Author: Cláudio Jr. Michelon
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: reasons, making, law, library, decision, philosophy, moral, role, public, private, apart
Number of Pages: 189
Published: 2006-04-11
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 1402042825
ISBN-13: 9781402042829

Being Apart from Reasons deals with the question of how we should go about using reasons to decide what to do. More particularly, the book presents objections to the most common response given by contemporary legal and political theorists to the moral complexity of decision-making in modern societies, namely: the attempt to release public agents from their argumentative burden by insulating a particular set of reasons from the general pool of reasons and assigning the former systematic priority over all other reasons. That strategy is apparent both in Rawls’ claim that reasons concerning t

Author: R. E. Ewi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: death, reasons
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0742512762
ISBN-13: 9780742512764

Death, violent or otherwise, is a matter of widespread concern with ongoing debates about such matters as euthanasia and the nature of brain death. Philosophers have often argued about the rationality of fear of death. This book argues that that dispute has been misconceived: fear of death is not something that follows or fails to follow from reason, but instead lies at the basis of reasoning and helps to show why people must be cooperating beings who accept certain sorts of facts as reasons for acting. Within the context of this account of reasons, it gives a new understanding of brain death

Author: Jay Asher
Publisher: Razorbill
Keywords: reasons, thirteen
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-10-18
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1595141715
ISBN-13: 9781595141712

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out how he made the list. Through Hannah and Clay’s dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.

Author: MQ Publications
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Keywords: happy, reasons
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0740739719
ISBN-13: 9780740739712

Sometimes it seems easier to be consumed by all the world’s gloom and doom than to "put on a happy face." 1,000 Reasons To Be Happy provides plenty of reasons, from the silly to the sublime, to "turn that frown upside-down." Smiling beats sulking any day!

Author: Amy Hempel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: live, reasons
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1995-08-30
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060976721
ISBN-13: 9780060976729

Hempel’s now-classic collection of short fiction is peopled by complex characters who have discovered that their safety nets are not dependable and who must now learn to balance on the threads of wit, irony, and spirit.

Author: Gregory E. Lang
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
Keywords: reasons, mom, needs, son
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1581826559
ISBN-13: 9781581826555

Author: Nathan Brow
Publisher: Review & Herald Publishing
Keywords: god, life, reasons, seven
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0812704363
ISBN-13: 9780812704365

We all have disappointments. But when things are going pretty well, why does the God-faith-religion-church thing matter? Why do we need God when we seem to have all we need? Isn’t religion just what old, poor, and sick people use to feel better about themselves? Isn’t church just a bunch of hypocrites--or, at best, people like you and me? Christianity is often styled as an answer to our problems, particularly for those who have no options left. But what about those who seem to have everything going for them? who are well off, well fed, well educated, faced with many different opp