Describes the courage and conviction demonstrated by eight great patriots at pivotal moments in American history.

What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most universally admired virtues? How is it relevant in the world today, and what contemporary forms does it take? In this insightful and crisply written book, Geoffrey Scarre examines these questions and many more. He begins by defining courage, asking how it differs from fearlessness, recklessness and fortitude, and why people are often more willing to ascribe it to others than to avow it for themselves....

Teaches children the importance of courage.

Max is a cute kitten who dreams of becoming a brave mouse-catcher. So he sets off in search of a mouse, and discovers that bravery perhaps is not so important after all.

The author explores the meaning and scope of Christian courage, offers tips on how to cultivate it in daily life, and offers profiles of Christians who have exemplified it in their own lives. The portraits are of modern women and men, some famous and some lesser known, from all parts of the globe, who have displayed physical, moral, or spiritual courage.

The Pirate City is a story about the Algerian pirates who were the scourge of the Mediterranean sea during the early to mid-1800s. They would plunder the ships of other sovereign nations, and as a result were a wealthy little city-state until their demise in the Barbary War. In this tale, set during the heyday of the pirates, a merchant and his sons Mariano and Lucien are captured aboard their trading vessel and taken as prisoners to the pirate capital...

This book contains a collection of stories about everyday people who made it through a personal tragedy & went on to dedicate their lives to helping others. Annotation. More than a feel-good book, The Courage to Give is a call to action. These poignant and uplifting stories tell of people who have suffered great emotional or physical difficulties and then went beyond their pain to help others. In reaching out, they discovered that their healing actually...

"These can seem like hopeless times. To faithful Christians, life can feel like everything is against them. But precisely in these hopeless times, Christians hear an other-worldly comfort in the eternal promise of Jesus: "Take courage; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). In these brief chapters Matthew C. Harrison offers words of encouragement that have sustained him throughout these hopeless times: Take courage. Jesus, who has overcome the world,...