10 Good Questions about Life and Death makes us think again about some of the most important issues we ever have to face.

• Addresses the fundamental questions that many of us ask about life and death.
  
• Written in an engaging and straightforward style, ideal for those with no formal background in philosophy.
  
• Focuses on commonly pondered issues, such as: Is life sacred? Is it bad to die? Is there life after death? Does life have meaning? And which life is best?
  
• Encourages readers to think about and respond to the human condition.
  
• Features case studies, thought-experiments, and references to literature, film, music, religion and myth.

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Martin Cohen s bestselling 101 Philosophy Problems is a fresh and fun introduction to philosophy, written in a clear and entertaining style.
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In this brief history, philosopher Nicholas White reviews 2,500 years of philosophical thought about happiness.

• Addresses key questions such as: What is happiness? Should happiness play such a dominant role in our lives? How can we deal with conflicts between the various things that make us happy?
  
• Considers the ways in which major thinkers from antiquity to the modern day have treated happiness: from Plato’s notion of the harmony of the soul, through to Nietzsche’s championing of conflict over harmony.
  
• Relates questions about happiness to ethics and to practical philosophy.

In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics.

• Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art
  
• Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art
  
• Unique to this edition are six overview essays on the history of aesthetics in the West from antiquity to modern times

This volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages.

• Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy.
  
• Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition.
  
• Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought.

This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary collection of newly commissioned articles brings together distinguished voices in the field of Africana philosophy and African-American social and political thought.

• Provides a comprehensive critical survey of African-American philosophical thought.
  
• Collects wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, newly commissioned articles in one authoritative volume.
  
• Serves as a benchmark work of reference for courses in philosophy, social and political thought, cultural studies, and African-American studies.

A Companion to Analytic Philosophy is a comprehensive guide to many significant analytic philosophers and concepts of the last hundred years.

• Provides a comprehensive guide to many of the most significant analytic philosophers of the last one hundred years.
  
• Offers clear and extensive analysis of profound concepts such as truth, goodness, knowledge, and beauty.
  
• Written by some of the most distinguished philosophers alive, some of whom have entries in the book devoted to them.

Applied or practical ethics is perhaps the largest growth area in philosophy today, and many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years. Taken together, the essays in this volume – including two overview essays on theories of ethics and the nature of applied ethics – provide a state-of-the-art account of the most pressing moral questions facing us today.

• Provides a comprehensive guide to many of the most significant problems of practical ethics.
  
• Offers state-of-the-art accounts of issues in medical, environmental, legal, social, and business ethics.
  
• Written by major philosophers presently engaged with these complex and profound ethical issues.

In a series of articles specifically commossioned for this volume, some of today s most distinguished business ethicists survey the main areas of interest and concern in the field of business ethics.

Sections of the book cover topics such as the often easy relation between business ethics and capatalism, the link between business ethics and ethical theory, how ethics applies to specific problems in the business world, the connection between business ethics and related academic disciplines, and the practice of business ethics in modern corporations.

• Includes extensive, accessible discussion of all of the main areas of interest and debate in business ethics.
  
• Features all original contributions by distinguished authors in business ethics.
  
• Includes an annotated table of contents, bibliographies of the relevant literature and a list of internet sources of material on business ethics.
  
• Perfect, comprehensive book for use in business ethics...
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