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  • Leading a Worthy Life

    Finding Meaning in Modern Times

    by Leon R. Kass ...
    Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea—regarding work, family, religion, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Toward a More Natural Science

    by Leon R. Kass ...
    Kass shows how the promise and the peril of our time are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science.The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated by developments in the science of life. This book examines the ethical questions involved in prenatal ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Reading Ruth: Birth, Redemption, and the Way of Israel

    by Leon Kass and Hannah Mandelbaum ...
    “Through a close reading of the Book of Ruth, Leon Kass and Hannah Mandelbaum transform how we see the story and how we see ourselves. A marvelous gem of a book.”―Russ Roberts"A thoughtful and thought-provoking book."―BooklistThrough close reading and responsive commentary, Reading Ruth: Birth, Redemption, and the Way of Israel vivifies this much-loved biblical text, enabling readers to imagine ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What So Proudly We Hail

    The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song

    Edited by Amy A. Kass, Leon R. Kass, Diana Schaub ...
    "A stupendous compilation of the best things said by and to Americans . . . [I] open it every night at random and always find something valuable." —Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal"Indispensable . . . Should become The Book of Virtues for patriots." —Mona Charen, nationally syndicated columnistConcerned about rising cynicism and apathy, more and more Americans lament the decline in patriotic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Founding God's Nation

    Reading Exodus

    by Leon Kass ...
    A chapter-by-chapter explanation of the Book of Exodus, revealing its wisdom about nation building and people formation"Kass draws from Exodus' record of the founding of Judaism timely—even urgent—universal lessons about twenty-first-century preconditions for human flourishing in any community. Compelling modern reflections on ancient wisdom."—Bryce Christensen, Booklist (starred review)In this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leading a Worthy Life

    Finding Meaning in Modern Times

    by Leon R. Kass ...
    Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea—regarding work, family, religion, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Life Liberty & the Defense of Dignity

    The Challenge for Bioethics

    by Leon Kass ...
    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    At the onset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic enhancement,’ for wholesale redesign. In leading laboratories, academic and industrial, new creators are confidently amassing their powers and quietly honing their skills. For anyone who ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Moral Soundings

    Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life

    by Richard Rorty, Steven Fesmire, Stanley Kurtz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jerry Weinberger, Leon Kass, Jane Smiley, Thomas Pogge, Richard Pipes, James Twitchell, David Marsland, David Bosworth, Christina Hoff Sommers, Edward W. Said, Janet C. Gornick, Isabel V. Sawhill, Albert Borgmann, Jerry L. Walls, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Cornel West ...
    Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent voices in the humanities and social sciences provide a range of perspectives on a concentrated ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Future is Now

    America Confronts the New Genetics

    by Eric Cohen, George J. Annas, Ronald Bailey, Sen Christopher "Kit" Bond, J Bottum, Sen Sam Brownback, President George W. Bush, Kenneth L. Connor, Richard M. Doerflinger, Michael J. Fox0, Bill Frist1, Francis Fukuyama2, Robert P. George3, James K. Glassman4, Rep James Greenwood5, Sen Tom Harkin6, Sen Orrin G. Hatch7, Gertrude Himmelfarb8, Aldous Huxley9, Leon R. Kass0, Michael Kinsley1, Charles Krauthammer2, Rep Dennis J. Kucinich3, Joshua Lederberg4, Gilbert Meilaender5, H J. Muller6, National Bioethics Advisory Commission7, Edmund D. Pellegrino8, Rael9, Paul Ramsey0, William Saletan1, Wesley J. Smith2, James A. Thomson3, Laurence H. Tribe4, James D. Watson5, Michael D. West6, Ian Wilmut7, Adam Wolfson8 ...
    This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Athens, Arden, Jerusalem

    Essays in Honor of Mera Flaumenhaft

    by Gisela Berns, Jan H. Blits, Eva Brann, Ronna Burger, Harvey Flaumenhaft, Kate Havard, Leon R. Kass, Margaret Kirby, Pamela Kraus, Paul Ludwig0, Wilfred M. McClay1, William Mullen2, Louis Petrich3, Alan Rubenstein4, Robert Sacks5, Arlene W. Saxonhouse6, Adam Schulman7, Jeffrey A. Smith8, Paul T. Wilford9 ...
    This collection of essays aims to explore fundamental questions about God, human nature, and political life through careful readings of the Greek poets, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. The volume investigates the abiding tension between the Hebraic and the Hellenic dimensions of the Western soul through an examination of profound literary, philosophic, and theological reflections on topics as ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

    by Nicholas Agar, Miguel Altieri, American Association for the Advancement of Science, F H. Bach et. al, eds., Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics, Carl Cohen, Ronnie Cummings, Joyce D'Silva, H T. Englehardt, Ron Epstein, J.R.S Fincham, Mira Fong, R G. Frey, Jean Halloran, Michael Hansen, Heta Hayry, Bette Hillman, A Holland, Leon Kass, D A. Kessler et. al, Andrew Linzey, Miriam McGillis, Martina McGloughlin, National Academy of Sciences, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Organization for Economic Cooperation, Development, Julie Palmer, Steven Palumbi, Madison Powers, J R. Ravetz, Rosamond Rhodes, B E. Rollin, Peter M. Rosset, Paul Thompson, Harold Vanderpool, Allen Verhey, Robert Wachbroit, Leroy Walters ...
    Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the ethical and scientific fundamentals of biotechnology. Engaging the ethics and the science side by side, the text addresses pressing questions in agricultural, food, and animal biotechnology ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Judaism and Environmental Ethics

    A Reader

    by E L. Allen, Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Jeremy Benstein, Philip J. Bentley, J David Bleich, Gerald Blidstein, Jeremy Cohen, David Ehrenfeld, Joan G. Ehrenfeld, Hans Jonas, Leon R. Kass, Eric Katz, Jeanne Kay, Aldo Leopold, Ze'ev Levy, Eric Rosenblum, RobertD Sacks, Arthur Schaeffer, Eilon Schwartz, Steven S. Schwarzschild, Lawrence Troster, Michael Wyschogrod ...
    Martin D. Yaffe's Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader is a well-conceived exploration of three interrelated questions: Does the Hebrew Bible, or subsequent Jewish tradition, teach environmental responsibility or not? What Jewish teachings, if any, appropriately address today's environmental crisis? Do ecology, Judaism, and philosophy work together, or are they at odds with each other in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD