Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475881Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475881http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489938Description: A comprehensive, rollicking, and timely history of the papacy.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489938http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489936Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489936http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496592Description: We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this book, the author, a cognitive scientist shows that the past was much worse; and that we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals; the nonchalant treatment in popular culture of wife-beating, child abuse, and the extermination of native peoples. The murder rate in medieval Europe was more than thirty times what it is today. Slavery, sadistic punishments, and frivolous executions were common features of life for millennia, then were suddenly abolished. How could this have happened, if human nature has not changed? The author argues that thanks to the spread of government, literacy, trade, and cosmopolitanism, we increasingly control our impulses, empathize with others, bargain rather than plunder, debunk toxic ideologies, and deploy our powers of reason to reduce the temptations of violence.-- From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496592http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496593Description: A follow-up to the best-selling "Ethics for a new millennium" outlines a system of secular ethics that both transcends religion and incorporates religious tolerance for the overall improvement of human life on individual, community and global levels, offering an accompanying guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496593http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475880Description: "'The Book of Five Rings' is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. 'The Book of Five Rings' was composed in 1643 by the famed duelist and undedefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Tomas Cleary's translation is immediately accessible, with an introduction that presents the spiritual background of the warrior tradition. Along with Musashi's text, Cleary translates here another important Japanese classic on leadership and strategy, 'The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War' by Yagyåu Munenori, which highlights the ethical and spiritual insights of Taoism and Zen as they apply to the way of the warrior" --Cover, p. 2.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475880http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475879Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475879http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477203Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477203http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479032Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479032http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496594Description: "Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century. To its detractors, L. Ron Hubbard's space-age mysticism is a moneymaking scam and sinister brainwashing cult. But to its adherents, it is humanity's brightest hope. Few religious movements have been subject to public scrutiny like Scientology, yet much of what is written about the church is sensationalist and inaccurate. Here for the first time is the story of Scientology's protracted and turbulent journey to recognition as a religion in the postwar American landscape. Hugh Urban tells the real story of Scientology from its cold war-era beginnings in the 1950s to its prominence today as the religion of Hollywood's celebrity elite. Urban paints a vivid portrait of Hubbard, the enigmatic founder who once commanded his own private fleet and an intelligence apparatus rivaling that of the U.S. government. One FBI agent described him as "a mental case," but to his followers he is the man who "solved the riddle of the human mind." Urban details Scientology's decades-long war with the IRS, which ended with the church winning tax-exempt status as a religion; the rancorous cult wars of the 1970s and 1980s; as well as the latest challenges confronting Scientology, from attacks by the Internet group Anonymous to the church's efforts to suppress the online dissemination of its esoteric teachings. This book demonstrates how Scientology has reflected the broader anxieties and obsessions of postwar America, and raises profound questions about how religion is defined and who gets to define it."--Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496594http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479274Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479274http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478669Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478669http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479270Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479270http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477201Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477201http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504169Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504169http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479269Description: Cruelty, neuroscientist Kathleen Taylor explores the factors behind violence, sexual abuse, genocide, and other atrocities. Drawing on history, politics, philosophy, psychology, and especially neuroscience, she sets cruelty in the context of human evolution and our current understanding of brain function. She begins with an example from Lithuania in World War II, in which a young man beat a group of prisoners to death, one by one, as a crowd of civilians cheered. Can the killer and his audience be described as mentally ill? Could we ever be like them? Taylor explores the beliefs, emotions, and even instincts which can lead normally decent and law-abiding people to commit shocking acts of murder. For instance, she shows how movements begun consciously can trigger more instinctive behavior. Men who chase a victim intending to scare him may find that their brains reinterpret the chase as a hunt--and treat the victim as prey. Filled with such insight, Taylor provides a clear, nuanced and thoughtful assessment of human viciousness.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479269http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478668Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478668http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475794Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475794http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475878Description: "This book is a major new introduction to the field of ecological ethics. Taking issue with the common assumption that existing human ethics can be 'extended' to meet the demands of the ongoing ecological crisis, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecological ethic is both possible and urgently needed. With this distinctive proposition in mind, Curry introduces and discusses all the major concepts needed to understand the full range of ecological ethics."