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[The book offers] an extraordinary overview of applied ethics topics with all the right articles. Any student can quickly become an expert on a variety of controversial issues by reading this book. [This book has] a judicious selection of readings revealing a panorama of arguments on a wealth of provocative issues, all interspersed with insightful discussions that encourage students to reach their own conclusions. This a fine textbook: It contains the classic essays and classic course topics covered in a moral issues course. The text's most impressive points are its case studies and its chapter on Computer Ethics and the Internet.

[This book has] a judicious selection of readings revealing a panorama of arguments on a wealth of provocative issues, all interspersed with insightful discussions that encourage students to reach their own conclusions. This a fine textbook: It contains the classic essays and classic course topics covered in a moral issues course. The text's most impressive points are its case studies and its chapter on Computer Ethics and the Internet. [The book offers] an extraordinary overview of applied ethics topics with all the right articles. Any student can quickly become an expert on a variety of controversial issues by reading this book.

This a fine textbook: It contains the classic essays and classic course topics covered in a moral issues course. The text's most impressive points are its case studies and its chapter on Computer Ethics and the Internet.

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Jeffrey Olen is the author of PERSONS AND THEIR WORLD, ETHICS IN JOURNALISM, and MORAL FREEDOM, in addition to journal articles on a variety of topics. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Temple University, the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and Regis University-Colorado Springs. Julie C. Van Camp is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, where she taught philosophy of law and applied ethics. Along with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University, she holds a J.D. from Georgetown University. She has been admitted to the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar. She is the author of two other Cengage Learning titles, including ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE COURTS and ETHICS (4LTR Press). Vincent Barry is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bakersfield College, having taught there for thirty-four years as well as being a highly successful philosophy textbook author.

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