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Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions

by Mark P. Lagon, Anthony Clark Arend, John J. DeGioia, Nancy E. Soderberg, Tod Lindberg, Abiodun Williams, Chester A. Crocker, Anoop Singh, Ryan Kaminski0, Rosalia Rodriguez-Garcia1, Raj M. Desai2, Homi Kharas3, Benjamin Boudreaux4, Thomas Banchoff5, Nicole Bibbins Sedaca6, Michael A. Samway7 ...

What does human dignity mean and what role should it play in guiding the mission of international institutions? In recent decades, global institutions have proliferated—from intergovernmental organizations to hybrid partnerships. The specific missions of these institutions are varied, but is there a common animating principle to inform their goals? Presented as an integrated, thematic analysis ... Read more

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What does human dignity mean and what role should it play in guiding the mission of international institutions? In recent decades, global institutions have proliferated—from intergovernmental organizations to hybrid partnerships. The specific missions of these institutions are varied, but is there a common animating principle to inform their goals? Presented as an integrated, thematic analysis
... Read more
Inflection 04: Permanence

Journal of the Melbourne School of Design

by Elizabeth Diller, Dan Hill, Casey Mack, Christof Mayer, Tod Williams, Billie Tsien ...

Series Book 4 - Inflection
Permanence as an architectural concept is no longer restricted to the Vitruvian virtue of firmitas. To think about it in this sense today produces a schism: absolutism in a world of relativism. The fourth volume of Inflection extrapolates the permanent and the temporary not as opposing forces, but as a spectrum to be navigated at each stage of architecture's unfolding narrative. Through each of ... Read more

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Permanence as an architectural concept is no longer restricted to the Vitruvian virtue of firmitas. To think about it in this sense today produces a schism: absolutism in a world of relativism. The fourth volume of Inflection extrapolates the permanent and the temporary not as opposing forces, but as a spectrum to be navigated at each stage of architecture's unfolding narrative. Through each of
... Read more
Knifeboy

A Novel

by Tod Harrison Williams ...

Friends. Family. Housekeepers.All's Fair in Love, War, and Knife Selling.Check your dignity at the door as you stride across the welcome mat with Jay Hauser in this insightful and strangely touching story about young love, fear, manipulation, and the lengths we go to to succeed in a world that values charisma, competition, and acceptance above all else. Set on the elite campus of Dartmouth College ... Read more

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Friends. Family. Housekeepers.All's Fair in Love, War, and Knife Selling.Check your dignity at the door as you stride across the welcome mat with Jay Hauser in this insightful and strangely touching story about young love, fear, manipulation, and the lengths we go to to succeed in a world that values charisma, competition, and acceptance above all else. Set on the elite campus of Dartmouth College
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Health Humanities Reader

by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Lisa Keränen, Michael Sappol, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani DasGupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Paul Root Wolpe, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Bernice Hausman, Allison B. Kavey, Rebecca J. Hester ...

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In ... Read more

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Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In
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Neglected Authors, The - Men - Volume 4

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by I N Potapenko, Boleslaw Prus, Edwin Pugh, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Ernst Raupach, Ernst Raupach, William Pett Ridge, Tod Robbins, Nikolai Schedrin, Friedrich Schiller, Marcel Schwob0, S T Semyonov1, M P Shiel2, Fyodor Sologub3, Frank R Stockton4, Booth Tarkington5, Wallace Thurman6, Giovanni Verga7, Israel Zangwill8, Stefan Zweig9 ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick0, David Shaw-Parker1, Richard Mitchley2 ...

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10 hours 14 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Neglected Authors, The - Volume 6

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Charlotte Riddell, William Pett Ridge, Tod Robbins, Nikolai Schedrin, Friedrich Schiller, Olive Schreiner, Marcel Schwob, S T Semyonov, M P Shiel, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair, Fyodor Sologub, Georgia F Stewart, Frank R Stockton, Netta Syrett, Booth Tarkington, Wallace Thurman, Ruth D Todd, Giovanni Verga, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells, Eudora Welty, Leonara Wodehouse, Israel Zangwill, Stefan Zweig ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Neglected Authors, The - North American Men

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Edward Page Mitchell, W C Morrow, Robert Duncan Milne, Robert E Howard, Uriah Derick D'Arcy, Frank R Stockton, Charles W Chesnutt, Ring Lardner, Wallace Thurman, Henry Harland, Rudolph Fisher, Sinclair Lewis, Tod Robbins, Benjamin Rosenblatt, Booth Tarkington, William Austin ...

Narrated by Darrell Joe, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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The Unholy Three (Unabridged)

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by Tod Robbins ...

Narrated by Alvin Cummings, Jordan Lara, William Chapa, Walter Brown ...

Unabridged

5 hours 41 min

Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up and put your eyes on the most bizarre crime spree you will ever bear witness to! See the broad-shouldered beast with titanic strength, the strongman Hercules! Hear the deranged and multi-faceted vocal gymnastics of the mad ventriloquist, Echo! Meet the most devious and cruel criminal mastermind you will ever have the misfortune to tangle with! He may be ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up and put your eyes on the most bizarre crime spree you will ever bear witness to! See the broad-shouldered beast with titanic strength, the strongman Hercules! Hear the deranged and multi-faceted vocal gymnastics of the mad ventriloquist, Echo! Meet the most devious and cruel criminal mastermind you will ever have the misfortune to tangle with! He may be
... Read more
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Lessons from Literature - Stories Exploring Women's Choice in Marriage

Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

by F Scott Fitzgerald, Kate Chopin, D H Lawrence, Aphra Behn, Khalil Gibran, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Glasgow, Bithia Mary Croker, Anton Chekhov, O Henry, Amy Levy, William James Lampton, Tod Robbins, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Frances Watkins Harper ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Kelly Burke ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and ... Read more

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Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and
... Read more

The Ballymara Road

by Nadine Dorries ...

Series Book 3 - The Four Streets
The final gripping instalment of the bestselling Four Streets trilogy which began with THE FOUR STREETS and continued in HIDE HER NAME.Christmas morning, 1963. Fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a cold, unfriendly Irish convent. She knows her beautiful baby boy presents a huge danger to her family's Catholic community back in Liverpool's Four Streets. When her baby is adopted by a ... Read more

$6.99 USD

The final gripping instalment of the bestselling Four Streets trilogy which began with THE FOUR STREETS and continued in HIDE HER NAME.Christmas morning, 1963. Fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a cold, unfriendly Irish convent. She knows her beautiful baby boy presents a huge danger to her family's Catholic community back in Liverpool's Four Streets. When her baby is adopted by a
... Read more
Good in Bed

by Jennifer Weiner ...

Rediscover the modern classic that launched the career of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Everything and Big Summer with this beautiful anniversary edition of her “contemporary Cinderella tale told with intelligence, wit, and style” (Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author).For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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Rediscover the modern classic that launched the career of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Everything and Big Summer with this beautiful anniversary edition of her “contemporary Cinderella tale told with intelligence, wit, and style” (Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author).For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother
... Read more

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The Coldest Winter Ever

by Sister Souljah ...

A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller“50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.” —EssenceNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThe instant classic from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable novel.</str... ... Read more

$13.99 USD

A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller“50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.” —EssenceNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThe instant classic from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable novel.</str...
... Read more

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