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Our annual Holiday Sale! From 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.,
we will take 20% off all clothing, gifts and trade
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Friday, December 12
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon
St. Olaf Bookstore
The Prince and the Nanny
by Odell M. Bjerkness
“I was fascinated by the rare and intimate
view of the first few years of little Prince Harald’s
life… It was especially touching to read of
the devotion shown by the royal parents… and
the effort they made to have a normal family life.” —Dr.
Margaret O’Leary, Chair and Professor of Norwegian
at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota
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Friday, December 12
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Heritage Room, Buntrock Commons
Riding Into the Sunrise:
Al Quie
A Life of Faith, Service, and Civility
by Mitch Pearlstein
Riding Into the Sunrise is more than a conventional
biography of a good man. It's also more than a conventional
review of Al Quie's political victories and defeats
over three decades in elected office, including twenty-one
years in Congress and four years as governor of Minnesota.
Rich in memories and stories, it connects virtually
every sphere and thread in his remarkable days and
celebrates his lifelong love of God and allegiance
to Him.
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Used textbook buyback run by MBS. Open 9:00 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. on weekdays and 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
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The St. Olaf Bookstore Bookstore will open special hours
during Christmas Break
Thursday, December 17 to Tuesday, December 30
Monday to Friday • 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday • Closed
No convenience store hours.
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The St. Olaf Bookstore Bookstore will be closed for the
holidays:
Wednesday, December 24 through Sunday, December 28
Wednesday, December 31
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Sunday, December 7
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Potluck Paradise:
Favorite Fare from Church and Community
Cookbooks
by Rae Katherine Eighmey and Debbie Miller
Here is the book that answers the age-old
question: What should I bring? Foodies Rae
Katherine Eighmey and Debbie Miller combed
through hundreds of folksy cookbooks compiled
by groups around the Midwest. Then they tested
hundreds of the most popular recipes before
winnowing the list to 125 of the tastiest
crowd-pleasing dishes: treats such as Swedish
Tea Ring, Oven Barbecue Spareribs, Blueberry
Buckle, and Party Punch. Recipes are organized
by course, so it's as easy as pie for the
reader to find the perfect dish for the long
community table.
Paperback. $16.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Sunday, December 7
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Utterly Otterly Day
by Mary Casanova
Little Otter likes to play in a carefree,
unabashed, utterly otterly way. Mom warns
Little Otter, "Be careful!" Dad
says, "Stay close!" But does Little
Otter listen? Oh, no! No. No. No. Little
Otter thinks he's a big otter now, big enough
to take care of himself. But watch out, Little
Otter, because no matter how big you get,
it's good to have loved ones looking out
for you.
Hardcover. $16.99 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Saturday, December 6
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Tales of the Road:
Highway 61
by Cathy Wurzer
"Highway 61 traces approximately 440
miles through Minnesota, from Pigeon Falls
at the Canadian border south to La Crescent.
Along the way, the road hugs the North Shore,
zips through St. Paul, and navigates bluffs
along the Mississippi River. While places
such as Split Rock Lighthouse or Sugar Loaf
Mountain offer well-documented stopping-off
points, observant travelers may wonder about
the historic buildings, abandoned sites,
and decaying structures they see along the
way." In this companion book to the
public television documentary, Cathy Wurzer
unearths stories about these places and more
as she travels down the road and into the
past.
Hardcover. $24.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Saturday, December 6
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Come One, Come All:
Easy Entertaining with Seasonal Menus
by Lee Svitak Dean
Award-winning writer and national food authority
Lee Svitak Dean provides 32 seasonal menus
and over 150 recipes for just about any party
or occasion in this, her first book. Guided
by the ingredients and distinct seasons of
the Midwest, these menus take the guesswork
and anxiety out of party hosting with game
plans for all cooks: What can be done ahead?
How do you get the food ready at the same
time? All of the menus include time-saving
tips, shortcuts, and substitutions so that
even the busiest among us can throw a wonderful
party. The menu styles range from elegant
to casual chic.
