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  • The Moviegoer in the Golden Age of Cinema

    by Jonathan Jacobs ...
    So, you love movies? Jonathan Jacobs loves to hate movies! Together, with his readers, both will find the common ground.as a film reviewer for the Screen Spotlight, it is vital for Jacobs to tame his language. In this book, however, readers will find a no-holds barred approach to movie punditry! no film is safe...no director will receive a free pass, and no actor will remain unscathed. However, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moral Agency in Eastern and Western Thought

    Perspectives on Crafting Character

    Edited by Jonathan Jacobs, Heinz-Dieter Meyer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for living well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concerning character development and moral agency.In both Eastern and Western traditions, the complexities of shaping an individual’s moral agency ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Criminology as a Moral Science

    Edited by Anthony E Bottoms, Jonathan Jacobs ...
    Series series Studies in Penal Theory and Ethics
    This book proposes an explicit recognition of criminology as a moral science: a philosophically textured appreciation of the presence and role of values in people's reasoning and motivation, set within an empirically rigorous social-scientific account. This endeavour requires input from both criminologists and philosophers, and careful dialogue between them. Criminology as a Moral Science provides ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Criminology and Moral Philosophy

    Empirical Methods and the Study of Values

    by Jonathan Jacobs ...
    The book examines some of the most important forms of normativity and the relation between facts and values in the context of criminological investigation. In recent decades numerous criminologists have argued that criminology needs to be more explicitly concerned with normative considerations and with morality and this book explains the plausibility of that view and of empirically rigorous non ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics

    Edited by Jonathan Jacobs, Jonathan Jackson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The enormous financial cost of criminal justice has motivated increased scrutiny and recognition of the need for constructive change, but what of the ethical costs of current practices and policies? Moreover, if we seriously value the principles of liberal democracy then there is no question that the ethics of criminal justice are everybody’s business, concerns for the entire society. The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

    by Anna Bogutskaya ...
    She's too angry. Too weird. Too messy. And now, she's the main character.Unlikeable Female Characters is a fierce, funny, and razor-sharp takedown of the cultural obsession with "likeable" women—and a celebration of the flawed female icons who broke the rules.From Amy Dunne in Gone Girl to Regina George, Fleabag, and Skyler White, these are the women who provoke, polarize, and captivate. Anna ... Read more

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  • The Bodhisattva's Brain

    Buddhism Naturalized

    by Owen Flanagan ...
    This fascinating introduction to the intersection between religion, neuroscience, and moral philosophy asks: Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge?If we are material beings living in a material world—and all the scientific evidence suggests that we are—then we must find existential meaning, if there is such a thing, in this ... Read more

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  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    By the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy.Presenting a sustained critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, Williams reorients ethical theory towards ‘truth, truthfulness and ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • TV (The Book)

    Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time

    by Alan Sepinwall, Matt Zoller Seitz ...
    Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz have been debating these questions and many more, ... Read more

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  • Death

    by Todd May ...
    Series series The Art of Living
    The fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living. There are many ways to think about and deal with death. Among those ways, however, a good number of them are attempts to escape its grip.In this book, Todd May seeks to confront death in its power. He considers the possibility that our mortal deaths are the end of us, and asks what this might ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? These are the questions ... Read more

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  • Bitch

    In Praise of Difficult Women

    by Elizabeth Wurtzel ...
    From the author of the bestselling Prozac Nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written. In five brilliant extended essays, she links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Wurtzel gives voice to those women whose lives have been misunderstood, who have been dismissed for their beauty, ... Read more

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