books about: conscience     books:       Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us127 reviews Robert D. Hare PhD The Guilford Press, 1999 Beware Women A very important book for all women especially ones that are alone. From my past.......I have to keep reminding my self that I miss the illusion not the real person. The sweet words, compliments, and empty promises. The person that you have been waiting for your whole life. He was and is a psychopath and will always be.... I am very concerned that other women alone might be meeting this kind of ...             The Conscience of a Liberal138 reviews Paul Krugman W.W. Norton & Co., 2009 A Seat at the Table In American politics one day, a seat at the table, will be available for both liberal and conservative alike. I mean by this that, for each administration recently, it's been all one, or all the other. Balance is something that still eludes us...and as well, historic perspective. Krugman, pursues vigorously here, the liberal perspective...as two generations earlier, Senator Barry Goldwater ...             High Risk: Children Without A Conscience18 reviews Ken Magid Bantam, 1989 It was as if a weight was lifted off us! Thank you so much for putting into easy to understand words so that regular people will know what 'unattached' and 'unbonded' mean. We were dealing with many of those issues with a child we became guardians of. We knew something wasn't right but did not know what. We looked on the internet, talked with friends and family, asked at our local library for help. After reading 20 books on the subjects ...             Zeno's Conscience: A Novel17 reviews Italo Svevo Vintage, 2003 One of the best novels I ever read Psychoanalysis usually does not make a good basis for fiction writing. There is, to my knowledge, one unique and very bright exception which is this book. The previous novels of Italo Svevo were showing real litterary talent but nothing like the genius he displayed in this one. At some point in his life, this man who must have considered himself a failed writer was encouraged to try it again by a ...             Conservatives Without Conscience168 reviews John W. Dean Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT A CONSCIENCE As a lifelong Democrat, I suspected the differences between why individuals describe themselves as Democrats or Republicans were related to their own individual personality and world view. In this book, John W. Dean has investigated the basis for my questions, describing how in terms of history and psychology individuals might be drawn to either of the parties' philosophy--and their extreme ...             Crisis of Conscience117 reviews Raymond Franz Commentary Press, 2002 as a former witness we never knew any of this!! i was one of jehovah's witnesses for almost 25 years and i never knew any of the information in this book.. we were forbidden to read any "apostate" information (information by former j.w.'s) so for 25 years i never did.. i left the j.w.'s 6 years ago still believing they were the one true religion based on all the "bible study" i had done over the years.. after i left the j.w.'s i thought, ...             Conscience of a Conservative54 reviews Barry Goldwater CreateSpace, 2009 For those of us who just simply don't like or want big government Written nearly 50 years ago, this short text still has it's relevance today, particularly for those of us who think the role of government is strictly limited by the Constitution. I for one, think that it is man's inate desire to be free of government. Surely, we need rules and guidelines for our society, but the best kind of government is the government you don't even know is there. Barry ...             A Case of Conscience (Del Rey Impact)41 reviews James Blish Del Rey, 2000 A CASE OF CONSCIENCE by James Blish A Case of Conscience is a 1958 science fiction novel by James Blish. It won the 1959 Hugo Award. In 2049, Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez, a Jesuit priest, accompanies an expedition to an alien planet to see if it should be opened to human contact. The inhabitants are a perfectly moral but completely non-religious people. This causes a crisis of faith for Ruiz-Sanchez, who comes to suspect that the planet ...             The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?25 reviews Ronald Sider Baker Books, 2005 Easy answer...... (I didn't read the book. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt with 5 stars) The reason Christians are living just like the rest of the world is that there is only ONE world. You can make as many, usually artificial, divisions if you'd like, but there isn't "another" world for Christians to inhabit. For all the talk in the Bible about "transformation" and "renewal" and such, you just aren't ...             The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts42 reviews Wayne Allyn Root Wiley, 2009 Intrroducing the Next President of the United States! One can only hope and dream. But with Wayne Allyn Root's (W.A.R) determination, the stars just might be in alignment for his election in 2012, 2016, or 2020. Root discusses virtually every important policy issue in this book. Unlike his college classmate at Columbia University (Barack Obama), Root has received his education in the school of "hard knocks." As a long time small business ...             JLA: Crisis of Conscience (Identity Crisis) (Countdown to Infinite Crisis)14 reviews Geoff Johns, Allan Heinberg DC Comics, 2006 the end of the league This story immediately Identity Crisis (a great story and you have to read before this volume) and is part of the preparation for INfinite Crisis. Basically, the League crossed the line, messing with the minds of villians. This is the after math of Ident Crisis and is part of the story leading up to Infinite Crisis. A definite must read, probably the best JLA story ever written.             