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  • The Book On The Cookbook for Cannibals: Feast of the Forgotten

    A Culinary Guide to the Taboo

    by Eleanor V. Braun ...
    Series Book 27 - The Book On Series
    In 'The Book On The Cookbook for Cannibals,' readers embark on an extraordinary and unsettling journey through the complex realms of anthropophagy.This comprehensive exploration reveals the historical significance of cannibalism across various cultures, demonstrating that the act of consuming human flesh is a manifestation of human nature rather than a mere aberration. Each chapter unravels ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections

    by V. Braun, Z.A. McGee, W. Opferkuch ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    G. G. Jackson The pathogenesis of bacterial infection defines the dynamics at an interface of ecologic association of bacteria and host. First, it occurs at the portal of initial contact with a per missive target cell. The infected cell provides either a passive or a specific receptor for the bacterium or its products, to gether with ligands and an environment of helper and inhibiting factors. The ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • The Blank Slate

    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --TimeFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize**Updated with a new afterwordOne of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, ... Read more

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  • Breaking the Spell

    Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

    by Daniel C. Dennett ...
    The New York Times bestseller – a “crystal-clear, constantly engaging” (Jared Diamond) exploration of the role that religious belief plays in our lives and our interactionsFor all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why—and how—it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Justice for Animals

    Our Collective Responsibility

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed

    Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter

    by Howard Gardner ...
    From ancient times, philosophers, theologians, and artists have attempted to describe and categorize the defining virtues of civilization. In Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, renowned education authority Howard Gardner explores the meaning of the title's three virtues in an age when vast technological advancement and relativistic attitudes toward human nature have deeply shaken our moral ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Invention of Good and Evil

    A World History of Morality

    by Hanno Sauer ...
    In this sweeping new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values, Hanno Sauer shows how modern society is just the latest step in the long evolution of good and evil and everything in between. What makes us moral beings? How do we decide what is good and what is evil? And has it always been that way? Hanno Sauer's sweeping new history of humanity, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?

    by Vinciane Despret ...
    Translated by Brett Buchanan ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    “You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the ForewordIs it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a monkey throws its feces at you? Do apes really know ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Introduction to Animal Rights

    Your Child or the Dog?

    by Gary Francione ...
    Two-thirds of Americans polled by the Associated Press agree with the following statement: "An animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering." More than 50 percent of Americans believe that it is wrong to kill animals to make fur coats or to hunt them for sport. But these same Americans eat hamburgers, take their children to ... Read more

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  • Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It

    by Magnus Vinding ...
    What can justify discrimination against other sentient beings?In this book, Magnus Vinding explores the issue of species discrimination. He argues that speciesism — discrimination based on species membership — is unjustifiable, and proceeds to examine the practical implications of this conclusion. This examination reveals more than a few ways in which our behavior and attitudes need to change ... Read more

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  • Animal Rights

    Current Debates and New Directions

    Edited by Cass R. Sunstein, Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Is Science Racist?

    by Jonathan Marks ...
    Series series Debating Race
    Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic ... Read more

    $10.00 USD