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  • The Knowledge of Good and Evil Definitive Edition
    Joshua Collins
    Throughout modern history, the Garden of Eden narrative has been viewed through the blurred lenses of tradition and science by both sides of the apologetic debate. In this comprehensive study, Collins challenges readers to look at human origins with a fresh understanding, unhindered by modern culture and varying traditions, and guides them to examine prerequisite elements neces...
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    34,23 €

  • Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World
    Sharon Schuman
    Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World argues that our most cherished ideas about freedom-being left alone to do as we please, or uncovering the truth-have failed us. They promote the polarized thinking that blights our world. Rooted in literature, political theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of language, this book introduces a new concept: dialogic freedom. This concept ...
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    124,91 €

  • Chinese Investigative Journalists’ Dreams
    This edited volume brings together scholars positioned in and outside of China, including former Chinese journalists, in a comprehensive and in-depth study of Chinese investigative journalists’ dreams, work practices, and strategies. It is the first book that systematically addresses the roles and values of Chinese investigative journalists in different types of media, in the p...
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    141,60 €

  • Off-Topic
    G. R. Reader
    In September 2013, the Goodreads book reviewing site, which had previously operated a strict policy of free speech, began censoring reviews. The reviewers fought back, and the conflict was soon being reported in the mainstream media. This is the story of what happened, told in the protesters' own words. ...
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    6,42 €

  • The Quest for Press Freedom
    Meseret Chekol Reta
    The Quest for Press Freedom is a book about press development and freedom in Ethiopia, with a focus on the state media. It examines the building of a modern media institution over the last one hundred years of its existence, and the restrictions against its freedoms. The significance of this work lies in its originality and that it addresses these two issues across three distin...
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    131,10 €

  • Reproductive Rights and the State
    Melissa Haussman
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    70,96 €

  • My Baby's Feet (Choice, Death, and the Aftermath)
    Sheila M. Luck
    Choice, Death, and the Aftermath Fearfully and desperately wanting to hide my mistakes and deny the unwanted, but not totally unexpected ramifications of my earlier choices, I chose what seemed to be the easiest answer. I chose death, and then I moved into the aftermath of my choice. I, for a lifetime and beyond, will live in the aftermath of my choice. Although there is recov...
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    13,21 €

  • How the Market Is Changing China’s News
    Xin / Xin Xin
    This book provides a critical account of the transformations, both structural and in terms of journalism practice, undergone by Xinhua, the top Party organ of the Communist regime in China, since the start of the reform age in the late 1970s. It sets out to answer a number of key questions: 1.How far has the most influential news organization in China been marketized? 2.How far...
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    132,16 €

  • Trash or treasure
    Egan / Kate Egan
    Trash or treasure is a wide-ranging historical study of the British circulation of the video nasties - A term that was originally coined to ban a group of horror videos in Britain in the 1980s but which continues to have cultural resonance in Britain up to the present day. ...
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    29,56 €

  • Obama’s War on Free Speech
    George Shuster
    America’s Free Speech is under systematic assault. President Obama himself is the Serial Abuser-in-Chief, and his assault is being conducted on many fronts with a multitude of means, both overt and covert. The goal is no less than the minimization if not elimination of dissent from his top-down agenda. The First Amendment was never intended to be a social engineering project, b...
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    21,47 €

  • The Content and Context of Hate Speech
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    66,58 €

  • Criminal Abortion
    Franklin Fiske Heard / Horatio R. Storer / Horatio RStorer
    Containing both medical and legal perspectives, Criminal Abortion is an important document from the early decades of the anti-abortion crusade. Dr. Storer led the medical campaign against abortion during the second half of the nineteenth century. His efforts were supported by Heard, a notable jurist and legal scholar. The motivations for both men were primarily racist, xenophob...
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    25,20 €

  • Birth Control
    Aharon Zorea
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    82,52 €

  • Banned in Berlin
    Gary D. Stark / Gary DStark
    Stark has produced a lucid, thoroughly researched study of literary censorship in Wilhelmine Germany, i.e., the period from the founding of the Second Reich in 1871 to the end of WW I. Including an excellent bibliography, much of it in German, and elegant illustrations with English translations, this book may be the final word on this subject. Highly recommended. Choice...a tho...
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    174,79 €

  • Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany
    Cornelie Usborne
    '...a richly textured analysis of medical and lay abortion discourses and practices, artistic representations of the procedure, and of women’s, particularly lower-class women’s, own perceptions and experiences of abortion. Skilfully using an impressive variety of sources, Usborne provides a meticulous, insightful, and lively study that questions some of the continuing assumptio...
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    44,31 €

