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Democracies at war by Reiter, Dan, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: TABLES AND FIGURES ix -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi -- ONE -- Democracy's Fourth Virtue 1 -- TWO -- Democracy, War Initiation, and Victory 10 -- THREE -- Democracy and Battlefield Success 58 -- FOUR -- Balancers or Bystanders? …”
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Love a history / by May, Simon (Simon Philip Walter)

Table of Contents: “…Love plays God -- The foundation of Western love : Hebrew scripture -- From physical desire to paradise : Plato -- Love as perfect friendship : Aristotle -- Love as sexual desire : Lucretius and Ovid -- Love as the supreme virtue : Christianity -- Why Christian love isn't unconditional -- Women on top : love and the troubadours -- How human nature became loveable : from the high Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- Love as joyful understanding of the whole : Spinoza -- Love as enlightened romanticism : Rousseau -- Love as religion : Schlegel and Novalis -- Love as the urge to procreate : Schopenhauer -- Love as affirmation of life : Nietzsche -- Love as a history of loss : Freud -- Love as terror and tedium : Proust -- Love reconsidered.…”
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Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster by Wainwright, Valerie, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Modes and sensibilities : varieties of ethical thought -- Narrative perspectives -- On being un/reasonable : Mansfield Park and the limits of persuasion -- Discovering autonomy and authenticity in North and south : Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the liberal ethic -- On goods, virtues and Hard times -- Anatomizing excellence : Middlemarch, moral saints and the languages of belief -- The magic in Mentalité : Hardy's native returns -- Howards End and the confession of imperfection.…”
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Once upon a time illustrations from fairytales, fables, primers, pop-ups, and other children's books / by Weinstein, Amy, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- To amuse and instruct : an introduction to illustrated children's books -- From apple to zouave : learning the ABCs -- Through the air on a very fine gander : gems from Mother Goose -- Once upon a time : fairytales and fables -- Fact and fiction : novels, history books, and anthologies -- 'Twas the night before : Christmas books -- Virtue and vice : cautionary tales for the nursery.…”
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Once upon a time illustrations from fairytales, fables, primers, pop-ups, and other children's books / by Weinstein, Amy, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- To amuse and instruct : an introduction to illustrated children's books -- From apple to zouave : learning the ABCs -- Through the air on a very fine gander : gems from Mother Goose -- Once upon a time : fairytales and fables -- Fact and fiction : novels, history books, and anthologies -- 'Twas the night before : Christmas books -- Virtue and vice : cautionary tales for the nursery.…”
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Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain A Social History / by Bates, A.W.H

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chapter 1. Vivisection, virtue, and the law in the nineteenth century.- Chapter 2. …”
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Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster by Wainwright, Valerie, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Modes and sensibilities : varieties of ethical thought -- Narrative perspectives -- On being un/reasonable : Mansfield Park and the limits of persuasion -- Discovering autonomy and authenticity in North and south : Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the liberal ethic -- On goods, virtues and Hard times -- Anatomizing excellence : Middlemarch, moral saints and the languages of belief -- The magic in Mentalité : Hardy's native returns -- Howards End and the confession of imperfection.…”
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Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain A Social History / by Bates, A.W.H

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chapter 1. Vivisection, virtue, and the law in the nineteenth century.- Chapter 2. …”
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Defending God biblical responses to the problem of evil / by Crenshaw, James L.

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Spreading the blame around -- The atheistic answer : abandoning the quest -- Alternative gods : falling back on a convenient worldview -- A demon at work : letting benevolence slip -- Part II: Redefining God -- Limited power and knowledge : accentuating human freedom -- Split personality : reconciling justice with mercy -- A disciplinary procedure : stimulating growth in virtue -- Punishment for sin : blaming the victim -- Part III: Shifting to the human scene -- Suffering as atonement : making the most of a bad thing -- Justice deferred : banking on life beyond the grave -- Mystery : appealing to human ignorance -- Disinterested righteousness : questioning the problem.…”
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Selected myths by Plato

