This is a revised edition of a classic that has already helped hundreds of thousands of expectant parents. From conception to bonding with your infant, from choosing the right doctor (or alternative health care provider) to coping with sibling rivalry. "Getting Ready for Childbirth" will help both first time parents and experienced parents to choose, plan, and participate in a positive birth experience.

Getting married the way you want

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dobrin, Arthur

Women's Health

PRENTICE/HALL

Caring parents want to raise children who are kind, trustworthy, considerate and fair. But sometimes it seems like there's no shortage of bad examples to lead them astray. Based on sound psychological theory, drawing on current research—and most importantly, rooted in the real world that parents face today—this book shows how children develop a moral sensibility, and what parents can do to refine and reinforce it. Wise, warm, and thoroughly practical, this is an essential book for all loving parents—who want to raise loving children.
Parents will learn... * How "ethical intelligence" can be nurtured—even in a child's earliest years * How television, religion, and peers can shape—or short-circuit—a child's moral development * How to recognize and avoid some of the most common errors parents make

Teaching Right from Wrong

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Berkley Trade

An illustrated collection of thirteen nondenominational stories invites both parents and children to explore the importance of values and virtues, as well as moral questions ranging from tolerance and prejudice to love.

Love Your Neighbor: Stories of Values and Virtues

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

scholastic

Is it ever right to reject a child? What do you do when taking the life of an innocent person means saving several more? When is it right to break a promise? Can someone be too good? If confronted with these situations, what would you do? These are some of the issues explored in The Harder Right, short stories that throw light on the complexity of ethical decision-making. Each story considers a moral concern, from personal loyalty to conflicts between integrity and ethical principles. The Harder Right is designed to stimulate discussion about morality and ethics. A discussion guide is provided at the end of the book. The stories in this book are outstanding ethical markers that will help our soldiers dig deep inside themselves to practice not necessarily what to think, but how to think. —Stephen Arata, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret), former Deputy Head of the Department of History, US Military Academy at West Point These stories compel the reader to place him- or herself in the shoes of each morally conflicted protagonist. I found myself repeatedly wondering what would I do in this situation. —Jeffrey Berger, Director of Clinical Ethics, Department of Medicine, Winthrop-University Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Stony Brook School of Medicine The Harder Right demonstrates the difficulty of knowing the most basic truths about people while opening up a door to their lives and inviting us inside. —Maryann Woods-Murphy, 2011 Teaching Ambassador Fellow of the U.S. Department of Education We have had some intense discussion using The Harder Right in the Freshman College. Every story provokes some kind of debate. We believe this will move the students to think more critically about unclear topics. —Millicent Brown, Associate Professor of History and Sociology and Mitchell Mackinem, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Claiflin University

The Harder Right: Stories of Conscience and Choice

Short Stories & Anthologies

Arthur Dobrin

This book of readings is designed to help the student better understand how people develop their moral sense.Contents: Ethics and Moral Development, Arthur Dobrin; The Evolution of Moral Meaning Making, Robert Kegan; Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle, Carol Gilligan; Psychoanalysis and Moral Development, Robert Coles; Folkways, William Graham Sumner; Culture and the Construction of Moral Values: A Comparative Ethnography of Moral Encounters, Carolyn Pope Edwards; The Roots of Human Attachment, Samuel Oliner and Pearl Oliner; Notions of Connectedness and Community Among Political Activists, Debra Swoboda; Moral Philosophy as Applied Science, Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson.

Being Good and Doing Right: Readings in Moral Development

Reference

University Press of America

Convictions: Political prisoners, their stories

Religion & Spirituality

Orbis Books

Cultural Writing. Memoir. SEEING THROUGH AFRICA, is a memoir that takes readers from New York to East Africa and back again. Born in Brooklyn, Arthur Dobrin and his wife Lyn went to Kenya as Peace Corps volunteers. From 1965 to 1967, they lived and worked in the western highlands just south of the equator, near Lake Victoria. Dobrin has remained deeply connected to the country and SEEING THROUGH AFRICA is a reflection upon the land that he thinks of as his second home. It is about guns and beauty, writing and travel, and food. And it is about how differences can be bridged through a concern for the lives of others. Dobrin is Professor of Humanities at Hofstra University, where he is the recipient of the Peter Herman Literary Award. Co-founder and co-leader of Amnesty International Group #74 and leader of the Ethical Humanist Society on Long Island, he is the author of two novels set in Kenya, a collection of short stories, several books of poetry and books on ethics.

Seeing Through Africa

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Cross-Cultural Communications

From the richness of philosophies and religions, this book presents the spiritual timber from which o construct a life of compassion and justice. The aphorisms presents material from which a home can be constructed, one with air and light, shutters thrown open and doors ajar. It is a home of shelter, protection and warmth, love and happiness.

Spiritual Timber

Self-Help

Relationships

American Ethical Union

Ethics for Everyone: How to Increase Your Moral Intelligence

Ethics for EveryoneIs it always wrong to lie? Is it always right to try to help another person? Are you bound to keep every promise you make? In Ethics for Everyone: How to Increase Your Moral Intelligence, you'll find out how well you make moral choices and learn how to increase your ability to understand and analyze ethical dilemmas. This sensible, practical guide provides thoughtful-and sometimes surprising-answers to tough real-world questions. You'll sort through dozens of tricky ethical issues with the help of:* Twenty-one dramatic true stories showing real-life ethics in action- and you are asked to make ethical choices* A personal ethics quiz to determine your own ethical potential* Harm and benefits assessments of various courses of action* Expert opinions from spiritual leaders, counselors, attorneys, psychologists, and other experts

Trade Paper Press

The story captures two worlds: Kenya and in the United States of America. Many issues affecting these two countries in the 1980's and 1990's are well brought out. They are issues that revolve around real events. There is Sungusungu in Kisii, Junius George's murder trial and death. The tribal killings in Kenya in 1992, witchcraft as presented in Kisii, the Tomkins park riot in which Kwamboka is involved in and many more events are real. The title spurs interest in political and social states both in Kenya and the United States of America in the 80's and 90's. What others say "In this moving sequel to his novels Malaika, Salted With Fire, and Kwamboka's Inquiry, Dobrin weaves a riveting, tragic tale bridging the lives of his richly developed characters in New York and Kenya across decades marked by violent political and social upheavals. From the red soils of Kenya, to the red of blood spilled, to the red of political ideology, This Red Land presents timeless themes of love, struggle, and yearning for justice in a carefully crafted, wise, and deeply human work of richly detailed historical fiction." - Colleen Eren, sociologist. "This novel expertly transports the readers across continents, decades and cultures. The characters' lives are nicely interwoven in this real-world novel." - Rich Green, retired professor of comparative literature. "Enriching. Enjoyably complex. Bravo. Vivid characters leading parallel lives with vastly different experiences and perceptions of the world are expertly interweaved by the author to briefly intercept in an unexpected and powerful way amid rich cultural, political and historical texture. This isn't just one captivating story - but instead three! Brilliant surprise endings leave sense of something to grieve, but also to imagine and hope for." - Jackie Beder, vice-president of consumer research company. "This is a powerful story about the search for truth and courage. The lives of Junius, Lena, and Sarah Kwamboka remind us that there is so much more that binds us together than separates us in our journey to discover the world and our place in it." - Brian Richardson, social worker.

This Red Land

Genre Fiction

Nsemia Inc.

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