The purpose of this study is to focus on the intersection of religion and politics. Do different religions result in different politics? More specifically, are there significant contrasts between the political attitudes and behavior of Catholics and Protestants in Latin America?

Latin America's Neo-Reformation: Religion's Influence on Contemporary Politics (Latin American Studies)

History

Patterson, Eric

Americas

Routledge

The Race: Your Quest to Know That Moment

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Eric Patterson

Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle against Contemporary Threats: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle against Contemporary Threats

Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle Against Contemporary Threats reconsiders the intersection between morality and pragmatism in foreign policy and modern warfare. Whereas recent explications of "Just War theory" neglect how twenty-first century wars differ from the old wars that Just War doctrine was originally designed for, this book argues that a political ethic of responsibility should motivate the contemporary application of military force by states in order to protect international security and human life. Just War Thinking criticizes the quasi-pacifism of most formal Just War scholarship, reconceptualizes a minimal, realistic "just war thinking" framework for exploring foreign and military policy options, and evaluates the usefulness of this approach by investigating contemporary cases such as the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq, the call for assassination of political leaders, and military humanitarian intervention. Finally, the book considers new challenges to pragmatic yet moral policies: the neglect of jus post bellum (justice at war's end); the challenge of public opinion, democratic processes, and supranational institutions to policies based on just war thinking; and the erosive power of postmodernism to the normative structures guiding Western decision-makers.

Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle against Contemporary Threats

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Lexington Books

Just War Thinking reconsiders the intersection between morality and pragmatics in foreign policy and modern warfare. The book argues that a political ethic of responsibility should motivate the contemporary application of military force by states in order to protect international security and human life, considering the challenges posed by today's new wars: targeted killing, humanitarian intervention, terrorism, jus post bellum, and the influences of public opinion and supranational institutions.

On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film

On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations About Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film provides a close, detailed, comparative discussion of the short story and the film in relation to ways of understanding masculinity and love between men in American culture. It uses analytical ideas from gay and lesbian/queer studies, American studies, social history, film history, and literary history, but avoids specialized theoretical language in order to be accessible to the many people interested in the story and the film. Original, interdisciplinary, and engaging, On Brokeback Mountain is intended to be not only useful to academic specialists but also accessible and readable for any interested, educated reader.The two versions of Brokeback Mountain are significant for taking readers and audiences inside the perspectives of men who love men, showing what physical and emotional passion, and hostility toward that passion, may be like for them. The story and the film help in understanding the many men who love men and who don't fit stereotypes of gay men or participate in the gay/queer worlds of urban/academic communities, especially men in rural areas and in working class contexts. This book examines the presentation of friendship, sex, and love between men in Brokeback Mountain, as well as the depiction of homophobia and its effects on men who love men and their families. It relates the story and the film to the literary tradition of the homoerotic pastoral, the literary/movie tradition of the Western, and the tradition of the tragic romantic love story.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

On Brokeback Mountain provides accessible, close, and comparative readings of the story and the film, discussing them in relation to the social history of sexual minority men in America. By analyzing the literary and artistic traditions of the homoerotic pastoral, the popular tradition of the Western, and the tradition of the tragic romantic love story, the book explores the American cultural construction of masculinity, friendship, and sexual relationships between men, and the sources and effects of homophobia.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

It's been said that lightning never strikes the same place twice. But how does one really know for sure? Jason knows. He was there when it happened, the day a lightning storm altered the course of his life forever. Was it a blessing or a curse? Join Jason as he struggles with difficult decisions no boy should have to face alone. Nature Boy is a story about a boy who has been given the uncanny ability to heal living things. In a strange twist of fate, ironically, the special power that allows Jason to heal wounded creatures is the same thing that is slowly sucking the life out of him. What's more important-the lives of those he comes in contact with or his own?

Nature Boy

Children's Books

Avid Readers Pub Group

Cooking, at its foundation, is what makes it possible to live life fully, and in the process we can find truth and meaning.In their widely anticipated new cookbook, chefs Patterson and Blakeslee present a year long series of menus and recipes drawing deeply from nature and a rich spiritual life. Partners in a popular northern Michigan bistro, Patterson and Blakeslee believe that food preparation must embrace seasonal variety and ripeness without complication.Cooks' House is more than just a collection of recipes. It's a book that approaches cooking in the context of life and living. Cooking is more than putting a list of ingredients in a bowl and mixing. True cooking - and living -comes when we follow the local seasons, listening in on their rhythms and following their leads toward that which sustains.

Cooks' House: The Art and Soul of Local, Sustainable Cuisine

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Blakeslee, Jennifer

Cooking by Ingredient

Spirituality & Health Books

Just American Wars: Ethical Dilemmas in U.S. Military History (War, Conflict and Ethics)

This book examines the moral choices faced by U.S. political and military leaders in deciding when and how to employ force, from the American Revolution to the present day. Specifically, the book looks at discrete ethical dilemmas in various American conflicts from a just war perspective. For example, was the casus belli of the American Revolution just, and more specifically, was the Continental Congress a "legitimate" political authority? Was it just for Truman to drop the atomic bomb on Japan? How much of a role did the egos of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon play in prolonging the Vietnam War? Often there are trade-offs that civilian and military leaders must take into account, such as General Scott’s 1847 decision to bombard the city of Veracruz in order to quickly move his troops off the malarial Mexican coast. The book also considers the moral significance and policy practicalities of different motives and courses of action. The case studies provided highlight the nuances and even limits of just war principles, such as just cause, right intention, legitimate authority, last resort, likelihood of success, discrimination, and proportionality, and principles for ending war such as order, justice, and conciliation. This book will be of interest for students of just war theory, ethics, philosophy, American history and military history more generally.

Just American Wars (War, Conflict and Ethics)

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This book examines the moral choices faced by U.S. political and military leaders in deciding when and how to employ force, from the American Revolution to the present day. Specifically, the book looks at discrete ethical dilemmas in various American conflicts from a just war perspective. For example, was the casus belli of the American Revolution just, and more specifically, was the Continental Congress a "legitimate" political authority? Was it just for Truman to drop the atomic bomb on Japan? How much of a role did the egos of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon play in prolonging the Vietnam War? Often there are trade-offs that civilian and military leaders must take into account, such as General Scott’s 1847 decision to bombard the city of Veracruz in order to quickly move his troops off the malarial Mexican coast. The book also considers the moral significance and policy practicalities of different motives and courses of action. The case studies provided highlight the nuances and even limits of just war principles, such as just cause, right intention, legitimate authority, last resort, likelihood of success, discrimination, and proportionality, and principles for ending war such as order, justice, and conciliation. This book will be of interest for students of just war theory, ethics, philosophy, American history and military history more generally.

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Latin America's Neo-Reformation: Religion's Influence on Contemporary Politics (Latin American Studies)

The Race: Your Quest to Know That Moment

Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle against Contemporary Threats

Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle against Contemporary Threats: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle against Contemporary Threats

On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film

On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film

Nature Boy

Cooks' House: The Art and Soul of Local, Sustainable Cuisine

Just American Wars (War, Conflict and Ethics)

Just American Wars: Ethical Dilemmas in U.S. Military History (War, Conflict and Ethics)