Viking, Toronto, 2000, 1st/1st.  ISBN 067089222-X.  Hard cover, 261 pages including Appendix, Acknowledgements and Index.  Very good; gray and teal boards with tan lettering on spine; light spine end wear; binding sound with head and tail bands.  Very good dust jacket with price intact.  Prior owner’s inked name and date on front paste down, which is covered by front flap, plus embossed stamp on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; one small age spot on fore-edge block.  ‘But if you don’t believe in God, can you still behave decently and ethically?  This book suggests that you can.  Indeed it suggests that the world would be a better place if we all believe what we wish, but behave as if there is no deity to sort out humankind’s problems. … He shows us how ethics and religion can be separated, how we can think about the different religions (and about the absence of religion) in a reasonable and equitable way, and how a code of ethics can exist without a deity at its centre.  He suggests non-theist principles for “good” behaviour, having to do with “this is the way we are” rather than “this is the way God ordained us to be.”’ (from front flap)