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The use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)-in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy-challenges contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692705810Author Christopher JayFormat PaperbackImprint Christopher JayPublisher Christopher JayWeight(grams) 152g

Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience: Freedom, Violence, and Identity interprets the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and her intellectual trajectory through the perspective of French colonial history. Nathalie Nya considers Beauvoir through...

This book examines the ways in which Russia and Belarus use disinformation, "weaponised" historical narratives, and the politics of memory for domestic and foreign policy purposes, utilising these factors to justify aggressive foreign policy in defensive...

Montesquieu and the Old Regime offers a bold reinterpretation of Montesquieu's intellectual and ideological legacy, challenging conventional views that label him as a conservative apologist. Instead, the book situates Montesquieu as a sharp critic of the...

Can societies fall ill? Can institutions die, or social practices degenerate? Must social norms be embodied? To what extent is social action habitual? Is social life part of nature or does it transcend it? This book explores the meaning and many facets...

This volume presents new research in social ontology by focusing on questions related to the characteristics, categories, and conceptual methodologies surrounding social identities, in general, and specific social identities, in particular.The volume...

Originally published in 1987, this book is about the classification of bodily conditions into diseases. It provides a full account of the concept of disease, examining the issue of whether disease status is something we discover or invent and the issue...

This book shows that Hauriou's positivist and pragmatic jurisprudence and social theory, as well as their application to the study of institutions, is satisfactorily supported by his idealistic philosophy. The nine chapters first locate Hauriou's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606180389Author Robert NisbetFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

This book is a radical reappraisal of positivism as a major movement in philosophy, science and culture. In examining positivist movement and its contemporary impact, the author had six goals. First, to provide a more precise and systematic definition...

Postures of the Mind was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Annette Baier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771805148Author Maria Davenza TillmannsFormat HardbackPage Count 70Imprint Iguana BooksPublisher Iguana BooksWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039192096Author Ted GriffithFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 853g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887471778Author Kathy Lewis SawyerFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint WheatmarkPublisher WheatmarkWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783796541476Author Hille HakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AGPublisher Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AGWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039136274Author Matthew Anghelos MarchFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039136267Author Matthew Anghelos MarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228801399Author Mike DurandFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997646054Author John C WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Still WatersPublisher Still WatersWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991352098Author Dennis L OutwaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Dennis OutwaterPublisher Dennis OutwaterWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"That government is best which governs least." -- Henry David Thoreau In this major new defense of libertarianism, Dan Moller argues that critics and supporters alike have neglected the strongest arguments for the theory. It is often assumed that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088068328Author Christopher TrackimFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771805667Author Maria Davenza TillmannsFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Iguana BooksPublisher Iguana BooksWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771804660Author Maria Davenza TillmannsFormat HardbackPage Count 86Imprint Iguana BooksPublisher Iguana BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892213547Author Scott SinnockFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Fulton BooksPublisher Fulton BooksWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789190003343Author Alexander BardFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint AniaraPublisher AniaraWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788794559225Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Fili PublicPublisher Fili PublicWeight(grams) 77g

The book is a detailed introduction to Post-Blackness as a literary aesthetic, tracing its emergence to the philosophical movement that defined itself in the visual arts towards the end of the twentieth century. Aiming to redefine African American...

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Free Will and Responsibility brings together leading researchers from psychology and philosophy to present new findings and ideas about human agency and moral responsibility. Their contributions reflect the growth...

This book proposes a new theoretical framework for approaching the causes and effects that digital technologies and the imaginaries related to them have on the processes of self-interpretation and subjectivation. It formulates three main theses. First,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781394172658Author Robin AndreasenFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211941Format HardbackImprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing Culture

This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy. The essays reflect on the thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Arendt, Derrida, Badiou, Fanon,...

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Remembering 9/11 recalls the afterlife of the tragedy and the shock that led many to ask 'why do they hate us so much?' Engaging with the different voices that attempted to make sense of the trauma, Seidler traces the narratives of fear, loss and...

Why is 'love' taken for granted as a part of human experience? And why is sexual or romantic love in particular so important to us? This book aims to find out, tracing the intellectual history of sexual love, from the ancient Greeks to the modern day...

Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) was among the most renowned North African literary critics and authors of the past century whose unique treatments of subjects as vast as orientalism, otherness, coloniality, aesthetics, linguistics, sexuality, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839699726Author Sayyed Ali SamadiFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

If societies, like institutions, are built to endure, then the bond that exists between generations must be considered. Constructing a framework to establish a philosophy of future generations, Tiziana Andina explores the factors that make it possible...