Civility, mediation and civitas

Teaching and learning civility

✍ Peter Levine 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons ⚖ 54 KB

## Abstract Incivility can obstruct constructive public discourse and problem solving. Restoring civility is a task for higher education, but it may require tradeoffs with other democratic values.

Rules of Civility

✍ Amor Towles 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Penguin Group USA, Inc.;Viking 🌐 English ⚖ 575 KB

Rules of Civility

✍ Amor Towles 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Penguin Books;Viking 🌐 English ⚖ 584 KB

**\***The New York Times *bestselling novel that "enchants on first reading and only improves on the second" (*The Philadelphia Inquirer\*) This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, tw

Rules of Civility

✍ Amor Towles 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Penguin Group USA, Inc.;Viking 🌐 English ⚖ 590 KB

WHAT THEY SAID about RULES OF CIVILITY: 'Everything about this novel, set in 1930s New York, is achingly stylish - from the author's name to the slinky jacket design. Katey Kontent, daughter of Russian immigrants, and Evie Ross, from the sleepy midwest, are an ambitious, wisecracking pair who, despi

Rules of Civility

✍ Amor Towles 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Viking 🌐 English ⚖ 199 KB

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.

Rules of Civility: novel

✍ Towles, Amor 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;2012 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 340 KB

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.