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Personal Value

Personal Value

Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen

Oxford University Press
2011
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Certain things, like justice, have impersonal value. Other things, like your parents, carry personal values: they have value for you. Besides whatever value they have, they are valuable to you. The philosophical literature as well as non-philosophical literature is inundated with suggestions about the kinds of thing that are good for us or, if it is a negative personal value, what is bad for us. This is a stimulating and vivid area of philosophical research, but it has tended to monopolize the notion of 'good-for', linking it necessarily to welfare or well-being. Since these more or less well-grounded pieces of advice are seldom accompanied by an analysis of the notion of 'good-for', there is a need for such an analysis. Rønnow-Rasmussen remedies this need, by offering a novel way of analyzing the notion of personal value. He defends the idea that we have reason to expand our classical value taxonomy with these personal values. By fine-tuning a pattern of value analysis which has roots in the writings of the Austrian philosopher Franz Brentano, this sort of analysis will come to cover personal values, too. In addition Rønnow-Rasmussen makes substatial contributions to a number of issues, including hedonism vs. preferentialism, subjectivism vs. objectivism, value bearer monism vs. value bearer pluralism, and the wrong kind of reason problem -- all of which are much debated among today's value theorists.
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The Holy Land Reborn

The Holy Land Reborn

Toni Huber

University of Chicago Press
2008
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The Dalai Lama has said that Tibetans consider themselves "the child of Indian civilization" and that India is the "holy land" from whose sources the Tibetans have built their own civilization. What explains this powerful allegiance to India? In "The Holy Land Reborn", Toni Huber investigates how Tibetans have maintained a ritual relationship to India, particularly by way of pilgrimage, and what it means for them to consider India as their holy land.Focusing on the Tibetan creation and recreation of India as a destination, a landscape, and a kind of other, in both real and idealized terms, Huber explores how Tibetans have used the idea of India as a religious territory and a sacred geography in the development of their own religion and society. In a timely closing chapter, Huber also takes up the meaning of India for the Tibetans who live in exile in their Buddhist holy land.A major contribution to the study of Buddhism, "The Holy Land Reborn" describes changes in Tibetan constructs of India over the centuries, ultimately challenging largely static views of the sacred geography of Buddhism in India.
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Seeking Light

Seeking Light

Toni O'Keeffe

Tellwell Talent
2020
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Following the death of her son Ryan in 2013, author Toni O'Keeffe was left seeking a way through the darkness of her grief and seeking answers to life's greatest questions; "Why are we here?" And "What is our purpose?" Rather than look outside of herself she went inward and found the light and the answers she was seeking. As a young child O'Keeffe remembers having a sense of knowing. She says she knew we were here to love, to be kind, to be compassionate, to heal and to learn. However, in her desire to fit in, she stopped listening to the voice that guided her; pushing it back and allowing the opinions and beliefs of others to creep in. But, she always retained the knowing that this voice was there waiting to be heard. And so, she began to listen. Based on this insight, O'Keeffe has created a beautiful collection of inspirational and thought-provoking writings that will comfort anyone dealing with loss, heartache, seeking emotional or spiritual healing or those seeking purpose and light in their own life. O'Keeffe's writing is relatable candid, and colourful. "Seeking Light" is a book readers will go back to time and time again as they seek healing and light in their own lives.
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Seeking Light

Seeking Light

Toni O'Keeffe

Tellwell Talent
2020
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Following the death of her son Ryan in 2013, author Toni O'Keeffe was left seeking a way through the darkness of her grief and seeking answers to life's greatest questions; "Why are we here?" And "What is our purpose?" Rather than look outside of herself she went inward and found the light and the answers she was seeking. As a young child O'Keeffe remembers having a sense of knowing. She says she knew we were here to love, to be kind, to be compassionate, to heal and to learn. However, in her desire to fit in, she stopped listening to the voice that guided her; pushing it back and allowing the opinions and beliefs of others to creep in. But, she always retained the knowing that this voice was there waiting to be heard. And so, she began to listen. Based on this insight, O'Keeffe has created a beautiful collection of inspirational and thought-provoking writings that will comfort anyone dealing with loss, heartache, seeking emotional or spiritual healing or those seeking purpose and light in their own life. O'Keeffe's writing is relatable candid, and colourful. "Seeking Light" is a book readers will go back to time and time again as they seek healing and light in their own lives.
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The Salt Eaters

The Salt Eaters

Toni Cade Bambara

Penguin Classics
2021
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'A book full of marvels' New YorkerThe American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for civil rights. She wants to end it all. But then she finds herself in the hands of a Black faith community, and the fabled healer Minnie Ransom. As she works through the rage and fear of her traumatic past, Velma finds herself changing, becoming whole and, maybe, free. The Salt Eaters is a boldly optimistic, profound exploration of memory, the self, power and Black health as liberation.'A hymn to individual courage' The Times Literary Supplement'Her characters inhabit the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion' The New York Times Book Review
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On Strike for Respect