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475878http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491217Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491217http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479031Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479031http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477202Description: In 1986, Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his victory over "the powers of death and degradation, and to support the struggle of good against evil in the world." Soon after, he and his wife, Marion, created the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. A project at the heart of the Foundation's mission is its Ethics Prize, an essay writing contest through which thousands of students from colleges across the country are encouraged to confront ethical issues of personal significance. The Ethics Prize has grown exponentially over the past twenty years. "Of all the projects our Foundation has been involved in, none has been more exciting than this opportunity to inspire young students to examine the ethical aspect of what they have learned in their personal lives and from their teachers in the classroom," writes Elie Wiesel. Readers will find essays on Bosnia, the genocide in Rwanda, sweatshops and globalization, and the political obligations of the mothers of Argentina's Disappeared. Other essays tell of a white student who joins a black gospel choir, a young woman who learns to share in Ladakh, and the outsize implications of reporting on something as small as a cracked windshield. Readers will be fascinated by the ways in which essays on conflict, conscience, memory, illness (Rachel Maddow's essay on AIDS appears), and God overlap and resonate with one another. These essays reflect those who are "sensitive to the sufferings and defects that confront a society yearning for guidance and eager to hear ethical voices," writes Elie Wiesel. "And they are a beacon for what our schools must realize as an essential component of a true education."http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477202http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507572Description: In this introduction to animal ethics, the author weaves together case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and empathetically reflect on our treatment of other animals. She provides a survey of the issues central to human-animal relations and a reasoned new perspective on current key debates in the field. She analyses and explains a range of theoretical positions and poses challenging questions that directly encourage readers to hone their ethical reasoning skills and to develop a defensible position about their own practices. Her book is meant to be a resource for students in a wide range of disciplines including ethics, environmental studies, veterinary science, women's studies, and the emerging field of animal studies. -- Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507572http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478667Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478667http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475877Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475877http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478666Description: Examines the nature of happiness, discussing how it has been treated in philosophy and religion and by the modern disciplines of psychology, economics, and neurocience, and considers the place of indivdual happiness within the context of modern life.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478666http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507376Description: Drawing on evolutionary history and the emergent science of human nature, this book argues that humans have an innate sense of fairness. While these impulses can easily be subverted by greed and demagoguery, they can also be harnessed for good. The author brings together the latest findings from the behavioral and biological sciences to propose a new Biosocial Contract including sweeping economic and political reforms based on three principles of fairness--equality, equity, and reciprocity. His conclusion is that the proper response to bank bailouts and financial chicanery isn't to get mad--it's to get fair.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507376http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478665Description: Provides a philosophical analysis of some of the most common arguments on both sides of the abortion issue as an example of engaging critical thinking for moral issues.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478665http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475876Description: "In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475876http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479268Description: "In this account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Young deals with the many puzzles created by the conjunction of Nietzsche's personal history and his work. Setting Nietzsche's thought in the context of his times, Young emphasizes the decisive influence of Plato and of Richard Wagner on Nietzsche's attempt to reform Western culture. He also describes the devastating effect on Nietzsche's personality of his unhappy love for Lou Salome and attempts to understand why, at the age of forty-four, he went mad." "This book includes a selection of more than thirty photographs of Nietzsche, his friends and his work sites. Seventeen of the philosopher's musical compositions, which are key to a deeper understanding of his intellectual project are available online."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479268http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488018Description: Biblical scholar Michael Coogan's introductory course on the Old Testament has been a perennial favorite among students at Harvard University. Here, Coogan examines one of the most controversial aspects of the Hebrew Scripture: what the Old Testament really says about sex, and how contemporary understanding of those writings is frequently misunderstood or misrepresented. In the engaging voice generations of students have appreciated, Coogan explores the language and social world of the Bible, showing how much innuendo and euphemism is at play, and illuminating the sexuality of biblical figures as well as God. By doing so, Coogan reveals the immense gap between popular use of Scripture and its original context. Certain to provoke, entertain, and enlighten.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488018http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478663Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478663http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476556Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476556http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498990Description: Explores the philosophical issues embedded in the Green Lantern Corps' stories and characters, from what Plato's tale of the Ring of Gyges tells us about the Green Lantern ring and the desire for power, to whether willpower is the most important strength.