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A Companion to Ethics by Peter Singer
Category: Culture | Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
In this volume, some of todaya 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 ...Show more
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Category: Popular Science
How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari), the renowned moral philosopher Peter Singer addresses this simple question with trenchant, dispassionate reasoning. Accompanied by the disturbing evid ...Show more
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Category: Culture | Series: P. S. Ser.
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer's landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that al ...Show more
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Category: Non Fiction
Immensely influential and powerful, Animal Liberation is also highly unusual. A comprehensive analysis of conditions in factory farms and animal laboratories, it compellingly argues that we should stop eating meat. A work of philosophy, it includes recipes for vegetarian food. In this revised edition, P ...Show more
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer
Category: Animals
The definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals - for the good of us all. 'The book that had the most impact on me' JANE GOODALL 'Probably the single most influential document in the history of ... animal welfare' GUARDIAN In 1975, Animal Liberation started a g ...Show more
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer
Category: Culture
Animal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories. It demonstrated that these and other practices were the cause of appalling and unnecessary suffering and therefore morally indefensible. In the fifty years since, science has further v ...Show more
Biology by Peter H. Raven; George B. Johnson; Jonathan Losos; Kenneth A. Mason; Susan Singer
Category: Reference
Includes the hardbound student edition and the AP Focus Review Guide.
Biology by Kenneth A. Mason; Jonathan B. Losos; Susan R. Singer; Peter H. Raven
Category: Reference
The Biology author team is committed to continually improving the text, keeping the student and learning foremost. The integrated pedagogical features expand the students' learning process and enhance their learning experience. This latest edition maintains the clear, accessible and engaging writing sty ...Show more
Cybersecurity: What Everyone Needs to Know by Peter Singer
Category: Politics | Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
Dependence on computers has had a transformative effect on human society. Cybernetics is now woven into the core functions of virtually every basic institution, including our oldest ones. War is one such institution, and the digital revolution's impact on it has been profound. The American military, whi ...Show more
Ethics by Peter Singer (Editor)
Category: Culture | Series: Oxford Readers Ser.
What is ethics? Where does it come from? Can we really hope to find any rational way of deciding how we ought to live? If we can, what would it be like, and how are we going to know when we have found it? To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Peter Singer has ...Show more
Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer
Category: Philosophy and Religion
"In this book of brief essays, Singer applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whethe ...Show more