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First, Do No Unjust Harm - John S. Pletz - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

First, Do No Unjust Harm - John S. Pletz - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

First, Do No Unjust Harm begins from the premise that one of our primary moral duties is to avoid doing wrong and from the observation that people seem to violate that duty not infrequently in their quest to oppose "evil" in the pursuit of some ostensibly "higher good." Since many of these ethical problems appear to be caused by faulty or insufficient analysis of what is "wrong," Pletz has worked out some more rigorous guidelines for such analyses. The recognition of evil begins with the proposition that its three main elements are: (a) harm which has been inflicted on another; (b) responsibility for its resting with one or more persons who have caused it; and (c) the unjust nature of the harm. The author also provides a framework for considering how we can confirm or refute our tentative conclusions about evil, and how we can ascertain their relative degrees of intensity. First, Do No Unjust Harm then proceeds to address the question of how to confront the temptations that we face and the inclinations that we have to do wrong things. Pletz also discusses strategies for actions designed to thwart the evil that others may be doing or intending to do; for even though opposing evil may constitute one of our most dangerous undertakings, we must sometimes do precisely that, if we want the world to be a more moral place. Critical to the success of such efforts, however, is the accurate application of our powers of judgment; for we must be as sure as we can possibly be that what we are opposing is, in fact, wrong and in need of redress.

DKK 591.00
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A Do-It-Yourself Dystopia - Steven Carter - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Do-It-Yourself Dystopia - Steven Carter - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The essence of life in an oligarchy like George Orwell presents in ''1984'' is that freedom of choice is virtually non-existent. But what happens when so many trivial and meaningless choices inundate a culture such as our own and freedom itself becomes devalued? In ''A Do-It-Yourself Dystopia'', through a variety of essays, Steven Carter addresses this and other issues in a wide-ranging search for hidden oligarchies of the American self.

DKK 521.00
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Do Members of Congress Reward Their Future Employers? - Adolfo Santos - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Do Members of Congress Reward Their Future Employers? - Adolfo Santos - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Increasingly, former members of Congress are finding their way back into the corridors of power representing the very interest groups they once regulated. This post-congressional lobbying activity has proven to be very lucrative for many ex-lawmakers. As lobbyists, former members of Congress carry significant clout that gives them access not only to their former colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, but also to members of the executive branch. While generally the practice of walking through the "revolving door" has been discussed as unseemly, a bigger danger is that members of Congress might sponsor legislation that benefits their future employers. This book looks at the question of whether members of Congress reward their future employers with public policy. The book evaluates the extent to which former members of Congress become lobbyists, and the implications of this career choice on pubic policy. Of concern is whether or not members of Congress with post-congressional lobbying ambitions are using their positions to maximize the interests of those they plan to serve once they leave office. The evidence will show that lawmakers who become lobbyists not only behave differently in the legislative arena than those who do not become lobbyists, but also lobby on behalf of the very interests they once regulated in Congress. The book begins with a discussion on the intentions of the framers of the Constitution to constrain ambition. It then proceeds to show who becomes a lobbyist and how post-congressional lobbyists exploit their relationships with their former colleagues as they lobby on behalf of special interests. The book concludes by suggesting that post-congressional lobbying not only has the potential to undermine sound public policy, it also has the potential to jeopardize the legitimacy of the institution.

DKK 423.00
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A Long Way Home - Bob Golan - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Long Way Home - Bob Golan - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Bob Golan was twelve years old when the Nazis invaded his homeland from the west and the Soviets from the east. He and his family fled from Poland to the Ukraine and were later forcibly resettled in Siberia. Golan and his brother finally came to Palestine in the company of the "Tehran Children"-a group of children who were rescued by the Jewish Agency. In Palestine, Golan joined the Haganah Underground and fought in Israel''s 1948 War of Independence. Golan''s book is a fresh and engaging story of the experience of Jewish refugees in the Soviet Union and Israel.

