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Contemporary Ethical Issues
A Personalist Perspective (Third Edition)
Written by Walter G. Jeffko
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
Now in a newly revised third edition, this explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalist perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many publications spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes... Read more >
A Personalist Perspective (Third Edition)
Written by Walter G. Jeffko
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
Now in a newly revised third edition, this explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalist perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many publications spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes... Read more >
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Contemporary Ethical Issues
A Personalist Perspective (Third Edition)
Written by Walter G. Jeffko
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $21.00
Now in a newly revised third edition, this explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalist perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many publications spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes... Read more >
A Personalist Perspective (Third Edition)
Written by Walter G. Jeffko
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $21.00
Now in a newly revised third edition, this explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalist perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many publications spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes... Read more >
Philosophy for a Better World
Written by Floris Van Den Berg
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.99
After reading this book, the world won't look the same. Imagine yourself confined to a wheelchair; or living within the severely constricted lifestyle options of a woman in Saudi Arabia; or being a homosexual in a homophobic society; or a coffee farmer in Ethiopia; or a cow on a factory farm... Read more >
Written by Floris Van Den Berg
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.99
After reading this book, the world won't look the same. Imagine yourself confined to a wheelchair; or living within the severely constricted lifestyle options of a woman in Saudi Arabia; or being a homosexual in a homophobic society; or a coffee farmer in Ethiopia; or a cow on a factory farm... Read more >
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Philosophy for a Better World
Written by Floris Van Den Berg
Format: Trade Paperback, 290 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $23.00
After reading this book, the world won't look the same. Imagine yourself confined to a wheelchair; or living within the severely constricted lifestyle options of a woman in Saudi Arabia; or being a homosexual in a homophobic society; or a coffee farmer in Ethiopia; or a cow on a factory farm... Read more >
Written by Floris Van Den Berg
Format: Trade Paperback, 290 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $23.00
After reading this book, the world won't look the same. Imagine yourself confined to a wheelchair; or living within the severely constricted lifestyle options of a woman in Saudi Arabia; or being a homosexual in a homophobic society; or a coffee farmer in Ethiopia; or a cow on a factory farm... Read more >
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The Turbulent Universe
Written by Paul Kurtz
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $11.99
In his final book, the late Paul Kurtz outlines his personal vision for a planetary ethics inspired by scientific wisdom. Blending realism and optimism, he lays out the basic principles of an ethical approach that he calls humanist eupraxsophy--that is, the application of practical moral choices inspired by scientific wisdom. Emphasizing... Read more >
Written by Paul Kurtz
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $11.99
In his final book, the late Paul Kurtz outlines his personal vision for a planetary ethics inspired by scientific wisdom. Blending realism and optimism, he lays out the basic principles of an ethical approach that he calls humanist eupraxsophy--that is, the application of practical moral choices inspired by scientific wisdom. Emphasizing... Read more >
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The Turbulent Universe
Written by Paul Kurtz
Format: Trade Paperback, 310 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $20.00
In his final book, the late Paul Kurtz outlines his personal vision for a planetary ethics inspired by scientific wisdom. Blending realism and optimism, he lays out the basic principles of an ethical approach that he calls humanist eupraxsophy--that is, the application of practical moral choices inspired by scientific wisdom. Emphasizing... Read more >
Written by Paul Kurtz
Format: Trade Paperback, 310 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $20.00
In his final book, the late Paul Kurtz outlines his personal vision for a planetary ethics inspired by scientific wisdom. Blending realism and optimism, he lays out the basic principles of an ethical approach that he calls humanist eupraxsophy--that is, the application of practical moral choices inspired by scientific wisdom. Emphasizing... Read more >
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The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—challenged conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. Drawing on his twenty five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, he shows how moral...
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Soul Repair
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Written by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini
Format: Hardcover, 174 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $24.95
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and... Read more >
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Written by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini
Format: Hardcover, 174 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $24.95
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and... Read more >
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Soul Repair
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Written by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $24.95
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and... Read more >
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Written by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $24.95
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and... Read more >
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The Republic
The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation
Written by Plato
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $5.99
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent... Read more >
The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation
Written by Plato
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $5.99
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent... Read more >
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Social and Political Philosophy
Readings From Plato to Gandhi
Written by John Somerville and Ronald Santoni
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2012
Price: $11.99
An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Hitler, Gandhi, and others. Read more >
Readings From Plato to Gandhi
Written by John Somerville and Ronald Santoni
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2012
Price: $11.99
An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Hitler, Gandhi, and others. Read more >
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Political Evil
What It Is and How to Combat It
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00
A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.