On Strike for Respect

Toni Gilpin; Gary Isaac; Dan Letwin; Jack McKivigan

University of Illinois Press
1994
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It is we who push the papers, put the paychecks in the mail; It is we who type the letters, mind the office without fail. And until we get a contract, it is we who'll shut down Yale, For the union makes us strong. (To the tune of "John Brown's Body") "Must reading for anyone who wants to learn what a revitalized labor movement would look like." -- Labor Notes "A textbook on solidarity unionism." -- Staughton Lynd "One of the very best books on labor in the 1970s and 80s." -- Dana Frank, University of California at Santa Cruz "There are very few case studies in recent labor history as readable and provocative as this one." -- Karen Sawislak, Stanford University On Strike for Respect is a lively account of the 1984-85 strike by clerical and technical workers at Yale University. Members of Local 34, with a strong female majority, mobilized themselves and the public, breathing new life into the labor movement as they fought for and won substantial gains. A short update on current conditions concludes this volume.
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The Aesthetics of Stealth

The Aesthetics of Stealth

Toni Pape

MIT PRESS LTD
2024
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How performances of tactical imperceptibility--or "stealth"--have become a key political practice in digital culture as a means of escaping surveillance and tracking technologies. In The Aesthetics of Stealth, Toni Pape proposes the first aesthetic and cultural theory of stealth, a mode of political action. The primary goal of stealth is to act efficiently while remaining imperceptible. Pape begins with the observation that the desire for stealth is a sociocultural response to digital media culture, due to digital technologies' unprecedented ability to track individual behavior. He argues that stealth operates as a cross-media aesthetic that can be observed in video games, television, and video art alike, particularly in so-called stealth video games, a genre that requires players to accomplish missions without being detected by in-game enemies. Drawing on theories of perception, digital aesthetics, and video game studies, Pape proposes an analytical map of different modes of stealth such as "sneaking stealth," "social stealth," or "magical stealth." The author's findings are brought into dialogue with research in the fields of software studies, surveillance studies, and political theory to establish the political importance of stealth. While stealth is a resistance to pervasive sensing and tracking, Pape also shows that the principles of stealth politics are closely connected to urgent concerns like (cyber)warfare and other digital practices of targeting and surveillance that operate to entrench cultural values like heteronormativity and white supremacy.
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The Jemima Code

The Jemima Code

Toni Tipton-Martin

University of Texas Press
2015
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Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award, 2016 Art of Eating Prize, 2015 BCALA Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 2016Women of African descent have contributed to America’s food culture for centuries, but their rich and varied involvement is still overshadowed by the demeaning stereotype of an illiterate “Aunt Jemima” who cooked mostly by natural instinct. To discover the true role of black women in the creation of American, and especially southern, cuisine, Toni Tipton-Martin has spent years amassing one of the world’s largest private collections of cookbooks published by African American authors, looking for evidence of their impact on American food, families, and communities and for ways we might use that knowledge to inspire community wellness of every kind.The Jemima Code presents more than 150 black cookbooks that range from a rare 1827 house servant’s manual, the first book published by an African American in the trade, to modern classics by authors such as Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor. The books are arranged chronologically and illustrated with photos of their covers; many also display selected interior pages, including recipes. Tipton-Martin provides notes on the authors and their contributions and the significance of each book, while her chapter introductions summarize the cultural history reflected in the books that follow. These cookbooks offer firsthand evidence that African Americans cooked creative masterpieces from meager provisions, educated young chefs, operated food businesses, and nourished the African American community through the long struggle for human rights. The Jemima Code transforms America’s most maligned kitchen servant into an inspirational and powerful model of culinary wisdom and cultural authority.
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A Mercy

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

Knopf Publishing Group
2008
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In "one of Morrison's most haunting works" (The New York Times), the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter--a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.
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Beloved: Introduction by A. S. Byatt

Beloved: Introduction by A. S. Byatt

Toni Morrison

Everyman's Library
2006
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Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed, in a new edition of the Nobel Laureate's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 25,000 first printing.
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A Mercy

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

VINTAGE
2009
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In "one of Morrison's most haunting works" (The New York Times), the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter--a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.
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The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

VINTAGE
2007
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME - From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. In Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove--an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. Here, Morrison's writing is "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry" (The New York Times).
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Home

Home

Toni Morrison

Knopf Publishing Group
2012
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A New York Times Notable Book - From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man "Powerful. . . . Jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity. . . . Brims with affection and optimism." --San Francisco Chronicle When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, he journeys to his native Georgia with a renewed sense of purpose in search of his sister, but it becomes clear that their troubles began well before their wartime separation. Together, they return to their rural hometown of Lotus, where buried secrets are unearthed and where Frank learns at last what it means to be a man, what it takes to heal, and--above all--what it means to come home.
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