Covering topics ranging from web filters to laws aimed at preventing the flow of information, this book explores freedom-and censorship-of the Internet and considers the advantages and disadvantages of policies at each end of the spectrum.
This book provides a detailed introduction to the cloning of both plants and animals and discusses the important social, ethical, political, technical, and other issues related to the practice.
Separating truth from hype, this book introduces readers to the topic of life extension in a holistic manner that provides scientific, historical, and cultural perspectives.
First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.
Intended as a reference tool for college students, this book examines the origins of and controversies associated with birth control in the United States.
Covering topics ranging from web filters to laws aimed at preventing the flow of information, this book explores freedom-and censorship-of the Internet and considers the advantages and disadvantages of policies at each end of the spectrum.
This revealing volume explores recent historical perspectives on the modern euthanasia and assisted-suicide debate and the political arenas in which it has unfolded.
Birth Control: A Reference Handbook provides a breadth and depth of discussion about birth control throughout human history and in the modern day, with attention paid to the controversies related to it.
Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the environment--intersects with our faith as we advocate for life in its totality.
Simultaneously examining four significant, never-before-combined case studies, this unique feminist analysis offers troubling revelations about the private-public interaction in U.
Genetic testing has provided important clues to understanding our health, but it has also raised many ethical, legal, and medical questions and concerns.
Drawing on scientific evidence from medicine, psychology, criminology, and sociology, this book explores the veracity of claims about marijuana use and misuse.
Distinctive in its use of two disciplinary lenses-sociology and political science-Abortion in the United States provides a balanced scholarly analysis of the most salient issues in the pro-life/pro-choice debate.
A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology.
Birth Control: A Reference Handbook provides a breadth and depth of discussion about birth control throughout human history and in the modern day, with attention paid to the controversies related to it.
The starting point for this book is the question of how we research sex for sale and the implications of the choices we make in terms of epistemology and ethics.
The quotable Ai WeiweiThis collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life.
Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society.
A "e;searingly honest debut memoir"e; from an activist and award-winning journalist who made a woman's right to choose her life's work (Kirkus Reviews).
Perhaps never before has an objective, evidence-based review of the intersection between gun violence and mental illness been more sorely needed or more timely.
Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France.
Institutional review boards (IRBs) are panels charged with protecting the rights of humans who participate in research studies ranging from biomedicine to social science.
Told through the lives of the American Centurys most talented and stubborn dissidents,Flightsis the archetypal heros journey of a group of progressives whose struggle for truth, and for freedom from persecution, sent them into exile, both literal and metaphorical.
O crescimento populacional desmedido vai fazer aumentar a pressão no planeta terra e a Bíblia prevê que no fim dos tempos o último dos quatro cavaleiros do Apocalipse é a MORTE, ele trará a guerra, a fome, as doenças e a reação da natureza, e talvez as feras da terra serão os seres vivos microscópicos como vírus, bactérias, fungos e os minúsculos insetos.
A partir de la búsqueda y el relato de algunas personas, que se animaron a compartir su perspectiva personal sobre algún problema en el desarrollo, abrimos un diálogo entre la vida cotidiana y la ciencia.
Con este libro, Nicolas Bourriaud busca contribuir al surgimiento de una estética inclusiva que requiera un aprendizaje de la mirada finalmente descentrada, en el seno de un universo plurivalente, donde se incluya a los no humanos.
¿Se puede denunciar a la policía a una paciente que acude al hospital buscando ayuda médica en una emergencia (por ejemplo, con un aborto en curso) porque alguien entiende que esa paciente cometió un delito?
Mucho se ha escrito sobre el tema que aborda este libro; no obstante, no ha sido lo suficiente como para que se superen ciertos enconos, se dejen de lado inconducentes banalizaciones, falsas conjeturas, ideas y analogías que dan sustento a posicionamientos erróneos que dañan y vulneran un reconocimiento de la igual dignidad de las personas para decidir libre y soberanamente sobre sí mismas.
En la Argentina de 1983 se abría un momento histórico crucial: a las expectativas despertadas por la recuperación democrática se sumaba la necesidad de refundar las instituciones, dotar de legitimidad el ejercicio del poder y vitalizar la discusión política.
Stem Cells: Promises and Reality will tell you everything you have always wanted to know about stem cells, but could not understand the field from elsewhere.
