Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States

Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States Review

Benjamin Franklin Morris' monumental work on the Christian roots of America.

How to Make Clay Characters

How to Make Clay Characters Review

Detailed instructions help the reader to create little characters, from "Grandpa" to "Saint Nick".

Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character Review

In this strikingly original and groundbreaking book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Although the Iliad was written twenty-seven centuries ago it has much to teach about combat trauma, as do the more recent, compelling voices and experiences of Vietnam vets.

Character Psychology And Character Educa

Character Psychology And Character Educa Review

"This is an important new collection of essays about character and character education by some of the top scholars in the fields of ethical theory, moral development research, and education." â€"Don Collins Reed, Wittenberg University

"This volume takes virtue seriously as an empirically based and testable ethical phenonomenon. More unusual, it takes moral character seriously as something more than a compilation of virtues, and as something quite differentâ€"a true identity system of a richly cognitive and development sort. It is about time a book of this sort has been written, and it will be well-received and well-used by researchers and faculty." â€"William Puka, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"The psychologist Kurt Lewin famously observed, 'There is nothing so practical as a good theory.' Moral educators such as Lawrence Kohlberg and Ralph Mosher reminded us that there is nothing so instructive for theory as good practice. If there is not now a fruitful interchange between character psychology and character education, this rich, provocative, and uniquely valuable volume is an invitation to deepen the dialogue." â€"Tom Lickona, SUNY Cortland

This distinguished collection of essays provides new perspective on the nature of character and moral education by utilizing insights from the disciplines of moral psychology, moral philosophy, and education. Among the topics explored in this volume are the constructs of moral selfhood, personality, and identity, as well as defensible models of character education. One of the primary arguments of the volume is that problems of character education cannot be addressed until an adequate model of character psychology is developed. In addition to the excellent theoretical essays, there are applied chapters that consider the challenge of character education in the context of schools, families, and organized sports.

DANIEL K. LAPSLEY is professor and chair of the Department of Educational Psychology at Ball State University.

F. CLARK POWER is professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Contributors: Daniel K. Lapsley, F. Clark Power, Darcia Narvaez, Christine McKinnon, Augusto Blasi, Ann Higgins-D'Alessandro, David Light Shields, Brenda Light Bredemeier, Craig A. Cunningham, Joel J. Kupperman, Matthew L. Davidson, Robert J. Nash, Marvin W. Berkowitz, Melinda Bier, Jeannie Oakes, Karen Hunter Quartz, Steve Ryan, Martin Lipton, and Jay W. Brandenberger.

Shadowrun Runners Companion (Shadowrun Core Character Rulebooks)

Shadowrun Runners Companion (Shadowrun Core Character Rulebooks) Review

Shadowrun Runners Companion (Shadowrun Core Character Rulebooks) Feature

• Shadowrun Runners Companion Role Playing Game RPG by Catalyst Game Labs

Master the Shadows!

Life in the shadows has never been as dangerous, and runners need every edge they can get. Runner's Companion opens up a world of expanded options for Shadowrun players with dozens of New Qualities, Advanced Contact and Lifestyle Rules, and handy tips on running, travelling and smuggling, and operating in a surveillance society.

This core book for Shadowrun, Fourth Edition also introduces Metavariants, Changelings, and the Infected as player character options, and expands the scope of the game to include unique non-metahuman characters such as Shapeshifters, Free Spirits, and a new generation of AIs among others.

Reflections on Character and Leadership: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries (Kets De Vries on the Couch 1)

Reflections on Character and Leadership: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries (Kets De Vries on the Couch 1) Review

Reflections on Character and Leadership is the first of the three books in the Manfred kets de Vries on the Couch series.

Here, Kets de Vries looks at entrepreneurship, the pathology of leadership, and the personality of the leader. The reader will visit the disturbed inner worlds of leaders like Alexander the Great, Shaka Zulu and Robert Maxwell, discover how to distinguish between a cold fish and a live volcano, and identify impostors, despots, organizational fools and global leaders.

The book highlights the basic principles of the clinical paradigm—the process of putting organizations and the individuals who lead them on the psychoanalyst’s couch. It includes studies of personality archetypes and the effects they have on organizational life and culture—and the effects that organizations have on them. Referring frequently to key management concepts, Kets de Vries looks not only at what happens when things go wrong, but also at how to create the psychological and organizational space to make sure that things go right.

