M Weaver: 28 books
by Richard M. Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
In The Ethics of Rhetoric, Richard M. Weaver evaluates the ethical and cultural role of rhetoric and its reflection on society. Weaver draws upon classical notions of rhetoric in Plato’s Phaedrus, and he examines the effectiveness and implications of the manipulation of language in the works of...
Ideas Have Consequences
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication,the...
Fit for God
The 8-Week Plan That Kicks The Devil OUT and Invites Health and Healing IN
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
La Vita Weaver, an ordained minister and fitness instructor, knows firsthand how being overweight affects every aspect of one’s life. During her own battle with extra pounds—she gained eighty following the birth of her first child—she found herself struggling also with profound emotional and...
by Richard M. Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Weaver's Ethics of Rhetoric, originally published in 1953, has been called his most important statement on the ethical and cultural role of rhetoric. A strong advocate of cultural conservatism, Weaver (1910-1953) argued strongly for the role of liberal studies in the face of what he saw as the encroachments...
Arresting Citizenship
The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The numbers are staggering: One-third of America’s adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now has a criminal record. Many more were never convicted, but are nonetheless subject to surveillance by the state. Never before has the American government maintained so vast...
by L.M. Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Lena was just a simple temple servant girl, an outcast that no one really paid attention to...until Damian crashed through the forest to meet her. Their chance encounter has now caused a chain of events that not even Lena thought was possible. Learning she is doomed to be dragged down to the Underworld...
by Raymond M. Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
“If ever, my dear Hawthorne,” wrote Melville in the summer of 1851, “we shall sit down in Paradise in some little shady corner by ourselves; and if we shall by any means be able to smuggle a basket of champagne there (I won’t believe in a Temperance Heaven); and if we shall then cross our...
Creating a New Racial Order
How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
The American racial order--the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities--is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. Creating a New Racial Order takes a groundbreaking look at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and...
by M. Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Makayla has a responsibility to her family and pack. At the age of 16, she must pick who is going to be her future husband. Can Makayla pick between a longtime boyfriend or her friend? But after a horrible accident, she wakes to find that she is married and her memory has failed to come back. Makayla...
A Saving Science
Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
In A Saving Science, Eric Ramírez-Weaver explores the significance of early medieval astronomy in the Frankish empire, using as his lens an astronomical masterpiece, the deluxe manuscript of the Handbook of 809, painted in roughly 830 for Bishop Drogo of Metz, one of Charlemagne’s sons. Created...
by Katharina Gerlach, Ava Fairhall, K.V. Moffet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Solve a mermaid's problem…
Step off the edge of a roof…
Dig up a grave at midnight…
Take advice from a fortune cookie…
Visit the last library…
Meet a bridge troll…
And more…
In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...
Teaching Peace
Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of nonviolence beyond ethics and into the rest of the...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
Amish Grace
How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. In front of twenty-five horrified pupils, thirty-two-year-old Charles Roberts ordered the boys and the teacher to leave. After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared to...
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