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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An investigative researcher discusses how the optimism of the a lifesaving technique invented in the 1950s that made kidney failure manageable and not a death sentence has proliferated into a dystopia of skyrocketing costs and worsening care.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing realities of factory farming. The End of Animal Farming pushes this conversation forward by outlining a strategic roadmap to a humane, ethical, and efficient food system in which slaughterhouses are obsolete--where the tastes of even the most die-hard meat eater are satisfied by innovative food technologies like cultured...
Author
Publisher
Dutton D
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A warm, personal guide to building a strong ethical and moral compass in the midst of today's confusing, scary, global problems. The moral challenges of today are unfamiliar in the history of philosophy. Climate change is the paradigm example of what Travis Rieder calls "The Puzzle" in the way your choices can seem at odds with what the planet urgently needs. How do we decide the right thing to do in the face of a massive collective challenge? Should...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The author chronicles the natural parenting movement{u2019}s history from its roots to its modern practices, incorporating her own experiences as a mother and successful OB-GYN with original research on the latest in childbirth science. She also reveals the dangerous and overtly misogynistic motives of some of its proponents{u2014}conservative men who sought to limit women{u2019}s control and autonomy. As she debunks, one by one, the guilt-inducing...
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Examines the lives of great leaders of recent centuries to offer models of moral leadership, helping readers discover lessons for their own lives and times"--
We can't help but be inspired by great leaders--those who led lives of moral purpose and in some way left the world a different and better place. Great moral leaders inspire, challenge, and unite us. In the midst of our increasingly divided age, examining remarkable leaders can help us understand...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century - widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world - many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to necessary projects; massive inequality is the unavoidable...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals. She offers challenging answers to such questions as: Are people superior to animals, and does it matter morally if we are? Is it all right for us to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us, and keep them as pets?
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming. Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with philosophical theories of dreaming. It shows that dreams provide an invaluable window into the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals, giving us access to a seemingly...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top. The time for action is running short. Rebecca Henderson's rigorous research in economics, psychology, and organizational behavior, as well as her many years of work with companies around...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books,an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The world itself won't end, of course. Only ours will: our livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we're squarely at the tipping point. Longer droughts in the Middle East. Growing desertification in China and Africa. The monsoon season shrinking in India. Amped-up heat waves in Australia. More intense hurricanes reaching America. Water wars in the Horn of Africa. Rebellions, refugees and starving children across the globe. These are not disconnected...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Though increasing numbers of people know that eating meat is detrimental to our own health and the planet's, many still can't be convinced to give up eating meat. But how can we change behavior when common arguments, scientific data, and information aren't working? Acclaimed anthropologist Roanne Van Voorst changes the dialogue. In Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals, she shifts the focus from the present looking forward to the future looking back-imagining...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 2010, one of the most consequential Court decisions in American political history gave wealthy corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion treated corruption as nothing more than explicit bribery, a narrow conception later echoed by Chief Justice Roberts in deciding McCutcheon v. FEC in 2014. With unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse, warns Zephyr...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this lively and fascinating book, a guilt-ridden, bacon-loving journalist finds work at an industrial pig farm as he researches the long and torrid history of humans and swine. After convincing a skeptical pig farmer to take him on as a hired hand for six months, journalist Kristoffer Endresen follows a litter of piglets from birth to slaughter, all in the hopes of understanding what goes on inside an industrial pig farm and whether humans can...
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