Hardcover. $29.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Friday, December 5
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
A Book of Ages: An
Eccentric Miscellany of Great and Offbeat
Moments in the Lives of the Famous and
Infamous, Ages 1 to 100
by Eric Hanson
The day we turn any age, we become contemporaries
of everyone who has ever been that age, and
it becomes our business to know that Bob
Dylan wrote “Blowin’ in the Wind” when
he was twenty, Winston Churchill was fired
from the Admiralty when he was forty and
took up painting, and Jane Austen died, unmarried
and mostly unknown, when she was forty-one.
A witty, ironic collection of moments from
famous lives organized by year of age from
infancy to death, A Book of Ages tells
you who is doing what, who is on top of the
world, who is waiting for his luck to change,
who is saying unkind things about whom, who
is planning his revenge, who is meeting for
the first time, and who Elizabeth Taylor
is currently divorcing.
Hardcover. $19.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Friday, December 5
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
The Sweeter Side
of Amy’s Bread: Cakes, Cookies,
Bars, Pastries and More from New York
City's Favorite Bakery
by Amy Scherber and Toy Kim Dupree
Amy's Bread is a New York institution--a
bakery that serves over 55,000 customers
a month at its three retail locations in
Manhattan and also supplies bread to more
than 500 restaurants and stores. While Amy's
is famous for its bread, it's also renowned
for its sweeter side--scones, muffins, cookies,
bars, biscotti, layer cakes, and other treats.
Now, in this beautiful cookbook, Amy and
her executive pastry chef show home cooks
how to re-create 71 of the bakery's trademark
goodies, from tasty breakfast fare such as
Cherry Cream Scones and Pecan Sticky Buns
to delectable sweets like Double Chocolate
Chip Cookies and Amy's famous "Pink
Cake."
Hardcover. $34.95 |
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Christmas Festival 2008 Event
Thursday, December 4
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
State Fair: The Great
Minnesota Get-Together
by Susan Lambert Miller
Machinery Hill. Edibles on a stick. Livestock
competitions. Princess Kay of the Milky Way.
The Grandstand. The Midway. It must be State
Fair time! Miller has selected 150 stunning
images that capture the fair's essence and
arranged them to surprise and delight. These
fresh and delightful photos and Lorna Landvik's
charming "The Fair Maiden" capture
the hilarity, the camaraderie, and the quirkiness
that is the Minnesota State Fair.
Hardcover. $24.95 |
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Join editor Kathryn Kysar (our M.C. for
the evening) and authors Heid Erdrich, Sheila
O'Connor, Shannon Olson, Wang Ping and Faith
Sullivan for readings, a question-and-answer
session and book signings.
Friday, November 14
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Severence Great Hall
Carleton College
Riding Shotgun: Women
Write about Their Mothers
edited by Kathryn Kysar
With honesty and extraordinary self-knowledge,
twenty-one accomplished authors illuminate
the mother-daughter relationship–intimate,
complicated, loving, flawed–with humor
and clarity.
Hardcover. $24.95 |
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Tuesday, October 21
4:00 p.m. - Colloquium: The Mathematics of
Fiction
Regents Hall 150
7:30 p.m. - Reading and Signing
Viking Theater
The Age of Shiva
by Manil Suri
Following his spectacular debut novel, The
Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri returns with
a mesmerizing story of modern India, richly
layered with themes from Hindu mythology. The
Age of Shiva is at once a powerful story
of a country in turmoil and an extraordinary
portrait of maternal love. It is among the
most compelling novels to emerge from contemporary
India.
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The
Death of Vishnu
by Manil Suri
At the opening of this masterful debut novel,
Vishnu, the resident odd-job man, lies dying
on the apartment building staircase he inhabits,
while his neighbors, the Pathaks and the Asranis,
argue over who will pay for an ambulance. As
the action spirals up through the floors of the
building, the dramas of the residents' lives
unfold: Mr. Jalal's obsessive search for higher
meaning; Vinod Taneja's longing for the wife
he has lost; the comic elopement of Kavita Asrani,
who fancies herself the heroine of a Hindi movie.
Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of
one apartment building becomes a metaphor for
the social and religious division of contemporary
India.
Paperback. $14.95 |
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Homecoming Weekend
Saturday, October 4
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Whistling Wings
by Laura Goering
Marcel, a young tundra swan, is tired from
the first half of a winter migration. One
thousand miles is a long way to fly-too long
for Marcel, so he hides in the rushes to
stay behind while his parents and the flock
continue south. But with the lake nearly
frozen over, he soon realizes that he is
not cut out for life on ice. Other animals
offer advice about how to survive the winter,
but their ways of living aren't right for
the swan. Hungry and scared, he falls asleep
- only to be awakened by a big surprise!
Hardcover. $16.95
Paperback. $8.95 |
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Homecoming Weekend
Saturday, October 4
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Agate
by Joy Morgan Dey, illustrated by Nikki Johnson
Meet Agate the moose. He’s a big brown
galoot who doesn’t think he’s
very special when he compares himself to
his animal friends who are named after gemstones. “What
good is a moose?” he asks himself.
What good is a moose, indeed – his
beautiful friends help him to see that, just
like his namesake the agate, true beauty
comes from what’s inside. This stunning
book features original watercolors and a
poignant, witty message that resonates with
anyone who has ever felt like they don’t
quite belong.
Hardcover. $17.95 |
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Homecoming Weekend
Saturday, October 4
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
The Baseball Brothers
by Anne Fredrickson, illustrated by Kathryn
Weaver
The Baseball Brothers is a children's
book that tells the true story of twelve
brothers who played baseball together in
the 1920s. Through working together on the
farm and playing together as a team, the
brothers developed lifelong friendships.
The book is a tribute to baseball and a celebration
of family. The story recounts the brothers'
most famous feats, including a game-saving
tackle at home plate and an unlikely victory
over a tough opponent. But the most important
part of the tale is the enduring friendship
and familial bond that the brothers shared.
Hardcover. $12.95 |
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Tuesday, September 30
4:00 p.m.
Viking Theater
Pilgrims of Christ
on the Muslim Road: Exploring a New Path
Between Two Faiths
by Paul-Gordon Chandler
Historically, Christians have taken a confrontational
or missionary approach toward Islam, leading
many Muslims to identify Christianity with
the cultural prejudices of Westerners. On
the individual level, Christ-followers within
Islam have traditionally been encouraged
by Christians to break away from their Muslim
communities. Chandler boldly explores how
these two major religions—which share
much common heritage-can not only co-exist,
but also enrich each other.
This event is co-sponsored by the
Religion and Middle Eastern Studies
departments.
Hardcover. $19.95 |
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Monday, September 29
Keynote Address - 7:30 p.m.
Boe Chapel
Reception and booksigning to follow
in Buntrock Commons Crossroads
Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is
a fictional collage of stories dreamed by
Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in
a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant
but sensitive young genius is creating his
theory of relativity, a new conception of
time, he imagines many possible worlds. In
one, time is circular, so that people are
fated to repeat triumphs and failures over
and over. In another, there is a place where
time stands still, visited by lovers and
parents clinging to their children. In another,
time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped
by a bell jar.
Paperback. $12.95 |
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Friday, September 5
1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
St. Olaf Bookstore
Scandinavian-American
Folk Tales... and Fish Stories by
Kristoffer Paulson
Fairy tales are fairy tales, fish stories
are fish stories and the truth is the truth.
It was not once upon a time, but in the summer
of 1955 that I was introduced to Norway,
the Oslo Summer School and Ulvik in Hardanger....Thus
began a week of visiting my relatives in
Ulvik, a beginning to my own Norwegian saga
and a life-time adventure with the people,
the language and the folk tales of Norway.
That week also brought into focus a recognition
of my own Norwegian heritage, both in Norway
and America. All of these stories began with
stories I told my children, and retold to
adults and other children. I look forward
to grandchildren, because the stories are
absolutely true and really good.
— Kristoffer Paulson
Paperback. $16.95 |
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Wednesday, April 30
7:00 p.m.
