ethics

Analyzes our ideas of morality and ethics and considers social issues such as human rights, war, and capital punishment and ethics in medicine, business, journalism, and other fields.

Collects the author's favorite questions and answers from his tenure as the author of the New York Times' "The Ethicist," presenting evidence that sensible people disagree on the definition of ethical behavior.

Four fundamentalist American missionaries and a soldier of fortune become involved in a fanatical conflict over the fate of the primitive Niaruna Indians living in the Amazon jungle.

A collection of "The Ethicist" columns from the "New York Times Magazine, " in which Randy Cohen addresses questions posed by people who want to do the right thing, grouped in seven categories covering civic, family, social, commercial, medical, work, and school life.

Translation of ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's lecture notes on the topic of ethics, in which he attempts to demonstrate how men become good, and discusses why happiness can, and should, be the goal of mankind.

Explains what honesty is and why it is important in the home, at school, and in the community.

Teenager Elise Felton is both a "seer" and an "extractor", someone who can penetrate another person's memories and remove them, and she believes that by working with her mentor Tobias she will be able to recover her own memories, but Tobias has plans of his own.

While Catfish Kate and her friends are making sweet swamp music, Skink and his Skunktail boys are trying to read and they demand that the girls be quiet, but Kate finds a clever compromise.

Collects nineteen essays that offer varying perspectives on ethics, discussing why people should be ethical, motivation to behave ethically, and modern biomedical and business practices.

Draws on documented examples to argue that animals have powerful morals that influence their actions towards one another and link them closer to humans on an intellectual level.