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Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
Bill Wasik - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid
Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals'... |
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Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone
Netta Weinstein - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time. The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful... |
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Israel Alone
Bernard-Henri Levy - Wicked Son
Format: Paperback
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Weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy analyzes global responses to October 7, the new virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world: anti-Semitism, why Israel is waging this existential war against barbarism alone, and what's at stake for Israel and the world..... |
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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being
Simone Weil - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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French philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment A Penguin Classic. One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil... |
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On Freedom
Timothy Snyder - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny. "Much like life itself, freedom needs to be defined and redefined.... |
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The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners
Sabrina B. Little - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner? In The Examined Run, philosopher and ultramarathon runner Sabrina B. Little asks whether running can be a laboratory for developing our character. She looks at the key ideas in virtue ethics--virtue,... |
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