Table of Contents: “…The origin of virtue (Protagoras 320c-323a) -- The judgement of souls (Gorgias 523a-527a) -- The androgyne (Symposium 189c-193e) -- The birth of love (Symposium 201d-212c) -- The other world (Phaedo 107c-115a) -- The cave (Republic 514a-517a) -- ER's journey into the other world (Republic 614b-621d) -- The winged soul (Phaedrus 246a-257a) -- The two cosmic eras (Statesman 268d-274e) -- Atlantis and the ancient city of Athens (Timaeus 20d-25d; Critias 108e-121c).…”
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John Witherspoon and the founding of the American republic by Morrison, Jeffry H., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Forgotten founder -- "The public interest of religion" : virtue, religion, and the republic -- "Plain common sense" : educating patriots at Princeton -- "An animated Son of Liberty" : revolution -- "An equal republican constitution" : confederation, union, and nationhood -- John Witherspoon and early American political thought -- Appendix A. …”
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Women and revenge in Shakespeare gender, genre, and ethics / by Tassi, Marguerite A., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Women and revenge: some literary, iconographic, and intellectual foundations -- Valorous tongues, lamenting voices: the expressive ethics of female inciters in Shakespeare's plays -- Reporting the women's causes aright: wounded names and revenge narratives in Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, and Much ado about nothing -- Hecuba's legacy: wounded maternity and vengeance in the First tetralogy and Titus Andronicus -- "Revenging home": Cordelia and the virtue of vengeance -- Twelfth night, or what Maria wills -- Feminine vindication and the social drama of revenge in The merry wives of Windsor -- The quality of revenge: debt, reciprocity, and Portia's "vantage" in The merchant of Venice -- Women's gall, women's grace: female friendship, moral rebuke, and the vindictive passions.…”
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Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts / by Ross, Bruce, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty -- Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism -- Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry -- The willing subject and the non-willing subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's hyperborean : Taoist and deconstructive challenges to the idea of virtue -- Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art -- Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights -- Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting -- The essence of haiku -- A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku -- Narratives of the heart : haibun -- On defining haibun to a western audience -- Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.…”
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Faith and politics in America from Jamestown to the Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Bray, colonial Maryland -- And the role of religion in public life / Joseph Prud'homme -- Jefferson's opposition to the Judeo-Christian tradition / Stephen Strehle -- Religion in the thought of James Madison / Garrett Sheldon -- John Quincy Adams and a republic of virtue / Gary Smith -- Slavery in America: an institution defined by faith / Dawn Hutchinson -- Evangelical ministers in the antebellum south and guilt -- Over slavery: the incoherence of evangelical pro-slavery thought / Joseph Prud'homme.…”
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John Witherspoon and the founding of the American republic by Morrison, Jeffry H., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Forgotten founder -- "The public interest of religion" : virtue, religion, and the republic -- "Plain common sense" : educating patriots at Princeton -- "An animated Son of Liberty" : revolution -- "An equal republican constitution" : confederation, union, and nationhood -- John Witherspoon and early American political thought -- Appendix A. …”
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Women and revenge in Shakespeare gender, genre, and ethics / by Tassi, Marguerite A., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Women and revenge: some literary, iconographic, and intellectual foundations -- Valorous tongues, lamenting voices: the expressive ethics of female inciters in Shakespeare's plays -- Reporting the women's causes aright: wounded names and revenge narratives in Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, and Much ado about nothing -- Hecuba's legacy: wounded maternity and vengeance in the First tetralogy and Titus Andronicus -- "Revenging home": Cordelia and the virtue of vengeance -- Twelfth night, or what Maria wills -- Feminine vindication and the social drama of revenge in The merry wives of Windsor -- The quality of revenge: debt, reciprocity, and Portia's "vantage" in The merchant of Venice -- Women's gall, women's grace: female friendship, moral rebuke, and the vindictive passions.…”
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Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts / by Ross, Bruce, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty -- Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism -- Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry -- The willing subject and the non-willing subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's hyperborean : Taoist and deconstructive challenges to the idea of virtue -- Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art -- Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights -- Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting -- The essence of haiku -- A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku -- Narratives of the heart : haibun -- On defining haibun to a western audience -- Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.…”
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Faith and politics in America from Jamestown to the Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Bray, colonial Maryland -- And the role of religion in public life / Joseph Prud'homme -- Jefferson's opposition to the Judeo-Christian tradition / Stephen Strehle -- Religion in the thought of James Madison / Garrett Sheldon -- John Quincy Adams and a republic of virtue / Gary Smith -- Slavery in America: an institution defined by faith / Dawn Hutchinson -- Evangelical ministers in the antebellum south and guilt -- Over slavery: the incoherence of evangelical pro-slavery thought / Joseph Prud'homme.…”
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Defending God biblical responses to the problem of evil / by Crenshaw, James L.

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Spreading the blame around -- The atheistic answer : abandoning the quest -- Alternative gods : falling back on a convenient worldview -- A demon at work : letting benevolence slip -- Part II: Redefining God -- Limited power and knowledge : accentuating human freedom -- Split personality : reconciling justice with mercy -- A disciplinary procedure : stimulating growth in virtue -- Punishment for sin : blaming the victim -- Part III: Shifting to the human scene -- Suffering as atonement : making the most of a bad thing -- Justice deferred : banking on life beyond the grave -- Mystery : appealing to human ignorance -- Disinterested righteousness : questioning the problem.…”
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Selected myths by Plato

Table of Contents: “…The origin of virtue (Protagoras 320c-323a) -- The judgement of souls (Gorgias 523a-527a) -- The androgyne (Symposium 189c-193e) -- The birth of love (Symposium 201d-212c) -- The other world (Phaedo 107c-115a) -- The cave (Republic 514a-517a) -- ER's journey into the other world (Republic 614b-621d) -- The winged soul (Phaedrus 246a-257a) -- The two cosmic eras (Statesman 268d-274e) -- Atlantis and the ancient city of Athens (Timaeus 20d-25d; Critias 108e-121c).…”
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