  • Childbirth in Republican China
    Tina Johnson / Tina Phillips Johnson
    Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity (1911-1949) is the study of a pivotal period in which traditional midwifery, marked by private, unregulated old-style midwives, was transformed into modern midwifery through the adoption of a highly medicalized and state-sponsored birth model that is standard in urban China today. In the twentieth century, biomedical technolo...
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    148,39 €

  • Muted Grey
    Dianna L Young
    What would you do if you discovered the path you had chosen for your life had been based upon lies?'She’d had the dream again, that recurring nightmare which she could never quite put out of her mind.' Marah Edom had acquired all she’d ever dreamed of . . . the job, the car, the Malibu beach home. Yet all that was overshadowed by a darkness which threatened to consume her. ...
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    14,05 €

  • A History of the Birth Control Movement in America
    Peter Engelman
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    69,34 €

  • Personhood
    Daniel C. Becker
    'History will one day look upon the movement to affirm the personhood of unborn children in the same way we now look upon the abolition of slavery and the end of the Holocaust. Dan Becker has been a reliable and principled voice for the unborn. His book advancing personhood for the most vulnerable among us is like a sound of the trumpet that will reverberate throughout time. Th...
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    12,01 €

  • The Pivot of Civilization
    Margaret Sanger
    "The Pivot of Civilization" was published in 1922. It contains Margaret Sanger's belief that civilization rises or falls on how it views the 'people problem.' It wasn't simply the fact that there were too many people. The kind of people roaming the planet were also a problem. What kind of people? Sanger says it explicitly: feeble-minded, defective, moronic, epil...
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    12,96 €

  • Wannababies
    Mark San Miguel
    WANNABABIES offers an imaginative glimpse of life in the womb and a depiction of the abortion debate from the perspective of the unborn. The purpose of this collection of cartoons is to share with as many people as possible the proposition that 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' rings hollow without first ensuring the opportunity to live.'WANNABABIES cartoons are a w...
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    17,51 €

  • The Church and Abortion
    George Dennis O'Brien / George Dennis O’Brien
    This provocative book takes a critical look at what is increasingly viewed as the central political issue for Catholics-abortion. From pro-choice politicians being denied communion to Democrats being called 'the party of death,' for some of the most vocal Catholic leaders, the abortion issue often trumps all others. The author, a practicing Catholic who is against abortion in p...
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    63,41 €

  • The Censorship of English Drama 1824 1901
    John Russell Stephens
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    46,16 €

  • Congress Shall Make No Law
    David M. O’Brien / David MO'Brien / David MO’Brien / David O'Brien
    The First Amendment declares that ’Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. . . . ’ Yet, in the following two hundred years, Congress and the states have sought repeatedly to curb these freedoms. The Supreme Court of the United States in turn gradually expanded First Amendment protection for freedom of expression but also defined certai...
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    62,09 €

  • A Selected Study of Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers in the English Revolution During Seventeenth Century
    William E. Cooper / William ECooper
    Winstanley: Mystic Religious Writer and Leader of early Socialist? The Diggers lead by Winstanley tried to provide an answer for the landless poor and workingmen of 17th England. Their efforts were rebuffed but not forgotten. ...
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    15,30 €

  • Transparency and Secrecy
    Suzanne J Piotrowski / Suzanne J. Piotrowski / Suzanne JPiotrowski
    Gaining access to government information is a perpetual concern of citizens. This is due in large part to the relationship between transparency and the issues of ethics, corruption, administrative malfeasance, and accountability. The last few years have proven that governmental transparency is a burgeoning academic subfield spurred on by contemporary political events and attent...
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    65,19 €

  • Censorship
    Paul Von Blum
    'Censorship is a casebook designed to help readers understand the complexities of censorship and expressive freedom in America during the past century. The cases and other materials presented in this volume reveal many of the high and low points in the continuing struggle between the promise of the First Amendment and the reality of intermittent censorship and government interf...
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    206,59 €

  • Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice
    Sara Hayden
    Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction explores contemporary matern...
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    165,88 €

  • Psychotherapy for the 21st Century
    Lcsw Tracie L. Hammelman / Lcsw Tracie LHammelman
    What if you could open a book and learn the tools to 'see' into the human psyche? Could finding solutions to psychological problems be as clear cut as taking aspirin for a headache, or splinting a leg that is broken? Would you like to know the barriers that prevent mental health professionals from effectively treating their clients? Are you curious to know why some psychothe...
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    21,60 €

  • Online Chinese Nationalism and China’s Bilateral Relations
    Simon Shen
    Since the Chinese were officially plugged into the virtual community in 1994, the usage of the internet in the country has developed at an incredible rate. By the end of 2008, there were approximately 298 million netizens in China, a number which surpasses that of the U.S. and ranks China the highest user in the world. The rapid development of the online Chinese community has n...
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    157,88 €


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