DKK 423.00
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Do You Want to Save The Church? - Young J. Choe - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Do You Want to Save The Church? - Young J. Choe - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book attempts to inspire both church leaders and lay people through serious discussion of strategies as to how to restore the church in the midst of a struggling and declining age. The author identifies the factors that have contributed to the decline of the church. Choe utilizes his experience working with a struggling ministry to propose twenty-four ideas and programs for the restoration of the church. He calls specifically on church leaders to inspire others to come together and rebuild the church. This book finds a decisive solution between Sunday pastor and Everyday pastor.

DKK 317.00
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Journey to the Middle of the Forest - Bruce Fleming - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Journey to the Middle of the Forest - Bruce Fleming - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

What is the taste of life as we really live it, rather than the way we imagine it in others? What does it feel like to become aware of the hand of cards we''ve been dealt, to play them as well as we can, to understand what has happened to us, and to try to control the future? Journey to the Middle of the Forest answers these questions in a way that celebrity memoirs, where events seem so much more intense than happenings in our own lives because of our perspective and the writer''s fame, cannot. In Journey to the Middle of the Forest, Bruce Fleming considers the slippages between presupposition and reality in a life begun and continued in Maryland, with intervals in pre-civil war Rwanda, the walled-in city of West Berlin, and the central European Freiburg im Breisgau, once Austrian, then part of the Duchy of Baden, now part of Germany. Like all lives, it has its crises—more, it may be, than an average life: a childhood marked by an alcoholic and abusive father, a marriage gone horribly awry, an autistic child and a bipolar stepchild, a dragged-out divorce, the death of a brother to AIDS, and the re-tooling of hopes to meet the new givens of the world. And, then re-marriage, two little boys, and the threat of childhood leukemia. Fleming''s intense and vivid memoir asks us to consider this fundamental question: Do we gain wisdom as we age? We may tell ourselves we do, as a way of summarizing what''s happened to us: we figure everything we''ve been through has to be good for something. But if we do become wiser, it''s not with a wisdom that can help us with any subsequent challenge-and the challenges never cease. Life gets no easier as we age, we just get deeper into the forest.

DKK 379.00
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'Only Nixon' - James C. Humes - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

'Only Nixon' - James C. Humes - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In 1998, Professor Humes and Doctor Ryals traveled with Edward Nixon, the brother of the President, to the People''s Republic of China. While retracing Nixon''s steps, they interviewed those Chinese Foreign Service experts who had planned the president''s meetings with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. These protégés of Chou En-lai ended their diplomatic careers as envoys in Anglophone nations such as the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. During interviews with Humes, Ryals, and Edward Nixon, these experts shared their observations about the forces, such as the Gang of Four, who were plotting to prevent the Nixon Trip, as well as why, at the time, Mao was amendable to restoring ties with America despite the ongoing Cultural Revolution.

DKK 370.00
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When the River Wakes Up - Alyson Quinn - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

When the River Wakes Up - Alyson Quinn - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

When the River Wakes Up is an exploration of paths rarely explored—the colliding of Western beliefs and Shona mysticism. Abigail, in all her fragility, is a resolute pioneer alongside her African brother, her soul compatriot, and vessel of African wisdom: Zukah. Through their relationship they open up closed minds and hearts around them, and forge a different path in the new Zimbabwe. Any government transitioning from a racist minority rule to a majority government is careening down a road of unfathomable chaos; Zimbabwe is no different. Seen through the lens of Abigail’s father, a civil servant, the process is filled with potholes of despair and unforeseen hope. When the River Wakes Up is a novel that is both a tormenting inner struggle and a changing world scorched by the fire of new beginnings.

