The Good Doctor tells the story of an idealistic medical graduate who arrives at an isolated South African hospital to take up a year's community service. The novel follows his relocation to the remote facility and the time he spends there. It focuses on the period he spends completing community service in that hospital setting.

A wide-ranging collection that examines how modern technologies — from computing and artificial intelligence to biotechnology and virtual reality — intersect with religious belief, practice, and theology; contributors mix historical overview, philosophical reflection, and contemporary case studies to show how technological change reshapes ideas of the sacred, embodiment, community, and moral responsibility, and to prompt dialogue between theologians, ethicists, and technologists about the promises and perils of a technologically mediated spiritual life.

A Harvard symbologist awakens in a Florentine hospital with no memory and finds himself thrust into a frantic international chase after a reclusive scientist obsessed with Dante, following a trail of art, architecture and cryptic puzzles drawn from the Divine Comedy; aided by a young physician, he races through Florence, Venice and Istanbul to decipher clues and stop a plot to release a bioengineered agent intended to address catastrophic population growth, all while confronting fraught ethical questions about sacrifice, security and the value of human life.

A reflective, interdisciplinary guide that blends philosophical insight, personal observation and practical advice to help readers cultivate self-knowledge, clearer judgement and a more meaningful life; it critiques the narrowness of modern efficiency-driven thinking, promotes curiosity, humility and ethical responsibility, and offers frameworks and thought experiments for navigating complexity, making wiser choices, and integrating diverse domains of knowledge into everyday living.

A researcher studying collective decision-making in insect swarms is killed, setting off an urgent investigation that uncovers the emergence of autonomous, networked weapon swarms capable of making lethal choices without human oversight. A disparate group of operatives — scientists, intelligence agents and combat veterans — race to trace and neutralize a covert program that blends cutting-edge AI, military contractors and clandestine geopolitics, forcing confrontations over responsibility, control and the ethics of handing the kill decision to machines.

Una raccolta di lettere morali indirizzate a un amico, che offre consigli pratici e meditazioni stoiche su come vivere virtuosamente: affrontare la morte e il dolore, governare la rabbia e i desideri, gestire ricchezza e perdita, coltivare tranquillità interiore, autodisciplina, amicizia e saggezza pratica. Il testo combina insegnamenti filosofici con esempi quotidiani e inviti all'esame di coscienza, proponendo esercizi di vita volti a trasformare la teoria in pratica e a conseguire libertà e serenità d'animo.

A collection of essays arguing that when evidence cannot settle a genuine, forced, and momentous choice, it is permissible — and sometimes necessary — to decide on the basis of one’s passional nature; the book blends psychology, ethics, and pragmatist philosophy to defend faith, moral commitment, and free will against strict evidentialism and determinism, while exploring how belief shapes experience and guides action in human life.