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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine it, one of which America has been experiencing for the past five decades. This process can and...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An Independent and New Statesman Book of the Year Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit--a world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter--lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin and Silk Road, of radicalism and pornography. This is the Dark Net. In this important and revealing...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The political philosopher shares a revisionist view of the roles of markets and money in a democratic society, assessing the moral limits of markets in private life and how the market economy has encroached on private and societal values.
Author
Publisher
Entrepreneur Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Designed to challenge readers to examine their own values and behaviors, "The Hero Factor" shines a light on what happens to companies when their values no longer align with their mission and helps them transform their organizations as they learn to live the values they preach"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A heartfelt, humane, and even hilarious account of why rule-obsessed veganism fails and how a focus on flourishing can bring about an abundant future for all. Perhaps you've looked at factory farming or climate change and thought, I should become a vegan. And like most people who think that, very probably you haven't. Why? Well, in our world, roast turkey emanates gratitude, steak confers virility, and chicken soup represents a mother's love. Against...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fox News host and New York Times bestselling author Pete Hegseth delivers his most important book yet: an excoriating examination of the state of America's broken education system that offers a helpful road map to raising children to uphold the values Americans have always treasured"--
9) Why vegan?
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company independent publishers since 1923
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Never has Peter Singer's Why Vegan? been more relevant and more necessary, in a world still reeling from a global pandemic crisis. Peter Singer's groundbreaking essay collection denounces human tyranny over animals and demonstrates the need for all of us to eliminate our dependence on meat. Collecting his most important writings from as early as the 1970s-some even before the 1975 publication of his seminal Animal Liberation-Singer illuminates his...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"We are in the midst of a new space race that pairs billionaire space barons with governments in an effort to exploit the cosmos for human gain. While Elon Musk and SpaceX work to establish a human presence on Mars, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin work toward mining operations on the moon, missions to asteroids to extract resources, and millions of people living in rotating near-Earth satellite dwellings. Despite the differences in their visions, these...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of reporting and explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world has transformed 21st century life and dangerously destabilized democracy"--
The history of the last half century in America, Europe, and other major economies is in large part the story of wealth flowing upward. The most affluent people emerged from capitalism's triumph in the...
Publisher
Watkins
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This eclectic collection of essays on responsible witchcraft is a fascinating snapshot of contemporary occult practice. Essay topics include the ethics of decolonization, meditations on what it means to honour Mother Earth during the anthropocene, the reclamation of agency for working-class and queer witches through practical spellwork, a gender-fluid perspective on breaking down traditional hierarchies in magical symbolism, a day in the life of a...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Diet culture has sabotaged our relationship with food and our bodies. As a result, many of us are confused-attaching shame to our food choices and judging our bodies. It's time to break free! Savor Every Bite offers powerful mindfulness and self-compassion practices to help readers savor food, soothe difficult emotions, find joy in every moment, and focus on loving their bodies for greater well-being--
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
Hamilton Mann emphasizes that the challenge of AI is in ensuring systems that exhibit integrity-led capabilities over the pursuit of mere general or super intelligence. Mann tackles the inadequacies of traditional ethical frameworks in handling the complexities of new AI technologies to make them trustworthy and reliable as they profoundly impact human lives.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, the concept of race purification through eugenics arose in Victorian England and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich. Despite this horrific legacy, eugenics...
Author
Series
The Convergence Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Twelve, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Decoding the World, Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta--two renegade venture capitalists from Silicon Valley--take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their twisted and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapter is prefaced with a real-world headline ripped from today's chaotic news cycle: Trump's trade war. Dying bees. Rogue planets. Beyond Meat. Glaciers melting. Bronson and Gupta then decipher what's really...
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