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Book has minor markings on few pagesTable of Contents:PrefaceIntroductionUsing the BookA Guide to the Redesigned Course and ExamSkills Needed to SucceedHow the Test Is ScoredStudy StrategiesNewly Redesigned Course OutlineMultiple-Choice QuestionsFree-Response Questions1 Foundations of American Democracy (Unit 1)Big Ideas: Constitutionalism, Liberty and Order, Competing Policy-Making InterestsKey Terms Students Must KnowRequired Primary Documents Students Must KnowRequired Supreme Court Cases Students Must KnowKey Concept 1.a: Evolution of Representative DemocracyKey Concept 1.b: Origins of the ConstitutionKey Concept 1.c: The ConstitutionKey Concept 1.d: FederalismReview Multiple-Choice Questions2 Interactions Among the Branches of Government (Unit 2)Big Ideas: Constitutionalism, Competing Policy-Making InterestsKey Terms Students Must KnowRequired Primary Documents Students Must KnowRequired Supreme Court Cases Students Must KnowKey Concept 2.a: The Legislative BranchKey Concept 2.b: The Executive… Read More

This first volume of the new series International Bonhoeffer Interpretations (IBI) contains several impulses for translating Bonhoeffer's key ideas on Religion, Religionlessness and the Church into current contexts. These impulses vary from prospects for a Christian university looking at Bonhoeffer's distinction between the 'ultimate and the penultimate things' to an ethical understanding of Bonhoeffer's 'as-if-theology' in the light of Luther's distinction between law and gospel; from a fresh perspective on Bonhoeffer's religionless Christianity in the light of his thought on 'oikumene' to a Christological re-interpretation of repentance as the contribution of religionless Christianity to the task of the Church in the United States of America. The impulses are framed by programmatic contributions suggesting a framework for reading Bonhoeffer in the 21st century in his hermeneutic exploration of Bonhoeffer's theology and the crises of Western culture, and analyzing 'religionless Christianity' in a… Read More

In his acclaimed book Lincoln's Virtues, William Lee Miller explored Abraham Lincoln's intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his "ethical biography," showing how the amiable and inexperienced backcountry politician was transformed by constitutional alchemy into an oath-bound head of state. Faced with a radical moral contradiction left by the nation's Founders, Lincoln struggled to find a balance between the universal ideals of Equality and Liberty and the monstrous injustice of human slavery.With wit and penetrating sensitivity, Miller brings together the great themes that have become Lincoln's legacy—preserving the United States of America while ending the odious institution that corrupted the nation's meaning—and illuminates his remarkable presidential combination: indomitable resolve and supreme magnanimity.

How did an unschooled career politician named Abraham Lincoln, from the raw frontier villages of early-nineteenth-century Illinois, become one of the most revered of our national icons? This is the question that William Lee Miller explores and answers, in fascinating detail, in Lincoln's Virtues.

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi's experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a "true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.

This fantasy about a bus ride from hell to heaven--a round trip for some but not for others--raises questions about the details of the underworld. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

C.S. Lewis was probably the most popular Christian writer of the twentieth century, and his books are treasured by Christians and non-Christians alike. This beautifully illustrated selection draws together some of his reflections on joy and shows the qualities of intelligence, honesty, and humility which made him such a respected teacher.

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson

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The author defines a concept-based learning program and provides strategies to help create a seamless agenda to teach students the skills they need most to think conceptually and solve problems in today′s complex world.