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Liberation Day : Stories
Saunders, GeorgeRandom House Publishing Group 2022NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character....
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Life Is Hard : How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
Setiya, KieranPenguin Publishing Group 2022NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST “Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend...
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Night in the World
English, SharonFreehand Books 2022A tender ensemble novel about coming home to oneself and one's family through the beauty and soulfulness of Earth, even in an age of unravelling. Brothers Justin and Oliver have ne...
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The Shame Machine : Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
O'Neil, CathyCrown 2022NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperparti...
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The Right to Sex : Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Srinivasan, AmiaMacmillan Audio 2021 Unabridged"Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense." —Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women"Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extrao...
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Something New Under the Sun : A Novel
Kleeman, AlexandraRandom House Publishing Group 2021NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in “a darkly satirical reflection...
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Lost in Thought : The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Hitz, ZenaPrinceton University Press 2020An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost e...
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How to Be an Antiracist
Kendi, Ibram X.Random House Publishing Group 2019#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting rac...
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An American Summer : Love and Death in Chicago
Kotlowitz, AlexKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2019From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods. The numbers are sta...
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A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty
Schweiger, Gottfried; Graf, GunterSpringer 2015 1. editionTable of contents 1. Introduction: Philosophy and Child Poverty Gottfried Schweiger, Gunter Graf 2. Social Justice for Children — A Capability ApproachGottfried Schweiger, Gunter G...
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Philosophy's Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress
Blackford, Russell; Broderick, DamienJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2017 1. editionPhilosophy’s Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress diagnoses the state of philosophy as an academic discipline and calls it to account, inviting further reflection and dial...
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Shattered : Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
Allen, Jonathan; Parnes, AmieCrown 2017#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveti...
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Right and Wrong: A Practical Introduction to Ethics
White, Thomas I.John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2016 2. edition -
Professionalism and Ethics
Stuart-Wilson, FionaAndrews UK 2015 1. editionThis book contains guidance for all dental care professionals, especially dental nurses. It also provides explanations of the implications of General Dental Council guidance on the...
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Lecture on Ethics
Levy, D. K.John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2014 1. editionThe most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein’s 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein’s o...
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Leading Libraries : How to Create a Service Culture
vanDuinkerken, Wyoma; Arant Kasper, WendiAmerican Library Association 2015Leading Libraries focuses on a service leadership model that can be used as a guide by all types of librarians in order for them to create and sustain the library of the future. Th...
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The Value of Violence
Ginsberg, BenjaminGlobe Pequot 2013This provocative thesis calls violence the driving force not just of war, but of politics and even social stability. Though violence is commonly deplored, political scientist Ginsb...
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Invisible Nature : Healing the Destructive Divide Between People and the Environment
Worthy, KennethPrometheus 2013A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a pathto a healthier, more sustainable world.Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern...
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The Light in the Ruins
Bohjalian, ChrisKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany. 1943:...
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The Society of Timid Souls : or, How To Be Brave
Morland, PollyCrown 2013A journey into the modern life of an ancient virtue – bravery – and a quest to understand who might possess it and how With The Society of Timid Souls, or How To Be Brave, docume...