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498990http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478664Description: "In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life. Using the psychological insights and the practical techniques of the Stoics, Irvine offers a road map for anyone seeking to avoid the feelings of chronic dissatisfaction that plague so many of us. Irvine looks at various Stoic techniques for attaining tranquility and shows how to put these techniques to work in our own life. As he does so, he describes his own experiences practicing Stoicism and offers valuable firsthand advice for anyone wishing to live better by following in the footsteps of these ancient philosophers. We learn how to minimize worry, how to let go of the past and focus on the things we can control, and how to deal with insults, grief, old age, and the distracting temptations of fame and fortune. We learn from Marcus Aurelius the importance of prizing only things of true value, and from Epictetus we learn how to be more content with what we have." "Finally, A Guide to the Good Life shows us how to become thoughtful observers of our own lives. If we watch ourselves as we go about our daily business and later reflect on what we saw, we can better identify the sources of distress and eventually avoid that pain. By doing this, the Stoics thought, we can hope to attain a truly joyful life."--Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478664http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504170Description: "A guide to the history behind the world of Harry Potter?just in time for the last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II). Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magical and historical. Hogwarts pupils ride an old-fashioned steam train to school, notes are taken on parchment with quill pens, and Muggle legends come to life in the form of werewolves, witches, and magical spells. This book is the first to explore the real history in which Harry's world is rooted. Did you know that bezoars and mandrakes were fashionable luxury items for centuries? Find out how Europeans first developed the potions, spells, and charms taught at Hogwarts, from Avada Kedavra to love charms. Learn how the European prosecution of witches led to the Statute of Secrecy, meet the real Nicholas Flamel, see how the Malfoys stack up against Muggle English aristocrats, and compare the history of the wizarding world to real-life history. Gives you the historical backdrop to Harry Potter's world. Covers topics ranging from how real British boarding schools compare to Hogwarts to how parchment, quills, and scrolls used in the wizarding world were made. Includes a timeline comparing the history of the wizarding world to Muggle "real" history. Filled with fascinating facts and background, Harry Potter and History is an essential companion for every Harry Potter fan."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504170http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479267Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479267http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479266Description: This fresh and original book argues that the central questions in Hegel's practical philosophy are the central questions in modern accounts of freedom: What is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? Is it possible so to act? And how important is leading a free life? Robert Pippin argues that the core of Hegel's answers is a social theory of agency, the view that agency is not exclusively a matter of the self-relation and self-determination of an individual but requires the right sort of engagement with and recognition by others. Using a detailed analysis of key Hegelian texts, he develops this interpretation to reveal the bearing of Hegel's claims on many contemporary issues, including much-discussed core problems in the liberal democratic tradition. His important study will be valuable for all readers who are interested in Hegel's philosophy and in the modern problems of agency and freedom.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479266http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488017Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488017http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479265Description: A narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, this book elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated; its central tenets--karma, dharma, to name just two--arise at particular moments in Indian history and differ in each era, between genders, and caste to caste; and what is shared among Hindus is overwhelmingly outnumbered by the things that are unique to one group or another. Yet the greatness of Hinduism--its vitality, its earthiness, its vividness--lies precisely in many of those idiosyncratic qualities that continue to inspire debate today. Wendy Doniger, one of the world's foremost scholars of Hinduism, illuminates those moments within the tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479265http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479030Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479030http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475875Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475875http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=447679Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=447679http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480396Description: Now in paperback, this lively bestseller traces the history of Scotland's many contributions to our culture, drawing on the most recent research of scholars and historians to demonstrate just how central the Scots have been throughout the rise of the West.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480396http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476554Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476554http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476553Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476553http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507574Description: "The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet, and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously About the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the most important political problem of our time. The environmental movement, he contends, is philosophically confused and has unrealistic agendas. Its sights are directed at the large-scale events and the confrontation between international politics and multinational business. But Scruton argues that no large-scale environmental project, however well-intentioned, will succeed if it is not rooted in small-scale practical reasoning. Seeing things on a large scale promotes top-down solutions, managed by unaccountable bureaucracies that fail to assess local conditions and are rife with unintended consequences. Scruton argues for the greater efficacy of local initiatives over global schemes, civil association over political activism, and small-scale institutions of friendship over regulatory hyper-vigilance. And he suggests that conservatism is far better suited to solving environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism. Rather than entrusting the environment to unwieldy NGOs and international committees, we must assume personal responsibility and foster local control. People must be empowered to take charge of their environment, to care for it as they would a home, and to involve themselves through the kind of local associations that have been the traditional goal of conservative politics. Our common future is by no means assured, but as Roger Scruton clearly demonstrates in this important book, there is a path that can ensure the future safety of our planet and our species."