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Sarah ist eine junge Frau, die gerade im Begriff ist, die Karriereleiter emporzuklettern, als sie völlig unerwartet und ungewollt schwanger wird. Von finanziellen Grundängsten geplagt, steht sie nun vor der Wahl, ihren gerade aufkeimenden beruflichen Erfolg und die damit verbundene finanzielle Unabhängigkeit zugunsten des Mutterglücks zu opfern, oder das moralisch Unmögliche zu tun, das Kind abzutreiben. Als ein Fremder in ihr Leben tritt und...

Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child¿s sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child¿s sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to understand the origins of homosexuality could mean the...

The Italian philosopher and militant Antonio Negri has been a provocative and controversial figure for over forty years. He has been a professor of law at the University of Padua, a labor organizer in the Veneto, a political prisoner in Rome, a member of Italian parliament, a political refugee in Paris and most recently, as a consequence of the success of his book Empire (written in collaboration with American Michael Hardt), an internationall...

The Italian philosopher and militant Antonio Negri has been a provocative and controversial figure for over forty years. He has been a professor of law at the University of Padua, a labor organizer in the Veneto, a political prisoner in Rome, a member of Italian parliament, a political refugee in Paris and most recently, as a consequence of the success of his book Empire (written in collaboration with American Michael Hardt), an internationall...

It is the spring of 1952, Mick Joyce, Tom Sullivan and Kate Collins are leaving Ireland with a youthful exuberance in the hope of making their fortune. England is still in economic turmoil after the war but still fares much better than the Emerald Isle. In the Ireland of the nineteen fifties the cottages are still thatched and if there is money in the house it is slated. As a compromise between the rich and the not so rich you might see a corr...

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How is free will possible in the light of the physical and chemical underpinnings of brain activity and recent neurobiological experiments? How can the emergence of complexity in hierarchical systems such as the brain, based at the lower levels in physical interactions, lead to something like genuine free will? The nature of our understanding of free will in the light of present-day neuroscience is becoming increasingly important because of re...

Michael Hardt, Sergio Bologna, Kathi Weeks, Nick Dyer-Witheford and others explore the complexity of Negri's thought.

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An overview of the key debates in biomedical researchethics, presented through a wide-ranging selection of casestudies.

If you have lived in an apartment community you may indeed appreciate this book for its characters and humor. Graham Place Manor will take you immediately into the lives of the staff, and residents of this grand old apartment home. The occupants of Graham Place Manor come in all shapes and sizes with an assortment of personalities. You will meet the illusive and sometimes vindictive Uncle Tom, the concierge staff including the sarcastic Devane...

If you have lived in an apartment community you may indeed appreciate this book for its characters and humor. Graham Place Manor will take you immediately into the lives of the staff, and residents of this grand old apartment home. The occupants of Graham Place Manor come in all shapes and sizes with an assortment of personalities. You will meet the illusive and sometimes vindictive Uncle Tom, the concierge staff including the sarcastic Devane...

Gay Science is the first comprehensive examination of the ethical questions surrounding sexual orientation research. Bioethicist Timothy Murphy presents the views of many gay men and women who detect ominous motives behind this research. If a genetic marker were discovered for homosexual tendencies would genetic screening be used to further discriminate against gay people? If a method for changing sexual orientation were developed would it wou...

Gay Science is the first comprehensive examination of the ethical questions surrounding sexual orientation research. Bioethicist Timothy Murphy presents the views of many gay men and women who detect ominous motives behind this research. If a genetic marker were discovered for homosexual tendencies would genetic screening be used to further discriminate against gay people? If a method for changing sexual orientation were developed would it wou...

An overview of the key debates in biomedical researchethics, presented through a wide-ranging selection of casestudies.

This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and gay culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and moral responsibility.

Excerpt from Discovery of America by the Irish Previous to the Ninth Century: With Accounts by Scandinavians and Germans of "Irland It Mikla" And "Vinland Dat Gode"The antiquities of America stretch from the great lakes of the north and west to the southern parts of Peru, from the Alleghany Mountains on the east, to the Rocky Mountains on the west, and even from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hun...

Outstanding contributors include Pierre Macherey, Charles Wolfe, Alex Callinicos and Judith Revel

Outstanding contributors include Pierre Macherey, Charles Wolfe, Alex Callinicos and Judith Revel

Explores best practice for engagement with challenging educational contexts through service-learning drawing on the contributors' international experience"-- Provided by publisher.