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In Boys Will Be Boys: the Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty, Jeff Pearlman recounts off-the-field doings and wrongdoings of Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, and other key figures around the mid-1990’s Cowboys.

Find this book at BROWSE GV956.D3 P375 2008, shelved next to the HUB entrance on the 2nd floor.

“The author doesn’t delve too deeply into the on-field strategy behind the Cowboys’ winning ways, but he makes up for it with countless salacious stories of late-night strip-club hijinks, backstabbing gossip and sordid legal affairs . . . “–Kirkus Reviews

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. . . it’s Political Philosophy, edited by Anthony O’Hear, a collection of essays about terrorism, the just war, and the role of emotion in political discourse.

By Tuesday it’ll be shelved on the 3rd floor at JA71 .P62245 2006

Contents:

Making the World Safe for Utilitarianism

Innocent Before God: Politics, Morality and the Case of Billy Budd

Democracy and Openness

Rights and Human Beings

Prerogative to Depart from Equality

Casting the First Stone: Who Can, and Who Can’t, Condemn the Terrorists?

Against Egalitarianism

Big Decision: Opting, Converting, Drifting

The Epistemology of Unjust War

High Culture, Low PoliticsEdmund Burke and the Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty

The Politics of Emotion: Liberalism and Cognitivism

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