In Defense Of Civility : How Religion Can Unite America On Seven Moral Issues That Divide Us
By James Calvin Davis.
Cudahy Main Stacks
BJ1251 .D275 2010
From “the big four” (abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, and stem-cell research) to war, poverty, and the environment, this timely book considers religion’s impact on moral debates in America’s past and present. James Calvin Davis argues for religion’s potential to enrich both the content and the civility of public conversation. This book will interest all concerned citizens yearning for more careful thinking about the role of religion in public debate.
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Ruthless: How Enraged Investors Reclaimed Their Investments And Beat Wall Street
By Phil Trupp
Lewis Main Stacks
HV6769 .T78 2010
Referred to as a “financial roach motel” (investors get in, but they can’t get out), there had never been anything like it in Wall Street’s checkered history—$336 billion in auction-rate securities were suddenly worthless. Hundreds of thousands of investors—from corporate giants like 3M and Texas Instruments, to reporters with the Wall Street Journal, to small investors—lost everything. Phil Trupp was one of those investors. He was determined to fight back, and that’s what he did. Ruthless shows you how he took on Wall Street and took back what was his, and how you might do the same.
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Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle To Brain Science
By Sissela Bok.
Bok, Sissela.
Cudahy Main Stacks
BJ1481 .B64 2010
In this smart and timely book, the distinguished moral philosopher Sissela Bok ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages. With nuance and elegance, Bok explores notions of happiness – from Greek philosophers to Desmond Tutu, Charles Darwin, Iris Murdoch, and the Dalai Lama – as well as the latest theories advanced by psychologists, economists, geneticists, and neuroscientists.
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Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife
By Mary Roach
Cudahy Main Stacks
BL535 .R63 2005
After probing autopsies, the funeral home business, and the implications of human composting, it seems only natural that the author would turn her attention to the afterlife. To learn what she can about the Other Side, she enrolls in an English school for mediums; banters with reincarnation researchers; and interviews a Duke University professor about a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech.
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Someone Has To Fail: The Zero-Sum Game Of Public Schooling
By David F. Labaree
Lewis Main Stacks
LA212 .L33 2010
Provocative, unflinching, wry, Someone Has to Fail looks at the way that unintended consequences of consumer choices have created an extraordinarily resilient educational system, perpetually expanding, perpetually unequal, constantly being reformed, and never changing much.
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Before They Were Famous: How Seven Artists Got Their Start
By Bob Raczka
Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor)
N351 .R33 2011
Albrecht Durer, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Artemisia Gentileschi, John Singer Sargent, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali all grew up to have their own unique styles. But when they were kids, they all had one thing in common: they loved to make art.
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Is It Just Me?: Or Is It Nuts Out There?
By Whoopi Goldberg
Cudahy Popular Reading Collection (1st floor)
BJ1533 .C9 G578 2010
In her new book, Whoopi shares stories from her own life when she’s been forced to deal with tough situations in family, marriage, friendship, and business. She relates how she navigated through them with healthy honesty, which has all but vanished in the era of the volatile pundit.
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Life
By Keith Richards ; with James Fox.
Cudahy Popular Reading Collection (1st floor)
ML420 .R515 R52 2010
Rock ‘n’ roll’s great survivor looks back on an extraordinary life. From the Rolling Stones’ first success in the 1960s through increasing fame and addiction to the present day, Richards tells his story in his own inimitable way.
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