The Oxford Book of Health Foods

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

J.G. Vaughan

Cooking Education & Reference

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In this book John Kekes examines the indispensable role enjoyment plays in a good life. The key to it is the development of a style of life that combines an attitude and a manner of living and acting that jointly express one's deepest concerns. Since such styles vary with characters and circumstances, a reasonable understanding of them requires attending to the particular and concrete details of individual lives. Reflection on works of literature is a better guide tothis kind of understanding than the futile search for general theories and principles that preoccupies much of contemporary moral thought.Enjoyment proceeds by the detailed examination of particular cases, shows how this kind of reflection can be reasonably conducted, and how the quest for universality and impartiality is misguided in this context. Central to the argument is a practical, particular, pluralistic, and yet objective conception of reason that rejects the pervasive contemporary tendency to regard reasons as good only if they are binding on all who aspire to live reasonably and morally. Reason in morality isneither theoretical nor general. Reasons for living and acting in particular ways are individually variable and none the worse for that.Kekes aims to reorient moral thought from deontological, contractarian, and consequentialist preoccupations toward a reasonable but pluralistic reflection on what individuals can do to make their lives better.

Enjoyment: The Moral Significance of Styles of Life: The Moral Significance of Styles of Life

Kekes, John

Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation State

Shlomo Ben Ami

After the Cold War: American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia

Cyr, Arthur I.

The Cultural Construction of International Relations: The Invention of the State of Nature

Beate Jahn

Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy

Malcolm Warner

This book offers an in-depth examination of party finance and political corruption in a variety of political contexts. Its central focus is on the relationship between different forms of raising party finance and the consequent implications for improper influence over policy making and implementations. It presents both a general discussion of the issues and a set of case studies which illuminate the particular experiences of Britain, the United States, Russia, Italy, Germany and Southeast Asia.

Party Finance and Political Corruption

Robert, Williams

Sudan, Civil War and Terrorism, 1956-99

Edgar O'Ballance

The Economic Effects of Trade Unions in Japan

Tomohiko Noda

Toshiaki Tachibanaki

This analysis of over 20 scenes from the Genesis mosaics argues that they establish Eve as the culpable character from the very moment of her creation, depicting her as dangerous and unrepentant at the end. It maintains that the mosaics reveal the misogyny of 13th-century Venice.

Made in God's Image: Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice

Penny Howell Jolly

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