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  • The Pregnancy [does-not-equal] Childbearing Project
    Jennifer Scuro
    What does pregnancy mean when it does not lead to the birth of a child? Through personal experience via graphic novel and with a corresponding philosophical analysis, The Pregnancy ≠ Childbearing Project narrates and assesses the alternative values possible in miscarriage, a.k.a., the failed pregnancy. Having shared in both experiences - miscarriage and childbirth - solidarit...
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    57,02 €

  • Abortion
    Brian Fisher
    Do men have a stake in the abortion debate? Modern culture says no but author Brian Fisher shows why men are very much an interested party. Men led the campaign to legalize abortion--harming and exploiting women in the process. Now, he says, men must lead the effort to end the exploitation by ending abortion. And he presents a plan to do so. This revised and expanded second edi...
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    14,05 €

  • Free Speech on America’s K-12 and College Campuses
    Randy Bobbitt
    Free Speech on America’s K-12 and College Campuses: Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine covers the history of legal cases involving free speech issues on K-12 and college campuses, mostly during the fifty-year period from 1965 through 2015. While this book deals mostly with high school and college newspapers, it also covers religious issues (school prayer, distribution of relig...
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    142,83 €

  • HACKED MINDS
    Jorge Rudko
    This is your notification. Humanity is out of touch. And the touch screen is to blame. Ironic, isn't it? Every digital process, each social media exchange, takes us three steps forward and two steps back in connectivity. We're inundated by an almost infinite number of systems, sensors, and syncs. It won't be long before our minds won't decode VR (Virtual Reality...
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    14,11 €

  • Freedom of Speech and the Function of Rhetoric in the United States
    Michael Donnelly
    This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue has a great deal more to do with social norms rooted in a web of cultural assumptions about the function of rhetoric in social...
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    107,49 €

  • Rural Rides
    William Cobbett
    First published in 1830, 'Rural Rides' is a collection of sketches and diary entries written by William Cobbett. They concern various rural journeys around England, and offer the reader an authentic glimpse of the beauties the English countryside has to offer. William Cobbett (1763 - 1835) was an English farmer, pamphleteer, and journalist. He was a staunch believer in parliame...
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    40,83 €

  • Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico
    Nora E. Jaffary / Nora EJaffary
    In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico’s transition from colony to nation, Jaffary demonstrates the central role of reproduction in ideas about female sexuality and virtue, the development of modern...
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    126,72 €

  • Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico
    Nora E. Jaffary / Nora EJaffary
    In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico’s transition from colony to nation, Jaffary demonstrates the central role of reproduction in ideas about female sexuality and virtue, the development of modern...
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    47,74 €

  • Moral Reasons
    Charles K Fink / Charles K. Fink / Charles KFink
    Distinguished by its readability and scope, Moral Reasons explains how to think critically about issues in ethics and political philosophy. After a detailed overview of moral reasoning―including dozens of exercises―the text guides readers through the theories and arguments of philosophers from Plato to Peter Singer. Among the topics explored are moral skepticism, abortion, euth...
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    43,51 €

  • Garden of Broken Statues
    Marianna Tax Choldin
    Marianna Tax Choldin has studied censorship in Russia for 40 years. She describes the tension between her strong commitment to freedom of expression and her growing understanding of Russian and Soviet censorship. Fluent in Russian, she travels widely in post-Soviet Russia, speaking with hundreds of Russians about their own censorship history. ...
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    27,91 €

  • An Inconvenient Life
    Lia Mills
    Lia Mills was twelve years old when the death threats began. First, the threats were against her. Then against her family. All she needed to do to make them stop was to remain silent.    Truthfully, activism had never been part of Lia’s plan for the future. As a grade seven student, her biggest goals in life revolved around getting good grades and winning school competitions. B...
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    16,05 €

  • Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy
    Michael Bang Petersen / Paul M. Sniderman / Paul MSniderman / Rune Slothuus
    In 2005, twelve cartoons mocking the prophet Mohammed appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, igniting a political firestorm over demands by some Muslims that the claims of their religious faith take precedence over freedom of expression. Given the explosive reaction from Middle Eastern governments, Muslim clerics, and some Danish politicians, the stage was set for a ...
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    37,89 €

