Books to help you think through your personal values.

Are the Rich Necessary?
Great Economic Arguments and How They Reflect Our Personal Values

by Hunter Lewis

Are the rich necessary? Are the rich compatible with democracy? Should we accept so much inequality in our society? Does the profit system glorify greed?

Lewis addresses these and other provocative questions in a clear, objective and easy-to-follow journey through the great economic arguments of our day. In an always lively point-counterpoint style, he challenges conventional positions on both sides of each issue.

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Price: Hardcover, $20.00

Moral Foundations: An Introduction to Ethics

by Alexander Skutch

Moral Foundations embodies Skutch’s lifelong inquiry into the structure of moral relations and the sources of morality. Skutch—naturalist, ornithologist, philosopher and author of over 30 books—completed his life’s work with Moral Foundations, a tour de force of analysis, research and critical thinking and an important contribution to the study of ethics and philosophy.

Price: $12.00

Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet

by Herbert Gold

Bruce Cook of the Washington Post Book World has written that “Bohemia has become an acceptable, even desirable lifestyle all around America, and indeed the world over.” But to understand how this happened, how an “alternative” lifestyle became so mainstream, and also to visit what many consider to be Bohemia’s golden age, there is no better source than Gold.

Herbert Gold was awarded the Sherwood Anderson Prize for fiction in 1989. Raised in Cleveland, he has lived in various Islands of Bohemia, including Greenwich Village, Paris, Haiti, and South Beach in Miami. He is a longtime resident of San Francisco.

Price: $12.00

Ethics Since 1900, 3rd Edition

by Mary Warnock

About Ethics Since 1900, the Times Literary Supplement (London) has said, “In this lively and fascinating book Mrs. Warnock tells with admirable clarity the story of the development of English moral philosophy in the twentieth century . . . most attractively written, spontaneous, forthright and unfuzzy.”

Mary Warnock has taught philosophy at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. She is the author of a number of books on philosophy, including The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Ethics, and most recently Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?

Price: $12.00

Alternative Values: The Perennial Debate about Wealth, Power, Fame, Praise, Glory, and Physical Pleasure

edited with an introduction by Hunter Lewis

Money, power, fame, sex. Most of us want these things, but should we? Set up as a lively debate between the best thinkers of today and yesterday.

Price: $12.00

Alexander Skutch: An Appreciation

by Alexander Skutch

Scientist, botanist, pioneering expert on Central American birds, environmentalist, unmatched writer about nature, advocate of simple living, inspiring moral philosopher. If you haven't read his work, this book is an ideal introduction.

Price: $12.00

The Beguiling Serpent:
A Re-evaluation of Emotions and Values

by Hunter Lewis

The Beguiling Serpent looks at emotions, and emotional values in particular. On one level a sequel to A Question of Values, it is also an excellent introduction to emotions and values, and ideal course material.

"Takes us on a provocative and intriguing journey into the imperfectly understood world of human emotions. More philosophy than science, Hunter Lewis’s highly original yet simple framework for observing, understanding, and managing emotions invites reading at one sitting, but reflection long after."

—Kathryn S. Fuller, president, World Wildlife Fund

Price: $12.00

The Words of Jesus

A valuable teaching tool and research resource in the classroom. Useful for Christians and non-Christians alike. Non-Christians will find it an ideal introduction to Jesus' ethical teachings.

Chapter divisions:

• Section 1: Important Sayings
• Section 2: Other Sayings
• Section 3: Complete Sayings

Complete Sayings are arranged chronologically, with similar sayings from different gospels grouped together.

The Words of Jesus presents every one of Jesus' words, as recorded in the New Testament, without the intervening stories and other dialogue. It's a new way to study Jesus' teachings, startling in its simplicity, freshness, and immediacy.

Taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Price: $12.00

A Question of Values:
Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives

by Hunter Lewis

What personal values are. How we decide about them. What the alternatives are. Seventy-eight value systems featured. Used in classrooms at Harvard and around the world. Praised by educators from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Virginia, Berea College and elsewhere. The editor of the Washington Post Book World wrote: "I am fascinated by A Question of Values."

“An important book.”

—HENRY ROSOVSKY, former dean of arts and sciences and currently Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

"Enormously worthwhile....provides a unique way of organizing our thinking about values."

—Adele Simmons, president, MacArthur Foundation

"Gives readers a framework with which to clarify their own beliefs and to understand the beliefs of others...helps to make sense of...the diversity of values in our society."

—Patricia H. Werhane, Ollson Center for Applied Ethics, The Darden School, University of Virginia

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Price: $12.00