I Win We Lose

John Hall Snow was professor of pastoral theology at the Episcopal Divinity School and considered preacher-in-residence at Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for over eighteen years. In this previously unpublished manuscript, Snow outlines his critique of American culture building on America's adoption of Herbert Spencer's social theory known as "survival of the fittest." The unconscious acceptance of his theory has reduced us to "winners" and "losers," leading us to disfigure language and truth. Snow writes, "We lie to others, and ourselves, basically, because we believe that lies facilitate whatever it is that we want to do. The basic untruth of human existence is that we can control reality by making it over in the image that we want it to be by words. And since words are all we have to define reality, everything we do and think is touched by untruth. Even the best, as well as the worst of us do this. The best withhold the truth; the worst distort it. The overriding priority is the goal, not the truth. The idea seems to be that what we have built with words will become reality."

When you've only ever loved one woman, moving on is never going to be easy. Neither is finding someone you get on with. But that's fine - you can always ask your wife for help, can't you? Will Frampton's marriage is over. He's known this for five years, but when you have only ever loved one woman, accepting that she doesn't love you any more isn't easy. Especially when, after having thrown you out of the house and telling you she hates you all those years ago, she is now one of your closest friends again. When she agrees to help you fill out your online dating profile, you know things are about to get a little awkward. And when you find someone you really like, more than a little complicated. In the follow up to 'Have a Nice Weekend', Will finally summons up the courage to go on a date. In fact, several. But when they don't turn out as planned, he resorts to asking Abi for some help.

Everything changes for Cesca when her mother moves out to be with her new partner, leaving her with her brother and farmer father. Then her father meets someone else, too, and Cesca has to come to terms with a whole new way of life.* An extremely sensitive, moving handling of issues of first love and parental break-up* Brilliantly-drawn relationship between Cesca and her parents* Julia Clarke is an author to watch - her previous teenage novels, Summertime Blues and Between You and Me, have attracted very favourable review coverage.

What does it mean for players to be Good Sports? When some basketball players choose to be kind and show respect, everyone has fun, no matter how the game ends. Cheer them on when they are Good Sports, Win or Lose!

An easy to understand overview of the process of psychoanalysis with illustrative examples.

A young girl embarks unknowingly on a dangerous regime to lose weight while her parents are absorbed in marital difficulties.

It is fun to win. But kids can have fun when they lose, too. This engaging book teaches beginning readers to have fun while playing, regardless of whether they win or lose. Engage students in reading as they develop their early childhood literacy skills. With TIME For Kids content, this full-color book is aligned to state and national standards, and introduces students to simple informational text features.

People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This book argues, to the contrary, that values are often partially ordered and hence frequently incomparable. Proceeding logically from a small set of axioms, John Nolt examines the great variety of partially ordered value structures, exposing fallacies that arise from overlooking them. He reveals various ways in which incomparability is obscured: using linear indices to summarize partially ordered data, relying on an inadequately defined concept of parity, or conflating incomparability with vagueness. Incomparability can enrich and clarify a range of topics including the paradoxes of Derek Parfit, rational decision theory, and the infinite values of theology. Finally, Nolt shows how to generalize many of the concepts introduced earlier, explores the intricate depths of certain noteworthy partially ordered value structures, and argues for the finitude of value. Incomparable Values will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, value theory, rational decision theory, and logic.