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Decency and Disorder: The Age of Cant, 1789-1837
Ben Wilson

Faber & Faber, 2007

Stark Decency: German Prisoners of War in a New England Village

3 reviews
Allen V. Koop

UPNE, 1988

Fear Gives Way to Friendship
Koop's chronicle gives us a picture of an oasis of amity in a world torn by war, in the unlikely location of a prisoner-of-war camp in the tiny town of Stark, New Hampshire, several miles north of Lancaster and Berlin. We see German captives being pleasantly surprised by the humane treatment of the American guards, who observed the letter and the spirit of the Geneva Convention, and we see the ...

Deciding What We Watch: Taste, Decency and Media Ethics in the UK and the USA
Colin Shaw

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

This book considers the different constraints (in the law, cultural customs, and self-regulation) affecting broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic and the means by which they have responded to them. The book describes, with examples, the operations of compliance regulations and standard controls. It also explores the moral basis and history of such regulation as it has until now been applied to major issues of taste and decency.

A Conspiracy Of Decency: The Rescue Of The Danish Jews During World War II

2 reviews
Emmy E. Werner

Basic Books, 2004

Very moving with good historical detail
Great quotations that make you feel what it was like to live during the Holocaust in Denmark.

The Manager's Book of Decencies

5 reviews
Steve Harrison

McGraw-Hill, 2007

Decencies in action
Steve Harrison reminds leaders of what they have forgotten. Leadership starts with small gestures. What leaders do when they think no one is watching defines true leadership. These gestures are available to all. The Manager's Book of Decencies catalogs dozens of them. For example: Jim Donald, CEO and president of Starbucks, insists that hour-long meetings be completed in 45 minutes. ...

A Deficit Of Decency

90 reviews
Zell Miller

Stroud & Hall Publishers, 2005

Historian and conservative black sheep Democrat hits the nail on the head
Amazons book reviews have turned into a blog for political voting. Come on people, turn off the hate and rate the book honestly. Historian and conservative black sheep Democrat Zell Miller hits the nail on the head. Short chapters with a touch of humor; quick read. He says the book is about the soul of our nation. Miller's stern words reflect a southern farmer--marine mentality. His ...

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

16 reviews
Elijah Anderson

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

A New Lens to See Through
I am so impressed with this book I can't believe it. Every page provided a new insight. As a white person I gained a whole new perspective on...well, everything, it seems like. Mr. Anderson does such a great job of giving an "inside look" into the inner city world, you really come away understanding a whole lot more. I appreciated that Anderson laid the facts out without playing the blame ...

My Goodness: My Kids: Cultivating Decency in a Dangerous World

5 reviews
Nesta Aharoni

Grassroots Publishing Group Inc, 2008

Countless parenting tips are displayed to build trust, respect, unity, and encourage learning
Of all the blame flung in today's society's, it's never directed at the biggest influence in every child's life - the parents. "My Goodness, My Kids: Cultivating Decency in a Dangerous World" is a guide for parents to raise their children into better people as a whole - more kind, more loving, and for a selfish indulgence for them, more loving and appreciative of their parents. Countless ...

Decency and Excess: Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation
Samuel Martinez

Paradigm Publishers, 2007

Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martínez shows how impoverished plantation dwellers find ways of coping with the alienation that would be expected while laboring to produce goods for the richer countries. Despite living in dire poverty, these workers live in a thoroughly commodified social environment. Ritual, eroticism, electronic media, household adornment, and payday-weekend binging are ways even ...

The Cross and the Cinema: The Legion of Decency and the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures, ...
James M. Skinner

Praeger Publishers, 1993

Skinner reveals how the Roman Catholic Church, through its agency, the National Legion of Decency, dominated the American film censorship scene in tandem with the Production Code Administration. In its heyday in the 1930s and 40s, the Legion claimed a membership of over eleven million Americans--about one moviegoer in twelve--and brought movie moguls such as David O. Selznick and Howard Hughes to their knees in determined campaigns to bar what ...