DKK 273.00
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Journey into Darkness - Lowell W. Culver - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Journey into Darkness - Lowell W. Culver - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Journey into Darkness relates the irony and tragedy of twin brothers caught up in World War II on opposite sides and how Adolf Hitler''s dramatic rise to power in a defeated Germany influenced a young American to join the German army. What circumstances caused the one twin to travel to Germany for graduate study even with the threat of war and then to remain after the outbreak of hostilities in a potentially hostile environment? What was his fate and that of his twin brother who joins the American army and narrates the story? Laced with thought-provoking interpretations and commentaries, the novel draws heavily on historical events, accounts of Germans who experienced the war firsthand and archival information provided by the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Kiel and the National Archives of the United States.

DKK 273.00
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Our Only Hope - Keith H. Pickus - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Our Only Hope - Keith H. Pickus - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Our Only Hope is based on correspondence between Eddie Weisz, a German Jew who emigrated to the U.S. in 1938, and his family (father, mother, and brother) who remained behind, first in Berlin and then Prague. Like many German Jewish families, Eddie''s parents sent their eldest child to America hoping that he could pave the way for the rest of the family to follow. The story is a deeply personal account of how the Nazi phenomenon affected a single family. It gives voice to victims of the Holocaust, people whose experiences are typically told through the eyes of survivors and perpetrators. Through this narrative, Our Only Hope illuminates an ironic and tragic dualism: the steady deterioration of life''s circumstances for the Weisz family that is left behind, countered by the transformation of Eddie Weisz into an independent adult and American citizen.

DKK 361.00
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Daughters of the Bear - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Daughters of the Bear - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Daughters of the Bear is an anthology of non-fiction by 53 Korean women such as a shopkeeper in Itaewon, a doctor in Apkujong, a musician in Myong-Dong, a housewife in Chamshil, and a student at Ewha Womans University. Shiver with a merchant as she recollects escaping with her sisters and mother across the 38th Parallel in a rowboat under Russian gunfire; share with a young professional her secret wedding to a coworker; and walk along the paths between green carpeted barley fields toward a woman''s childhood home. Through their stories, Korean women of different generations explore family, sacrifice, memories, relationships, sexuality, society''s expectations and constraints, education, and the search for fulfillment and identity. The book includes a foreword by Chang Pilwha and translations by Young-Oak Wells, Professor Kenneth Wells and Brother Anthony of Taizé. For additional information on the editors and their publications visit www.daughtersofthebear.com.

DKK 459.00
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Somewhere in France, Somewhere in Germany - Francis P. Sempa - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Somewhere in France, Somewhere in Germany - Francis P. Sempa - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In Somewhere in France, Somewhere in Germany, Francis P. Sempa tells the story of father''s journey through the Second World War. Frank F. Sempa entered military service as part of the 29th Infantry Division in April 1941, landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day-plus one, fought in the treacherous hedgerows of Normandy, participated in the capture of St. Lo and the siege of Brest, assaulted the fortifications of the Siegfried Line, crossed the Rhine River, and reached the west bank of the Elbe River. He earned the Bronze Star, Combat Infantryman''s Badge, the Arrowhead, four campaign ribbons, and the Good Conduct Medal. Throughout, Sempa dutifully wrote letters home to his parents and brother. Using those letters, local newspaper articles, the 29th Division''s After Action Reports, and several books about the history of the 29th Division in World War II, Francis Sempa traces his father''s steps from training camps in the United States and England to the battlefields of France and Germany.

DKK 361.00
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Thy Brother's Blood - Benjamin Edidin Scolnic - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Thy Brother's Blood - Benjamin Edidin Scolnic - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Through exploring the particular importance of the fraternal relationship among the dynasties of the Hellenistic world in Thy Brother''s Blood, Dr. Benjamin Scolnic demonstrates how adherence to or rejection of the "morality of kinship" literally changed the world. This in-depth book reviews fraternal relationships in the Bible and Greek and Roman mythology to create models for the falls of the Attalids of Pergamon and the Antigonids of Macedonia. The ancient writers from Rome to Jerusalem valued fraternal bonds and used fratricide as the symbol for internal dissension within nations. Using a focalized approach, Dr. Scolnic cautions that historians sometimes were so consumed with the metaphor of fraternity that they ignored the historical realities. He demonstrates this by providing a historical and moral context for the fall of one Judean dynasty, the Zadokite high priests, and for the rise and fall of the Hasmonaean dynasty, known to the world as the Maccabees.

