books about: debates     books:       The Wand-Maker's Debate: Osric's Wand: Book One Jack D. Albrecht Jr. and Ashley Delay, 2011 Warning: This is not your typical talking animal fantasy! Overview: There is a time when history begins; a time when those who live feel the need to write their story, for those who come after them to read.  When recollection of events of importance cannot be left to one's offspring alone, but must be shared with all. Then there is a time where history transcends into legend; when strongly held beliefs are tried by fire, and ...             Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, 2nd edition (Roberts Rules of Order in Brief) Henry M. III Robert, Daniel H. Honemann, ... Da Capo Press, 2011 Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised, In Brief was first published in 2005 to meet the need for a simple and short book on parliamentary procedure. This second edition of In Brief is now updated and revised to match the new full edition of Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised , also published this year. Written by the same authorship team behind the officially sanctioned Robert’s Rules of Order , this concise, user-friendly ...             Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey, ... Cengage Learning, 2010 Up-to-date and comprehensive, this practical, bestselling text (now available with an online personalized study plan) provides students with the basis for discovering their own guidelines for helping within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. Respected authors Gerald Corey, Marianne Corey, and Patrick Callanan raise what they consider to be central issues, present a range of diverse views on ...             Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 3 The Lincoln-Douglas debates Public Domain Books, 2004 This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.             A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico Amy S. Greenberg Knopf, 2012 Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies.    When President James K. Polk ...             Guns (Kindle Single) Philtrum Press, 2013 In a pulls-no-punches essay intended to provoke rational discussion, Stephen King sets down his thoughts about gun violence in America. Anger and grief in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are palpable in this urgent piece of writing, but no less remarkable are King’s keen thoughtfulness and composure as he explores the contours of the gun-control issue and constructs his argument for what can and should be done. ...             In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts: How to Handle Tough Questions ...When It ... FT Press, 2005 Jerry Weissman has made a career of coaching nearly 500 execs on their IPO roadshows, the most critical presentations of their lives. Now, he's written an indispensable guide to answering the toughest questions you'll ever face.  Using compelling examples from Presidential debates to stock analyst meetings, Weissman teaches how to respond with perfect assurance. Discover how to avoid the defensive, evasive, or  contentious answers that have ...             The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Vintage) Jonathan Haidt Vintage, 2013 As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—challenged conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. Drawing on his twenty five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, he shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, ...             The Handy Little Book of Gun Quotes F.T. Harvey, 2013 An essential book of quotes on the right to bear arms... Your old-school resource in a gun debate             The Invisible String Patrice Karst Devorss & Co., 2000 A steady best-seller and The Strings are still reaching all over the World! "That's impossible", said twins Jeremy & Liza after their Mom told them they're all connected by this thing called an Invisible String. "What kind of string"? They asked with a puzzled look to which Mom replied, "An Invisible String made of love." That's where the story begins. A story that teaches of the tie that really binds. The Invisible String reaches from heart ...             Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 4: The Lincoln-Douglas debates Public Domain Books, 2004 This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.             The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Vintage) Jonathan Haidt Vintage, 2013 As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—challenged conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. Drawing on his twenty five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, he shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, ...             Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo PublicAffairs, 2012 Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics , Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called “marvelous, rewarding,” the authors tell how the stress of living on less than 99 cents per day encourages the poor to ...             Condemn Me Not BloominThyme Press, 2012 Bound by friendship, two women find themselves at common crossroads, struggling with choices both past and present, career and home. Simone Sheridan and Claire Atkins have been friends since college. Upon graduation, they took off in different directions, forging separate paths through motherhood. Neither planned to look back on the road they traveled with regret—yet that's exactly what’s at stake when their daughters issue opposing ...             The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Nicholas Carr W. W. Norton & Company, 2011 Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s ...             Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict John Burt Belknap Press, 2013 In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism , John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. In a United States stubbornly divided over ethical issues, the overarching question posed by the Lincoln-Douglas debates has not lost its urgency: ...             Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion Jay Heinrichs Three Rivers Press, 2007 Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero’s three-step strategy for moving an audience to actionÑas well as Honest Abe’s Shameless Trick of lowering an audience’s expectations by pretending to be unpolished. But it’s also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians’ use ...             What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense Sherif Girgis, Ryan T Anderson, ... Encounter Books, 2012 Until yesterday, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partner­ship: a male-female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage is unnecessary, unreasonable, and contrary to the common good. Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy , this book's core argument quickly became the year's most widely ...             The Book of Questions Gregory Stock Ph.D. Workman Publishing Company, 1987 The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges and changes the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. Posing 265 questions, "The Book of Questions" is bound to provoke hours and hours of thought.             Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the ... Doubleday, 2013 The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast—the gorilla—only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin's theory of evolution In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West Africa determined to bag an animal that, according to legend, was nothing short of a ...              search for books adventure, aristotle, condemn, conflict, divided, economics, edition, evolution, explorer, helping, internet, invasion, invisible, lincoln-douglas, marriage, persuasion, politics, poverty, pragmatism, professions, questions, radical, religion, rethinking, righteous, shallows, unlikely, victorian, wand-maker, writings books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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