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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 7,895 ratings — published 2015
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,882 ratings — published 2009
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.24 — 971 ratings — published 2013
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,822 ratings — published 2015
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 6,420 ratings — published 2022
The Precipice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 5,021 ratings — published 2020
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,928 ratings — published 2015
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 192,833 ratings — published 1976
Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)
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avg rating 3.83 — 56,421 ratings — published 2003
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 10,644 ratings — published 2024
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 11,312 ratings — published 1975
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,027 ratings — published 2016
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.65 — 291 ratings — published 2012
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.11 — 74,576 ratings — published 2000
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,635 ratings — published 2009
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.69 — 407,002 ratings — published 1957
Effective Altruism Handbook (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.05 — 145 ratings — published 2015
Kama Sutra: The Book of Sex Positions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.75 — 71 ratings — published
For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.36 — 278 ratings — published 2009
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,191 ratings — published 2017
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 4,901 ratings — published 2020
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,262 ratings — published 1972
Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1992
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,415 ratings — published 2011
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,012 ratings — published 2006
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.48 — 356,718 ratings — published 1971
The Possibility of Altruism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 169 ratings — published 1970
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,784 ratings — published 2003
Supercooperators: The Mathematics of Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour {Or, Why We Need Each Other to Succeed} (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.84 — 407 ratings — published 2011
Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others (Foundational Questions in Science)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.75 — 212 ratings — published 2015
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,534 ratings — published 1979
Pathological Altruism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 89 ratings — published 2011
I Am the Messenger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 169,804 ratings — published 2002
Giving Without Taking: My Why: Unlocking the Power of Selfless Generosity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published
We Are Human Angels, We Inspire Change: A Complete Course for Angelic Humans (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22 ratings — published 2016
Altruismo racional: Por qué podemos ayudar más y cómo hacerlo mejor (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.65 — 26 ratings — published
How to Live a Good Life: Choosing the Right Philosophy of Life for You (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.74 — 963 ratings — published 2020
Moral Sentiments And Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (Economic Learning And Social Evolution Series)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.09 — 32 ratings — published 2005
Call Me Brother: The Story of a New Zealand Doctor in Bangladesh (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.65 — 26 ratings — published
The Happiness Experiment: A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.07 — 72 ratings — published
Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,053 ratings — published 2020
The Nightingale and the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 12,402 ratings — published 1888
What We Don't Do: Inaction in the Face of Suffering and the Drive to Do More (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.61 — 46 ratings — published
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,891 ratings — published 2024
The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.49 — 3,274 ratings — published 2011
Random Acts of Kindness Then & Now: The 20th Anniversary of a Simple Idea That Changes Lives (Stories of Kindness)
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avg rating 3.96 — 72 ratings — published 2013
Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 1,270 ratings — published 2023
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,846 ratings — published 2021
“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you can't go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home.”
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