Customer Reviews

The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics

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I expect a textbook to be easily usable as a reference tool, and the format of this book did not meet that criteria. Overall, I found this book very challenging to use as a textbook. There are no chapter summaries or chapter indices for vocabulary introduced in each chapter. When a new word is introduced, the text is merely italicized, not bold-face, so it is difficult to find when searching for a reference. The paragraphs are also rather long, and the material is a bit dry and tends to ramble. On the positive, there are a lot of external sources inserted at the ends of the chapters (excerpts from books and movies) that give more "real-life" examples of the concepts in practice.

I bought this book for class, and it's great for getting the job done, but I wouldn't have used it any other way.

This book helped me tremendously with my assignments. It was well-written, interesting, and insightful. Very helpful!

I purchased the book for a social ethics course and found the ethics portion to be pretty enjoyable to read. My only complaint was that the book had superfluous narratives to relate the philosophical/ethical subject matter. I felt that the book could be edited down, imo.

Other than that the book was a great price and delivered promptly via expedited shipping! Book was well over half-off the price had I purchased at my campus bookstore. Thanks Amazon! :)

The text is disjointed without any discernable outline. Trying to prepare PowerPoint programs to accompany the chapters was, as a result, very difficult. I looked at the test banks and was unhappy to find that the items contained in the quizzes were either poorly covered in the text or not at all. It's as if the quizzes were written for another, more challenging text. So.. guess I'll be making new quizzes along with preparing the PowerPoint programs. I admit, I'm spoiled with all the other McGraw-Hill texts I've used. Well-written texts, wonderful online resources including PowerPoint programs and eCollege capsules that are professionally created and follow a consistent outline of each chapter - they are heavenly. This book does have some interesting narratives from movies, but I found myself going to YouTube for the actual videos for my students. I'll look at other ethics books McGraw-Hill has to offer.

The book itself can be very confusing at times. Many of the key terms are not accented very well, I usually had to highlight over them so they would stand out. I imagine that one would probably need to do that in the real version as well. I wish that you would have the opportunity to adjust the color of the background as well. I was also EXTREMELY disappointed that I could not read it on my iPad or any other mobile type device. That is a major flaw that would need to be corrected for me to purchase another textbook as an ebook.

Product arrived within 4 days of order! Brand new book.. Would definitely buy from them again.