Books to help you think through your personal values.

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.

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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.

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Epicureans and Stoics

Edited by the Axios Institute

"This little book contains some of the greatest wisdom literature of the ages. Everyone, and especially young people, should be familiar with it." -- Alan L. Boegehold, Emeritus Professor of Classics, Brown University

Both Epicureanism and Stoicism taught that if we want to be happy and productive, we must strengthen and train our willful and wayward minds. There are echoes of the Buddha's Dhammapada. The passages selected are both beautiful and moving.

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Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu

by Lawrence Durrell

Prospero's Cell is the story of a young man's escape from a grey, industrialized England to a sunny Greek island. Durrell, later a world famous novelist, had it all: a new wife, a life of swimming, fishing, sailing, reading and writing, good food and wine, colorful new friends, and an historic island of captivating beauty. Then this enchanting idyll abruptly ends with the onset of World War II and evacuation to Egypt.

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Escape to the Mountain: A Family's Adventures in the Wilderness

by Marcia Bonta

This book describes the joy of family life on a very remote mountaintop farm. It is a hymn to sledding on moonlit nights in winter, to the arrival of the birds in spring, and to harvesting garden crops in the autumn, all punctuated by the father's long daily commute to a real world job. Values of simplicity, self-sufficiency, and being a part of nature are exemplified.

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Children of the Sun: A Narrative of "Decadence" in England After 1918

by Martin Green

Children of the Sun is a story of brilliant and later famous young people who deliberately chose "decadence" as an alternative lifestyle. The setting is England between World War I and World War II. The cast of characters includes Evelyn Waugh, Randolph Churchill, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Cecil Beaton among others.

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