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

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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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Nonsense:
Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language

by Robert J. Gula

The best short course in verbal logic. How people go about deceiving themselves and others. Over 170 common fallacies. Relaxed, informal, accessible style.

Price: $12.00

The Gita:
A New Translation of Hindu Sacred Scripture

by Irina Gajjar

The Bhagavad Gita is a treasure of world religious, philosophical, and ethical literature. Part of the larger Mahabharata cycle, it is the most famous part of that great Indian epic.

Dr. Gajjar's new translation in English blank verse captures the spirit of the original without sacrificing clarity. The text is clear, easy to follow, and dramatic, with a glossary to help readers understand unfamiliar names. The accompanying Sanskrit, which appears on the facing page, will not only interest scholars. As drawn by the author's husband, a noted artist, it is exceptionally beautiful and reminds us of both the antiquity and the mystery of this wisdom from the distant past.

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History of Ethics, Volume 1:
Graeco-Roman to Early Modern Ethics

by Vernon J. Bourke

History of Ethics is a clear, objective account of the ethical theories of Western philosophy, covering all the important schools of thought from 500 B.C.E. through the 20th century, and touching on a great variety of thinkers.

Volume 1 addresses ethical theory from its origins in Greece, 500 B.C.E., to the Neo-Platonism of Rome; Patristic and Medieval theories including the significant Christian and pagan writers of the period as well as those medieval Jewish and Muslim ethicians who had an influence on western thought; a survey of early modern ethical theories such as those of Bruno, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, and Kant.

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History of Ethics, Volume 2:
Modern and Contemporary Ethics

by Vernon J. Bourke

History of Ethics is a clear, objective account of the ethical theories of Western philosophy, covering all the important schools of thought from 500 B.C.E. through the 20th century, and touching on a great variety of thinkers.

Volume 2 continues the modern period with a consideration of the Utilitarian ideas of Hume, German and French theories, and other ethical theories from Marx to Rosenberg. The final section is devoted to such key 20th century ethical theorists as Dewey, Huxley, Tillich and Sartre; it ends with a chapter on existential and phenomenological ethics.

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How Much Money does an Economy Need?
Solving the Central Economic Puzzle of Money, Prices and Jobs

by Hunter Lewis

How Much Money Does an Economy Need? takes a subject that most people find difficult to decipher and makes it easy to understand. Not only easy, but fascinating, with startling insights in every chapter. This book is especially recommended for informed readers and public policy makers who want to get to the bottom of economics so that they can make better choices.

If you have read Lewis's earlier book, Are the Rich Necessary? (Axios Press, Sept. 2007) along with How Much Money Does an Economy Need?, you have become economically literate and will be able to understand and evaluate the key economic issues of your time.

Price: Hardcover, $17.00