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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Is it ever right to reject a child? What do you do when taking the life of an innocent person means saving several more? When is it right to break a promise? Can someone be too good? If confronted with these situations, what would you do? These are some of the issues explored in The Harder Right, short stories that throw light on the complexity of ethical decision-making. Each story considers a moral concern, from personal loyalty to conflicts between integrity and ethical principles. The Harder Right is designed to stimulate discussion about morality and ethics. A discussion guide is provided at the end of the book. The stories in this book are outstanding ethical markers that will help our soldiers dig deep inside themselves to practice not necessarily what to think, but how to think. Stephen Arata, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret), former Deputy Head of the Department of History, US Military Academy at West Point These stories compel the reader to place him- or herself in the shoes of each morally conflicted protagonist. I found myself repeatedly wondering what would I do in this situation. Jeffrey Berger, Director of Clinical Ethics, Department of Medicine, Winthrop-University Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Stony Brook School of Medicine The Harder Right demonstrates the difficulty of knowing the most basic truths about people while opening up a door to their lives and inviting us inside. Maryann Woods-Murphy, 2011 Teaching Ambassador Fellow of the U.S. Department of Education We have had some intense discussion using The Harder Right in the Freshman College. Every story provokes some kind of debate. We believe this will move the students to think more critically about unclear topics. Millicent Brown, Associate Professor of History and Sociology and Mitchell Mackinem, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Claiflin University.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. LULU is a fascinating heroine based on the equally fascinating life of her creator. Come take the journey with LULU as she grows from a precocious child in Charleston, S.C. into a co-ed at a college in the North. A journey that comes with all of the heartbreak of first love, motherly rivalry, brotherly caring and parental betrayal. With a literary voice in the grand tradition of the great southern writers, one of America's best-selling non-fiction authors Nancy Friday, has in LULU, created a fascinating first work of fiction. A short novel of a young girl growing into adulthood, trying to understand her Charleston home and world, jealous of her mother's greater caring for her older brother, puzzling over her missing father, realizing her early peer leadership is fading with her friends dating and her own seeming rejection by boys, then seeing her heroes collapse, and in the end understanding that one can only rely on oneself to find friendship, love and closeness, a life in the world. LULU is funny and sad, intriguing and ultimately insightful, a book for each of us, a helpful and even important read.- NetGalley Loved this book .A great read about a young girl coming of age.- Steve French, NetGalley Praise for Nancy Friday's Previous Works- I closed the book and wept for half an hour - Christina Robb, The Boston Globe Illuminating and Moving. she writes with deep insight about the central mystery of mothers and daughters.- Michael Korda Brilliant, courageous, moving - The Washington Post.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. LULU is a fascinating heroine based on the equally fascinating life of her creator. Come take the journey with LULU as she grows from a precocious child in Charleston, S.C. into a co-ed at a college in the North. A journey that comes with all of the heartbreak of first love, motherly rivalry, brotherly caring and parental betrayal. With a literary voice in the grand tradition of the great southern writers, one of America's best-selling non-fiction authors Nancy Friday, has in LULU, created a fascinating first work of fiction. A short novel of a young girl growing into adulthood, trying to understand her Charleston home and world, jealous of her mother's greater caring for her older brother, puzzling over her missing father, realizing her early peer leadership is fading with her friends dating and her own seeming rejection by boys, then seeing her heroes collapse, and in the end understanding that one can only rely on oneself to find friendship, love and closeness, a life in the world. LULU is funny and sad, intriguing and ultimately insightful, a book for each of us, a helpful and even important read.- NetGalley Loved this book .A great read about a young girl coming of age.- Steve French, NetGalley Praise for Nancy Friday's Previous Works- I closed the book and wept for half an hour - Christina Robb, The Boston Globe Illuminating and Moving. she writes with deep insight about the central mystery of mothers and daughters.- Michael Korda Brilliant, courageous, moving - The Washington Post.