books by Peter Singer     books:     Peter Singer      Animal Liberation Peter Singer Harper Perennial, 2001 The Book That Changed My Life Forever When I was just a seventeen-year-old teenager, the boss at my summer job gave me Animal Liberation to read because he didn't have the heart to throw a book out. He said PETA sent it to him because of his large donation. He wasn't a vegetarian but he did have a soft ...             Bioethics: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 Bioethics, for genreal interest and further study. The Blackwells Anthology on Bioethics provides a strong material based support for courses in Bioethics or applied Philopsophy. It's two best features are that it contains the articles that most Bioethics courses will require you to read (Response to Purdy, for ...             Practical Ethics Peter Singer Cambridge University Press, 1999 Controversial and Compelling Those who come to Singer's book expecting to be applauded for their preconceived notions of right and wrong may be disappointed. Singer's book is actually one long argument for his particular brand of consequentialist ethics, and it leaves aside any mollifying ...             Biology Peter H Raven, George B Johnson, ... McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2007 Good book Good book, I hate the evolution aspect and Ignorant aspect on what God really says.             Biology Peter H Raven, George B Johnson, ... McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2004 Excellent book for College Biology I utilized this book for my college biology classes. It was very complete and had great details on photosynthesis, Krebs cycle, glycolysis. I even liked the chapters on animal structure and function, quite interesting. However, the chapter on genetics was the ...             Biology Volume I Peter H Raven, George B Johnson, ... McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2007 BIOLOGY is an authoritative majors textbook focusing on evolution as a unifying theme. Volume I covers Chemistry, Cell Biology, and Genetics; Volume II covers Plant and Animal Biology; and Volume III covers Evolution, Diversity, and Ecology. BIOLOGY is distinguished from other texts by its strong emphasis on natural selection and the ...             One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Second Edition (The Terry Lectures Series) Peter Singer Yale University Press, 2004 Worth your time. I've read the pro's and con's of other reviews and would like to have a brief word with those considering this book as a future purchase. Looking at the good reviews, one I could easily give becuase I find them very agreeable, one finds the essence of the book, a ...             In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave Wiley-Blackwell, 2005 Contents: Articles and essays from different people like philosophers, biologists, activists and lobbyists. Here you learn first hand accounts of the stories that have made headlines around the world...the plight of the Silver Spring laboratory monkeys, the freeing of the Island ...             The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter Peter Singer, Jim Mason Rodale Books, 2007 Everyone should read this This is a superb book. Everyone should read this to know what they are truly consuming and how it effects our planet and its inhabitants. It's time that we are aware of the consequences of our food choices so that we may hopefully make better choices and decrease our ...             Marx: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions X) Peter Singer Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 Publisher Notes: The Past Masters Series is a concise, lucid , aythoritative introduction to the thought of leading intellectual figures of the past whose ideas still influence the way we think today. ... sees Marx as a philosopher, rather than as an economist or social scientis. ' an ...             Writings on an Ethical Life Peter Singer Harper Perennial, 2001 Uncomfortable reading Singer writes about many subjects which are potentially disturbing to a complacent, wealthy American (such as myself). I found the essays to be a salutary reminder of my effect on the larger world, and refreshingly down-to-earth. These are not academic essays, but ...             A Companion to Ethics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) Wiley-Blackwell, 1993 My review is a single-sentence one. The selection of the articles in this book is excellent: not too deep in any of the subjects and gives a wide range overlook on the field of ethics, I read it with eas and joy.             Biology Volume III: Evolution, Diversity, and Ecology Peter H Raven, George B Johnson, ... McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2007 Well done I ordered this textbook for an organismal biology class last semester. This book is very well put together, easy to use, and beautifully illustrated. It is not as in depth as I would have liked, being a biology nut, but it is a fantastic introductory text.             Hegel: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Peter Singer Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 Excellent Probably not very many people will plunge into Hegel on their own, and most of those will quickly plunge back out. As Bryan Magee said, "His writing is almost uniquely obscure -- it positively repels the reader...One can read page after page of Hegel, racking one's ...             Ethics (Oxford Readers) Oxford University Press, USA, 1994 Great anthology Apart from being a fine philosopher, Singer is also an excellent editor. I have been using this anthology for years in ethics classes and students like it very much. The selections are short and to the point. 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