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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Home from World War I, Ben Held decides to escape his hometown of Newport, Kentucky, and become a barnstorming race-tracker. Bonnie Dennert, his sweetheart, chooses to stay behind. Years later, they are reunited amid World War II, when Ben returns home because horse racing has been banned across America. He wants Bonnie back, and tells her of Stymie, the great horse in the stable where he works as a foreman. When the ban on racing lifts, Ben hopes for Bonnie to join him so they can watch Stymie race together. In addition to Ben's evolving world, the novel faithfully follows Stymie's real-life career. A castoff as a young racer because of his vicious temperament, Stymie endured challenging campaigns to become a beloved horse in New York, where he raced for most of his career. Stymie's modest beginnings eventually earned him the nickname as 'The People's Horse.' The stories in Stymie highlight his early races and his legendary battles with other equine stars of the era, including the great Assault. Eventually the horse is retired and, with Ben, takes up residence at the fictional Galileo Farm in Kentucky, where their pasts are revisited through unexpected events. The stories of Ben Held and Stymie mark a place in time; Stymie's legacy and record might never be duplicated. Stymie is a narrative about devotion, victory and the relentless drive for an optimistic outlook during one of the darkest periods in human history'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From fostering a deep appreciation for other cultures and human experiences to becoming more empathetic, self-assured, generous, open-minded, reflective, adaptable, and analytical, while gaining a deeper understanding of one's identity and culture, studying abroad has left an indelible mark on Mercer University students. Mercer rigorously supports students from diverse academic and cultural backgrounds by providing opportunities to contribute to positive change in the world through service. This book serves as an indispensable resource for showcasing why such programming is important. It also provides practical tips and strategies for conceptualizing, designing, and planning impactful study abroad and internship experiences for students. Every story contained here offers a timeless lesson on the impact of immersive learning, representing the undeniable impact of Mercer University's dedication to its mission: to learn, to create, to discover, to inspire, to empower, and to serve.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The essays in this volume were first presented at the 2023 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, the fifteenth annual conference sponsored by Mercer University's Thomas C. and Ramona E. McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles. The volume explores the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One thread which unites the chapters is the attempt to understand and clarify Rousseau's conception of his own, highly idiosyncratic, philosophic activity, as well as how that activity relates to Rousseau's competing archetypes of natural man and citizen. This exercise requires engaging some of the most fundamental and vexing tensions of human life. Should we be understood and defined as individuals or as members of a community How can we be free and live together What in human beings is natural and what is the product of education, nurture, or historical processes Are we defined more by our reason or by sentiment How do we come to know something and how might our attempts to know potentially undermine truth itself In working through all of these problems, the Rousseau that emerges is truly a thinker of the first rank, a subtle and penetrating student of what it means to be a human being, a citizen, and a philosopher. Contributors include Laurence D. Cooper, Christine Dunn Henderson, Christopher Kelly, Emma Planinc, Denise Schaeffer, John T. Scott, Samuel A. Stoner, and John Warner'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Maimonides's GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED (completed ca. 1191 CE) is among the most important and elusive works in the history of Judaism and philosophy. Among the greatest difficulties has been determining what genre of writing it belongs to. Leo Strauss challenged the contemporary consensus that it is a work of 'Jewish philosophy.' Rather, the GUIDE is first and foremost a defense of the Law, or what his predecessor, whom he praised highly, Alfarabi identified as the art of kalam or dialectical theology. However, it is an unusual sort of kalam, which Strauss dubbed 'intelligent kalam.' Since Shlomo Pines's 1979 article on the limits of knowledge in Maimonides (as well as Alfarabi and Ibn Bajja), much of Maimonides scholarship has centered on these limits. In his book on the GUIDE in 2013, Josef Stern identified two extremes on the limits of knowledge--the dogmatic and the skeptical. He expanded on Pines's skeptical reading. Here, Parens provides a middle ground between these two extremes and argues that the limits are intentionally vague, thereby making possible not only a defense of the Law but also a defense of philosophy. The second part concerns the three great themes of the GUIDE: creation, prophecy, and providence. Maimonides's preferred position on prophecy is that God's will can prevent it. It is unlikely to be coincidental that obstacles, impediments, and prevention are also crucial in his accounts of creation and providence. Parens argues that obstacles or privation are a key to these themes and the GUIDE as a whole'-- Provided by publisher.