DKK 423.00
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City Baby and Star - Don Stannard Friel - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

City Baby and Star - Don Stannard Friel - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book is an exploration of the sociological, biological, and psychological forces that create pathways into and out of street deviance. Utilizing in-depth case studies, the book examines the relationship of an individual''s learned and inherited human traits and the culture that receives, socializes, and judges him or her. The book centers on the compelling life stories of City Baby and Star, two women who became criminal drug addicts, and the colorful history of San Francisco''s Tenderloin District. It explains why City Baby is trapped in a world of drugs and violence, and how Star escaped hers. It describes how addictions and criminal behaviors are rooted in the human biological urge to seek meaningful lives and how the organization of our culture produces the very problems it abhors. The book asks, why do tenderloins, ''containment zones'' for crime, exist in virtually every major city in the world and what do we do, as a community, to contribute to the problem of street deviance everywhere? This work will be of interest to sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, as well as the general reader.

DKK 450.00
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To Serve Other Gods - Micheal A. Harbin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

To Serve Other Gods - Micheal A. Harbin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In this volume, Harbin addresses two main ideas in relation to the larger issue of the origin and development of religion. First is the issue of historicity of key events in the founding of major religions. The author specifically addresses the exodus and the resurrection of Judaism and Christianity, respectively, as the historical foundations of those beliefs, and the lack of such historical events in ''all'' other world religions. Secondly, Harbin explores the virtually universal observation of a ''primitive high God'' present in various cultures throughout the world, suggesting an early monotheism. In the process of these explorations, the author repudiates the prevalent view that religion evolved from a primitive polytheism to the '' higher revealed'' religions, and demonstrates instead that it evolved from an early monotheism into increasingly complex polytheisms. Contents: EARLY RELIGION; The Source; Polytheism Runs Rampant; THE SURVIVAL OF MONOTHEISM; The World''s Old Organized Religion: Judaism; Hope Fulfilled: Christianity; THAT TRAGIC CENTURY; Avoiding Death by Dying; Under the Bohdi Tree: Buddhism; Mystics Galore: Other Eastern Religions; REVELATIONS OF ANGELS AND MEN; The Step Brother Resurgent: Islam; New Gods or Old?: Modern Religious Movements; The Right Road or a Rabbit Trail?

DKK 706.00
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Global Scenes of Biblical Injustice - W. R. Brookman - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Global Scenes of Biblical Injustice - W. R. Brookman - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

What kinds of experiences do we have with the poor and the oppressed around the world? What do we really know about the ins and outs of the lives of those who exist in a world of extreme poverty or oppression? Global Scenes of Biblical Injustice simplifies and synthesizes the bewildering array of research and technical data which exists regarding these issues. Through the use of colorful, informative, and thoughtful vignettes, this book paints an easily understandable picture of the true nature of what may be called biblical injustice. This thought-provoking book incorporates challenges for a Christian response regarding those whose daily plights fly in the face of what Scripture teaches about justice.

DKK 401.00
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Bread, Butter, and Sugar - Martin Schiller - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Bread, Butter, and Sugar - Martin Schiller - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Based on the true story of Martin Schiller, a child survivor of the Holocaust, this gripping memoir describes the unfolding horror of the Nazi genocide seen through the eyes of a child. "Menek" (Schiller''s childhood nickname) was six-years-old when the Nazis invaded Poland, and his family fled eastward from their native Tarnobrzeg. He was nine when he and his family were interned as slave laborers at the Skarzysko concentration camp, where his father perished. As the Russian army advanced, Menek and his brother were deported to Buchenwald, where Menek survived with the help of a sympathetic Block Elder (a German political prisoner) who placed him in a barrack for Russian POWs. The story of his journey continues after liberation, with their harrowing escape from postwar Poland; the brothers'' travels through war-ravaged Germany to find their mother; and the anxiety of the DP camps where the family must decide between Israel or America. This memoir covers the now-emblematic features of a survivor''s journey both during and after the war with the intimacy of a young boy''s point-of-view, recalling his own thoughts and reactions to events as he tries to make sense of an irrational world.

