This book explores a number of important issues to illuminate the common ground between Peter Singer and Christian ethics.[...]

All Galen's surviving shorter works on psychology and ethics - including the recently discovered Avoiding Distress, and the neglected Character Traits, extant only in Arabic - are here presented in one volume in a new English translation, with substantial introductions and notes and extensive glossa[...]

What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller.
The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. Th[...]

Tallulah just knew she could be a great ballerina, if only she had a tutu. So she starts ballet class. When she does not receive a tutu, she quits. But everywhere she goes, things keep reminding her of ballet. Her neighbor s basset hound always stands in second position. The kitchen clock performs p[...]

It s Christmastime, and Tallulah finally gets what she s been wishing for a part in a "real"ballet, a professional production of "The Nutcracker." She s only a mouse, but she works as hard as if shehad beencastas the Sugar Plum Fairy. On the night of the show, everything is perfect. But then disaste[...]

Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time, celebrated both for the quality of his voice and for the exceptional intelligence he brings to bear on the interpretation of the repertoire of the past and present alike. In "A Singer's Notebook", he takes a look at the multifaceted world [...]

New Century Readers are hardback educational texts that include pre- and post-1914 fiction, poetry and plays. They include activities which offer specific practice in the skills required by the English Test in the SATs. "The Wind Singer" is the first in William Nicholson's classic fantasy trilogy.[...]

In this volume, some of todaya s most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight thro[...]

(Vocal Collection). 45 songs. Highlights: Always a Bridesmaid (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change) * As If We Never Said Goodbye (Sunset Boulevard) * But Not for Me (Girl Crazy) * A Change in Me (Beauty and the Beast) * Class (Chicago) * Don't Call Me Trailer Trash (Cowgirls) * Don't Rain on My [...]

(Vocal Collection). 50 great standards, at the heart of jazz repertoire, in new arrangements tailor-made for singers, with interesting alternative chords, introductions, complete verses, and singer-friendly endings. Though the song list is mostly the same for the Women's Edition and the Men's Editio[...]

(Vocal Collection). Two accompaniment CDs in each package which match the books containing a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type. The selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores.[...]

First published in 1960, Albert B. Lord's The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry. Based upon pathbreaking fieldwork conducted in the 1930s and 1950s among oral epic singers of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, Lord analyzes in im[...]