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Tom West, the rumpled, young, headmaster of Christ Church School, loves his job on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and the students and faculty love him right back. But when board member Robert Cattivo--a high-flying real estate magnate who worships Machiavelli and mentored Trump--threatens the integrity of Christ Church, the principled headmaster is thrown into the biggest challenge of his life. Will Cattivo succeed in corrupting Tom, as well as his treasured institution, selling trustee seats and admission slots to the highest bidder and kicking the headmaster to the curb? Must he abandon his integrity to keep his job and preserve the legendary school's high standards? Aided by a beautiful Met curator and an ailing bishop, Tom goes up against a band of ruthless barbarians to save the soul of a legendary school--and in the process, he rediscovers his own humanity. Robin Lester, the former head of Trinity School in New York, also taught and headed schools in San Francisco, Chicago, and Minneapolis. His OpEds and articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and The Dictionary of American Biography. STAGG'S UNIVERSITY, Lester's cultural history of American college football, won the Book of the Year award from the North American Society for Sport History. Lester has a PhD. in history from the University of Chicago. PRINCES is a real page-turner, and Robin Lester is the perfect writer to expose the tender underbelly of New York's private school scene--here, he lifts the curtain to show us how a gifted headmaster pulls it off . . . Or doesn't. John McEnroe Author of You Cannot Be Serious Head of School Tom West is a hero for our times in this witty and sparklingly literate evocation of the way we live now. Peter Blauner, author of Slow Motion Riot and Slipping Into Darkness Fiendishly clever, funny, entertaining, and often downright mischievous, Princes offers the compelling behind the scenes intrigue of a private school's headmaster ultimately going to the mat with the Machiavellian one-percenters of Manhattan. Julie Holland, MD author, Weekends At Bellevue: Nine Years on the Nightshift at the Psych ER Princes is hilarious, cutting and utterly entertaining. This Machiavellian tale is told by a consummate insider and, in the style of Bonfire of the Vanities, will leave certain readers scrambling to discern what facts may lie beneath the fiction. Daphne Uviller, author, Super in the City and Hotel No Tell Princes is an engrossing, authentic story about an independent school in the complicated, exciting and exhilarating city of New York. Edes Gilbert, former head of the Spence School, New York; author, Alone Together.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Tom West, the rumpled, young, headmaster of Christ Church School, loves his job on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and the students and faculty love him right back. But when board member Robert Cattivo--a high-flying real estate magnate who worships Machiavelli and mentored Trump--threatens the integrity of Christ Church, the principled headmaster is thrown into the biggest challenge of his life. Will Cattivo succeed in corrupting Tom, as well as his treasured institution, selling trustee seats and admission slots to the highest bidder and kicking the headmaster to the curb? Must he abandon his integrity to keep his job and preserve the legendary school's high standards? Aided by a beautiful Met curator and an ailing bishop, Tom goes up against a band of ruthless barbarians to save the soul of a legendary school--and in the process, he rediscovers his own humanity. Robin Lester, the former head of Trinity School in New York, also taught and headed schools in San Francisco, Chicago, and Minneapolis. His OpEds and articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and The Dictionary of American Biography. STAGG'S UNIVERSITY, Lester's cultural history of American college football, won the Book of the Year award from the North American Society for Sport History. Lester has a PhD. in history from the University of Chicago. PRINCES is a real page-turner, and Robin Lester is the perfect writer to expose the tender underbelly of New York's private school scene--here, he lifts the curtain to show us how a gifted headmaster pulls it off . . . Or doesn't. John McEnroe Author of You Cannot Be Serious Head of School Tom West is a hero for our times in this witty and sparklingly literate evocation of the way we live now. Peter Blauner, author of Slow Motion Riot and Slipping Into Darkness Fiendishly clever, funny, entertaining, and often downright mischievous, Princes offers the compelling behind the scenes intrigue of a private school's headmaster ultimately going to the mat with the Machiavellian one-percenters of Manhattan. Julie Holland, MD author, Weekends At Bellevue: Nine Years on the Nightshift at the Psych ER Princes is hilarious, cutting and utterly entertaining. This Machiavellian tale is told by a consummate insider and, in the style of Bonfire of the Vanities, will leave certain readers scrambling to discern what facts may lie beneath the fiction. Daphne Uviller, author, Super in the City and Hotel No Tell Princes is an engrossing, authentic story about an independent school in the complicated, exciting and exhilarating city of New York. Edes Gilbert, former head of the Spence School, New York; author, Alone Together.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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