Buntrock Commons, Trollhaugen Room
Madness: A Bi-Polar
Life
by Marya Hornbacher
When Marya Hornbacher published her first
book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and
Bulimia, she did not yet know the reason
for her all-but-shattered young life. At
age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed
with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar, the most
severe form of bipolar disease there is.
In Madness, in her trademark wry and
utterly self-revealing voice, Hornbacher
tells her new story.
Hardcover. $25.00 |
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Friday, April 25
4:00 p.m.
Viking Theater
The Sorrows of an
American
by Siri Hustvedt
The Sorrows of an American is a soaring
feat of storytelling about the immigrant
experience and the ghosts that haunt families
from one generation to another. Siri Hustvedt’s
exquisitely moving prose reveals one family’s
hidden sorrows through an extraordinary mosaic
of secrets and stories that reflect the fragmented
nature of identity itself.
Hardcover. $25.00 |
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Thursday, April 17
7:00 p.m.
Rolvaag 725
Half Wild: Poems
by Mary Rose O'Reilley
Half Wild is spiritual biography wound
backwards, spiraling into the world rather
than out of it. Though it reflects on the
paradoxes of our violent times, Mary Rose
O'Reilley's collection hangs on to life like
the bee "up to his hips in love" who "will
fall asleep in the snow" and "wake
up still kissing his flower." The poems
of Half Wild revel in desire and longing
as instruments of theological critique. Paperback.
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The
Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold
of Ecology
by Mary Rose O'Reilley
At midlife, Mary Rose O'Reilley reflects on her
past and her hard-won sense of self. She is determined,
now, not to sacrifice or waste her self. She
has struggled for years along the paths set by
her suburban childhood, her Catholic upbringing,
her failed marriage, and the mute duties of daughterhood.
Now, she is trying to see the world through the
eyes of the deer that stop outside her window
and look in at her.
Hardcover. $22.00 |
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Thursday, April 17
7:00 p.m.
Boe Chapel
Common Ground: How
to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying
America
by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel
Inspired by their popular USA Today column,
conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel
show politicians of both stripes how to get
beyond partisanship, restore civility, and
move our country forward. In this much-needed
book, Thomas and Beckel go beyond their column
to offer a sobering overview of the current
political divide and its corrosive effect
on us all. Entertaining and informative,
funny and healing, Common Ground is
must reading for all concerned citizens.
Hardcover. $25.95 |
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Global Citizenship Series
Tuesday, April 15
3:15 p.m.
Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater
Educating for Democracy:
Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible
Political Engagement
by Elizabeth Beaumont, Anne Colby, Thomas
Ehrlich, Josh Corngold
Educating for Democracy reports the
results of the Political Engagement Project,
a study of educational practices at the college
level that prepare students for responsible
democratic participation. In this book, the
coauthors show that education for political
development can increase students’ political
understanding, skill, motivation, and involvement
while contributing to many aspects of general
academic learning.
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Educating
Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates
for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility
by Elizabeth Beaumont, Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich,
Jason Stephens
The authors (all affiliated with The Carnegie
Foundations for the Advancement of Teaching)
share a conviction that moral and civic learning
should be a central explicit goal for both liberal
and professional educations. They survey the
efforts of twelve American colleges and universities
to implement approaches to moral and civic education,
using them to illustrate their argument that
such education needs to be fully incorporated
into the curriculum. They also offer recommendations
on how to extend their goals into extracurricular
activities and discuss the assessment of such
efforts.
Hardcover. $36.00 |
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Monday, April 14
3:30 p.m.
Holland Hall 413
Human Goods, Economic
Evils: A Moral Approach to the Dismal
Science
by Edward Hadas
Much of modern economic theory is based on
a rather unflattering view of human nature,
one that is essentially selfish and materialistic.
Not surprisingly, this incomplete version
of human anthropology makes for some rather
incomplete economic theory, argues Edward
Hadas in Human Goods & Economic Evils.
Instead of simply being utility maximizers,
Hadas argues human beings also seek to maximize
morality in their everyday economic lives.
