Showing 1-10 of approximately 5390 books results for "virtue" .
Author: Ken Gormley
ISBN: 0307409449
Recommended Retail Price: $35.00
Ten years after one of the most polarizing political scandals in American history, author Ken Gormley offers an insightful, balanced, and revealing analysis of the events leading up to the impeachment trial of President William Jefferson Clinton. From Ken Starr’s initial Whitewater investigation through the Paula Jones...
Author: Charles P. Pierce
ISBN: 0767926145
Recommended Retail Price: $26.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The three Great Premises of Idiot America:
· Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units
· Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough
· Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they belie...
Author: Ayn Rand
ISBN: 0451163931
Recommended Retail Price: $7.99
Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.
ISBN: 068481353X
Recommended Retail Price: $24.00
The perfect companion to William J. Bennett's number-one bestseller; The Book of Virtues, The Children's Book of Virtues is the ideal storybook for parents and children to enjoy together:
With selections from The Book of Virtues, from Aesop and Robert Frost to George Washington's life as well as N...
Author: Elizabeth George
ISBN: 0736904271
Recommended Retail Price: $15.99
Sugar and spice and everything nice—that’s what little girls are made of¼and so much more! In her first children’s book, bestselling author Elizabeth George draws from the wisdom of the book of Proverbs to encourage young girls to apply the positive traits and qualities illustrated in each verse.
J...
Author: William J. Bennett
ISBN: 0684835770
Recommended Retail Price: $25.00
Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of l...
Author: The Onion, Brian Williams
ISBN: 1439156921
Recommended Retail Price: $28.00
From The Birth Of A Nation To The Death Of Journalism
Since its founding by a bloodthirsty tyrant in 1756, The Onion has not merely changed the way we think about the news -- it has changed whether we think about the news at all. As the first decade of this new millennium dr...
Author: Alasdair MacIntyre
ISBN: 0268035040
Recommended Retail Price: $26.00
"After Virtue is a striking work. It is clearly written and readable. The nonprofessional will find MacIntyre perspicuous and lively. He stands within the best modern traditions of writing on such matters." --New York Review of Books
"MacIntyre's arguments deserve to be taken seriously by a...
Author: Epictetus, Sharon Lebell
ISBN: 0061286052
Recommended Retail Price: $11.99
Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 ce in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Once freed, he established an influential school of Stoic philosophy, stressing that human beings cannot control life, only their responses to it. By putting into practice the ninety-three witty, wise, and razor-sharp instruc...
Author: Nora Roberts
ISBN: 0553272837
Recommended Retail Price: $7.99
A riveting romantic-suspense novel that builds on the success of Roberts' Hot Ice and Sacred Sins, Brazen Virtue features an irresistible police detective and an eccentric mystery writer trying to separate business from pleasure while pursuing a deranged murderer. Original.