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Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer
37.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"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
Marx: a Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions
Identifies the vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views. This book sees him as a philosopher, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. It explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of Capital, and Marx's ideas of communism, and concludes with ...Show more
Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Peter Singer, often described as the world's most influential living philosopher, presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his own work on some of the world's most pressing problems. Effective altruism involves doing the most good possible. It requ ...Show more
One World: The Ethics of Globalisation by Peter Singer
30.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Known for his originality and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalisation. In this provocative book, he challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and co ...Show more
Practical Ethics - 3rd edition by Peter Singer
49.99 NZD
51.95 (3% off)
Category: Business
For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of th ...Show more
Pushing Time away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer
24.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A personal history by the man described in The New Yorker as 'the most influential living philosopher'. 'What binds us pushes time away.' So wrote David Oppenheim, classical scholar, collaborator and then critic of Sigmund Freud, friend and supporter of Alfred Adler, participant in and observer of the i ...Show more
The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Meet three different families with three different lifestyles. The Hillard-Nierstheimer family exemplifies the standard meat-and-potatoes diet: they shop at the local supermarket, occasionally eat fast food, and enjoy their meat, Coke and beer. The Masarech-Motavalli family is concerned about its healt ...Show more
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
30.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Life You Can Save is the book that Peter Singer has wanted to write for thirty years. It is his argument about how we should respond to hunger and poverty. We live in a unique moment in history where the rich can genuinely help the poor to escape relentless poverty. But this will only happen if the ...Show more
The Most Good You Can Do - How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas aboutLiving Ethically by Singer Peter, Peter Singer
30.00 NZD
Category: Self Improvement | Reading Level: very good
"Internationally renowned philosopher Peter Singer presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his work on some of the world's most pressing problems. Effective altruism requires a rigorously unsentimental view of charitable giving: a substantial prop ...Show more
The President of Good and Evil : The Ethics of George W. Bush by Peter Singer
28.00 NZD
31.00 (9% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
President George W. Bush is the 'President of Good and Evil' - the man who, more than any other United States president in living memory, talks constantly about ethics, about values, about good and evil. This book is an attempt to hold the policies of George W. Bush, and his actions as president, up to ...Show more
The President of Good and Evil : The ethics of George W Bush by Peter Singer
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
This book is an attempt to hold the policies of George W. Bush, and his actions as president, up to an ethical standard - including his own. But it goes beyond that. it is also a study in a distinctively American ethic, for there are many features of this ethic that are not widely held elsewhere in the ...Show more
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