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Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir by Sissela Bok
Booksplease Price: $39.21Alva Myrdal (1902-1986), diplomat, feminist, and one of the founders of the Swedish welfare state, exemplifies in her extraordinary life the joys, the sorrows, and the achievements of women in our... -
Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation by Sissela Bok 9780679724735
RRP: $30.79Booksplease Price: $25.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724735Author Sissela BokFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Mayhem: Violence As Public Entertainment by Sissela Bok 9780738201450
Booksplease Price: $33.14What is the effect of long-term media violence on our national character? Do we want four-year-olds watching slasher films? Who should decide?While almost everyone has a strong opinion about the... -
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science by Sissela Bok
Booksplease Price: $29.23From the acclaimed author of Lying, a brilliant exploration of happiness set in the context of the world's great philosophers, leaders, writers, and artists In this smart and timely book, the... -
The Essential Gunnar Myrdal by Gunnar Myrdal 9781565846005
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.40Nobel Prize winner Gunnar Myrdal is best known for his book An American Dilemma, a classic study of America's racial problems that was chosen as one of The Modern Library's top 100 nonfiction books... -
The Journalist's Moral Compass: Basic Principles by Steven R. Knowlton 9780275945374
Booksplease Price: $159.20What basic ethical principles should guide American journalists to help them justify their invasion of an individual's privacy, to be objective in their reporting, to avoid being influenced by... -
Revival: Human Experimentation and Research (2003) by George F. Tomossy
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34This title was first published in 2003: As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implications of research involving human participants are... -
Trust: Analytic and Applied Perspectives by Pekka Mäkelä 9789042036802
Booksplease Price: $123.25“Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives” writes Sissela Bok. Although trust is ubiquitous, understanding trust is a non-trivial challenge. Trust: Analytic and... -
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by Gerald Dworkin 9780521587891
Booksplease Price: $44.10The moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical profession, ethicists, and the public at large. The debate is fuelled by... -
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by Gerald Dworkin 9780521582469
Booksplease Price: $107.54The moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical profession, ethicists, and the public at large. The debate is fuelled by... -
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1 by Gunnar Myrdal
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $110.02In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within... -
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume 4: The Arab World Don Rubin (Series Editor) 9780415865364
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82One of the first internationally published overviews of theatrical activity across the Arab World. Includes 160,000 words and over 125 photographs from 22 different Arab countries from Africa to the... -
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 2 by Gunnar Myrdal
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $118.94In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within... -
The Inequality of COVID-19: Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions by Eric E. Otenyo
RRP: $241.50Booksplease Price: $220.44The Inequality of COVID-19: Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions explores the use of information, communication technologies (ICTs) and longer-term... -
A Companion to Applied Ethics R. G. Frey (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) 9781405133456
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $77.83Applied or practical ethics is perhaps the largest growth area in philosophy today, and many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years. Taken... -
The Journalist's Moral Compass: Basic Principles by Steven R. Knowlton 9780275951535
Booksplease Price: $60.65What basic ethical principles should guide American journalists to help them justify their invasion of an individual's privacy, to be objective in their reporting, to avoid being influenced by... -
Is There a Human Nature? by Leroy S. Rouner 9780268011819
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $120.44We humans are deeply convinced that there is something distinct about us as a species, but we have never been able to agree on what it is. In the West, the religion of Israel argued that the will is... -
Is There a Human Nature? by Leroy S. Rouner 9780268031596
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $44.50We humans are deeply convinced that there is something distinct about us as a species, but we have never been able to agree on what it is. In the West, the religion of Israel argued that the will is... -
Ending War: The Force of Reason by M. Bruce 9780333774823
Booksplease Price: $95.15World-renowned political thinkers and scientists write on nuclear weapons and war in the twenty-first century. The contributors include Mikhail Gorbachev, who first declared 'A nuclear war cannot be... -
The Habit of Lying: Sacrificial Studies in Literature, Philosophy, and Fashion Theory by John Vignaux Smyth 9780822328216
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Lying appears to be ubiquitous, what Franz Kafka called "a universal principle"; yet, despite a number of recent books on the subject, it has been given comparatively little genuinely systematic... -
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The Habit of Lying: Sacrificial Studies in Literature, Philosophy, and Fashion Theory by John Vignaux Smyth 9780822328094 [USED COPY]
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $62.90Lying appears to be ubiquitous, what Franz Kafka called "a universal principle"; yet, despite a number of recent books on the subject, it has been given comparatively little genuinely systematic... -
Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order by Ken Booth 9780333998045
Booksplease Price: $190.81Bringing together an outstanding group of thinkers, Worlds in Collision is the essential book for understanding the debate about the future of global order in the wake of international terrorism and... -
Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response by John H. F. Shattuck
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $50.51As the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. Disasters were exploding simultaneously--genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia, murder and... -
Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order by Ken Booth 9780333998052
Booksplease Price: $193.77Bringing together an outstanding group of thinkers, Worlds in Collision is the essential book for understanding the debate about the future of global order in the wake of international terrorism and... -
Ethical Issues in Professional Life by Joan C. Callahan 9780195050264
Booksplease Price: $130.16This is an anthology of readings intended for use as a primary text in first-degree courses in professional ethics. Increasingly, universities are offering such general courses as an alternative to... -
Holding Together: Why Our Rights Are Under Siege and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone John Shattuck 9781620977149
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $29.27A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on rights in the United States, and how to push back An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that... -
Moral Problems in Medicine: A Practical Coursebook by Michael Palmer 9780718891787
RRP: $55.65Booksplease Price: $54.01A selection of philosophical writings can be daunting to the uninitiated in the field of philosophy. Michael Palmer makes the process of becoming acquainted with philosophical texts smoother in this...