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507574http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478662Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478662http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493436Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493436http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476552Description: Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476552http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477187Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477187http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476551Description: [This book is a] biography of the Prophet Muhammad ... that highlights [his] spiritual and ethical teachings.-Dust jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476551http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477312Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477312http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503127Description: In her new book Joining the Resistance Carol Gilligan reflects on the evolution of her thinking and shows how her key ideas were interwoven with her own life experiences. Her work began with the question of voice: who is speaking to whom, in what body, telling what stories about which relationships? By listening carefully she heard a voice that had been held in silence, and in the process realized the extent to which we - both women and men - had been telling false stories about ourselves.-publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503127http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479264Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479264http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477198Description: "In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing us softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes--images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis up to date, Killing us softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence"--Container.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477198http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496578Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496578http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479029Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479029http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476550Description: Nobel Prize-winning author Naipaul spirals outward from the central African country of Uganda, to Nigeria, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, and concluding in South Africa, to unearth in six chapters a sense of African ancestral belief and practice.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476550http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503944Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503944http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477200Description: "Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus "everything is permitted." Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God is not only not essential to morality, but that our moral behavior should be utterly independent of religion. He attacks several core ideas: that atheists are inherently immoral people; that any society will sink into chaos if it is becomes too secular; that without morality, we have no reason to be moral; that absolute moral standards require the existence of God; and that without religion, we simply couldn't know what is wrong and what is right. Sinnott-Armstrong brings to bear convincing examples and data, as well as a lucid, elegant, and easy to understand writing style. This book should fit well with the debates raging over issues like evolution and intelligent design, atheism, and religion and public life as an example of a pithy, tightly-constructed argument on an issue of great social importance."--Publisher's website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477200http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489932Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489932http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479028Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479028http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478661Description: "Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred and by tracing that history through the last two centuries of Western thought we can see its potential centrality to the critical study of religion." "Kripal grounds his study in the work of four major figures in the history of paranormal research: psychical researcher Frederic Myers; writer and humorist Charles Fort; astronomer, computer scientist, and ufologist Jacques Vallee; and philosopher and sociologist Bertrand Meheust. Through incisive analyses of these thinkers. Kripal ushers the reader into a beguiling world somewhere between fact, fiction, and fraud. The cultural history of telepathy, teleportation, and UFOs; a ghostly love story; the occult dimensions of science fiction; cold war psychic espionage; galactic colonialism; and the intimate relationship between consciousness and culture all come together in Authors of the Impossible, a dazzling and profound look at how the paranormal bridges the sacred and the scientific.".http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478661http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507578Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507578http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507579Description: "The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent persecution. Relying on a new source of coded data for nearly 200 countries and case studies of six countries, the book offers a global profile of religious freedom and religious persecution. Grim and Finke report that persecution is evident in all regions and is standard fare for many. They also find that religious freedoms are routinely denied and that government and the society at large serve to restrict these freedoms. They conclude that the price of freedom denied is high indeed"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507579http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475874Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475874http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479263Description: An impassioned call to heal the wounds of our planet and ourselves through the tenets of our spiritual traditions. Maathai draws inspiration from many faiths, celebrating and renewing their mandates to "repair the world."http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479263http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479262Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479262http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479261Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479261http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476549Description: An unabridged version of Beauvoir's feminist exploration of the psychological, sexual and social roles of women and their historical and contemporary situation in Western culture at the middle of the twentieth century.