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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The paradox of giving and getting — How generosity enhances well-being — Generous and ungenerous America — Understanding ungenerous Americans — The lived experiences of generous Americans.
• Determining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life. Organ donation, volunteering, and the funding of charities can all be illuminated by sociological and psychological perspectives on how American adults conceive of and demonstrate generosity. Focusing not only on financial giving but on the many diverse forms generosity can take, Christian Smith and Hilary Davidson show the deep impact — usually good, sometimes destructive — that giving has on individuals. The Paradox of Generosity is the first study to make use of the cutting-edge empirical data collected in Smith’s groundbreaking, multidisciplinary, five-year Science of Generosity Initiative. It draws on an extensive survey of 2,000 Americans, more than sixty in-depth interviews with individuals across twelve states, and analysis of over 1,000 photographs and other visual materials. This wealth of evidence reveals a consistent link between demonstrating generosity and leading a better life: more generous people are happier, suffer fewer illnesses and injuries, live with a greater sense of purpose, and experience less depression. Smith and Davidson also show, however, that to achieve a better life a person must practice generosity regularly — random acts of kindness are not enough. Offering a wide range of vividly illustrative case studies, this volume will be a crucial resource for anyone seeking to understand the true impact and meaning of generosity.

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• Generosity.
• Generosity. fast (OCoLC)fst00939983

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index.
• How does one make the right choices when faced with ethical dilemmas? Social service professionals use a unique set of principles to guide their decisions within a broad and complex array of situations. Straight Talk about Professional Ethics, Second Edition provides readers with the guidelines that will help them make decisions in a manner that is clinically and ethically effective. This book explains the seven core concepts that guide ethical practice in the helping professions: self-determination, informed consent, competence, confidentiality and privacy, attention to conflicts of interest, maintenance of professional boundaries, and professionalism and integrity. Developing a commitment to the ethics of a profession and an understanding of how those ethics apply to commonly occurring workplace situations is a major element of professional preparation. Features: Case examples of dilemmas drawn from various practice settings and professional roles Framework for examining, evaluating, and addressing ethical dilemmas In-depth look at the various areas of ethics Practical guidance and sound resources A discussion of what it means to be ethical.

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• Professional ethics.

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• In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation. From the artistry of Georgia O’Keeffe, to the courage of Jackie Robinson, to the patriotism of George Washington, President Obama sees the traits of these heroes within his own children, and within all of America’s children –Book jacket.

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• Conduct of life — Juvenile literature.
• Virtues — Juvenile literature.
• Individual differences — Juvenile literature.
• Respect for persons — Juvenile literature.
• Heroes — United States — Juvenile literature.
• National characteristics, American — Juvenile literature.
• United States — History — Juvenile literature.
• Conduct of life.
• Virtues.
• Respect for persons.
• Heroes.
• National characteristics, American.
• United States — History.

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Part of the series Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare;Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-359) and index.
• Introduction: Human disasters : humanitarianism and the transnational turn in the wake of World War I — Right, not charity : René Cassin and war victims — Justice and peace : Albert Thomas, the International Labor Organization, and the dream of a transnational politics of social rights — The tragedy of being stateless : Fridtjof Nansen and the rights of refugees — The hungry and the sick : Herbert Hoover, the Russian famine, and the professionalization of humanitarian aid — Humanitarianism old and new : Eglantyne Jebb and children’s rights — Conclusion: Human dignity : from humanitarian rights to human rights.

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• Humanitarianism — History — 20th century.
• Philanthropists — History — 20th century.
• World War, 1914-1918.
• Basic needs — History — 20th century.
• Human rights — History — 20th century.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Ethics in the anthropocene — Atmospheric powers: climate change and moral incompetence — Christian ethics and unprecedented problems — Global ethics: moral pluralism and planetary problems — Sustainability science and the ethics of wicked problems — Toxic wombs and the ecology of justice — Impoverishment and the economy of desire — Intergenerational risk and the future of love — Sustaining grace.

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• Christian ethics.
• Religious ethics.
• Human ecology — Religious aspects — Christianity.
• Human ecology — Religious aspects.
• Christianity and justice.
• Religion and justice.

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Part of the series Great books in philosophy;Great books in philosophy.
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• Previously published: London : Richard Griffin and Co., 1854.
• Includes bibliographical references.

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• Ethics — Early works to 1800.

Requested by Lotterman, E

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-281) and index.
• With A Better Hope, Stanley Hauerwas concentrates on the constructive case for the truth and power of the church and its faith, since Christians cannot afford to let ourselves be defined by what we are against. Whatever or whomever we are against, we are so only because God has given us so much to be for. Hauerwas here crystallizes and extends profound criticisms of America, liberalism, capitalism, and postmodernism, but also identifies unlikely allies (such as Chicago Archbishop Francis Cardinal George) and locates surprising resources for Christian survival (such as mystery novels). Interlocutors along the way include Reinhold Niebuhr, John Courtney Murray, and, in a significant and previously unpublished essay, social gospeller Walter Rauschenbusch. –BOOK JACKET.

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• Christian ethics — United States.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-364) and index.
• A more excellent way — The smart and the good — Living for goodness’ sake — Failure : what’s good about it? — Success : how do I know when I’ve made it? — Discipline : the practice of perfection — Freedom : from what and for what? — Virtues : ways, means, and ends — Faith : substance and evidence — Hope : unreasonable and indispensable — Love : being and doing.
• Urges readers to adopt deeper truths and more significant values, and challenges the allure of wealth and power, blind faith in science, and the desire for success, freedom, immortality, and personal happiness.

Subjects:

• Conduct of life.
• Christian ethics.
• Virtues.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects:

• Christian ethics.
• Jewish ethics.
• Sin.

Requested by Frame, W.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-327) and index.
• The legacies of Christian ethics — The biblical legacy of Christian ethics — Philosophical legacies — The ethics of early Christianity — The formative years — Seminal thinkers and transitions — The moral vision of Saint Augustine — Medieval Christianity — Monastic and mystical contributions — The confessional — The Thomistic synthesis — Late medievcal forerunners — The era of Reformation and Enlightenment — The reformers : Luther and Calvin — Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation — The radical Reformation — Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelicalism — Rationalism and revival in the eighteenth century — Nineteenth-century philosophical and Christian ethics — Nineteenth-century slavery and feminist controversies — Christian ethics in the twentieth century — The social gospel movement — The social encyclicals — Formative Christian moral thinkers — The Vatican II watershed — Liberation theology — Ecumenical social ethics — Christian ethics toward the third millennium — Conflicting tendencies –Can Christian ethics find a creative center?

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• Christian ethics — History.
• Christian ethics — Methodist authors.

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