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One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization, for ...Show more
One World: The Ethics of Globalisation by Peter Singer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Known for his originality and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalisation. In this provocative book, he challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and co ...Show more
Practical Ethics - 3rd edition by Peter Singer
$43.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of th ...Show more
Pushing Time Away - My Grandfather by SINGER Peter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"What binds us pushes time away." So wrote David Oppenheim, scholar, collaborator and then critic of Sigmund Freud, victim of the Nazis, and grandfather of philosopher Peter Singer. Fifty years after Oppenheim's death, Singer found a wealth of written materials, including personal letters, which provide ...Show more
The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Meet three different families with three different lifestyles. The Hillard-Nierstheimer family exemplifies the standard meat-and-potatoes diet: they shop at the local supermarket, occasionally eat fast food, and enjoy their meat, Coke and beer. The Masarech-Motavalli family is concerned about its healt ...Show more
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress by Peter Singer
$28.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 a ...Show more
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
$34.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
In The Life You Can Save, philosopher Peter Singer, uses ethical arguments, provocative thought experiments, illuminating examples, and case studies of charitable giving to show that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible.
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Life You Can Save is the book that Peter Singer has wanted to write for thirty years. It is his argument about how we should respond to hunger and poverty. We live in a unique moment in history where the rich can genuinely help the poor to escape relentless poverty. But this will only happen if the ...Show more
The Moral of the Story by Peter Singer
$49.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Aims to shed light on the perennial questions of ethics. This work demonstrates how literary sources can add richness to discussions of real-life moral questions and dilemmas. It brings together selections and excerpts from some of the world's most celebrated short stories, novels, plays, and poetry. ...Show more
The Most Good You Can Do - How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas aboutLiving Ethically by Singer Peter, Peter Singer
$23.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
"Internationally renowned philosopher Peter Singer presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his work on some of the world's most pressing problems. Effective altruism requires a rigorously unsentimental view of charitable giving: a substantial prop ...Show more
The President of Good and Evil : The Ethics of George W. Bush by Peter Singer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
President George W. Bush is the 'President of Good and Evil' - the man who, more than any other United States president in living memory, talks constantly about ethics, about values, about good and evil. This book is an attempt to hold the policies of George W. Bush, and his actions as president, up to ...Show more
The President of Good and Evil : The ethics of George W Bush by Peter Singer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This book is an attempt to hold the policies of George W. Bush, and his actions as president, up to an ethical standard - including his own. But it goes beyond that. it is also a study in a distinctively American ethic, for there are many features of this ethic that are not widely held elsewhere in the ...Show more