The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man20 reviews J. Budziszewski Spence Publishing Company, 1999 Neither to the left nor to the right... A colleague and I were discussing the Greek notion of sophrosyne and its Christian counterpart sophronismos when he referred me to this book. I am thankful he did. First, this is an absolute must read for Christian pastors, teachers, and any interested in politics. Budziszewski's thesis that conscience is suppressed not absent is persuasive. The many examples of how far the mind will go to ...             On Conscience (Bioethics & Culture)6 reviews Pope Benedict XVI Ignatius Press, 2007 Essential Reading for All People Trying to Act Rightly On Conscience is an essential book for anyone trying to figure out how to know the right thing to do in any given situation. Today there are many who -- while continuing to recognize that acting rightly (whatever that means) is still important -- a large number seem also to believe that anything is right as long as they sincerely think it is right. Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) ...             Locked Up: Letters and Papers of a Prisoner of Conscience Don Beisswenger Upper Room, 2008 Upon retirement from Vanderbilt Divinity School, Rev. Don Beisswenger did not make plans to go fishing, nor did he plan on going to prison. Beisswenger, however, did know that it was time to honor his commitment to the poor and marginalized. He began to work with homeless persons in Nashville and also to study conditions in Latin America, where he was particularly concerned with US involvement in training military units of other countries. After ...             Conscience of a Conservative Barry Goldwater Wilder Publications, 2009 The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. It influenced countless conservatives in the United States, and helped lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution in 1980. It covers topics such as education, labor unions and policies, civil rights, agricultural policy and farm subsidies, social welfare programs, and income taxation. This significant book lays out the ...             The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism4 reviews Carl F. H. Henry Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003 Should Christianity influence the culture - read this to find out! An incredibly astute book that challenges fundamentalist Christianity with a weakness in their armor - an inability and unwillingness to address social ills and evil in the world. But that can't be, fundamentalism clearly and correctly identifies the problem with the world is sin and the solution is the saving grace and transforming power of Jesus Christ in the life of an individual. While ...             Guilt: The Bite of Conscience (Stanford General Books) Herant Katchadourian Stanford General Books, 2009 Guilt: The Bite of Conscience is the first book to study guilt from a wide variety of perspectives including those of psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, six major religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism), four key moral philosophers (Aristotle, Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Nietzsche), and the law. Katchadourian first explores the ways in which guilt functions within ...             The Vanishing Conscience7 reviews John MacArthur Thomas Nelson, 2005 A Very Great Danger I believe one of the authors concerns in writing this book was to asess how the Church and individual Christians both view and deal with sin,and then to look at how the maintenance of a good conscience can help the Church of Christ have a greater influence in the world. The author sees one of the Church's weaknesses (not being a lack of effort and involvement in our society)but that the Church ...             Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS63 reviews Johann Voss The Aberjona Press, 2002 A first hand look inside the Waffen SS. A young boy comes of age during the years of dark war clouds forming over Europe. Coming to a decision he joins a unit of the Waffen-SS. This is a very well written book, and it is written in a timely manner so as to draw upon fresh mental images and memories: of what was happening in the whirlwind that turned into a giant Tornado that sucked up everything into its path and left death, ...             The Nazi Conscience8 reviews Claudia Koonz Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005 The Nazi Conscience is brilliant I will echo another reviewer who said this is one of the best books on the Nazi machine which was written. I think most people believe that the holocaust was accomplished by only a few people. In reality it was the work of an organized machine which had to be oiled, maintained, and periodically refueled. This was what the engineers of this machine did. This book really puts it all in ...              search for books bioethics, children, christians, citizen, conscience, conservative, conservatives, countdown, culture, disturbing, edelweiss, empowering, evangelical, fundamentalism, gambling, general, identity, infinite, letters, liberal, libertarian, politics, prisoner, psychopaths, revenge, revolution, stanford, vanishing, waffen-ss, without books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen toys & games: Hayward, Pac Fab 48 sq ft De Filter Grids Unicel Set home  impressum - about us