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Where Men Win Glory

• Author : Jon Krakauer
• Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
• Release Date : 2010-01-01
• Genre : Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 300
• ISBN : 9781848874831

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Pat Tillman was well-known to American sports fans: a chisel-jawed and talented young professional football star, he was on the brink of signing a million dollar contract when, in 2001, al-Qaeda launched terrorist attacks against his country. Driven by deeply felt moral patriotism, he walked away from fame and money to enlist in the United States Special Operations Forces. A year later he was killed - apparently in the line of fire - on a desolate hillside near the Pakistan border in Afghanistan. News of Tillman's death shocked America. But even as the public mourned his loss, the US Army aggressively maneuvered to conceal the truth: that it was a ranger in Tillman's own platoon who had fired the fatal shots. In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer reveals how an entire country was deliberately deceived by those at the very highest levels of the US army and government. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer's storytelling, Where Men Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war.

Fields of Honor

• Author : Jonathan Rand
• Publisher : Chamberlain Brothers
• Release Date : 2004
• Genre : Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 121
• ISBN : 1596090391

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Recounts the life and accomplishments of Pat Tillman, who left professional football to join the Army in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks and was killed in a combat situation in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004.

G I Messiahs

• Author : Jonathan H. Ebel
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release Date : 2015-11-24
• Genre : History
• Pages : 256
• ISBN : 9780300216356

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Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our notions of what it means to be an American soldier are not just strongly religious, but strongly Christian. Drawing on a vast array of sources, he further reveals the effects of soldier veneration on the men and women so often cast as heroes. Imagined as the embodiments of American ideals, described as redeemers of the nation, adored as the ones willing to suffer and die that we, the nation, may live—soldiers have often lived in subtle but significant tension with civil religious expectations of them. With chapters on prominent soldiers past and present, Ebel recovers and re-narrates the stories of the common American men and women that live and die at both the center and edges of public consciousness.

Virtue and Knowledge

• Author : William J. Prior
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2016-08-19
• Genre : Philosophy
• Pages : 254
• ISBN : 9781315522036

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Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues, their relation to each other, and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics, such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, accessible to readers with no training in the classics.

Heroes Saviours Traitors and Supermen TEXT ONLY

• Author : Lucy Hughes-Hallett
• Publisher : HarperCollins UK
• Release Date : 2013-01-17
• Genre : Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 624
• ISBN : 9780007404674

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From the author of ‘The Pike’ – winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction – a compelling story of heroism told through eight famous lives that span from Achilles to Sir Francis Drake.

Human Virtue and Human Excellence

• Author : Arthur W. H. Adkins
• Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
• Release Date : 1991
• Genre : Philosophy
• Pages : 303
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105001735443

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This is an original and stimulating collection of articles by scholars trained in classics, moral philosophy, political science, literature, and intellectual history. Its principal objective is to convey to the modern reader a sophisticated understanding of Homeric and Classical Greek morality and how it differs from our own. Some of the articles focus primarily on Greek value concepts, especially the concept of arete. Others compare those concepts to modern notions of virtue and tolerance, as well as to the work of contemporary literary figures and philosophers, including T.S. Eliot, Alasdair Macintyre, John Wallace, and Philippa Foot. Throughout, the juxtaposition of ancient and modern ideas and the worldviews they presuppose makes these readings both intellectually exciting and revealing.

Alexander Pope

• Author : Mavis Batey
• Publisher : Barn Elms Pub
• Release Date : 1999
• Genre : Architecture
• Pages : 135
• ISBN : UOM:39015049662995

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This work provides a look at Pope's relationship with the leading garden makers of his time. Forever planning and plotting for his own grotto and for his modest five acres in Twickenham, his ideas were also sought at many of the great estates. His importance to Lord Burlington at Chiswick, Henrietta Howard at Marble Hill, and, above all, to William Kent, the great designer is made abundantly clear. The author sets out to throw new light on her subject and show why Pope has been, and remains, so crucial to our landscape.

The Quiet Athenian

• Author : L. B. Carter
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 1986
• Genre : Athens (Greece)
• Pages : 211
• ISBN : UOM:39015010399197

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Like its modern counterparts, Athenian democracy strove to be an assembly of all its citizens. But as is the case with modern democratic states, it often fell far short of this goal. This enlightening work focuses on a previously unexplored strata of Athenian society: the apolitical citizens. The author begins with a review of the traditional drives to honor and fame which gave impetus to ancient Athenian political life and then goes on to analyze the diverse motives of those who chose to abstain from participating in the democratic process. Dr. Carter's discussion takes full account of the demographic factors involved and sheds light on the economic, geographic, and cultural background of these apolitical Athenians.

Eiger Dreams

• Author : Jon Krakauer
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release Date : 2012-07-12
• Genre : Sports & Recreation
• Pages : 208
• ISBN : 9780330527958

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No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb. In Pakistan, the fearsome K2 kills thirteen of the world's most experienced mountain climbers in one horrific summer. In Valdez, Alaska, two men scale a frozen waterfall over a four-hundred-foot drop. In France, a hip international crowd of rock climbers, bungee jumpers, and paragliders figure out new ways to risk their lives on the towering peaks of Mont Blanc. Why do they do it? How do they do it? In this extraordinary book, Krakauer presents an unusual fraternity of daredevils, athletes, and misfits stretching the limits of the possible. From the paranoid confines of a snowbound tent, to the thunderous, suffocating terror of a white-out on Mount McKinley, Eiger Dreams spins tales of driven lives, sudden deaths, and incredible victories. This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits.

The Encyclopedia of Religion

• Author : Mircea Eliade
• Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
• Release Date : 1987
• Genre : Religion
• Pages : 598
• ISBN : 0029098807

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A comprehensive guide to the history, beliefs, concepts, practices, and major figures of religions past and present.