Peter Singer: 30 books
La cosa migliore che tu puoi fare
Cos’è l’altruismo efficace
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Sempre al centro del dibattito sulle questioni etiche del nostro tempo, Peter Singer introduce e spiega il concetto di «altruismo efficace», basato sull’idea, semplice ma rivoluzionaria, secondo cui vivere una vita pienamente etica significa agire «nel miglior modo possibile», ovvero adottare...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
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...
The Point of View of the Universe
Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
What does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a self-evident moral truth: the good of one individual is of no more importance than the good of any other....
A Darwinian Left
Politics, Evolution and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2000
In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals.Singer...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But does it also matter for the animal whether it lives...
The Allocation of Health Care Resources
An Ethical Evaluation of the 'QALY' Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. But the goods that health care produces are of very different kinds. Health care can extend the lives of children and of older people. It can make it...
The Untold History of the United States, Volume 2
Young Readers Edition, 1945-1962
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Discover America’s secrets in this second of two volumes of the young readers’ edition of The Untold History of the United States, from Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Eric Singer.
There is history as we know it. And there is history we should...
Remembered Self
Emotion and Memory in Personality
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A theory for psychologists on the role of memory in personality psychology.
In The Remembered Self, Jefferson A. Singer and Peter Salovey persuasively argue that memories are an important window into one's life story, revealing characteristic moods, motives, and thinking patterns. Through experimental...
Advanced Manufacturing
The New American Innovation Policies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
How to rethink innovation and revitalize America's declining manufacturing sector by encouraging advanced manufacturing, bringing innovative technologies into the production process.
The United States lost almost one-third of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010. As higher-paying manufacturing...
by Peter W. Singer
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examine the growing and global use of children as soldiers.
P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking...
The Grandest Challenge
Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The health-sciences equivalent of Thomas Friedman's bestseller The World is Flat, this inspiring and revelatory book by two of today's finest scientists shows how advances in global health will transform lives -- particularly in the developing world -- over the next decade.
The Grandest Challenge...
Nichts als Lügen!
Kurzgeschichten
Language: German
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Wissenschaftliche Studien belegen: Wir lügen jeden Tag, bewusst oder unbewusst, in Gedanken oder laut. Wir verschonen die Lieben mit der Wahrheit und lügen stattdessen, damit es erträglicher bleibt. Oder wir lügen, weil wir ein schlechtes Gewissen haben und eine Ausrede brauchen. Es gibt viele...
The Flexitarian Table
Inspired, Flexible Meals for Vegetarians, Meat Lovers, and Everyone in Between
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Now in ebook for the first time, stylish, seasonal menus to satisfy vegetarians and nonvegetarians simultaneously, by a winner of the James Beard Award and the IACP Award.
Today, more people than ever before are choosing to eat sustainably, electing to have vegetarian meals much of the time...