{"product_id":"royal-bakers-daughter-9780299227241","title":"Royal Baker's Daughter","description":"In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. \u003ci\u003eHuman Goodness\u003c\/i\u003e is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds. Genuinely good people and their actions, Tuan contends, are far from boring, naive, and trite; they are complex, varied, and enormously exciting. In a refreshing antidote to skeptical times, he writes of ordinary human courtesies, as simple as busing your dishes after eating, that make society functional and livable. And he writes of extraordinary courage and inventiveness under the weight of adversity and evil. He considers the impact of communal goodness over time, and his sketches of six very different individuals Confucius, Socrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Keats, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and Simone Weil confirm that there are human lives that can encourage and lead us to our better selves.Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Goldberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 5.99w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299227241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Goldberg is the author of \u003ci\u003eBerta Broadfoot and Pepin the Short: A Merovingian Romance\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCautionary Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Camden Poetry Award); and \u003ci\u003eMarvelous Pursuits \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the Violet Reed Haas Award). Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Gettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the coeditor of two anthologies of contemporary Israeli poetry, including\u003ci\u003e After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e. Goldberg is senior speechwriter at AARP and teaches speechwriting, poetry, and translation at Georgetown University and at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43211350278259,"sku":"9.7803E+12","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_6800b20b-031a-4503-9f44-ca92afc9f41a.jpg?v=1753183347","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/royal-bakers-daughter-9780299227241","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}