Publishers and/or authors kindly sent me the following books this month:

Less than Human:  Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith (St. Martin's Press, 2011).

Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy by Bryan W. Van Norden (Hackett, 2011).

Motive and Rightness by Steven Sverdlik (Oxford University Press, 2011).

The Recursive Mind:  The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization by Michael C. Corballis (Princeton University Press, 2011).

Philosopher Kings?  The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values by George C. Christie (Oxford University Press, 2011).