  • 3 Presidents, 2 Accidents
    Paul Blake Smith
    3 Presidents, 2 Acciidents picks up where MO41: The Bombshell Before Rowell left off, exploring the commonly held belief that the United States federall government engaged in a massive cover-up about outer space aliens visitng the Earth; a cover-up perpeterated by a series of United States presidents and other high ranking goverment officials at any cost, no matter who had to d...
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    15,31 €

  • BROKEN LAND
    Gail Koop
    'As I leaned forward to give the taxi driver the clinic's address, the safety pin holding my skirt together popped and stuck me in the side. ...my body had already begun preparing to nurture the life I was about to snuff out. Except back then, I didn't think it was a life.' Gail's story might be your story or that of someone you love. She thought little about her ab...
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    17,35 €

  • Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
    Peter Molnar
    This book focuses on regulatory challenges of creating and sustaining freedom of speech and freedom of information two decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, in global, comparative context. Some chapters overview, others address specific issues, or describe country case studies. Instead of trying to provide an exhaustive assessment which in one volume might not reach deep...
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    63,96 €

  • The Pivot of Civilization
    H. G. Wells / HGWells / Margaret Sanger
    This is Margaret Higgins Sanger’s 1922 work, 'The Pivot of Civilization'. Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879 - 1966) was an American sex educator, activist, nurse, and writer. She is responsible for popularising the term 'birth control', as well as opening the first birth control clinic in America. She also established the organization that would one day become the Planned Parenthoo...
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    22,27 €

  • Exploring Your Unplanned Pregnancy
    Jeff Duffey MD
     Looking only for books that confirm your pregnancy decision you may feel reassured at the cost of making a mistake that irreversibly changes your life. Please, read this award-winning book instead. Use it to get some distance from your immediate emotions and widen your perspective. You can reality- check your assumptions and make your own best decision. A physician wrote it wi...
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    5,35 €

  • Banned
    Adina Kutnicki / Joe Newby
    While militant jihad is exploding throughout the Islamic world, westerners are increasingly subjected to gravely perilous circumstances. Americans, Israelis, and Europeans are in their direct crosshairs.Jihadists congregate on social media, 'friend' like-minded Islamists, and plot global jihad. With over 1.6 billion users worldwide, Facebook is the world’s largest social media ...
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    12,41 €

  • Hacking the Human
    Ian Mann
    Information security is about people, yet in most organizations protection remains focused on technical countermeasures. The human element is crucial in the majority of successful attacks on systems and attackers are rarely required to find technical vulnerabilities, hacking the human is usually sufficient.Ian Mann turns the black art of social engineering into an information s...
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    37,49 €

  • Garden of Broken Statues
    Marianna Tax Chlodin / Marianna Tax Choldin
    Marianna Tax Choldin has studied censorship in Russia for 40 years. She describes the tension between her strong commitment to freedom of expression and her growing understanding of Russian and Soviet censorship. Fluent in Russian, she travels widely in post-Soviet Russia, speaking with hundreds of Russians about their own censorship history. ...
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    77,28 €

  • Created Equal
    J.D. Thomas A. Glessner
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    12,43 €

  • 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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    39,37 €

  • The Quest for Human Dignity in the Ethics of Pregnancy Termination
    Tom J. Obengo / Tom JObengo
    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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    21,13 €

  • Rural Women’s Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy
    Gisele Maynard-Tucker
    Based on twenty-five years of fieldwork, Rural Women’s Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy: A Critical Perspective on Development examines rural women’s behaviors towards health in several developing countries. These women are confronted with many factors: gender inequalities, violence from partners, and lack of economic independence. The book also gives insight into...
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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 €

  • El gobierno global y su guerra silenciosa
    José Trinidad Cruz López
    Desde la fundación del mundo, han existido sociedades secretas con diferentes caretas, que intentan subyugar a la humanidad de forma silenciosa. Una de ellas logró infiltrar en todo orden de gobierno, en la política, en la economía, en la milicia, en la religión, en la prensa y en la educación, es conocida como: 'los illuminati'. Ellos fueron autores intelectuales ocultistas d...
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    25,32 €

  • El gobierno global y su guerra silenciosa
    José Trinidad Cruz López
    Desde la fundación del mundo, han existido sociedades secretas con diferentes caretas, que intentan subyugar a la humanidad de forma silenciosa. Una de ellas logró infiltrar en todo orden de gobierno, en la política, en la economía, en la milicia, en la religión, en la prensa y en la educación, es conocida como: 'los illuminati'. Ellos fueron autores intelectuales ocultistas d...
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    44,89 €

  • 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 €


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