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  • True Faith And Allegiance

    The Burden of Military Ethics

    by James H. Toner ...
    James H. Toner is professor of international relations and military ethics at the U.S. Air War College and author of Morals Under the Gun. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Morals under the Gun

    The Cardinal Virtues, Military Ethics, and American Society

    by James H. Toner ...
    James Toner argues that the cardinal virtues are and must be the core values of the military. By embracing these values, the profession of arms serves as a moral compass in an increasingly confusing age. Building upon a bold introduction, which includes what many will regard as a surprising view of military ethics, Toner examines the four cardinal virtues—wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Cold Rivals

    The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition

    by Evan S. Medeiros, Richard K. Betts, Harry Harding, Wang Jisi, Wu Xinbo, Elizabeth Economy, Phillip C. Saunders, Li Chen, James Mulvenon, Paul Triolo0, Helen Toner1, David Edelstein2, David Shambaugh3, Arthur R. Kroeber4 ...
    Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the futureThe US-China relationship is now defined by “strategic competition.” In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics.The two countries are now competitors locked in a long-term ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Reproductive Technologies

    A Reader

    by David Adamson, Lori B. Andrews, Robert Boostanfar, Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Cynthia Ferre, Mary M. Francis, John K. Jain, Gary Jeng, Susan F. Meikle, Eliran Mor, Thomas H. Murray, Richard J. Paulson, G Pennings, Herbert Peterson, J M. Phillips, Peyman Saadat, Laura A. Schieve, Cristin C. Slater, Bonnie Steinbock, James P. Toner, David E. Tourgeman, Lynne S. Wilcox ...
    Series series Readings in Bioethics
    Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies, is covered regularly in the media, and affects people everyday around the globe.In response ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • Anger and Forgiveness

    Resentment, Generosity, Justice

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an injury without anger. To not feel anger in those cases would be considered suspect. Is this how we should think about anger, or is anger above all ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Long Game

    China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

    by Rush Doshi ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Lying

    Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

    by Sissela Bok ...
    Is it ever all right to lie? A philosopher looks at lying and deception in public and private life—in government, medicine, law, academia, journalism, in the family and between friends.Lying is a penetrating and thoughtful examination of one of the most pervasive yet little discussed aspects of our public and private lives. Beginning with the moral questions raised about lying since antiquity, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Avoidable War

    The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

    by Kevin Rudd ...
    A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable.The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault—of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and be offended. Their ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • God and Man at Yale

    The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

    by William F. Buckley Jr. ...
    "For God, for country, and for Yale... in that order," William F. Buckley Jr. wrote as the dedication of his monumental work—a compendium of knowledge that still resonates within the halls of the Ivy League university that tried to cover up its political and religious bias.In 1951, a twenty-five-year-old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the "extraordinarily irresponsible ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Contest for Supremacy

    China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia

    by Aaron L. Friedberg ...
    “Sober and well-informed. . . . A careful and compelling examination of the U.S.-Chinese relationship from a number of angles.”—Financial TimesThere may be no denying China's growing economic strength, but its impact on the global balance of power remains hotly contested. Political scientist Aaron L. Friedberg argues that our nation's leaders are failing to act expeditiously enough to counter ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Third Revolution

    Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State

    by Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi, himself, the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese political, social, and economic life, and the construction ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Cultivating Humanity

    A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world” in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of “the new education” ... Read more

    $36.09 CAD