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      By Lunbeck, Elizabeth
       2014., Harvard University Press Call No: 158.2 L961a    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Narcissism's rich and complex history is also the history of the shifting fortunes and powerful influence of psychoanalysis in American thought and culture. Telling this story, The Americanization of Narcissism" ultimately opens a new view on the central questions faced by the self struggling amid the tumultuous crosscurrents of modernity.
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      By Somerville, Margaret A.
       2015., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: 303.3 S696b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem--the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret Somerville explores the values needed to maintain a world that reasonable people would want to live in and pass on to their descendants. Somerville addresses the conflicts between people who espouse "progressive" values and those who uphold "traditional" ones by casting her attention on the debates surrounding "birth" (abortion and reproductive technologies) and "death" (euthanasia) and shows how words are often used as weapons. She proposes that we should seek to experience amazement, wonder, and awe to enrich our lives and helps us to find meaning. Such experiences, Somerville believes, can change how we see the world and live our lives, and affect the decisions we make, especially regarding values and ethics. They can help us to cope with physical or existential suffering, and, ultimately put us in touch with the sacred--in either its secular or religious form--which protects what we must not destroy. Experiencing amazement, wonder and awe, Somerville concludes, can also generate hope, the oxygen of the human spirit, without which our spirit dies. Both individuals and societies need hope, a sense of connection to the future, if the world is to make the best values decisions in the battles that constitute the current culture wars."--
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      By Sandel, Michael J
       2010, c2009., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 172 S214j   Edition: 1st pbk. ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of marketsSandel relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well.
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      By Everett, Melissa
       2007., New Society Publishers Call No: 331.702 E93m   Edition: Rev. ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Working people everywhere are realizing that personal success is interconnected with healthly communities and the environment. We are looking for our unique "creative edge" with work that allows us to make an impact -- close to home and in the world. We want careers that make use of our skills without compromising our integrity and we want our work to reflect our passion and commitment. The good news is that, as business and society increasinly emphasize social and environmental responsibility, opportunities for career seekers with a conscious have never been better. [From publisher]
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      By Lind, Michael, 1962-
       2005, c2004., Doubleday Call No: Bio L736li   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your LibraryClick here to watch    Click here to view Summary Note: This intellectual biography uncovers the heart of Lincoln's public philosophy and places his ideals and presidential decisions within the context of his times. Lind dispels the popular image of Lincoln as a self-made man and a naive, inspired genius, and shows that the president was very much a product of his time and place, influenced by the pragmatism of his fellow Kentuckian Henry Clay, and by Enlightenment thinking. Lind asserts that Lincoln fought the Civil War not to free the slaves, or even to preserve the Constitution, but to ensure the survival of democracy. With the failure of numerous liberal revolutions throughout Europe in 1848 heightening the possibility that democracy itself would be deemed a noble but failed experiment, Lincoln realized that the stakes in the Civil War were nothing less than the future freedom and prosperity of all mankind. It was this conviction that determined his policies and compelled him to wage the war to the bitter end. Lind also reveals that Lincoln was not a Christian, but a deist who believed in the abstract deity posited by Enlightenment philosophers; and that although he believed slavery was evil, he opposed the idea of a multiracial country and supported the relocation of black Americans abroad.
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      By Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
       c2009., General, Little, Brown and company Call No: 814.6 G543w   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:2 of 2     At Your Library Summary Note: Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from "The""New Yorker" in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
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      By Rather, Dan  Kirschner, Elliot
       2017., General, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: Bio P314r   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "At a moment of crisis over our national identity, journalist Dan Rather reflects on what it means to be an American. He reminds us of the principles upon which the United States was founded. Looking at the freedoms that define us, from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as the audacity to take on daunting challenges in science and medicine, Rather brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world's biggest stories. As a living witness to historical change, he offers up an intimate view of history, tracing where we have been in order to help us chart a way forward and heal our bitter divisions. Dan Rather is one of the world<U+2019>s best-known journalists. In 1981 he became anchor of the CBS Evening News, which he held for twenty-four years. Elliot Kirschner is a journalist and filmmaker. At CBS, he was a producer for the CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, and 60 Minutes"--Provided by publisher.