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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Moral origins	Christopher Boehm	From the age of Darwin to the present day, biologists have been grappling with the origins of our moral sense. Why, if the human instinct to survive and reproduce is "selfish," do people engage in se…	OL16342986W
The organ donor experience	Katrina Bramstedt	"Organ donors are, by definition, altruists, and their act is even more generous when they remain anonymous. But altruism doesn't tell the whole story. There are myriad motivations, some subconscious…	OL16505864W
Give and Take	Adam Grant,Adam M. Grant	For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today's dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how w…	OL17312332W
Pretty Baby	Mary Kubica	She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head… …	OL17874521W
Real kids, real stories, real change	Garth Sundem	Thirty true stories profile kids from around the world who used their heads, their hearts, their courage, and sometimes their stubbornness to help others and do extraordinary things.	OL18682503W
Strangers drowning	Larissa MacFarquhar	"What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate …	OL19662622W
The expanding circle	Peter Singer	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 …	OL19848997W
Caring economics	Tania Singer,Matthieu Ricard	Can the hyperambitious, bottom-line-driven practices of the global economy incorporate compassion into the pursuit of wealth? Or is economics driven solely by materialism and self-interest? In Caring…	OL19999077W
The giving way to happiness	Jenny Santi	"We often focus on how our gifts can help those in need. But the act of giving actually improves our own lives as well. In The Giving Way to Happiness, Jenny Santi overturns conventional thinking abo…	OL20015751W
Being Me	Yvonne Cathcart,Rosemary McCarney	Rosie is wearing her red cape, sitting up in her thinking tree wondering what she'll be when she grows up. She's not old enough to be a pilot, or a paramedic, or a dog groomer. But she does believe t…	OL20982048W
Mercy	Paul Johnson,J. M. Dematteis	viii, 114 pages : 26 cm	OL21101585W
Exodus	Julie Bertagna,Julie Bertangna	It is 2099 - and the world is gradually drowning, as might Artic ice flows melt, the seas rise, and land disappears forever beneath storm-tossed waves. For 15-year-old Mara, her family and community,…	OL22073238W
Dead man's trail	Frank Leslie	A mysterious gunman saves Yakima Henry and his partner from attack and dies in the process, leaving behind a large poke of gold. Yakima vows to take the gold to the shooter's family but his way is ma…	OL22308634W
Caring for others	Susan Martineau	Covers topics such as what caring is, how to care for and help others, being a good friends and caring for our world.	OL24157230W
What We Owe the Future	William MacAskill	Why we should organize our plans to include the well-being people 10s or even 100s of generations into the future, and how we should go about doing that kind of planning.	OL27138977W
Ethics for the new millennium	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	In a difficult, uncertain time, it takes a person of great courage, such as the Dalai Lama, to give us hope. Regardless of the violence and cynicism we see on television and read about in the news, t…	OL318758W
Do Unto Others	Samuel P. Oliner	"In Do Unto Others, Holocaust survivor and sociologist Samuel Oliner explores what gives an individual a sense of social responsibility, what leads to the development of care and compassion, and what…	OL3278389W
The value of helping	Ann Donegan Johnson,Steve Pileggi	Describes the helpful work of Harriet Tubman in aiding slaves to flee the South, in assisting the Union army during the Civil War, and in establishing homes for the old and needy after the war.	OL4907992W
The Samaritan's Dilemma	Deborah Stone	"In this blend of political essay and reportage, political scientist Deborah Stone argues that democracy depends on altruism, not self-interest. The merchants of self-interest have divorced us from w…	OL8064085W
Historicity of Nature	Wolfhart Pannenberg	Known as one of the most outstanding theologians of the twentieth century, Wolfhart Pannenberg is also considered a great interdisciplinary thinker. Now, essays and articles on science and theology t…	OL8242446W