The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837

2 reviews
Ben Wilson

Penguin Press HC, The, 2007

Those Virtuous Victorians
Ben Wilson's book, "The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837," is very good, with a few weaknesses; and I recommend it. Ben Wilson helps to explain how British mores developed from the profligacy and loucheness of the late eighteenth century to the refinement and respectability of the Victorian era. His book resolved some questions I've had ever since I read ...

For Shame: The Loss of Common Decency in American Culture

3 reviews
James B. Twitchell

Diane Pub Co, 1997

Makes some very excellent points. It's worth reading.
Contrary to the Kirkus review which I found more academic than the book, and generally misses the point, I found the book quite interesting. I think it made one heck of lot of sense. In fact I'm going to get two of his other books: The Trashing... & the Advertising book.

Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

21 reviews
Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley

Princeton Architectural Press, 2002

inspiring
Maybe the most important architectural idea since the series of pattern language treatises by Christopher Alexander. I think this is a must read for anyone involved with real estate development. Surely a model for New Orleans. I'm planning to take a trip and pay homage. Mr. Mockbee was a genius.

Evolving Standards Of Decency: Popular Culture And Capital Punishment (Politics, Media, and Popular Culture)
Mary Welek Atwell

Peter Lang Publishing, 2004

The Supreme Court has looked to "evolving standards of decency" in determining whether the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Evolving Standards of Decency examines the ways in which popular culture portrays the death penalty. By analyzing literature and film, Atwell argues that capital punishment becomes much more complex when both offenders and victims are presented ...

Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World

4 reviews
Richard J. Mouw

InterVarsity Press, 1992

Disagreeing in friendship and laughter- the art of civil dialogue
This call for civility in public (and particularly religious) dialogue is vitally important. In order for our multi-cultural world to truly thrive, we need to learn to talk together *with* those who hold views other than our own. We live in a world where public discourse usually devolves into the demonization of one's "opponent." Mouw's book offers a helpful discussion of how one can hold onto ...

The Department of Homeland Decency: Decency Rules and Regulations Manual

5 reviews
Susan Fuller, Frank Fuller

Three Rivers Press, 2008

Skewering Self-Righteousness
Contained within the covers of this clever, cynical little volume are instructions for living an exemplary Homeland life ruled by decency. Issued by the Department of Homeland Decency (DOHD), it covers key life areas, including home, sex ("it"), work, entertainment, health, and worship. The book is filled with inspiring mottos, for "Mottos help decent Homelanders remember the rules of decency." ...

Decency

2 reviews
Charles S. Lauer

Second River Healthcare Press, 2005

Inspiring and informative, a book for every leader and would-be leader
Charles Lauer is the publisher of Modern Healthcare, whose weekly column is probably the most widely-read publication in the industry, but the wisdom included in his book is relevant to everyone - at work and at home. The book's nine chapters will make you think in new ways about your own leadership style (whether you're leading a big organization or a Scout troop), about cultivating a more ...

The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture

5 reviews
Frederick S Lane

Prometheus Books, 2006

brilliant, important . . . and fun
Hooray - finally the curtain is pulled back and we can see how neo-conservatives have been playing Christian conservatives like marionettes for years. How else could Republicans get so many ordinary middle and working class people to vote and campaign against their own self interest??? How about . . . pretending that exposed boobs are more important than health care, livable wages, pension ...

Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 (American Encounters/Global ...

2 reviews
Eileen J. Suárez Findlay

Duke University Press, 1999

fascinating insights
I am the grandchild of a Puerto Rican woman who lived on the island about the time this book was written. I was absolutely fascinated by the book and found it explained a lot about attitudes toward race and sexuality that prevailed in my own family that I'd always found contradictory and inexplicable. I generally avoid books written by academicians because their writing style is usually turgid, ...

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