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Animal Liberation
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Professor Peter Singer
Originally published in 1975, this ethical work defending animals as sentient beings and therefore due certain rights, jumpstarted Singer's notoriety as a polemical philosopher.
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Aeon Flux: The Herodotus File
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Mark Mars, Eric Singer, Peter Chung (Creator)
She's seductive and lethal, a femme fatale cross between Modesty Blaise and the Terminator. Now, Aeon Flux, scantily clad, acrobatic super heroine, brings her own dark form of justice and revenge into print, delivering futuristic intrigue, hi-tech espionage, and a new twist on the age-old war between the sexes. Ties in with ten new episodes being ...
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Practical Ethics
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Peter Singer's remarkably clear and comprehensive Practical Ethics has become a classic introduction to applied ethics since its publication in 1979 and has been translated into many languages. For this second edition the author has revised all the existing chapters, added two new ones, and updated the bibliography. He has also added an appendix ...
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The President of Good & Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush
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More than any president in recent memory, George W. Bush invokes the languageof good versus evil and right versus wrong. Controversial professor of ethicsSinger has put his spotlight on President Bush's moral claims.
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The lives of animals
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J M Coetzee
These angry lectures about the ethics of the human-animal relationship were given at Princeton, ostensibly by a novelist named Elizabeth Costello; this volume also includes commentary on Coetzee's ideas by Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Windy Doniger, and Barbara Smuts.
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Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
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Professor Peter Singer
PUSHING TIME AWAY is Peter Singer's biography of his grandfather, an obscure classical scholar named David Oppenheim. As a young man in Vienna, Oppenheim, a teacher, was a friend and collaborator of Freud. When he returned from service in World War I, he was a different man--shellshocked, burned out, and disillusioned. He turned inward, took ...
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Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics
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Peter Singer
Can killing an embryo for genetic reasons be justified? How long should we prolong the lives of people in vegetative states? Does a person who is clinically brain dead still have legal rights? In this 1995 Australian National Book Award winner, philosopher Peter Singer explores these and other questions in a major reexamination of the meaning of ...
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Writings on an ethical life
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Peter Singer
Singer has compiled a representative collection of his polemical work. In addition to defending his position taken in the well-known ANIMAL LIBERATION (1979), Singer's excerpts also discuss everyday moral issues such as duty, self-interest, and the good life.
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The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
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Professor Peter Singer, Jim Mason
The acclaimed team behind "Animal Factories" reunite for this groundbreaking exploration of where today's food comes from, how it's produced, and whether it has been raised humanely, and study the impact food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment.
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One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Second Edition
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Professor Peter Singer (Preface by)
Bioethicist Singer tackles the globalization question, arguing for increased accountability across the globe to remedy crises, such as hunger and poverty. ONE WORLD paints a hopeful picture of a society in which ethics can extend beyond national boundaries, in which free trade globally also includes global responsibility, and in which we recognize ...
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A Companion to Ethics
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Professor Peter Singer (Editor)
In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight through from beginning to end; yet the inclusion of a ...
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How are we to live?
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Professor Peter Singer
Singer suggests that people who take an ethical approach to life often find a deeper satisfaction in what they are doing.
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Children at War
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Peter Warren Singer
An internationally recognized expert on 21st-century warfare looks at the useof children as soldiers in more than three-quarters of the world's conflicts, describing how children are indoctrinated and trained as soldiers, and how itcan be stopped. Illustrations.
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The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
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Professor Peter Singer, Jim Mason
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it was raised humanely. The Ethics of What We Eat ...
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A Darwinian left : politics, evolution and cooperation
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Peter Singer
Singer calls for a reevaluation of Leftist thought in America in this concise book. He offers an interpretation of Darwinian theory that would allow for a valuable recalibration of liberal perspectives on humanity and human nature.
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The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush
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A controversial professor of ethics takes the words of George W. Bush seriously and puts his spotlight on Bush's claims to be a president who knows what is good and what is evil.
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German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche
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Roger Scruton, Professor Peter Singer, Christopher Janaway
A study of four of the most important German theorists: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. Keith Thomas, general editor, calls this book "a series of concise, lucid, authoritative, introductions to the thought of leading intellectual figures of the past whose ideas still influence the way we think today".
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One World: The Ethics of Globalization
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Bioethicist Singer tackles the globalization question, arguing for increased accountability across the globe to remedy crises, such as hunger and poverty. ONE WORLD paints a hopeful picture of a society in which ethics can extend beyond national boundaries, in which free trade globally also includes global responsibility, and in which we recognize ...
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Marx: A Very Short Introduction
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Professor Peter Singer
Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. He sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. In plain English, he explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of Capital, and Marx's ...
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Hegel: A Very Short Introduction
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Professor Peter Singer
Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel's life and times in broad strokes, Peter Singer goes on to tackle some of the more challenging aspects of Hegel's philosophy. Offering a broad discussion of Hegel's ideas and an account of his major works, Singer explains ...
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Baby's First Prayers
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Muff Singer, Peter Stevenson (Illustrator)
Baby's First Prayers lis the perfect introduction to prayer. A carefully chosen mix of well-loved traditional and original prayers and Bible verses will start your child off on an adventure of prayer.
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In Defense of Animals
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Peter Singer
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The Flexitarian Table: Inspired, Flexible Meals for Vegetarians, Meat Lovers, and Everyone in Between
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Peter Berley, Zoe Singer
The cookbook to satisfy everyone at the table: easy, stylish menus for vegetarians, semivegetarians, and even meat eaters to share, by a winner of the James Beard and IACP awards.
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Ethics
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Peter Singer (Editor)
To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Singer has drawn on anthropology, history, observations of non-human animals, the theory of evolution, game theory, and works of fiction. By choosing some of the finest pieces of writing, old and new, in and about ethics, he conveys the intellectual excitement of the ...
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Applied Ethics
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Peter Singer (Editor)
This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear ...
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