Product Description: Ethics and Social Concern gives undergraduate students an overview of key issues in the three major fields of applied ethics: Business, Medicine, and Mass Media/Journalism. Anthony Serafini has collected the most poignant essays and articles by some of the most provocative philosophers and writers within these areas of applied ethics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Linus Pauling could be considered the American cowboy of science. His approach to the discipline evinces the same pioneering spirit that drove the early settlers to explore and conquer ever-widening frontiers. Pauling has always been willing to take risks in proposing controversial new scientific theories: his ground-breaking work on sickle-cell anemia, the theory of anesthesia, chemical bonding, and his near-victory in the DNA race show the tremendous range of his professional talents and curiosity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work is a brief, cogent introduction to the enterprise of Western philosophy. It is designed for the student who has had only a brief introduction or no introduction at all to the development of philosophy, beginning with the Pre-Socratic Period and covering all the major periods in Philosophy up to the present day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the lives and accomplishments of major American scientists, including Henry Rowland, A. A. Michelson, R. A. Millikan, Linus Pauling, Murray Gell-Mann, and Richard Feynman