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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A witty and wide-ranging exploration of a book that has perplexed and delighted people for centuries: the Talmud. For numerous centuries, the Talmud--an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition--has compelled readers to grapple with how to live a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and rabbinical repartee, it is inspiring, demanding, confounding, and thousands of pages long. As Liel Leibovitz enthusiastically explores the...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books US, a divsions of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Every person is the boss of their own body! This lively guide—another engaging and essential resource from the creators of Welcome to Your Period!—digs deep into all aspects of consent. Understanding consent is important for people with all kinds of bodies, in all kinds of circumstances—from getting a haircut or letting the doctor check your blood pressure to hugging a friend, picking up a child, or kissing someone. After all, consent isn’t...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In recent years atheism has become ever more visible, acceptable, and influential. Atheist apologists have become increasingly vociferous and confident in their claims. In Atheist Overreach, Christian Smith takes a look at the evidence and explains why we ought to be skeptical of these atheists' claims about morality, science, and human nature"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Often a single question can spark a meaningful, fun exchange -- like "Would you apply for a job you know your friend is applying for?" Or "Should voting be mandatory?" Or what about police using facial recognition technology? Questions like these spur us to consider: What would I have done? Is there one correct answer? And ultimately: How can ethics help us navigate these situations to find the best outcome for ourselves and others? An ethicist who...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Our children's and grandchildren's generation will face a different world, one affected by climate instability, mass uncertainty, and breathtaking extinction. In fact, the next generation will face the reality that human activity is changing the planet from one geological epoch to another. From this vantage point--two generations across two geological epochs facing a fundamentally changing planet--Larry Rasmussen writes to his grandchildren. As a...
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Distills the work of hundreds of authors and more than one thousand texts using the same techniques that produced the holy books of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions. Wit and advice, human stories, tragedies and yearnings, love and consolations are shaped into fourteen constituent parts that recall the Bible in structure for a secular age in which many find that religion no longer speaks to them.
51) Off the bench
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
52) The republic
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an Imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Where Goodness Still Grows dissects the moral code of American evangelicalism and puts it back together in a new way. Amy writes as someone intimately familiar with, fond of, and also deeply critical of the world of conservative evangelicalism. She writes as a woman and a mother, as someone invested in the future of humanity, and as someone who just needs to know how to teach her kids what it means to be good. She reimagines virtue as a tool, not...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Notre Dame Philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have gone deep with that work in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course GOD AND THE GOOD LIFE, in which they wrestle with the big questions about how to live and what makes life meaningful. Now they invite us into the classroom to tackle such issues as what justifies your beliefs, whether you should practice a religion, and what sacrifices you should make for others--as...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A critical assessment of the "moral mentality" espoused by the political right identifies inconsistencies in its conservative values, arguing that right-wing leadership is lacking in moral compassion and unable to live up to its prescribed notions of virtuous behavior.
59) Arrowsmith
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel recounts the story of a Midwestern physician who is forced to give up his profession due to the ignorance, corruption, and greed of society.
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