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476549http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488016Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488016http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496595Description: Socrates is often called the father of philosophy. Yet he left no writings, so what we know of his life and ideas comes from the works of his contemporaries. Socrates taught--and strove to embody--that how each of us chooses to live and die has great meaning. By constantly examining one's life and actions, a philosophy of ethics is born. As Plutarch observed, "He was the first person to demonstrate that life is open to philosophy at all times, in every part, among all kinds of people, and in every experience and activity." In this biography, historian Paul Johnson situates Socrates in the life of fifth-century B.C. Athens, and his wide range of acquaintances, from the local grocer to the leading politicians, dramatists, and scholars. By studying his life and times, we benefit from his philosophy, for as Cicero said, "Socrates was the first to call Philosophy down from the skies ... and introduce her into people's homes, and force her to investigate ordinary life, ethics, good and evil."--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496595http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478660Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478660http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488015Description: "A tribute to the visionary contributions and prophetic writings of Thomas Berry"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488015http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496577Description: Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices derived from an African heritage; the adoption of Christianity by the majority; and the critique of the adoption of the "white man's religion" from the eighteenth century to the present. The book also covers internal cultural, gendered, and class divisions in churches that attracted congregants of widely disparate educational levels, incomes, and worship styles. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496577http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477199Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477199http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479260Description: "The Ultimate Harry Potter: Hogwarts for Muggles, is a fresh and distinctive report on the great ideas in the series. All the authors of these chapters have had the advantage of thinking through their chosen issues, and writing up their conclusions after the entire Potter storyline was complete, and Rowling had even had her say in public about things that never made it into the pages of the official texts. The philosophers and other top Harry Potter experts gathered together here offer new voices and new perspectives on many of the most important ideas that come up in the books--some of which can be genuinely life changing. Reading this book will be like putting on a Philosophical De-Coder Ring. It will show you vital aspects of the deepest story that lies behind these famous stories"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479260http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498977Description: "Expanded and up-to-date-the ultimate guide that explores meaning and philosophy of all six seasons of Lost Lost is more than just a popular television show; it's a complex examination of meaningful philosophical questions. What does good versus evil mean on the island? Is it a coincidence that characters John Locke and Desmond David Hume are named after actual philosophers? What is the ethics of responsibility for Jack? An action-adventure story with more than a touch of the metaphysical, Lost forces viewers to ask difficult questions of themselves just as the story asks difficult questions of its characters. Ultimate Lost and Philosophy helps you explore the deeper meaning and philosophical questions hidden within every complex twist and turn in the historic show's entire six-season run. Includes every season of Lost, including 2010's final, highly anticipated season Connects events on the show to core philosophical issues such as truth, identity, and morality Explores a host of intriguing topics such as time travel, freedom, love, and loss For fans of Lost who are interested in what the show reveals about ourselves and the human condition, Ultimate Lost and Philosophy is an entertaining, informative, and enlightening resource."--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498977http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454993Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454993http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488014Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488014http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488013Description: "UNPROTECTED TEXTS will directly and pointedly address widely shared misconceptions about biblical writings and sex, arguing that the Bible cannot--and should not--serve as a rulebook for sexual morality, despite popular claims to the contrary. This is a major book by a top biblical scholar that will shed much-needed light on what the Bible actually says about sex, desire, monogamy, homosexuality, and how we should interpret those thorny verses today. Written over the course of more than 2,000 years, the books of the Bible offer many different-and conflicting-versions of sexual morality. With clarity and precision, Knust addresses the big questions people continue to ask when it comes to sex and the Bible: Is pre-marital sex a sin? When, and in what contexts, is sexual desire appropriate? With whom can I legitimately have sex? Are same-sex relations permissible? What about multiple partners? Is extra-marital sex always wrong? And what is "sex" anyway? With repeated "ah-ha" moments for the reader, Knust reveals what the Bible really says about a topic of perennial interest"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488013http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476548Description: Davidson tells the whole, rich story of Voltaire's life (1694-1778): his early imprisonment in the Bastille; exile in England and his mastery of English; an obsession with money, of which he made a huge amount; a scandalous love life; his infatuation with Frederick the Great; a long exile on the borders of Switzerland; his passion for watch-making; his human rights campaigns and his triumphant return to Paris to die there as celebrity extraordinaire.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476548http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478659Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478659http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488012Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488012http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496597Description: A U.S. release of an existential work in Germany blends pop culture, cutting-edge research in neuroscience, and traditional philosophy to tour some of today's most relevant philosophical questions, exploring such topics as the nature of truth and the actual value of good behavior.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496597