![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah and Beth speak frequently to universities, businesses, and civic organizations about improving political dialogue.īoth Sarah and Beth attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and then received their Juris Doctors (Sarah from American University and Beth from the University of Kentucky). They are also the authors of Now What? How to Move Forward When We’re Divided (About Basically Everything) and I Think You’re Wrong (But I’m Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversation, which was featured on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, received starred trade reviews and continues to be in demand with readers, book clubs, and libraries. The podcast made up of “grace-filled political conversations” has been featured in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Good Morning America (as one of their Podcasts of the Month), and was named as one of the Best Shows of 2021 by Apple Podcasts. Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers are the hosts of the Pantsuit Politics podcast. ![]()
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![]() If gravity worked differently for men and women, or for Italians and Egyptians, we could not speak of it as a law. ![]() He reasoned that for moral rules to be laws, they had to be universally applicable. ![]() What might those rules be? Here Kant devised the cleverest trick in all moral philosophy. But the rational part of us, Kant said, can follow a different kind of law: It can respect rules of conduct, and so people (but not lions) can be judged morally for the degree to which they respect the right rules. There is no morality in nature there is only causality. ![]() The animal part of us follows the laws of nature, just as does a falling rock or a lion killing its prey. “Like Plato, Kant believed that human beings have a dual nature: part animal and part rational. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her two worlds collide when she spots the killer in a place she least expects. While Maisie believes the boy and wants to help, she must maintain extreme caution: she’s working secretly for the Special Operations Executive, assessing candidates for crucial work with the French resistance. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he’s shocked to come face to face with the killer.ĭismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering a message: Maisie Dobbs. ![]() Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain''s war efforts in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling mystery series. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this novel, Gordon has created a down-at-the-heels backwater racetrack in West Virginia called Indian Mound Downs. Those of us who had relished her earlier books were not disappointed by the wonderfully quirky Lord of Misrule. She certainly didn’t seem interested in making any concessions toward the kinds of fiction that usually win the big awards. ![]() ![]() Gordon, after all, has been working quietly away for a long time over in Kalamazoo, and before this book had produced some small press classics that have had mostly cult attention. When Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule won the National Book Award for fiction last year, the prize seemed to startle no one more than the author. ![]() ![]() Published in 44 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (complex), Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. As Brida seeks her destiny, she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to become a witch. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her to trust in the goodness of the world, and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world. ![]() Her search leads her to people of great wisdom. Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are dark moments in this book-references to torture, drug use, and intense violence-and several important characters die, but the pace is so rushed that readers have no time to dwell. Determined to stop them and to find his father, who is wandering lost in this underground world, Will is constantly running for his life, enduring hardships or caught in skirmishes with the militant Styx. ![]() After teaming up with two renegades in the Deep, Will discovers that the Styx are planning to kill all of the humans living Topsoil so that the Colony can reclaim the Earth. The Styx, who tortured children in the last book, prove to be even more malevolent in this one. The authors waste no time with backstory and leap straight into the plot they maintain a frenetic pace throughout via short chapters and nonstop action. Grade 5–9-This volume begins exactly whereTunnels(Scholastic, 2008) ended-with Will, Chester, and Cal on a train taking them away from the Colony to the deeper underground wilds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hochschild bases this assertion on the findings of his award-winning book King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. When the day of reckoning comes for our era, European colonialism should rank equally with the evils of fascism and communism, said writer Adam Hochschild at an October 14 Director's Forum.
![]() ![]() ![]() Cassia is working in the Capital as a sorter while Ky is in Camas training to be an Airship pilot for the Rising. He reveals that the tablets given to newborns are switched by rebels which contain immunity to the red, memory-erasing tablets and immunity to the viral plague which is ravaging the Society. Xander is now working as an official in the medical department with another official named Lei, but he is secretly working for the Rising, a network of rebels against the Society. Told in the alternating perspectives of Xander, Cassia, and Ky, the novel begins with Xander attending the welcoming ceremony of a new baby born into the Society. 6 on USA Today's Best Selling Books list in 2012. Critical reception of the novel was positive and it reached No. The plot follows the experiences of the three protagonists with the rising of the rebellion against the Society, the race to find the cure against a plague of mysterious origin, and discovering the real intentions of the Rising. The novel is told from the viewpoints of Cassia, Ky, and Xander, a point that Condie insisted on. ![]() The novel was published on November 13, 2012, by Dutton Juvenile and was set to have a first printing of 500,000 copies. Reached is a 2012 young adult dystopian novel by Allyson Braithwaite Condie and is the final novel in the Matched Trilogy, preceded by Matched and Crossed. ![]() ![]() ![]() That is, until his death ignited a battle for ascension that would spell the end for his empire-and nearly the entire galaxy! It would be another thousand years before two young Jedi novices Ulic Qel-Droma and Nomi Sunrider would rise for the cause of justice, first in the case of a Jedi-killing Hutt, and then against a dark Jedi spirit threatening to engulf an entire planet!Ĭontaining the Tales of the Jedi stories "The Golden Age of the Sith," "The Fall of the Sith Empire," and "Knights of the Old Republic," this humongous omnibus is the ultimate introduction to the ancient history of the Star Wars universe! Discover the earliest known stories of the Jedi and the Sith in this massive collection!įive thousand years before Luke Skywalker's successful assault on the Death Star, the Sith Lord Marka Ragnos ruled the galaxy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spitz eventually kills Curly and proves himself to be Buck’s true enemy in the novel. He does not regard right or wrong, but Buck wins with his greater intelligence and cunning. Before meeting Buck, Spitz was the strongest animal around. He’s hated by some and regarded for his strength and ferocity. Their bond is only broken when Thornton dies.Īnother dog that plays a primary role in The Call of the Wild. Thornton represents the last remaining bits of civilization in Buck’s life as he tries to resist the pull to fully immerse himself in the wilds of Alaska. Buck is fiercely loyal to John Thornton during this period, and the two form a productive and lawyer relationship. He is Buck’s last master and is remembered primarily for saving him from Hal. He’s a gold hunter who understands the Klondike very well. One of the primary human characters of Jack London’s novel. His character is used to demonstrate how all living things, from dogs to humans, can revert to their basic instinct to survive. The novel focuses on Bucks’s transformation from a pet in California to a wild, determined animal capable of surviving the terrible conditions in the North. At the novel’s beginning, he’s kidnapped from his home in California and sold as a sled dog in the Alaskan Yukon. He’s a dog from California who starts the novel as a well-loved and loyal pet. Buck is the main character and protagonist of Jack London’s novel. ![]() |