The Jeffries Affair
The Jeffries Affair

Author: John Sherwood

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1457555603

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For years they were best friends. For decades they chose to remain estranged. Now Bryan Jeffries has contacted Matt DiGrande to get reacquainted. The idea excites Matt, but it also sends up showers of red flags. They agreed to keep the past in the past, so what could Jeffries possibly want? And why did he make contact now? This multifaceted story encompasses the lives of these two businessmen and several other disparate individuals whose direction in life is forever altered by a strange business report full of smoking guns. Their investigation of the report releases a convoluted string of activities that includes blackmail, abduction and murder, all made possible by a deadly skeleton that has been begging for decades to come out of its closet.

Morality USA
Morality USA

Author: Ellen G. Friedman

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780816627493

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In today's world, moral uncertainty is found everywhere. MORALITY USA calls for recognition of the multiplicity of moral structures that now exist and argues that we need to rethink our concepts of morality. Controversial, comprehensive, engaging, and timely, MORALITY USA is sure to spark debate and contemplation across political and social spectrums. 23 photos.

Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole
Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole

Author: Thomas Tsakalakis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1000205088

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This book explores the nature of political correctness as but one of the faces of today’s widespread sociocultural hypocrisy; it is a critique of a phenomenon that constitutes a threat to the Enlightenment hope that humanity might one day achieve maturity. The author identifies political correctness as a drive towards shallowness, anti-intellectualism and self-flagellation – and a culture in which perception is everything. With attention to the emergence and growth of political correctness in a country, Greece, where it can be observed from a bottom-up perspective, this volume demonstrates that although at first glance it appears as a well-intentioned social movement informed by values with which no moral and judicious person could disagree, political correctness actually represents, at best, a distraction from graver concerns; at worst, a manifestation of human foolishness and malevolence. A study of the destruction of honest and rational debate, characterized by trials of intention, often by social media, Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole will appeal to scholars of sociology and media studies with interests in contemporary political culture.

Governing Morals
Governing Morals

Author: Alan Hunt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-08-13

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780521646895

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This book is a broad-ranging history of moral regulation focusing on Britain and the US.

Sex and the Scientist
Sex and the Scientist

Author: Jane Merrill

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 147662917X

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One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His inventions include the Rumford fireplace, insulated clothing, the thermos, convection ovens, double boilers, double-paned glass and an improved sloop. He was knighted by King George III and became a Count of the Holy Roman Emperor. Thompson's popularity with women eclipsed his achievements, though. He was married twice and had affairs with many other prominent women, including the wife of Boston printer Isaiah Thomas and that of a doctor who would crew the first balloon to cross the English Channel. He even fathered a child by the court mistress of the Prince Elector and had affairs with several other German noblewomen. Drawing on Thompson's correspondence and diaries, this book examines his friendships and romantic relationships.

A Family Affair
A Family Affair

Author: ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1451639716

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From the national Essence bestselling author comes an engaging tale about a family secret that sends one young woman scrambling to uncover the truth about her past. Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction “tackles some of life’s toughest situations” (The Florida Times-Union), unravels the secrets in a mother’s past that turn her daughter’s life upside down—by revealing the family she never knew existed. Her dream of studying dance at Juilliard is within reach, but Olivia Dawson turns down the opportunity, choosing instead to stay with her ailing mother in the Houston projects where they barely make ends meet. Lorraine Dawson is Olivia’s whole world, and now Olivia insists on being there for her. But when Lorraine learns Olivia is sacrificing college for her sake, her heartache triggers a series of shattering events that results in Olivia discovering her father, a man she was told had died years ago. But he is alive and well—and he’s the powerful CEO of one of the country’s richest corporations. With her best friend urging her to claim a much-deserved chunk of Bernard Wells’s fortune, Olivia seeks out his Los Angeles mansion. But it’s not money she wants—it’s answers: Why did he abandon Lorraine when Olivia was three years old? Why did they suffer in poverty while he gave his “real” wife and son a life of luxury? Opening up the past, however, is more complicated than Olivia—or Bernard—expected, and the pain of yesterday’s sins must be confronted before true healing and a bright tomorrow can begin.