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Good Book by A C C Grayling Publisher Comments Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J Sandel Publisher Comments Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Justice : What's the Right Thing To Do (09 Edition) by Michael J. Sandel Publisher Comments “For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,” The Nations reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book—based on his legendary Harvard course—Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments In this important and thought-provoking work, Karen Armstrong—one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world—provides an impassioned and practical guide to helping us make the world a more compassionate place. &#... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elements of Moral Philosophy, 6th Edition by James Rachels Publisher Comments Firmly established as the standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics, this concise, lively book takes the reader on an in-depth tour of the major moral theories, always illustrating abstract ideas with concrete examples. Separate, self-contained... (read more) List Price $55.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Being Perfect by Anna Quindlen Publisher Comments From beloved author and columnist Anna Quindlen, comes two timeless bestsellers, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, and Being Perfect. These two treasures are now packaged together and make the perfect gift for someone special. In A Short Guide to a Happy... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Publisher Comments BEAR IN MIND THAT THE MEASURE OF A MAN IS THE WORTH OF THE THINGS HE CARES ABOUT. IF IT IS GOOD TO SAY OR DO SOMETHING, THEN IT IS EVEN BETTER TO BE CRITICIZED FOR HAVING SAID OR DONE IT. ARE MY GUIDING PRINCIPLES HEALTHY AND ROBUST? ON THIS HANGS... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times by Eyal Press Publisher Comments On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World (Amnesty International Global Ethics) by John Broome Publisher Comments Esteemed philosopher John Broome avoids the familiar ideological stances on climate change policy and examines the issue through an invigorating new lens. As he considers the moral dimensions of climate change, he reasons clearly through what universal... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover 
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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Publisher Comments Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between carnivore and vegetarian. As he became a husband and a father, he kept returning to two questions: Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if we knew how they got... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume Publisher Comments The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of truly practical and accessible guides to major philosophical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world up to modern times. Each book opens with a comprehensive introduction by a leading... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Trade Paper
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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal Publisher Comments Robert Coles, The Dalai Lama, Matthew Fox, Mary Gordon, Harold S. Kushner, Albert Speer, Desmond Tutu, and 47 others respond to Wiesenthal's famous question: "Can evil be forgiven?"... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This I Believe: On Motherhood by Dan Gediman Publisher Comments Praise For This I Believe: On Motherhood "It is a one-of-a-kind connection. The mother-child bond is not necessarily a product of the birth process. It is a product of love and caring, time and commitment, patience and teaching, enjoying the good times... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch Publisher Comments Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Publisher Comments The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotles most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living by Rushworth M Kidder Publisher Comments “ A brilliant analysis that squarely faces all the issues and can be grasped by the thoughtful nonspecialist.”... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mother Time by Margaret U Walker Publisher Comments Fifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics and the ethics of aging explore assumptions, experiences... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace Publisher Comments Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This Is Water. How does one keep from going through... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Hardcover
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