For Hadas, economic man is moral man, who
always strives for the good according to
his nature.
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Wednesday, April 2
7:00 p.m.
Dittman Room 305
Book signing in conjunction with the "Expanding
Oceans"
art exhibit at Flaten Art Museum.
Celebrating the World's
Barrier Islands
by Orrin Pilkey and Mary Edna Fraser
From the North Carolina Outer Banks to New
York's Fire Island, from Iceland to the Netherlands,
and Colombia to Vietnam, barrier islands
protect much of the world's coastlines from
the ravages of the sea. A Celebration
of the World's Barrier Islands is one
part stunning coffee table book, and one
part state-of-the-art popular science, and
it will take readers on a long-distance journey
from pole to pole and hemisphere to hemisphere
that is altogether original.
Hardcover. $49.95 |
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Belgum Lecture
Monday, March 17, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 18, 3:30 p.m.
Holland Hall 501
Plato: A Very Short
Introduction
by Julia Annas
Few philosophers have been more intent on
vigorous philosophizing than Plato. But none
has matched the imagination and creativity
with which he engages readers and entices
them to join him in philosophical conversation.
This book introduces Plato's many-sided and
elusive genius in a way that is stimulating
and accessible. In ethics, metaphysics, philosophy
of mind, and theory of knowledge, Plato's
wide-ranging, bold, and influential ideas
still challenge us today.
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Ancient
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
by Julie Annas
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long,
rich and varied one, in which the notes of discussion
and argument constantly resound. This book aims
to introduce readers to some ancient debates
and to get them to engage with the ancient developments
of some themes. Getting away from the presentation
of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great
Thinkers, the book aims to give readers a sense
of the freshness and liveliness of ancient philosophy,
and of its wide variety of themes and styles.
Paperback. $9.95 |
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Boldt Lecture
Thursday, March 6
7:30 p.m.
Viking Theater
The Star Machine
by Jeanine Basinger
From one of our leading film authorities,
a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding
of a book about the golden age of movies,
full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis.
Jeanine Basinger gives us an immensely entertaining
look into the “star machine,” examining
how, at the height of the studio system,
from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios
worked to manufacture star actors and actresses.
Hardcover. $35.00 |
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Anthony
Mann
by Jeanine Basinger
Director of such often-revived films as Winchester ’73, The
Glenn Miller Story, and El Cid, Anthony
Mann enjoyed a lasting and important career as
one of Hollywood’s premier filmmakers.
Jeanine Basinger’s Anthony Mann,
which places the director’s visual style
at the center of its analysis, was among the
first formal studies of any filmmaker, and it
set a standard in the field over twenty-five
years ago. Long out of print and much in demand,
this pioneering book is now available again,
featuring complete coverage of those Mann films
not discussed in the original work, as well as
over fifty rare film stills.
Paperback. $27.95 |
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Global Citizenship Series
Thursday, February 28
11:30 a.m.
Buntrock Commons, Black and Gold Ballroom
Public Matters: Politics,
Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century
by William A. Galston
An activist as well as an intellectual, Galston
(public policy, U. of Maryland) writes about
such matters as strategic challenges facing
the Democratic Party, a progressive perspective
for parents, and modern Catholic social thought.
The introduction and one of the 13 essays
are new, the others reprinted from journals
and anthologies since the turn of the century.
Hardcover. $26.95 |
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Liberal
Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism
for Political Theory and Practice
by William A. Galston
Galston outlines and defends a political theory
of liberal pluralism. Liberalism requires a presumption
of expressive liberty in which individuals and
groups are allowed to live their lives as they
see fit within a range of legitimate variation.
This variation, he argues, is brought about by
an adherence to pluralism, which (unlike relativism)
sees objective differences between good and bad,
but insists that the goods cannot be hierarchically
ordered or reduced to a common measure, with
the exception of the basic goods that form a
part of any conception of a good life. After
outlining the theory, he applies it to questions
of democracy, authority over education, freedom
of association, and civic goods.
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