DKK 415.00
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Man the Rational Animal - Edo Pivcevic - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Man the Rational Animal - Edo Pivcevic - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

To know that something is the case, if closely considered, turns out to be no more than to believe with good evidence that something is the case, and beliefs, however well supported by evidence, do not yield certainty. So the question is, what kind of evidence is sufficient to justify a ‘knowledge claim’? And most important of all: What kind of beliefs do qualify as rational? This challenging and refreshingly innovative book addresses certain fundamental questions concerning the rational legitimacy of some widely held beliefs, and provides argument-based answers to such questions, while at the same time encouraging the reader to actively engage with the views put forward and form his/her own judgment. The book is typically discursive rather than merely informative, and introduces philosophy by doing it.

DKK 370.00
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An American Journey - Bhagwan Satiani - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

An American Journey - Bhagwan Satiani - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Valuable teaching moments and life lessons are illustrated in a personal and colorful story told by a successful immigrant parent. Immigrants struggle with two cultures and so do their children. How do they mesh the two? An American Journey teaches immigrant parents life lessons to convey to their children in easy to understand and simple English, with examples dealing with almost every facet of their children’s lives.The chapters deal with issues that are critical to immigrants: faith, values, family, marriage, home, education, and friends. The freedom they wanted to enjoy in the U.S is often the very thing immigrants blame for the conflicts with their children, who struggle to adhere to their parent’s wishes and also experience the freedoms their friends enjoy. Practical advice is given based on personal experiences.

DKK 361.00
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The Diplomacy of Surprise - Michael I. Handel - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Diplomacy of Surprise - Michael I. Handel - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Today even strong democratic leaders do not hesitate to employ unorthodox means to achieve swift policy changes. The diplomacy of surprise is their most effective tool. This pioneering work explores the differences between diplomatic and military surprise, and examines the theory, practice, and international implications. Originally published in 1981 by the Harvard University Center for International Affairs.

DKK 600.00
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Dangerous Liaisons - Claudia Moscovici - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Dangerous Liaisons - Claudia Moscovici - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

What do Scott Peterson, Neil Entwistle and timeless literary seducers epitomized by Don Juan and Casanova have in common? They are charismatic, glib and seductive men who also embody the most dangerous human qualities: a breathtaking callousness, shallowness of emotion and the incapacity to love. In other words, these men are psychopaths. Unfortunately, most psychopaths don’t advertise themselves as heartless social predators. They come across as charming, intelligent, romantic and kind. Through their believable “mask of sanity,” they lure many of us into their dangerous nets. Dangerous Liaisons explains clearly what psychopaths are, why they act the way they do, how they attract us and whom they tend to target. Above all, this book helps victims find the strength to end their toxic relationships with psychopaths and move on, stronger and wiser, with the rest of their lives.

DKK 415.00
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Leadership Voices - Linda Irby - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Leadership Voices - Linda Irby - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Sleeping too much or not enough? A bit tense, jumpy, unable to focus like you used to? Do you hate your job, the folks you work with, and your CEO? Feel trapped, used, wondering what happened to the joy in making money? Concerned that our American values seem to be rapidly disintegrating? Are you religious and / or spiritual, and you know, but just can not somehow put your finger on why your spirit is continually wounded at work? Are you a skeptic? What does any of this have to do with neutralizing bullies, determinedly difficult people, and predators at work? In Leadership Voices, author Linda Irby explores the difference between management, motivation, and manipulation and the characteristics of effective, contemporary, dynamic leadership. In an increasingly busy world, Irby offers insight and techniques to reclaim you spirit, enjoy your work, and realize your dreams.

DKK 361.00
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