Experiments in Ethics
9 best books like Experiments in Ethics (Kwame Anthony Appiah): Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness, Eating Animals, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals, Making Friends, The Cherry Orchard, Netherland, Falling Man, The Reasons of Love, The Echo Maker
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
| Author | Scott Jurek |
| ISBN | 0547569653 |
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force—and darling—in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. Until recently he held the American 24-hour record and he was one of the elite runners profiled in the runaway bestseller Born to Run.
In Eat and Run, Jurek opens...
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0316069906 |
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others,...
| Author | Hal Herzog |
| ISBN | 0061730866 |
Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis of Jared Diamond, a leading social scientist offers an unprecedented look inside our complex and often paradoxical relationships with animals.
Does living with a pet...
| Author | Kristen Gudsnuk |
| ISBN | 1338139215 |
Sixth grade was SO much easier for Danielle. All her friends were in the same room and she knew what to expect from her life. But now that she's in seventh grade, she's in a new middle school, her friends are in different classes and forming new cliques, and she is completely lost.
When Danielle...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0413774031 |
Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history, and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut down...
| Author | Joseph O'Neill |
| ISBN | 0307377040 |
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 1416546022 |
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.
Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate...
| Author | Harry G. Frankfurt |
| ISBN | 0691126240 |
This beautifully written book by one of the world's leading moral philosophers argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love.
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| Author | Richard Powers |
| ISBN | 0374146357 |
Following a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerges from his coma, Mark believes that this woman – who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister – is really an identical impostor. As a famous neurologist investigates his condition, Mark tries...
