Kate Swaffer was just 49 years old when she was diagnosed with a form of younger onset dementia. In this book, she offers an all-too-rare first-hand insight into that experience, sounding a clarion call for change in how we ensure a better quality of life for people with dementia. Kate describes vividly her experiences of living with ......
The Afterlife of Medieval Monasteries in England & Wales
A Thousand Fates explores the afterlife of medieval monasticism in England and Wales, a thousand years monasticism in England and Wales came to an abrupt end in the mid-sixteenth century with the Dissolution of the Monasteries. At its peak two hundred years earlier, many people chose the contemplative life, while the rich sought salvation through ......
Richard Taylor has a diagnosis of dementia probably of the Alzheimer's type. A former psychologist, he is a champion for individuals with early-stage and early-onset Alzheimer's disease. This work shares his experiences with other individuals with the disease and their caregivers. It offers an insight into his life and the disease.
Based on numerous interviews with people from both good and failed marriages, his own experience, philosopher/marriage counsellor Richard Taylor has developed a set of proposals for reforming marriage.
More than any other colony, Virginia looked to the West for its future. After the French and Indian War, the Royal Proclamation of 1754 declared that officers and soldiers would be paid with parcels of Western land, vaguely extending about eighty miles in all directions from Lexington.
To ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, ethics was chiefly the study of how individuals attain personal excellence, or 'virtue', defined as intellectual sophistication, wisdom, and creativity. Evaluating Western ethics, this book presents an argument that philosophy must return to the classical notion of virtue as the basis of ethics.
Re-examines and rejects the whole rationalistic tradition that dominates philosophical ethics. This work provides an empirical explanation of good and evil, noting that one does not have to look too far to find prime examples of the failure of fixed moral rules.
An exploration of an affair and it's consequences, it offers an understanding of why people become involved in extramarital affairs, and ways to lessen the marital damage an affair can cause. It also offers advice for those who find divorce the only answer open to them.
