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On Settling

by Robert E. Goodin ...

The hidden value of settlingIn a culture that worships ceaseless striving, "settling" seems like giving up. But is it? On Settling defends the positive value of settling, explaining why this disdained practice is not only more realistic but more useful than an excessive ideal of striving. In fact, the book makes the case that we'd all be lost without settling—and that even to strive, one must ... Read more

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The hidden value of settlingIn a culture that worships ceaseless striving, "settling" seems like giving up. But is it? On Settling defends the positive value of settling, explaining why this disdained practice is not only more realistic but more useful than an excessive ideal of striving. In fact, the book makes the case that we'd all be lost without settling—and that even to strive, one must
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Consent Matters

by Robert E. Goodin ...

Consent works moral magic. Things that would otherwise be wrong to do to someone are, with that person's consent, made morally permissible. But what is consent, and how does it work? What can be taken for consent (perhaps wrongly) and with what consequences? How does consent come into being and pass out of it? How can consent be conferred, invoked and revoked? What is the role of social and legal ... Read more

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Consent works moral magic. Things that would otherwise be wrong to do to someone are, with that person's consent, made morally permissible. But what is consent, and how does it work? What can be taken for consent (perhaps wrongly) and with what consequences? How does consent come into being and pass out of it? How can consent be conferred, invoked and revoked? What is the role of social and legal
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Innovating Democracy

Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn

by Robert E. Goodin ...

In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn. Instead of merely casting the occasional ballot, deliberative democrats want citizens to reason together. They embrace 'talk as a decision procedure'. But of course thousands or millions of people cannot realistically talk to one another all at once. When putting their theories into practice, deliberative democrats therefore tend to ... Read more

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In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn. Instead of merely casting the occasional ballot, deliberative democrats want citizens to reason together. They embrace 'talk as a decision procedure'. But of course thousands or millions of people cannot realistically talk to one another all at once. When putting their theories into practice, deliberative democrats therefore tend to
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Reasons for Welfare

The Political Theory of the Welfare State

by Robert E. Goodin ...

Series series Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would justify it as a hesitant first step toward some larger, ideally just form of society. Reasons for Welfare, in contrast, offers a defense of the minimal welfare state substantially independent of any ... Read more

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Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would justify it as a hesitant first step toward some larger, ideally just form of society. Reasons for Welfare, in contrast, offers a defense of the minimal welfare state substantially independent of any
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Green Political Theory

by Robert E. Goodin ...

With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwide seized the political imagination of friends and foes alike. Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them in turn. This new book shows that 'greens' deserve to be taken more seriously than that.This is the first full-length philosophical discussion of the green political programme. Goodin shows that green public ... Read more

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With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwide seized the political imagination of friends and foes alike. Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them in turn. This new book shows that 'greens' deserve to be taken more seriously than that.This is the first full-length philosophical discussion of the green political programme. Goodin shows that green public
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Perpetuating Advantage

Mechanisms of Structural Injustice

by Robert E. Goodin ...

Injustices are, in the first instance, brute acts of identifiable individuals. But they are typically perpetuated, more subtly, through seemingly innocent workings of innocuous social structures. Critics of structural injustice are quick to call out that ruse. They say much about all the sites where such structural injustices reside - but without saying much, as yet, about how exactly structural ... Read more

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Injustices are, in the first instance, brute acts of identifiable individuals. But they are typically perpetuated, more subtly, through seemingly innocent workings of innocuous social structures. Critics of structural injustice are quick to call out that ruse. They say much about all the sites where such structural injustices reside - but without saying much, as yet, about how exactly structural
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What's Wrong With Terrorism?

by Robert E. Goodin ...

Terrorists perform terrible acts. They maim, mutilate and kill in pursuit of their goals. The horrifying events of 9/11 and the regular suicide bombings around the world have made terrorism one of the central preoccupations of the twenty-first century. But what is the distinctive wrong of terrorism? Criminal acts such as murder and hijacking are already on the moral statute books, so why is it ... Read more

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Terrorists perform terrible acts. They maim, mutilate and kill in pursuit of their goals. The horrifying events of 9/11 and the regular suicide bombings around the world have made terrorism one of the central preoccupations of the twenty-first century. But what is the distinctive wrong of terrorism? Criminal acts such as murder and hijacking are already on the moral statute books, so why is it
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The Secret of Secrets

A Novel

by Dan Brown ...

Series Book 6 - Robert Langdon
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE“A master of the brainy, twisty thriller. . . . The Secret of Secrets is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking yet: a dense thriller that is also a meditation on the nature, and the possible future, of human consciousness.”—Los Angeles Times“So riveting you’ll want to clear your calen ... Read more

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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE“A master of the brainy, twisty thriller. . . . The Secret of Secrets is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking yet: a dense thriller that is also a meditation on the nature, and the possible future, of human consciousness.”—Los Angeles Times“So riveting you’ll want to clear your calen
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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2 [newly updated] (Golden Deer Classics)

by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Golden Deer Classics, Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, J.M. Barrie, B.M. Bower, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert William Chambers, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Darwin, Daniel Defoe, Margaret Deland, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Andrew Lang, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Strunk Jr., Vatsyayana, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf ...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow ... Read more

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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow
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Lord of Chaos

Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'

by Robert Jordan ...

Series Book 6 - Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!In Lord of Chaos, the sixth novel in Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, builds his army of Light even as sworn enemies--and supposed allies--move against him.Now ruling Tear, Andor, and Caemlyn, among other nations, Rand ... Read more

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The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!In Lord of Chaos, the sixth novel in Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, builds his army of Light even as sworn enemies--and supposed allies--move against him.Now ruling Tear, Andor, and Caemlyn, among other nations, Rand
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The Agenda

by J. Robert Kennedy ...

Series Book 6 - Dylan Kane Thrillers
“Dylan Kane leaves James Bond in his dust!” FROM AWARD-WINNING USA TODAY & MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED. THE COUNTRY IS ON ITS KNEES.CAN DYLAN KANE SAVE IT BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE?With the cities starving and his girlfriend critically wounded, CIA Operations Officer Dylan Kane is in a race against time to save not only the country he has ... ... Read more

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“Dylan Kane leaves James Bond in his dust!” FROM AWARD-WINNING USA TODAY & MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED. THE COUNTRY IS ON ITS KNEES.CAN DYLAN KANE SAVE IT BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE?With the cities starving and his girlfriend critically wounded, CIA Operations Officer Dylan Kane is in a race against time to save not only the country he has ...
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The Templar Detective and the Black Scourge

by J. Robert Kennedy ...

Series Book 6 - The Templar Detective Thrillers
FROM USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY A MENACE IS SWEEPING PARIS.AND THE TEMPLAR ORDER IS TO BLAME.Templar Knight Sir Marcus de Rancourt rushes to Paris to determine what happened to young Thomas Durant after he fails to return from a short trip.As he begins his search, he soon discovers that more is going on than just the disappearance of his young friend. A scourge ... Read more

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FROM USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY A MENACE IS SWEEPING PARIS.AND THE TEMPLAR ORDER IS TO BLAME.Templar Knight Sir Marcus de Rancourt rushes to Paris to determine what happened to young Thomas Durant after he fails to return from a short trip.As he begins his search, he soon discovers that more is going on than just the disappearance of his young friend. A scourge
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