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  • 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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    25,20 €

  • 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 €

  • Ficciones de género:
    Karine Tinat
    Es una obra para resaltar que siempre somos personajes fabricados, ficticios, atrapados en una trama social y de género; esta obra invita a pensar que mujeres y hombres siempre estamos moviéndonos en ficciones, en dramaturgias del género o, en otras palabras, en juegos artísticos del género. 10 ...
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    10,92 €

  • Living in the Crosshairs
    David S Cohen / Krysten Connon
    Abortion is a legal, common, and safe medical procedure that one in three American women will undergo. Yet ever since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, anti-abortion forces have tried nearly every tactic to eliminate it. Legislative and judicial developments dominate the news, but a troubling and all-too-common phenomenon-targeted vigilante action against individual abortion pro...
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    27,67 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 / 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    21,44 €

  • 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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    153,99 €

  • 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 €