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  • Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

    by Susan Wolf, John Koethe, Nomy Arpaly, Jonathan Haidt, Robert McC. Adams ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Integrating Mental Health and Disability Into Public Health Disaster Preparedness and Response

    by Jill Morrow-Gorton, Susan Wolf-Fordham, Katherine Snyder ...
    Integrating Mental Health and Disability into Public Health Disaster Preparedness and Response brings together the fields of mental/behavioral health, law, human rights, and medicine as they relate to disaster planning and response for people with disabilities, mental and behavioral health conditions and chronic illness. Children and adults with disabilities, mental/behavioral health conditions ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Life, Death, and Meaning

    Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

    by Margaret A. Boden, Fred Feldman, John Martin Fischer, Richard Hare, David Hume, W.D Joske, Immanuel Kant, Frederick Kaufman, John Leslie, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit, George Pitcher, Stephen E. Rosenbaum, David Schmidtz, Arthur Schopenhauer, David B. Suits, Richard Taylor, Bruce N. Waller, Bernard Williams, Samantha Vice, Christine Overall, James Lenman, Steven Luper, Susan Wolf ...
    Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law

    by Susan Wolf, Neil Stanley ...
    Written with real clarity by authors teaching and researching in the field, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law offers an excellent starting point for both law and non-law students encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first time. Topics covered include administration and enforcement, waste management, EU environmental law, pollution control, environmental permitting, ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • King Daniel

    Gasparilla King of the Pirates

    by Susan Wolf Johnson ...
    This dynamic tale revolves around a Tampa blue-blood family, the Westcotts, whose lives are intricately woven into the traditions and mythical lore of the town’s evocative holiday, Gasparilla. The story begins on a summer’s evening in 1972. While the band plays amid the sizzling heat at the Tampa Yacht Club, pirates from the Krewe of Gaspar and their ladies eagerly await the arrival of their newly ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Multiculturalism

    (Expanded paperback edition)

    by Charles Taylor, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jürgen Habermas, Stephen C. Rockefeller, Michael Walzer, Susan Wolf ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which considers whether the institutions of liberal democratic government make room--or should make room--for ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Foundations of Buddhism

    by Rupert Gethin ...
    Series series OPUS
    Buddhism is a vast and complex religious and philosophical tradition with a history that stretches over 2,500 years, and which is now followed by around 115 million people. In this introduction to the foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute the common heritage of the different traditions of Buddhism (Thervada, Tibetan, and Eastern) which ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Wisdom Wide and Deep

    A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana

    by Shaila Catherine ...
    Wisdom Wide and Deep is a comprehensive guide to an in-depth training that emphasizes the application of concentrated attention (jhana) to profound and liberating insight (vipassana). With calm, tranquility, and composure established through a practical experience of jhana meditators are able to halt the seemingly endless battle against hindrances, eliminate distraction, and facilitate a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Don't Worry, Be Grumpy

    Inspiring Stories for Making the Most of Each Moment

    by Ajahn Brahm ...
    Laugh aloud even as you look at life anew with these stories from the bestselling author of Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?In 108 brief stories with titles like "The Bad Elephant," "Girlfriend Power," and "The Happiness License," Ajahn Brahm offers up more timeless wisdom that will speak to people from all walks of life. Drawing from his own experiences, stories shared by his students, and old ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Expanding Circle

    Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

    by Peter Singer ...
    What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism?In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Art of Disappearing

    Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy

    by Ajahn Brahm ...
    Whether mere bumps in the road or genuine crises, we live in a world of unwanted events that no willpower can prevent. In The Art of Disappearing, Ajahn Brahm helps us learn to abandon the headwind of false expectations and follow instead the Buddha's path of understanding. Releasing our attachment to past and future, to self and other, we can directly experience the natural state of serenity ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • In the Buddha's Words

    An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon

    by Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi ...
    Series series The Teachings of the Buddha
    This landmark collection is the definitive introduction to the Buddha's teachings - in his own words. The American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, whose voluminous translations have won widespread acclaim, here presents selected discourses of the Buddha from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of what the Buddha taught. Divided into ten thematic chapters, In the Buddha's Words reveals the full scope ... Read more

    $21.99 USD