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Ruth Braunstein

My Tax Dollars

When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significanceIn My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Br…

Ruth Braunstein

My Tax Dollars

When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significanceIn My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Br…

David Edmonds

Parfit

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the mos…

Mark J. Cherry

Bioethics after God

Bioethics after God explores the relationship between morality and medicine in a society that has denied the existence of God. Medicine and bioethics are going through profound changes in the Western worl…

Joseph F. Fletcher

Situation Ethics

This is a new edition of Joseph Fletcher's 1966 work that ignited a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication. It was hailed by many as a much-needed reformation of morality--and as an invit…

Hanno Sauer

The Invention of Good and Evil

In this ambitious volume Hanno Sauer integrates the findings of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research into a sweeping synthetic narrative of human evolution -- a history with morality at its core. He ex…

Robert George

Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth

In Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth, Robert George, an acclaimed political philosopher and legal scholar who has taught generations of students at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, tackles many…

Heike Thieme

Loyality from One again !

Anyone who loves his friends, does not travel to the desert, does not shit, does not complain as a guest, does not aspiere highest, does not cheat public money, does not laugh at all women, does insist on…

Mohammed Ghaly

Islamic Ethics and Incidental Findings

This open access book offers unique insights into the key ethical issues faced by practitioners and discussed by ethicists in the field of genomics and incidental findings, with a focus on the Islamic mor…

Anthea Butler

White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle …

Jonathan Sacks

The Persistence of Faith

Confidence in a faith is a subtle quality and lack of it shows in many ways, some contradictory. Dr Sacks has that confidence and the quiet charisma to communicate it. Sacks argues that faiths must remain…

Lorenzo Magnani

Understanding Violence

This book offers a philosophical account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, e…

Modern China in Flux

Modern China in Flux heralds a transformative epoch in historical research, spotlighting the innovative methodology of network analysis. As the digital age unfolds, historians encounter both an unparallel…

Kurt Gray

Outraged

A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us It’s easy to…

Hanno Sauer,

The Invention of Good and Evil

'This fat, complex, good-natured and intriguing book is full of such memorable material...startling and often thrilling' Spectator 'A heroic effort...rich with complex narrative, full of unexpected twist…

J. A. Mitchell

You - The Greatest Good

Beneath the surface of modern governance lies a hidden tug of war, silently shaping the fabric of law and politics in liberal democracies. This book uncovers and explores the two enduring sets of ideas be…

Annette Hanshaw

The Personality Girl

Roger Crisp

Sacrifice Regained

From Thomas Hobbes to Jeremy Bentham, 'British Moralists' have questioned whether being virtuous makes you happy. Roger Crisp elucidates their views on happiness and virtue, self-interest and sacrifice, a…

Darren Bryant

Agency and Locality in the London Blitz

This book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis. The term London Blitz means that culturally we have become accustomed to un…