"From the acclaimed author of How to Sell--and based on his viral Huffington Post article--comes a deeply intimate, insightful, and at times even funny portrait of the suicidal mind, combining the author's personal experience with a philosophical, literary, and journalistic inquiry into the subject. 'If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody...

From the course guide. We are all constantly confronted with moral challenges. A friend asks if you like his new beard: Do you lie and say yes or tell the truth and hurt his feelings? You discover that a friend is having an affair or "taking liberties" with office resources: What are you required to do, if anything? Morality forces its way into the most everyday decisions we make, such as recycling, whether or not to buy the "cage-free" eggs at the...