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xviii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
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"One of the most stunning achievements of moral philosophy is something we take for granted: moral universalism, or the idea that every human has equal moral worth. In What We Owe the Future, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill demands that we go a step further, arguing that people not only have equal moral worth no matter where or how they live, but also no matter when they live. This idea has implications beyond the obvious (climate change) - including...
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xiv, 320 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: If they can change two lives, why not four? Or...
9) Exodus
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vi, 345 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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In the year 2100, as the island of Wing is about to be covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World sky cities that are safe from the storms and rising waters, and convinces her people to travel to one of these cities in order to save themselves.
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276 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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The author relates how a chance encounter in a magic shop with a woman who taught him exercises to ease his sufferings and manifest his greatest desires gave him a glimpse of the relationship between the brain and the heart, and drove him to explore the neuroscience of compassion and altruism.
11) The happy crab
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English
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A boy finds a beautiful shell on the beach and plans to take it home--until he realizes that his souvenir is home to a crab.
13) City of joy
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1 videodisc (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer join together to transform a Calcutta ghetto when it is threatened by the brutal local "godfather."
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251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Español
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"Pide tres deseos. Esa es la extrana propuesta que escucha el joven Jim, un chico de doce anos procedente de una familia desestructurada, cuando entra en una tienda de magia del desierto de California. Jim aun no lo sabe, pero esta a punto de descubrir en que consiste la verdadera magia: en utilizar el poder de la mente y del corazon para hacer cosas que superan lo que creiamos posible."--provided by Amazon.com.
The author relates how a chance encounter...
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