Having children led Elissa Strauss to explore what it means to care, and whether we can expand the care we have for our kids to others.

He argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities. "...the book is an engaging and valuable addition to the literature on ...

This type of unselfish behaviour is called altruism. Altruism may be common between individuals who are related (kin). The donor will benefit in terms of the increased chances of survival of ...

but many other important topics are used in evolutionary biology that raise interesting philosophical questions. In this book, Elliott Sober analyses a much larger range of topics, including fitness, ...

The last five questions are about you, and they'll be used by our research team to better understand how altruism relates to factors like age and gender. When you're done, you'll get your score, learn ...

Do your actions personify your self-centered or selfless nature? This egoism/altruism test will assess which side of the continuum you fall on. This test is made up of two types of questions ...

Singer, in this book, doesn’t shy away from that implication—not a strategy likely to win friends and influence people. These problems are practical, rather than moral, in nature. But for a movement ...

By Wilson Wong In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David Browne tracks three decades of folk, blues, rock and jazz below 14th Street. By Peter Keepnews A Poem About Waiting, and Wishing ...

This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. 4 weeks on the list by Melania Trump Skyhorse The former first lady describes her work as a fashion model, marriage to Donald Trump and time ...

The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story ...

These books dispense practical advice on managing one’s ambitions—or describe the dread of writer’s block with precision and humor. A short story has velocity and verve, and the best ones ...

With just an iPad, students in any classroom across the world could soon reimagine the ordinary diagrams in any physics ...