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In the last decade or so, there has been a shift in the popular and academic discussion of our personal lives. Relationships – and not necessarily marriage – have gravitated to the center of our relational lives. Many of us feel entitled to seek intimacy, an emotionally depthful social bonding, rather than simply security or companionship from our relationships. Unlike in a marriage-centred culture, intimacy is today pursued in varied relationships, from familial to friends and to romances. And intimacies are being forged in multiple venues, from face-to-face to virtual, cyber contexts. A new scholarship has addressed this changing terrain of personal life – there is today a vast liter...
Liberty and Politics: Studies in Social Theory is a collection of papers that describes the conservative stance in dealing and preserving liberal and democratic values and institutions. The book deals with education, political, and social theory and presents the philosophy of Harry Eddy who was a realist, pluralist, and libertarian. One paper defines the nature of tradition as a series of acts of which the enactments of a tradition involve certain regularities of conduct. Other papers then discuss ethics as the theory of history and as an ethic of responsibility different from moral cynicism and moral futurism. One paper confronts the points of teaching sex education so as to correct sexual ...
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Anton Balistrano, billionaire, boss of bosses for the mafia. One of the most powerful and respected men in the world. Robert Cass, his consigliere, given the nickname, the stallion for his defiance and disobedience, is transformed from a navy lawyer to a mob henchman. Accustomed to betrayal, Anton comes upon a betrayal so intimate, it rocks his world, as he begins a deadly cat and mouse game with a worthy opponent; the FBI. Are you the cat or the mouse? taunts Anton. The organization brings in a woman to assist Robert Cass as consigliere, something never allowed to the exclusive men only organization. It brings the mafia in a whole new direction, as the rise to power begins.
"Spine-chilling creatures of the cinema" -- Dust jacket.
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A group led by American Alan Mackenzie daringly escaped from communist Hungary during the brutal Soviet repression of the popular uprising of 1956. Twelve years later, at the height of the Cold War, Alan and two of the Hungarian participants, Frank and Maria, are reunited to help organize the defection of a high-ranking East German official who can identify communist moles in the American government. The resources of the American intelligence agencies could not be used to find moles within their own ranks; therefore, the President and the Secretary of State decided to find help elsewhere. Under difficult conditions, the defector is extricated, concealed in an American tour group of vacationi...