Additional Info:
Leading Lives That Matter draws together a wide range of texts---including fiction, autobiography, and philosophy---offering challenge and insight if you're thinking about what to do with your life. Instead of prescribing advice, Schwehn and Bass approach the vocational process as an ongoing conversation. They include in this conversation some of Western tradition's best writings on human life---its meaning, purpose, and significance---ranging from ancient Greek poetry to contemporary American fiction. Including Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Illych as an extended epilogue, Leading Lives That Matter will help you clarify and deepen how you think about your own life. Includes works by Aristotle, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Frederick Buechner, Willa Cather, Dorothy Day, Annie Dillard, Robert Frost, Abraham Heschel, Thomas Lynch, John Milton, Martha Nussbaum, Theodore Roosevelt, Dorothy Sayers, Amy Tan, William Butler Yeats, and many more. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
"What makes a life significant?" (William James)
I resolve to become a jungle doctor (Albert Schweitzer)
From The ethics of authenticity (Charles Taylor)
Solitude of self (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
From Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
The vigor of life (Theodore Roosevelt)
20:20-28 (Matthew)
Making the match : career choice (Lee Hardy)
Choosing (Gary D. Badcock)
The place of responsibility (Dietrich Bonheoffer)
Vocation (Frederick Buechner)
Vocation as grace (Will Campbell)
Learning in war-time (C.S. Lewis)
From Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
From The Iliad (Homer)
The martyrdom of Perpetua
From Therese (Dorothy Day)
Three biographical sketches (Ray Kroc)
Three biographical sketches (Iris Chang)
Three biographical sketches (Joseph "Smiley" Landrum)
Elegy written in a country churchyard (Thomas Gray)
From Just work (Russell Muirhead)
Why work? (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Two tramps in mud time (Robert Frost)
To be of use (Margaret Piercy)
The door in the wall (H.G. Wells)
From The sabbath (Abraham Joshua Heschel)
The world is too much with us and "lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey" (WIlliam Wordsworth)
Friendship and vocation (Gilbert Meilaender)
The changing nature of work in the United States : implications for vocation, ethics, and faith (Robert Wuthnow)
Generativity crises of my own (Bonnie Miller-McLemore)
There's no place like work (Arlie Russel Hochschild)
Defining a doctor (Abigail Zuger, M.D.)
The village blacksmith (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
An invisible web (Wendell Berry)
Two eulogies for Yitzhak Rabin (King Hussein and Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof)
Living like weasels (Annie Dillard)
The choice (William Butler Yeats)
Filial relations (Jane Addams)
Interviewed by Bill Moyers (Marth Nussbaum)
25:14-30 the parable of the talents (Matthew)
On his blindness (John Milton)
From Grounding for the metaphysics of morals (Immanuel Kant)
From The life of Charlotte Bronte (Elizabeth Gaskell)
From the screenplay of Good Will Hunting (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck)
Sonny's blues (James Baldwin)
The undeclared major (Will Weaver)
Two kinds (Amy Tan)
From The autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X with Alex Haley)
From The giver (Lois Lowry)
I hear them ... calling (Vincent Harding)
The ancient people (Willa Cather)
From A dresser of sycamore trees (Garret Keizer)
Invictus (William Ernest Henley)
Passed on (Thomas Lynch)
The last hours (Stephen Dunn)
The book of Jonah
A letter to his wife, 1861 (Sullivan Ballou)
Weddings (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
From Thoughts in solitude (Thomas Merton)
The road not taken (Robert Frost)
Composing a life story (Mary Catherine Bateson)
From Jayber Crow (Wendell Berry)
From East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
An American life story (Dan McAdams)
Robert McG. Thomas, 60, chronicler of unsung lives (Michael T. Kaufman)
The death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy)