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"The work is indispensable for deciphering no longer known proverbs in collective manuscripts and in texts far beyond the Middle Ages."
Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota

In Play=Learning, top experts in child development and learning contend that the answers to these questions stem from a single source: in the rush to create a generation of Einsteins, our culture...

What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism?

In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues that altruism began as a genetically based drive to protect one's kin and community members but has developed into a consciously chosen ethic with an expanding circle of moral...

Der in Tôkyô lebende angesehene Literatur- und Filmkritiker Donald Richie stellt Spiegel, Schwert und Edelstein an die Spitze seiner Liste der fünf besten Bücher, die in diesem Jahrhundert von westlichen Autoren über Japan geschrieben worden sind. Spiegel, Schwert und Edelstein ist eine Studie, die auf Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen in Japan zwischen 1931 und 1939 basiert und von dem deutsch-jüdischen Schriftsteller und Gelehrten Kurt Singer nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Australien zum Abschluß gebracht wurde.

"Magisterial in its historical sweep, fiercely democratic in its vision, Whose Millennium? is the thinking person's 'bridge to the 21st century.' There is an alternative to rampant inequality and the corruptions of power, and-ever so modestly and persuasively-Daniel Singer points the way."
i>--Barbara Ehrenreich

This visionary book challenges the chorus of resignation-the notion that there is no alternative, that profit is the best relationship between people, and that the market guarantees democracy. Daniel Singer insists that a more free and egalitarian society can be won,...

The new commandments according to Rethinking Life and Death.
--If you must take human life, take responsibility for the consequences of your decisions.
--All human life is not of equal worth; treat beings in accordance to the ethical situation at hand.
--Respect a person's desire to live or die.
A profound and provocative work, Rethinking Life and Death, in the tradition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, examines the ethical dilemmas that confront us as we near the twenty-first century.