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'Childhood Bullying: A Deadly Serious Matter' offers new perspectives on peer abuse and demands a serious review of current interpretations and interventions in bullying. The text addresses the now frequent suicide attempts related to severe bullying and examines school, family and community responses to this tragic result of undetected or ignored peer abuse. Bullying is seen as abuse, never as conflict and this approach places intervention within the framework of other forms of abuse. New perspectives include the indentification of bullying as a form of child abuse, the role of resilience...

This challenging and provocative book argues against much contemporary orthodoxy in philosophy and the social sciences by showing why objectivity in the domain of ethics is really no different from the objectivity of scientific knowledge. In the course of the book Jean Hampton examines moral realism, the general nature of reason and norms, internalism and externalism, instrumental reasoning, and the expected utility model of practical reasoning. The book should prove to be a seminal work in the theory of rationality that will be read by a broad swathe of philosophers and social scientists.