Catálogo de libros: Cuestiones y debates éticos

329 Catálogo de libros: Cuestiones y debates éticos

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  • The Quest for Human Dignity in the Ethics of Pregnancy Termination
    Tom J. Obengo / Tom JObengo / Tom Joel Obengo
    The Quest for Human Dignity in the Ethics of Pregnancy Termination describes and analyzes the problem of termination of pregnancy, with special attention to its prevalence in Kenya, where more than seven hundred abortions are performed daily on girls between fifteen and seventeen years of age. Although pregnancy termination is illegal in Kenya, its practice goes on in the rural...
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    22,29 €

  • Rural Women’s Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy
    Gisele Maynard-Tucker
    Rural Women’s Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy examines the intimate lives of women in the developing world, their sexuality, and views on family planning and gender inequality. Providing insights on cultural traditions and understanding of modern medicine, it is essential for public health and anthropology scholars and practitioners. ...
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    60,16 €

  • Abortion and Moral Theory
    L. W. Sumner / LWSumner
    At the heart of the current debate over abortion is the question of what is at stake: for the liberal feminist group it is the woman’s autonomy over her own body; for the conservative/ pro-life' group it is the life of the fetus itself. Rejecting both of these views as extremes, L W. Sumner opts for a moderate position for which he provides a moral foundation.Originally publish...
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    149,64 €

  • Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World
    Sharon Schuman
    This book invites us to question our infatuation with freedom as autonomy and enlightenment and introduces a new concept: dialogic freedom. It presents riveting moments of decision in literature from Homer’s Iliad to Morrison’s Beloved, urging us to read for and with dialogic freedom, and inspiring us to feel freer by abandoning our polarized enclaves in order to see better fro...
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    57,09 €

  • The heart and the abyss
    Ward Biemans
    The context for Biemans' work is the development of law and practice on abortion in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands. The choice of these two countries is apposite. The UK (with the exception of Northern Ireland) was one of the earliest western countries to legalise abortion and the UK law provided a template for many other countries with similar legal frameworks, most pa...
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    32,12 €

  • The Birth of the Pill
    Jonathan Eig
    The story of the extraordinary characters behind the invention of the contraceptive Pill ...
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    19,30 €

  • The Covert Colonization of Our Solar System
    Herbert Dorsey
    In the 'Covert Colonization of Our Solar System' is revealed how the military Industrial Complex of the U.S. was taken over by the same Nazis brought in after World War II in 'Operation Paperclip'. This takeover, among other things, resulted in a large scale 'Black Project' colonization of our solar system, using antigravity technology developed by the Germans before and duri...
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    18,88 €

  • Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America
    Deana A. Rohlinger / Deana ARohlinger
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    117,09 €

  • Metafolklore
    Alexander V Avakov
    This book is a fictionalized diary. It is written in a very unconventional way and describes an unconventional experience. It is about the collision of cultures, which any new immigrant may experience. But it is also about the life of a particular kind of newcomer - a highly ideological, even idealistic, political refugee from a country that is the main geopolitical adversary o...
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    60,60 €

  • Casting Light on Children, Conception, & Contraception
    AE-C Melissa McVeda RN
    “I’ve heard that some birth controls can cause abortions. Is that actually true?” “What about children - God mentions them in the Bible, but what does He really think of them?” “Does God even care if I have kids?” Join Melissa McVeda, RN, AE-C, as she explores these questions, examining scientific and biblical evidence in the pursuit of God’s view of birth control, procreation...
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    12,06 €

  • SJWs Always Lie
    Vox Day
    Social Justice Warriors have plagued mankind for more than 150 years, but only in the last 30 years has their ideology become dominant in the West. Having invaded one institution of the cultural high ground after another, from corporations and churches to video games and government, there is nowhere that remains entirely free of their intolerant thought and speech policing.Beca...
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    22,15 €

  • The Negro Project
    Bruce Fleury
    Bruce Fleury's The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger's Diabolical, Duplicitous, Dangerous, Disastrous, and Deadly Plan for Black America is an in-depth and engrossing cautionary tale written by the author to serve as a warning to all Americans not to forget their history, and perform their due diligence in order to be able to see the not-so-obvious objectives behind the deeds of o...
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    14,23 €

  • Letters to Heaven
    Edith Marie Gutierrez
    Sometimes the topic of abortion is a controversial subject.  This book is not controversial.  It is a compilation of actual letters written by mothers and fathers to their children whom they submitted to the abortion process. The letters include the names given to the child(ren) and how they want to honor them by living a good and holy life so as to be able to meet them in heav...
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    17,88 €

  • Censorship and Student Communication in Online and Offline Settings
    Joseph O Oluwole / Joseph O. Oluwole / Joseph OOluwole / Preston C. Green III / Preston CGreen III
    While freedom of speech is a defining characteristic of the United States, the First Amendment right is often regulated within certain environments. For years, schools have attempted to monitor and regulate student communication both within the educational environment and in student use of social media and other online communication tools. Censorship and Student Communication i...
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    309,17 €

