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  1. Liberation Day : Stories

    Saunders, George
    Random House Publishing Group 2022

    NEW 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....

  2. Life Is Hard : How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

    Setiya, Kieran
    Penguin Publishing Group 2022

    NAMED 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...

  3. Night in the World

    English, Sharon
    Freehand Books 2022

    A 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...

  4. The Shame Machine : Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

    O'Neil, Cathy
    Crown 2022

    NEW 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...

  5. The Right to Sex : Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

    Srinivasan, Amia
    Macmillan 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...

  6. Something New Under the Sun : A Novel

    Kleeman, Alexandra
    Random House Publishing Group 2021

    NEW 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...

  7. Lost in Thought : The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

    Hitz, Zena
    Princeton University Press 2020

    An 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...

  8. 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...

  9. An American Summer : Love and Death in Chicago

    Kotlowitz, Alex
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2019

    From 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...

  10. A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty

    Schweiger, Gottfried; Graf, Gunter
    Springer 2015 1. edition

    Table of contents 1. Introduction: Philosophy and Child Poverty Gottfried Schweiger, Gunter Graf 2. Social Justice for Children — A Capability ApproachGottfried Schweiger, Gunter G...

  11. Philosophy's Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress

    Blackford, Russell; Broderick, Damien
    John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2017 1. edition

    Philosophy’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...

  12. Shattered : Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

    Allen, Jonathan; Parnes, Amie
    Crown 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...

  13. Right and Wrong: A Practical Introduction to Ethics

    White, Thomas I.
    John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2016 2. edition

  14. Professionalism and Ethics

    Stuart-Wilson, Fiona
    Andrews UK 2015 1. edition

    This 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...

  15. Lecture on Ethics

    Levy, D. K.
    John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2014 1. edition

    The 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...

  16. Leading Libraries : How to Create a Service Culture

    vanDuinkerken, Wyoma; Arant Kasper, Wendi
    American Library Association 2015

    Leading 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...

  17. The Value of Violence

    Ginsberg, Benjamin
    Globe Pequot 2013

    This 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...

  18. Invisible Nature : Healing the Destructive Divide Between People and the Environment

    Worthy, Kenneth
    Prometheus 2013

    A 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...

  19. The Light in the Ruins

    Bohjalian, Chris
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013

    NATIONAL 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:...

  20. The Society of Timid Souls : or, How To Be Brave

    Morland, Polly
    Crown 2013

    A 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...