Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue 9780830878000

In a society where raging narcissism dominates the moral landscape, the virtue of humility is often dismissed as irrelev

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Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue
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Recent studies on the meaning of cultural diplomacy in the twentieth century often focus on the United States and the Co

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This book proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially t

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After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: F

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Cohen studies the Moroccan middle class's varied transnational identifications with a global market economy, as the

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When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New

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A new work of political philosophy, in which Asim Qureshi reflects on injustice in the world he sees around him. Coverin

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Searching for a Mechanismtraces the history of cell bioenergetics from the early notions of science in the Enlightenment

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Three-year-old William Tyrrell made headlines across Australia in 2014 after he disappeared while playing outside his fo

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