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Product Description: "The pragmatists' response to the claim that theirs is a deeply American philosophy has been less to challenge the claim than to attempt to embrace it on their own terms. . . . One could speak of a national philosophy as one could not speak of a national chemistry or physics...read more
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9780801428333 | Cornell Univ Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "The pragmatists' response to the claim that theirs is a deeply American philosophy has been less to challenge the claim than to attempt to embrace it on their own terms.
Product Description: Why We Fought is a timely and provocative analysis that examines why Americans really chose to sacrifice and commit themselves to World War II. Unlike other depictions of the patriotic âgreatest generation,â Westbrook argues that, strictly speaking, Americans in World War II were not instructed to fight, work, or die for their countryâabove all, they were moved by private obligations...read more
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9781588341303 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, July 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Why We Fought is a timely and provocative analysis that examines why Americans really chose to sacrifice and commit themselves to World War II.
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9781588342959 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, July 6, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Why We Fought is a timely and provocative analysis that examines why Americans really chose to sacrifice and commit themselves to World War II.
Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays affords a view of the current state of moral inquiry in the American academy, and it offers fresh departures for ethically informed, interdisciplinary scholarship. Seeking neither to reduce values to facts nor facts to values, these essays aim to foster discussion about inquiry and moral judgment, and demonstrate that moral inquiry need not be either dispassionate and value-free or moralistic and preachy. (view table of contents)
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9780521621335 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $134.99 | About this edition: Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines.
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9780521628877 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $69.99
9780030976995, titled "Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management" | Dryden Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $32.95 | also contains Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
Traces the life of the influential American philosopher and educator, describes the development of his ideas, and examines his major writings
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9780801425608 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Traces the life of the influential American philosopher and educator, describes the development of his ideas, and examines his major writings
Paperback:
9780801481116 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $28.95
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