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  • Transhumanism and Society

    The Social Debate over Human Enhancement

    by Stephen Lilley ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides an introductory overview to the social debate over enhancement technologies with an overview of the transhumanists' call to bypass human nature and conservationists' argument in defense of it. The author present this controversy as it unfolds in the contest between transhumanists proponents and conservationists, who push back with an argument to conserve human nature and to ban ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924

    The Irish Civil War

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates' 'Dublin at War' trilogyIn A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland's bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.The fascinating A City in Civil War tells the story of Dublin's troubled passage to independence amidst the acrimony and ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy

    Edited by Donald R. Searing, Elizabeth Searing ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume explores the professional ethics of addresses the varied ethical needs of the professional economists and public policy professionals. Using terms and methods familiar to the reader, the book goes beyond the typical narrative of economics and morality to walk the professional through the process of ethical decision-making. Designed to be easy to navigate and applicable to everyday ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics

    Edited by Stanley Maloy, Kelly Hughes ...
    The explosion of the field of genetics over the last decade, with the new technologies that have stimulated research, suggests that a new sort of reference work is needed to keep pace with such a fast-moving and interdisciplinary field. Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics, Second Edition, Seven Volume Set, builds on the foundation of the first edition by addressing many of the key subfields of ... Read more

    $2,065.49 USD

  • Discovering Reality

    Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

    Edited by Sandra Harding, Merrill B. Hintikka † ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    During the last decade, feminist research has attempted to add understandings of women and their social activities to what we all thought we knew about nature and social life. However, from the very beginning of this project, it has appeared to be in tension with some ofthe most fundamental insightsof the Second Women's Movement. Only recently has the nature ofthis tension become clear. Within the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Québec Studies in the Philosophy of Science

    Part II: Biology, Psychology, Cognitive Science and Economics Essays in Honor of Hugues Leblanc

    Edited by Mathieu Marion, Robert S. Cohen ...
    Series Book 2 - Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the first men tion of philosophy lectures given by a Jesuit in the College de Quebec (founded 1635) dates from 1665, and the oldest logic manuscript dates from 1679. In English-speaking universities such as McGill (founded 1829), philosophy began to be taught later, during the second half of the 19th century. The major influence on ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Religion and Human Enhancement

    Death, Values, and Morality

    Edited by Tracy J. Trothen, Calvin Mercer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology. Topics covered include cutting edge themes, such as moral enhancement, common ground to both transhumanism and religion, the meaning of death, desire and transcendence, and virtue ethics. Radical enhancement programs, advocated by transhumanists, could arguably have a more profound impact than ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real

    The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV

    by Jan M. Broekman ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines the concept of meaning and our general understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’, Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of silence as a source of articulation ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Drosophila

    A Guide to Species Identification and Use

    by Therese A. Markow, Patrick O'Grady ...
    Anyone wishing to tap the research potential of the hundreds of Drosophila species in addition to D.melanogaster will finally have a single comprehensive resource for identifying, rearing and using this diverse group of insects. This is the only group of higher eukaryotes for which the genomes of 12 species have been sequenced.The fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster continues to be one of the ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • Toleration, Neutrality and Democracy

    Edited by Dario Castiglione, Catriona McKinnon ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Catriona McKinnon and Dario Castiglione It is not an overstatement to say that toleration is one of the most important issues for the defmition of a moral and political theory with application to modem globalised societies. Toleration is a value which no politician in any liberal democratic society would dare to reject. In the UK, its value is reflected in the learning outcomes of education for ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sociophysics

    A Physicist's Modeling of Psycho-political Phenomena

    by Serge Galam ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Do humans behave much like atoms? Sociophysics, which uses tools and concepts from the physics of disordered matter to describe some aspects of social and political behavior, answers in the affirmative. But advocating the use of models from the physical sciences to understand human behavior could be perceived as tantamount to dismissing the existence of human free will and also enabling those ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Sign Levels

    Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents

    by D.S. Clarke ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Since the revolution in philosophic method that began about a century ago, the focus of philosophic attention has been on language as used both in daily conversation and in specialized institutional activities such as science, law, and the arts. But language is an extremely complex and varied means of communication, and the study of it has been increasingly incorporated into such empirical ... Read more

    $89.09 USD