In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush... Read more >
What It Is and How to Combat It
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00
A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.
In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush... Read more >
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The Republic and Other Works
Written by Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $7.99
A compilation of the essential works of Plato in one paperback volume: The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. Read more >
Written by Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $7.99
A compilation of the essential works of Plato in one paperback volume: The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. Read more >
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The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $28.95
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $28.95
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
His...
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The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $11.99
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $11.99
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
His...
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Passion of the Western Mind
Written by Richard Tarnas
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2011
Price: $11.99
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike...Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Here are the great... Read more >
Written by Richard Tarnas
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2011
Price: $11.99
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike...Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Here are the great... Read more >
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Political Evil
What It Is and How to Combat It
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $27.95
A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.
In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush... Read more >
What It Is and How to Combat It
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $27.95
A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.
In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Political Evil
What It Is and How to Combat It
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $13.99
A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.
In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush... Read more >
What It Is and How to Combat It
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $13.99
A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.
In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush... Read more >
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Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954
Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism
Written by Hannah Arendt
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2011
Price: $15.99
Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning. Essays in Understanding assembles many of... Read more >
Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism
Written by Hannah Arendt
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2011
Price: $15.99
Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning. Essays in Understanding assembles many of... Read more >
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Secrets
On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation
Written by Sissela Bok
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $14.99
Shows how the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in our careers or private lives take us to the heart of the critical questions of private and public morality.
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On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation
Written by Sissela Bok
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $14.99
Shows how the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in our careers or private lives take us to the heart of the critical questions of private and public morality.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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The Life of Meaning
Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World
Edited by Bob Abernethy and William Bole
Foreword by Tom Browkaw
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
PBS's Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, which Bob Abernethy conceived and anchors, has been described as "the best spot on the television landscape to take in the broad view of the spiritual dimension of American life . . ." by the Christian Science Monitor. "Finally," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle, "something intelligent... Read more >
Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World
Edited by Bob Abernethy and William Bole
Foreword by Tom Browkaw
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
PBS's Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, which Bob Abernethy conceived and anchors, has been described as "the best spot on the television landscape to take in the broad view of the spiritual dimension of American life . . ." by the Christian Science Monitor. "Finally," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle, "something intelligent... Read more >
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La Muerta y la Doncella
Written by Ariel Dorfman
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
La muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico sobre la justicia y el perdon, la memoria y el olvido. Dorfman se ha propuesto a explorar preguntas pocas veces hechas en voz alta: "¿Como pueden los represores y... Read more >
Written by Ariel Dorfman
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
La muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico sobre la justicia y el perdon, la memoria y el olvido. Dorfman se ha propuesto a explorar preguntas pocas veces hechas en voz alta: "¿Como pueden los represores y... Read more >
Negative Ethnicity
From Bias to Genocide
Written by Koigi Wa Wamwere
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $10.95
"Negative ethnicity" is Koigi wa Wamwere’s name for the deep-seated tensions in Africa that the world has seen flare so terrifyingly. The genocide in Rwanda and "ethnic" killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and elsewhere stand out as examples. Wa Wamwere argues that these clashes cannot properly be described... Read more >
From Bias to Genocide
Written by Koigi Wa Wamwere
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $10.95
"Negative ethnicity" is Koigi wa Wamwere’s name for the deep-seated tensions in Africa that the world has seen flare so terrifyingly. The genocide in Rwanda and "ethnic" killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and elsewhere stand out as examples. Wa Wamwere argues that these clashes cannot properly be described... Read more >
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Overcoming Speechlessness
A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Written by Alice Walker
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the... Read more >
A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Written by Alice Walker
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the... Read more >
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Right & Wrong & Palestine
and Palestine, 9-11, Iraq, 7-7. . .
Written by Ted Honderich
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
Philosopher Ted Honderich insightfully relates four shattering current events in this articulate, well-reasoned moral and political analysis. Exploring the war in Iraq, the controversy in Palestine, and the tragic events of 9-11 and London’s 7-7, Honderich elucidates the great questions of right and wrong in a conflict-ridden era. Read more >
and Palestine, 9-11, Iraq, 7-7. . .
Written by Ted Honderich
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
Philosopher Ted Honderich insightfully relates four shattering current events in this articulate, well-reasoned moral and political analysis. Exploring the war in Iraq, the controversy in Palestine, and the tragic events of 9-11 and London’s 7-7, Honderich elucidates the great questions of right and wrong in a conflict-ridden era. Read more >
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