What is honor? Is it the same as reputation? Or is it rather a sentiment? Is it a character trait, like integrity? Or is it simply a concept too vague or incoherent to be fully analyzed? In the first sustained comparative analysis of this elusive notion, Frank Stewart writes that none of these ideas is correct. Drawing on information about Western ideas of honor from sources as diverse as medieval Arthurian romances, Spanish dramas of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the writings of German jurists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and comparing the European ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society—the Bedouin—Stewart argues that honor must be understood as a right, basically a right to respect. He shows that by understanding honor this way, we can resolve some of the paradoxes that have long troubled scholars, and can make sense of certain institutions (for instance the medieval European pledge of honor) that have not hitherto been properly understood. Offering a powerful new way to understand this complex notion, Honor has important implications not only for the social sciences but also for the whole history of European sensibility.

Can he protect her…and his heart? Honor’s Promise by New York Times Bestselling Author Sharon Sala After the long trip from Colorado, Trace Logan can’t believe his luck. He’d been sent to West Texas to find Honor O’Brien. And, like magic, the mysterious beauty falls into his arms. For Honor, home has always been West Texas. But with the recent death of her mother, Honor knows her life will never be the same. Can she trust this stranger? And can Trace get her back to Colorado safely? FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Dade by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Delores Fossen Kayla Brennan’s testimony is all Texas lawman Dade Ryland should want…especially since he suspects Kayla was involved in the death of a Ryland family member. Yet the fact that they’re enemies only makes the attraction between them stronger. And more dangerous. For the killer is not who he seems, and is far closer than Dade ever imagined…

In 1938, Vienna police inspector Karl Marbach deals with the increasing influence of Naziism in Austria, and the effect it has on on his family and loved ones.

An arrow of steel and wood severs the sky. And from it breeds a mystery of the deadliest order. A perilous journey of turmoil and madness looms for Lincoln and Zamora, as they struggle in the epic search for the Heart. The journey goes spiraling into forbidding shores where wild men and squallier women rule, to a concealed city built for those who should never be seen. All scrap to find the Heart and the power it will wield to the beholder, and falling into the wrong hands the threat to the province grows. Outcasts plot against royals and those who are something else ascent to take all by the darkness. An empress charades as anything she is not, and a disgraced scum prepares for vicious revenge. Amongst a milieu of lust and murder, mad science and mayhem, the Heart may fall into the hands of the men and women possessed of the reddest of blood or the blackest of hearts. For when honor is tested, the hearts of even the strong shudder. The search for forever continues.

Robby was sent tumbling over the side of his family's pickup and hitting the pavement and tire--hard. He finds himself battered and broken hiding out in a storm outside Palmer, Alaska. He's three-hundred miles from home and his only compass is the tug of his heart and memory of his girl. His nose points south and he dares to face the cold grip of Alaska's edge of winter and the cold city that ain't no place for a dog." Over mountain and city streets he journeys at the edge of his endurance. The hungry empty-bellied wolves and killing-frost his constant fears. Wounded and sick--nearly drowned, his iron-will and courage urges him on. For he knows in his heart that only a true dog--a great dog, stops at nothing to get home to his human. Robby knows he's honor bound to be by his Miss's side--or die trying.eys and find her true voice? "

Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal order. The book examines the roots and evolution of honor-based violence, as well as the ongoing struggle to eradicate it worldwide.