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The Excellent Mind
"What makes for a good education? What does one need to count as well-educated? Knowledge, to be sure. But knowledge is easily forgotten, and today's knowledge may be obsolete tomorrow. Skills, particularly in critical thinking, are crucial as well. But absent the right motivation, graduates may fail to put their skills to good use. In this book, Nathan King argues that intellectual virtues-traits like curiosity, intellectual humility, honesty, intellectual courage, and open-mindedness-are central to any education worthy of the name. Further, such virtues are crucial to our functioning well in everyday life, in areas as diverse as personal relationships, responsible citizenship, civil discourse, and personal success. Our struggles in these areas often result from a failure to think virtuously. Drawing upon recent work in philosophy and psychology, King paints a portrait of virtuous intellectual character-and of the vices such a character opposes. Filled with examples and applications, this book introduces readers to the intellectual virtues: what they are, why they matter, and how we can grow in them"--
King Solomon's Table
A definitive compendium of Jewish recipes from around the globe and across the ages, from the James Beard Award-winning, much-loved cookbook author and “the queen of American Jewish cooking” (Houston Chronicle) Driven by a passion for discovery, the biblical King Solomon is said to have sent emissaries on land and sea to all corners of the ancient world, initiating a mass cross-pollination of culinary cultures that continues to bear fruit today. With Solomon’s appetites and explorations in mind, in these pages Joan Nathan gathers together more than 170 recipes, from Israel to Italy to India and beyond. Here are classics like Yemenite Chicken Soup with Dill, Cilantro, and Parsley; Slow-...
Soul on Soul
A chronicle of the stormy personal and professional life of the legendary but underappreciated jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
Circle of Vengeance
Reclusive financier Daniel Preston dedicated his life to the total destruction of anybody who might have been connected to the terrorists who planted the bomb that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. His parents were flying in the doomed aircraft to join him for Christmas in New York. Jonathon Steele, Daniel's childhood friend whose life he saved three times, now Chairman of Steele Horizons, re-enters Daniel's life as fate draws them together. Nathan King, heir to the international conglomerate Crown Inc. He was the only survivor of a massacre on his father's Pacific Island. With his mother and father murdered, he sets out on a trail of revenge, killing the murderers one-by-one until only their paymaster is left. Who wants Nathan dead so badly, and why? As Nathan uncovers secrets that have been hidden from him all his life, the body count rises. His path of revenge converges with Daniel's until, together, they finally face the man with the biggest desire for revenge of all.
The Evil Behind the Law,Volume I
Mr. Fabrice is a Cameroonian poet, playwright and dramatist who has just arrived America, a nation that has witnessed the feminist movement and civil right activists and reforms. He has no papers, and so has to stay with one of his one-time classmate Miss Beatrice who picks him at the John F. Kennedy International Air Port,New York. With the passage of time, Mr. Fabrice will discover how Miss Beatrice has been influenced and corrupted by the new feminist culture in America. His life will later turn to be a story of tragedy because his friend under the pressure and lust for money would want to influence Mr. Fabrice to marry her best friend Miss Asunder who is an American born citizen to his d...
Midnight at the Barrelhouse
Looking closely at the limit of both multilingual literary expression and the literary journalism, criticism, and scholarship that comments on multilingual work, Babel's Shadow presents a critical reflection on the fate of literature in a world gripped by the crisis of globalization.
Southwest Shuffle
Southwest Shuffle documents an important period in country music history. During the '30s and early '40s, hundreds of thousands of "Okies," "Arkies," and other rural folks from around the Southwest resettled in California, in search of work. A country music scene quickly blossomed there, with performers playing Western Swing, Cowboy, and Honky Tonk country. After World War II, these styles rocked country music, leading to the innovations of '60s performers like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in creating the so-called "Bakersfield Sound." These stories are based on original interviews and archival research by one of the most respected writers on this period of country history. Kienzle writes in a vibrant style, reflecting his long-time love for these musical styles.
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