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When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.

Kaye Gibbons's first novel, Ellen Foster, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the praise of writers from Walker Percy to Eudora Welty. In A Virtuous Woman, Gibbons transcends her early promise, creating a multilayered and indelibly convincing portrait of two seemingly ill-matched people who somehow miraculously make a marriage..
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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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This is a book that teaches you A NEW KIND OF LEADERSHIP It is not just another one of your typical leadership books. It is presented in an 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, riviting stories of the well known, like Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Kennedy, Grant, Lee, Eisenhower, Churchill, Patton, and many others, as well as, intriguing stories of the not so well known, all to illustrate its practical leadership techniques.

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 his practical techniques, his professional wisdom, and his more than 30 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 the historical breakthrough that the author's book 'Understanding West Point, Leaders of Character, and Thomas Jefferson' is, it is, neverthless, groundbreaking how the author has efficaciously analyzed, simplified, and redeployed human relations psychology and philosophy to the task of leadership, following the Thomas Jefferson approach of analyzing, simplifying, and redeploying the philosophy of Locke and others to the task of 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.'

I say, perhaps. But who cares? This book works to create exceptional leaders! You cannot afford to ignore the simple concepts, skills, and techniques that the author, with rare and considerable literary engineering, has distilled for your convenience into a cogent, instructive, entertaining handbook, especially when others who have put the book into action are passing you and leaving you in the leadership dust?

This is a book which people at all levels in all vocations will certainly want to read, and will be reading and re-reading for years to come..
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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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When Phil and Cara Winslow learn that the daughter they thought had died in infancy is still alive, their life of status and ease is turned upside down. With the help of a private detective, they find the girl, now twenty years old, who turns out to be rough and vulgar. When they try to bring Grace into their family, their grown children are horrified, and only Kevin, a terribly scarred recluse, reaches out to her. When Grace bolts, Kevin leaves his self-made prison to search for her…only to find her in an actual prison. Together this reunited brother and sister find grace and acceptance. Will each find love as well? Book 34 in the bestselling The House of Winslow series..
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In this book, two great Tibetan Buddhist masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries challenge us to critically examine our materialistic preoccupations and think carefully about how we want to spend the rest of our lives. At the same time, they provide practical guidance in following the Buddhist path, starting from the most basic motivation and culminating in the direct experience of reality beyond the reach of conceptual mind. The root text is a teaching in verse written in the nineteenth century by Patrul Rinpoche, one of the outstanding teachers of his day. In the accompanying commentary, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991)—lineage holder of the Nyingma school and one of the great expounders of the Dharma in Europe and North America—expands upon the text with his characteristic compassion and uncompromising thoroughness. Patrul Rinpoche's fresh and piercing verses combined with Khyentse Rinpoche's down-to-earth comments offer a concise yet complete examination of the Buddhist path..
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Business leaders have been deeply impressed by the research of scholars on the role of social capital in our personal and professional lives. But in this timely book, Theodore Malloch argues that spiritual capital provides businesses with people with the strong personal convictions, moral scruples and spiritual discipline that yield success. Malloch shows how spiritual capital encourages the virtues of compassion, forgiveness, perserverence, patience, courage, humility and self control that a healthy market requires..
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Does the woman in Proverbs 31 make you feel like a sluggard?

For years Christian women have struggled to understand what the Proverbs 31 woman was all about. Instead of encouragement or instruction, for most, this passage offered "more guilt than eating a one-pound bag of M&Ms." Is this the ideal woman? Or is the Proverbs 31 woman an outdated fixture of the past?

Vicki Courtney believes that this passage is not in the Bible by accident and that a virtuous woman is a rare find in today's world. Join Vicki as she sojourns with you to unravel the mystery behind the Proverbs 31 woman..
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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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This anthology helps students view virtue ethics as a significant and philosophically interesting approach to “the good life.” With the inclusion of historical and contemporary readings, Virtuous People, Vicious Deeds captures the complex nature of a wide range of virtues and vices..
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