demonstrates how these virtues promote personal transformation and the attainment of self-fulfillment. It also considers the Christian supernatural virtues of faith, hope and charity without which no study of leadership can be complete. The book's final section, "Towards Victory", offers a methodology for the achievement of interior growth tailored to the needs of busy, professional people intent on imbuing their lives with a transcendent purpose. Thus, the aim of Virtuous Leadership is ultimately practical. It is meant to be your guidebook in the quest for moral excellence..
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Did you know there are actually two steps to becoming a great leader? Did you know that being a leader of character is only Step 1 of what you must be before people will call you a great leader? What is the second step? Step 2 is the practical human relations art of winning the hearts of your followers, as well as, your superiors. This book, the only one of its kind, gives you real life tips on how to implement the five key factors involved in winning the hearts of your followers and superiors. And, those tips are presented in an enjoyable, easy-reading, page-turning, Will Rogers, Paul Harvey, down-home style.
If you like stories, especially when they are about lessons and powerful messages that you can put to work in your own life immediately, you'll love this book. It is richly endowed with little-known stories of well known people like Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Kennedy, Grant, Lee, Eisenhower, Churchill, Patton, and others, as well as with intriguing stories of regular people, all to illustrate the practical human relations art of winning the hearts of your followers and leaders.

The book is arranged in such a way that each chapter is a stand-alone tool for one of the book's five key leadership and human relations concepts, each of which you can read today and put to work tomorrow. The author seems to come alongside like a high-priced mentor to take you through a one-on-one real life leadership experience. Remick's blend of practical tips, historical knowledge, and 30-and-a-butt years of lifetime, firsthand leadership and human relations experience in the hard, real, sometimes cruel world instructs you on how to elicit the best possible performance from those you are in charge of and responsible for. In turn, that will build your personal bottom-line, which is always what's evaluated by the powers-that-be above you that decide who goes up the ladder of success and who stays down on the lower rungs.

While this is not a history-making breakthrough like the author's other current book, 'Understanding West Point', it is, neverthless, a groundbreaking presentation for a book on leadership in which the author, as a biographer of Thomas Jefferson, efficaciously analyzed, simplified, and redeployed psychology and philosophy to the task of leadership, following the model of how Jefferson did so with the philosophy of England's John Locke and others in writing the 'Declaration of Independence.'

Remick says: 'Some of the KEY concepts and techniques in my book fly in the face of elite, conventional, overly complicated leadership culture in America, and may rankle some of the so-called gurus of the leadership industry, and even arouse some jealously.'

To those comments I would say to Mr. Remick, perhaps they will, but who cares; your book works to create exceptional leaders. That's the most important thing. To the potential reader I would say, you cannot afford to ignore these tips and techniques that the author, with considerable aplomb and literary engineering, has distilled for your convenience into a cogent, instructive, entertaining handbook, especially when others who put this book into action will be passing you and leaving you in the leadership dust?

This is a book which people at all leadership levels and in all vocations must read and put into action..
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Nominated several times for the Noble Peace Prize, world-renowned Palestinian priest Elias Chacour narrates the gripping story of his life spent working to achieve peace and reconciliation among Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims. From the destruction of his boyhood village and his work as a priest in Galilee to his efforts to build schools, libraries, and summer camps for children of all religions, this peacemaker’s moving story brings hope to one of the most complex struggles of our time..
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Ayn Rand is well known for advocating egoism, but the substance of that egoism�s instruction is rarely understood Far from representing the rejection of morality, selfishness, in Rand�s view, actually demands the practice of a systematic code of ethics. This book explains the fundamental virtues that Rand considers vital for a person to achieve his objective well-being: rationality, honesty, independence, justice, integrity, productiveness, and pride. Tara Smith examines what each of these virtues consists in, why it is a virtue, and what it demands of a person in practice..
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A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into the lives of 150 nineteenth-century American women who refused to whittle themselves down to the Victorian model of proper womanhood..
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Even with the development of codes of ethics and laws, counseling professionals are often left in quandaries when it comes to questions of ethics. In The Virtuous Therapist, authors Elliot D. Cohen and Gale Spieler Cohen provide a systematic, philosophical approach to mental health ethics. Their comprehensive model of ethical decision making is developed as a basis for addressing a number of difficult ethical problems that are raised throughout the book. Many of the issues raised in the second part of the book are timely, ethically engaging, and of practical importance to those working in the trenches. For example, the authors examine how the growing AIDS epidemic has prompted pressing questions about the ethics of counseling sexually active clients who are HIV-positive. In contrast to rule-based approaches, this virtue-based perspective emphasizes the therapists' development of character traits that are essential to working through moral problems in therapy. The Virtuous Therapist is co-authored by a philosopher with training and clinical experience in counseling and by a counselor with a background in philosophy. By combining these professional credentials, the authors avoid philosophical short-sightedness while remaining in tune with the practical realities of psychotherapy..
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The perfect daughter . . . secrets within secrets, lies within lies

Adopted daughter Eleanor Becket is dedicated to her family and its welfare She is also a commendable commander, and a keeper of secrets, most especially her own. Who would ever expect this fragile beauty, with her quiet ways and her unfortunate limp, to be capable of anything more than her accomplishments at embroidery and her mastery of musical instruments?

Only Jack Eastwood feels the need to look more deeply at this self-proclaimed spinster, and what he sees -- and the long-ago crime he suspects -- lead both Jack and Eleanor to the very edge of desire and danger. As the Beckets feel the outside world looking ever more closely at the nocturnal activities taking place in Romney Marsh, as the Black Ghost rides yet again, Eleanor Becket is forced to risk her family, her chance at love, even her life, in one desperate gamble..
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