How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time : (Record no. 136829)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781441149862 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781847063472 |
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| System control number | (CaPaEBR)ebr11518741 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)1027204057 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BJ1419.K56 2008 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 170/.44 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | King, Iain. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time : |
| Remainder of title | Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2008. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I - The Problem: We Need to Make Decisions, But We Don't Know How -- 1 Five Challenges to the Formula of Right and Wrong -- 2 Desperately Seeking a System -- 3 Unreliable Advice from Religion and Dice -- 4 The Enlightenment Decision-Making Machine: Do Whatever Is Best . . . -- 5 . . . Does Not Seem Best -- 6 Can We Fix It? The Pieces of the Puzzle -- Part II - The Proof: Finding the Basis of Right and Wrong -- 7 The Meaning of Life -- 8 A Plan for Robinson Crusoe -- 9 Answering an 8-Year-Old Who Incessantly Asks 'Why?' -- 10 I Say This, You Say That - Can We Ever Know Who's Right? -- 11 Applying the Sherlock Holmes Method -- 12 How to Become a Better Person (and Answer Aristotle) -- 13 The Help Principle -- 14 The DNA of Right and Wrong -- Part III - The Principle: Refining the Help Principle -- 15 Putting the DNA in a Petri Dish -- 16 Using Your Watch to Tell Right from Wrong -- 17 Letting People Choose for Themselves -- 18 Torturers and Charitable Show-Offs -- 19 Revenge, Reciprocity and Received Wisdom -- 20 What if You Didn't Mean to Do It? -- 21 The New Ladder to Humility -- 22 The First Nine Principles of Right and Wrong -- Part IV - The Programme: Extending the Principles to Other Problems -- 23 The Myth of Blame -- 24 Punishment, Mercy and Remorse -- 25 Something Funny about Promises -- 26 A Credible Rule on Lying and the Richard Nixon Problem -- 27 Rules for Romance and Sex -- 28 How to Choose in Small Groups -- 29 How to Choose in Large Groups -- 30 The System for Making Decisions -- 31 The Riddle Answered? -- Part V - Practical Advice: For Real People in the Modern World -- 32 So Why Aren't People Good, Then? -- 33 Why People Hate Lawyers -- 34 When It's Best to Be Bad -- 35 The Live Aid Problem: Does Charity Begin at Home?. |
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| Formatted contents note | 36 The Mother Teresa Quandary: Can You Be Good without Giving Everything Away? -- 37 The Man on the Morning Train -- 38 How to Lead a Good Life in a Rough World -- Part VI - The Prognosis: How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time -- 39 Newton's Limits -- 40 What to Do and Why -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Decision making-Moral and ethical aspects. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | King, Iain |
| Title | How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2008 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781847063472 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5309777">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5309777</a> |
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