Product Description: Love and friendship are at the heart of human and divine life. Without reference to them, it is impossible to explain the human being. Yet these terms are irreducibly ambiguous, with multiple meanings for our lives―from particular human relationships, to political communities, to one's relationship with God...read more

Product Description: Freedom, Philosophy, and Faith: The Transformational Role of Freedom in the Thought of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas highlights the essential role freedom plays in the Catholic intellectual tradition. Montague Brown argues that that freedom, taken in its most essential form as understood by the Judeo-Christian tradition, has been transformative in all aspects of human thought, from metaphysics to politics...read more

Product Description: Renaissance and Enlightenment philosophers arbitrarily restricted reason, with disastrous consequences for human understanding. This book explains why the restoration of reason to its full breadth and power is in order. Montague Brown discusses how and why modern thought focused its efforts too narrowly on one portion of the spectrum of realities with which human reason ought to concern itself (truth) and so became incapable of handling moral (goodness) and aesthetic (beauty) topics adequately...read more

Product Description: Discover the truth (and the falsehood) in the sound bites that rule so much of your life! Today they're called sound bits, but they're older by far than sound bites, and they play a larger role in your life —those pithy, quotable phrass that capture in a few words the wisdom of the world: " If it ain't broke, don't fix it...read more

Product Description: This little book to help you resolve many of the big problems that life poses. In this handy guide, you’ll come to understand and learn how to explain — in less than a minute each! — such fundamental notions as why truth is more than just someone’s opinion; what freedom is and how it differs from license; the difference between justice and law, judgment and prejudice, equality and fairness, happiness and pleasure ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: From traditional, health-oriented community care to the new era of bottom-line-focused medical treatment, this work presents the dramatic shift in modern US medicine. The implications are explored in a series of dialogues about the most recent changes in managed care, hospital governance, alliances between physicians and managers, and health care ethics: the problems to be solved, the threats that must be met, and the opportunities that lie ahead for those hospitals and physicians who are willing to challenge the status quo...read more

Product Description: A concise, yet engaging introduction to the field of ethics, this volume offers a systematic study of the foundations of moral responsibility. Montague Brown guides the reader on an examination of a wide range of ethical positions, including relativism, emotivism, egoism, utilitarianism, Kantian formalism, and natural law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focuses on the core structures and topics that students will learn in the first two years of studying Spanish. Each chapter is written in modular form allowing the teacher to customise the course. The programme takes full advantage of video, interactive multimedia and Web-based technology...read more

More than four hundred alphabetically arranged entries discuss various aspects of the conflict between science and religion.

Product Description: A study of reason, not as the last word, but as an invitation to explore and discover a new life of meaning. The Romance of Reason is an attempt to put the philosophical basis of Aquinas' thinking into nontechnical language, making it accessible to the average reader.

Offers advice on writing and marketing fiction and nonfiction, and discusses the submission process, query letters, book proposals, agents, contracts, editors, publicity, and book packagers (view table of contents)

Giving special attention to the Golden State's national parks and top golf courses, a new edition of a comprehensive guide to California includes expanded coverage of the Wine Country, new maps, and more information on San Diego. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Explains how to create an investment portfolio to fit one's individualized goals while providing helpful advice for getting the most of out of an investment, from stock and bond funds to investments for retirement and estate planning. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This informative guide to marketing offers you a wealth of ideas for s urvivingand thriving in the tough competition of health care today. Yo u'll learn about marketing approaches through a wide range of programs , market segmentation, product line marketing, marketing physician ser vices, using PR, advertising, building patient loyalty, the hospital p roduct mix, outcome marketing, and more...read more

Product Description: This collection offers an up-to-date look at the core responsibilities of nursing management. Here is insight on quality & productivity; team building and empowerment; managing shortages; turnover & stress; & balancing cost management & patient rights...read more

Product Description: Editor, 'Health Care Management Review'. Health Care Management Review Series. Collected journal article reprints from 'Health Care Management Review'. DNLM: Health Services - organization & administration - collected works.

Product Description: Book by Brown, Montague, Lewis, Howard L.