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  • Augustine and Ethics

    by Sean Hannan, Kim Paffenroth, Toni Alimi, Margaret Atkins, Paul A. Camacho, Colleen Campbell, Thomas Clemmons, Fábio Dalpra, Hans Feichtinger0, Ron Haflidson1, Wendy Elgersma Helleman2, Daniel T. Kim3, Rebecca Makas4, Rachel Matheson5, Veronica Roberts Ogle6, Matthew Puffer7, Makiko Sato8, Sarah Stewart-Kroeker9, Ian Clausen0, Vincent Lloyd1 ...
    Series series Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation
    Augustine and Ethics examines the topic of ethics in the life and works of Augustine of Hippo. Adopting a global perspective on ethics as a field of philosophical and theological investigation, this volume includes reflections on virtue and vice, love and sin, and the political outcomes to which certain ethical stances tend to give rise. For Augustine himself, ethics was never merely theoretical. ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Culture Clash

    My Stories of Growing Up in Puerto Rico and New York

    by Jose A Camacho ...
    Born into a loving family in Puerto Rico stricken by poverty after World War II, five-year-old Jose Camacho was whisked from his homeland and dropped into an urban borough in a foreign nation. He spent the next decade split between the gritty, uncompromising streets of the Bronx and the warm safety of Caguas, leaving him feeling like a foreigner in both lands. These collected stories span his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ethics of Consumption

    The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship

    by Luis A. Camacho, Colin H. Campbell, David A. Crocker, Eleonora Curlo, Herman E. Daly, Eliezer Diamond, Robert Goodland, Allen L. Hammond, Nathan Keyfitz, Robert E. Lane0, Judith Lichtenberg1, David Luban2, James A. Nash3, Martha C. Nussbaum4, ThomasW Pogge5, Mark Sagoff6, Juliet B. Schor7, Michael Schudson8, Jerome M. Segal9, Amartya Sen0, Alan Strudler1, Paul L. Wachtel2, Paul E. Waggoner3, David Wasserman4, Charles K. Wilber5 ...
    Series series Philosophy and the Global Context
    Scholars in diverse fields now agree on the importance of investigating the impact of consumption practices on the global environment, quality of life, and international justice. In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines-philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Null Subjects

    by José A. Camacho ...
    Series Book 137 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    The null subject has always been central to linguistic theory, because it tells us a great deal about the underlying structure of language in the human brain, and about the interface between syntax and semantics. Null subjects exist in languages such as Italian, Chinese, Russian and Greek where the subject of a sentence can be tacitly implied, and is understood from the context. In this systematic ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Division of Labor, Variability, Coordination, and the Theory of Firms and Markets

    by A. Camacho ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    A new approach to explaining the existence of firms and markets, focusing on variability and coordination. It stands in contrast to the emphasis on transaction costs, and on monitoring and incentive structures, which are prominent in most of the modern literature in this field. This approach, called the variability approach, allows us to: show why both the need for communication and the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    Translated by Benjamin Moser ...
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  • Say Her Name

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    by Francisco Goldman ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–finalist's intimate autobiographical novel of a marriage cut tragically short is "a beautiful love story, and an extraordinary story of loss" (Colm Tóibín).In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married Aura Estrada. The two were deeply in love, and Aura was a gifted young writer on the cusp of her own brilliant career. But while on vacation only a month before their ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gardens of Democracy

    A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

    by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer ...
    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Rational Voter

    Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies - New Edition

    by Bryan Caplan ...
    The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • My Broken Language

    A Memoir

    by Quiara Alegría Hudes ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.“Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.”—Lin ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Tools for Conviviality

    by Ivan Illich ...
    A work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan Illich's penetrating analysis of the industrial mode of production which characterises our contemporary world. The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is one in which the individual's personal energies are under direct personal control and in which the use of tools is responsibly limited. This book claims out ... Read more

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  • Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

    by Karen Tei Yamashita ...
    A freewheeling black comedy bound up in cultural confusion, political insanity, and environmental catastrophe.A Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American ceo with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe rise to the heights of wealth and fame before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological—that ... Read more

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