About the series:

The series offers an overview of Kets de Vries’s work spanning four decades, a period in which he has established himself as the leading figure in the clinical study of organizational leadership.

The books in this series contain a representative selection of Kets de Vries’ writings about leadership from a wide variety of published sources and cover character and leadership in a global context, career development and leadership in organizations. The original essays were all written or published between 1976 and 2008. Updated where appropriate and revised by the author, they present a digest of the work of one of the most influential management thinkers of the present day.

Buffy X-Posed : The Unauthorized Biography of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Her On-Screen Character

Buffy X-Posed : The Unauthorized Biography of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Her On-Screen Character Review

She's a high school student by day and a slayer of the undead by night. She's Sarah Michelle Gellar, and she's the prettiest girl ever to wield a wooden stake. Now for the first time ever, you have a guidebook to Buffy's world. You'll learn how it all began, from the start of Sarah's television career at the age of four to her current title as the queen of the new horror genre. With this inside look into the series and its star, you will answer all the questions you've ever asked about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including:

At what time in her life did Gellar most relate to the character she portrays? (page 7)
In what ways is the original Buffy movie only a pale shadow of what the television show has become? (page 25)
How does Gellar sum up her experience on All My Children? (page 10)
How does series creator Joss Whedon explain his successful mixture of humor and horror? (page 66)
In what episode does Buffy cross stakes with another slayer? (page 112)
And much more!

Reviews every episode from the first two seasons and includes biographies of Gellar, the cast, and Joss Whedon!

The Pet Dragon: A Story about Adventure, Friendship, and Chinese Characters

The Pet Dragon: A Story about Adventure, Friendship, and Chinese Characters Review

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Meet Lin and her pet dragon!

When the dragon mysteriously disappears, Lin sets off on a journey to find her best friend . . . and readers set off on a journey of learning and discovery.

By ingeniously integrating written Chinese characters into the illustrations as the story progresses, Christoph Niemann has created a book that is engrossing, unique, and memorable. The Pet Dragon is a playful introduction to the fascinating world of Chinese language and culture . . . and a terrific story to share with children everywhere.

You are invited to join Lin for an adventure you will not soon forget!

The Actor's Menu: A Character Preparation Handbook

The Actor's Menu: A Character Preparation Handbook Review

Whether new to the business or a seasoned professional, this handbook provides actors with a personal, active approach to discovering and developing their talent. Beginning with appetizers and ending with desserts, actors learn how to prepare a character in the same way that a master chef chooses the most complementary dishes for a feast. From typecasting to reinventing a character's story, actors discover the key ingredients that will enable them to use their own unique qualities and emotions to develop strong, believable characters that people are interested in watching. How to identify and resolve problems such as hidden agendas that can disable an actor's work; distinguish between perception, feeling, and emotions; and find lasting sources of inspiration are among the issues explored. The importance of imagination, words, and story as well as the difference between intellectual and visceral choices (and the impact of each) are also discussed.

The Heart of Virtue: Lessons from Life and Literature Illustrating the Beauty and Value of Moral Character

The Heart of Virtue: Lessons from Life and Literature Illustrating the Beauty and Value of Moral Character Review

This book presents 28 different virtues and reveals, through stories that personify these virtues, how love is expressed through care, courage, compassion, faith, hope, justice, prudence, temperance, wisdom, and others.

Character-Building Activities: Teaching Responsibility, Interaction, and Group Dynamics

Character-Building Activities: Teaching Responsibility, Interaction, and Group Dynamics Review

Preteens and teens need help in acquiring the social skills to appropriately handle challenging situations. Without those skills, a minor disagreement can often escalate into a physical confrontation. And that's where Character-Building Activities: Teaching Responsibility, Interaction, and Group Dynamics comes in.

This book provides nearly 100 activities that will help children and young adults

-gain a better sense of what they value based on their character traits,

-become more effective communicators, and

-discover how to communicate their values and strengthen their convictions.

Character-Building Activities: Teaching Responsibility, Interaction, and Group Dynamics applies directly to preteens and teenagers, but it is easily adapted to younger children. This resource can be used in a variety of settings both in and out of school, including youth groups and curricular areas such as language arts and social studies. The activities are short, clearly described, easy to set up, and ready to use. Teachers or group leaders can pop an activity into an existing lesson plan or use a few in creating a new lesson plan.

