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The Quest for Character 2021061886, 9781541646971, 9781541646957

What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people? Is goo

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Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy 9780300258325

An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare’s greatest characters were built on a learned sense of emp

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Religion Matters: What Sociology Teaches Us About Religion In Our World 1317344502, 9781317344506

Religion Matters: What Sociology Teaches Us About Religion in Our World is organized around the biggest questions that a

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Jesus and Prayer: What the New Testament Teaches Us 9781593254438

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City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right 9781400887934

How we came to seek absolute good in religion and nature—and why that quest often leads us astray People have long loo

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The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency 9780226714394

“It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. . . . And we a

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Plotinus’ Search for the Good 9780231888165

Attempts to penetrate behind Plotinus' statements to the problem that faced his philosophy to show its function in

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God and Galileo: What a 400-Year-Old Letter Teaches Us about Faith and Science

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Socrates - Man for Our Times 9780670023035, 2011019767

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Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution 9780231535465

On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks st

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