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This insightful and brilliant analysis of ethics teaches readers valuable skills in evaluating tough choices and arriving at sound conclusions.

"A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior."
--Jimmy Carter

Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours--and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes--these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in and out of dense traffic, dodging (or sometimes failing to dodge) taxis and pedestrians alike in order to meet their clients' tight deadlines. Riding through midtown traffic at breakneck speeds is dangerous work, and most riders do it for very little pay and few benefits. As the courier industry has felt the pressures of first fax...

This book contains a sequence of poems ranging from a few lines to two pages. The poems reflect various life situations and reactions to them. Emphasis is relating nature to human experience.

"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players." Shakespeare

This book contains a sequence of poems ranging from a few lines to two pages. The poems reflect various life situations and reactions to them. Emphasis is relating nature to human experience.

"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players." Shakespeare

This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharp

Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection--collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same--a collection of 365 short lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year. Each daily digest of wisdom is drawn from one of seven fields of knowledge: history, literature, philosophy, mathematics and...

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926) was an avid letter writer, and more than seven thousand of his letters have survived. The best-known collection today is Rilke s "Letters to a Young Poet," first published in 1929. Two other letter collections appeared around the same time and gained high acclaim among readers yet are virtually unknown today. They are "Letters to a Young Woman" (1930) and Letters on God (1933).

With this volume, Annemarie S. Kidder makes available to an English-speaking audience two of the earliest collections of Rilke letters published after his death. The thematic...