Regardless of age and setting, the participants in these activities will learn to deal with a variety of issues, including self-esteem, peer pressure, bullies, anger, and stress. They will also acquire self-reflection skills and have opportunities to share their values and listen to other kids as they share theirs.

The self-responsibility, social interaction, and group dynamics involved in this book's activities will help kids grow and mature.

How To Draw Manga Volume 37: Macromedia FLASH Techniques: Illustrating Bishoujo Characters (v. 37)

How To Draw Manga Volume 37: Macromedia FLASH Techniques: Illustrating Bishoujo Characters (v. 37) Review

You've probably heard that Flash is something used to make lively, interactive, web-based interfaces or animated movies. Flash is certainly well suited for those applications, but did you know you could use it to create computer graphics that put PhotoShop to shame? Flash-based Bishoujo (Japanese for "pretty girl") illustration techniques are quite advanced, and this book shows you the complete, essential, start-to-finish techniques of six pioneering animation masters. We've literally stuffed the pages with tips on everything from how to draw with Flash to how to make your Bishoujo cuter. At the end of each section, you'll find a gallery showcasing each artist's work. Flash has the power to make your dreams come true.

Trials of Great Bible Characters, The

Trials of Great Bible Characters, The Review

Macartney explores the trials of Bible characters including Job, Moses, Daniel, and Paul to learn from their times of difficulty.

Panda: An Intimate Portrait Of One Of The World's Most Elusive Characters

Panda: An Intimate Portrait Of One Of The World's Most Elusive Characters Review

This is a charming portfolio of panda images from multi-award winning photographer and former president of the Royal Photographic Society, Heather Angel."Panda" is a uniquely varied collection of pictures and a heart-warming tribute to an endangered animal whose charismatic appearance means it is loved the world over. Heather's passion for pandas is conveyed in beautiful colour photographs that show them throughout the seasons as they feed, drink, lounge, play, climb trees and even slide down snowy slopes. The images are accompanied by engaging and informative text giving an insight into the way of life of an iconic animal.

Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (Studies in the Legal History of the South)

Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (Studies in the Legal History of the South) Review

This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care.

How, asks Ariela J. Gross, did communities reconcile the dilemmas such trials raised concerning the character of slaves and masters? Although slaves could not testify in court, their character was unavoidably at issue--and so their moral agency intruded into the courtroom. In addition, says Gross, "wherever the argument that black character depended on management by a white man appeared, that white man's good character depended on the demonstration that bad black character had other sources."

This led, for example, to physicians testifying that pathologies, not any shortcomings of their master, drove slaves to became runaways. Gross teases out other threads of complexity woven into these trials: the ways that legal disputes were also affairs of honor between white men; how witnesses and litigants based their views of slaves' character on narratives available in the culture at large; and how law reflected and shaped racial ideology. Combining methods of cultural anthropology, quantitative social history, and critical race theory, Double Character brings to life the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, and advances critical historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South.

Intellectual Character: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Get It (Jossey-Bass Education)

Intellectual Character: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Get It (Jossey-Bass Education) Review

What does it really mean to be intelligent? Ron Ritchhart presents a new and powerful view of intelligence that moves beyond ability to focus on cognitive dispositions such as curiosity, skepticism, and open mindedness. Arguing persuasively for this new conception of intelligence, the author uses vivid classroom vignettes to explore the foundations of intellectual character and describe how teachers can enculturate productive patterns of thinking in their students. Intellectual Character presents illustrative, inspiring stories of exemplary teachers to help show how intellectual traits and thinking dispositions can be developed and cultivated in students to promote successful learning. This vital book provides a model of authentic and powerful teaching and offers practical strategies for creating classroom environments that support thinking.

The Organized Teacher's Guide to Building Character, with CD-ROM

The Organized Teacher's Guide to Building Character, with CD-ROM Review

Learn to teach character traits to your students

The Organized Teacher's Guide to Building Character, a comprehensive resource that will help you implement character education into your lesson plans. The book features ten plans (one for each month of the school year), each focusing on a different character trait, including Respect and Responsibility, Honesty, Courage, Fairness and Self-Discipline.

• A multitude of ideas, books, videos, etc, to use with children of different ages.
• Complete lesson plans incorporate easy-to-access materials that a teacher may already have in her classroom or library.

Topics include:
Respect and Responsibility; Loyalty/Friendship; Kindness/Caring; Self-Discipline/Self-Control; Perseverance/Diligence; Honesty; Courage; Fairness; Gratitude and Integrity