Record details

• ISBN: 0805080872
• ISBN: 9780805080872
• Physical Description: print
  xxi, 281 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm
• Edition: 1st edition
• Publisher: New York : H. Holt, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Jamison -- There is no God / Penn Jillette -- A duty to heal / Pius Kamau -- Living life with "Grace and elegant treeness" / Ruth Kamps -- The light of a brighter day / Helen Keller -- The bright lights of freedom / Harold Hongju Koh -- The power of love to transform and heal / Jackie Lantry -- The power of mysteries / Alan Lightman -- Life grows in the soil of time / Thomas Mann -- Why I close my restaurant / George Mardikian -- The virtues of the quiet hero / John McCain -- The joy and enthusiasm of reading / Rick Moody -- There is such a thing as truth / Errol Morris -- The rule of law / Michael Mullane -- Getting angry can be a good thing / Cecilia Muñoz -- Mysterious connections that link us together / Azar Nafisi -- The making of poems / Gregory Orr -- We are each other's business / Eboo Patel -- The 50-percent theory of life / Steve Porter -- The America I believe in / Colin Powell -- The real consequences of justice / Frederic Reamer -- There is more to life than my life / Jamaica Ritcher -- Tomorrow will be a better day / Josh Rittenberg -- Free minds and hearts at work / Jackie Robinson -- Growth that starts from thinking / Eleanor Roosevelt -- The artistry in hidden talents / Mel Rusnov -- My fellow worms / Carl Sandburg -- When children are wanted / Margaret Sanger -- Jazz is the sound of God laughing / Colleen Shaddox -- There is no such thing as too much barbecue / Jason Sheehan -- The people have spoken / Mark shields -- Everything potent is dangerous / Wallace Stegner -- A balance between nature and nurture / Gloria Steinem -- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness / Andrew Sullivan -- Always go to the funeral / Deirdre Sullivan -- Finding prosperity by feeding monkeys / Harold Taw -- I agree with a pagan / Arnold Toynbee -- Testing the limits of what I know and feel / John Updike -- How do you believe in a mystery? / Loudon Wainwright III -- Creative solutions to life's challenges / Frank X. Walker -- Goodness doesn't just happen /

Target Audience Note:

1060L Lexile

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