Ethical issues and debates

A study of the moral state of the nation - the acid test of this being how we treat the weakest among us.

A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party "e;A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.

An urgent plea for a broader understanding and awareness of the unconsidered dangers of new genetic technologiesSince 2010 it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter of days at an accessible cost for many millions of people.

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online-and the large societal impact of these decisionsMost users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn.

America's preeminent First Amendment lawyer speaks out on the most controversial free-speech issues of our time Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession.

A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve.

Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against—and attempts to end—the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling.

An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.

Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication.

An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.

Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world.

The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions.

How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.

How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus.

A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers.

Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.

How young people think about the moral and ethical dilemmas they encounter when they share and use online content and participate in online communities.

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.

Experts examine censorship, surveillance, and resistance across Asia, from China and India to Malaysia and the Philippines.

Why computer games can be ethical, how players use their ethical values in gameplay, and the implications for game design.

The United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called ';fusion centers.

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most controversial experiments in police surveillance.

A compendium of creative strategies for building the world we want, this book .

What is free speech?

What is free speech?

Today should be a Golden Age for free speech - with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before.

Today should be a Golden Age for free speech - with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before.

School of Thought - 101 Great Liberal Thinkers profiles the lives and ideas of some of the leading thinkers on individual liberty - from ancient times to the present day.

School of Thought - 101 Great Liberal Thinkers profiles the lives and ideas of some of the leading thinkers on individual liberty - from ancient times to the present day.

Top pay has risen much faster than average pay in the past 20 years.

Top pay has risen much faster than average pay in the past 20 years.

Women from remarkably diverse religious, social, and political backgrounds made up the rank-and-file of anti-abortion activism.

When Margaret Sanger returned to Europe in 1920, World War I had altered the social landscape as dramatically as it had the map of Europe.

The result of years of critical analysis of Israeli media law, this book argues that the laws governing Israeli electronic media are structured to limit the boundaries of public discourse.

Reproductive Restraints traces the history of contraception use and population management in colonial India, while illuminating its connection to contemporary debates in India and birth control movements in Great Britain and the United States.

In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestation--both a powerful form of cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault.

Other books remind us of what we already knowthat privacy is under great pressure.

An unprecedented, up-close look into the global self-managed abortion movement.

**The number one bestseller, with over 150,000 copies sold, which kick-started a mindfulness revolution**'Ruby Wax has written a guide to mindfulness that's as hilarious as it is useful' Arianna Huffington'We are all frazzled, all of us.

Immerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published!

The shocking true story of the infected blood scandal: the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, which saw people infected with HIV by a revolutionary medical treatment and a cover-up from governments and the multi-billion-dollar plasma industry.

An examination of how the media is under fire and how to safeguard journalists and the information they seek to share with the public.

'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?

'After reading Mitchell s guide, you ll know what you don t know and what other people don t know, even though they claim to know it.

In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition.

A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse'Nobody has written on dementia as well as Nicci Gerrard in this new book' Andrew Marr'Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our own futures.

The new international bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The World is Flat - this is an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century.