  • World Fertility Report 2013
    Department of Economic and Social Affair
    World Fertility Report 2013: Fertility at the Extremes is the fifth in a series and focuses on trends in fertility over the past 20 years and key factors underlying these trends for countries at the extremes of fertility: 66 countries with more than 3.2 children per woman in 2005-2010 and 70 countries with 2.0 children per woman or less in 2005-2010. The data presented are from...
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    45,41 €

  • Trauma and Triumph
    Lee Cross
    I did not see it coming...    I was 12 years old. I went looking for my bike that ended up missing. I entered the hallway of the apartment we had just moved from. He grabbed me from behind and dragged me into the unlit corner of the dimly lit hallway. He pulled my pants down. What was he preparing to do? I did not know what to expect. The lady at the top of the stairs screamed ...
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    11,50 €

  • A Right To Property
    Trip Elix
    Each day the loss of privacy seems to expand. Countless companies collect our information and sell it to the highest bidder. Your information is being stolen under the guise of unenforceable privacy agreements. It is also being collected without your permission or consent. Other factors help to reinforce popular belief in nonexistent laws and myths. All were set in place to dec...
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    17,67 €

  • MCAT Pioneers
    MD PhD Hamisu Salihu / Priyanshi Patel
    The purpose of this book is to help examinees that will be sitting for the new MCAT test format as from Spring 2015 to prepare for the sections on Social and Behavioral Sciences which encompass psychological, social, and biological foundations of behavior. The questions in the new sections are based on knowledge of important introductory psychology and sociology concepts that r...
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    21,22 €

  • Scales on Censorship
    Pat R Scales / Pat R. Scales / Pat RScales
    Scales on Censorship: Real Life Lessons from School Library Journal contains Pat R. Scales collected columns, all written in response to active book challenges or questions of intellectual freedom and library ethics. These columns have a ripped from the headlines immediacy even as they reflect the core values and policies of librarianship. They are organized by topic and each i...
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    79,68 €

  • Scales on Censorship
    Pat R. Scales / Pat RScales
    Scales on Censorship: Real Life Lessons from School Library Journal contains Pat R. Scales collected columns, all written in response to active book challenges or questions of intellectual freedom and library ethics. These columns have a ripped from the headlines immediacy even as they reflect the core values and policies of librarianship. They are organized by topic and each i...
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    31,15 €

  • The Blogging Revolution
    Antony Loewenstein
    The Blogging Revolution is a colourful and revelatory account of bloggers around the globe who live and write under repressive regimes many of them risking their lives in doing so.Antony Loewensteins travels take him to private parties in Iran and Egypt, internet cafes in Saudi Arabia and Damascus, to the homes of Cuban dissidents and into newspaper offices in Beijing, where h...
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    17,05 €

  • Be My Voice
    Donna Heath
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    26,77 €

  • Be My Voice
    Donna Heath
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    14,22 €

  • Metafolklore
    Alexander V. Avakov
    This book is a fictionalized diary. It is written in a very unconventional way and describes an unconventional experience. It is about the collision of cultures, which any new immigrant may experience. But it is also about the life of a particular kind of newcomer - a highly ideological, even idealistic, political refugee from a country that is the main geopolitical adversary o...
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    41,66 €

  • Book Banning in 21st-Century America
    Emily J. M. Knox / Emily JMKnox
    Book Banning in 21st Century America, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries. ...
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    121,05 €

  • Race, Gender, and Film Censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965
    Melissa Ooten
    This book chronicles the history of movie censorship in Virginia from the 1920s to 1960s. Ooten uses the contestations surrounding film censorship as a framework for more fully understanding the dominant political, economic, and cultural hierarchies that structured Virginia in the mid-twentieth century. ...
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    131,98 €

  • Rural Women’s Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy
    Gisele Maynard-Tucker
    Rural Women’s Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy examines the intimate lives of women in the developing world, their sexuality, and views on family planning and gender inequality. Providing insights on cultural traditions and understanding of modern medicine, it is essential for public health and anthropology scholars and practitioners. ...
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    123,94 €

  • CHANGED FOREVER BY HIS GRACE
    Rhonda Lea Elliott
    Where does a young girl go to feel safe after being coerced into ending her unwanted pregnancy? How does she try to find inner peace? She runs away. At least that’s what Rhonda did. Will this abortion runaway ever find true love? Rhonda kept trying and hoping, but one wrong turn after another got her into dangerous situations. She never expected her life to become this me...
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    17,78 €

  • Planned Bullyhood
    Karen Handel
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    17,24 €

  • Secret Science and the Secret Space Program
    Herbert G Dorsey III
    There are areas of science that are off limits to the public and are not taught in our universities. The science and technology of anti-gravity and extracting energy from space itself was developed in the late 19th and early 20th century by scientists and experimenters like John Worrell Keely, Nicola Tesla, and Thomas Townsend Brown. But today, this science is purposely overlo...
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    18,72 €