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.

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