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Ethical issues & debates
Paperback. To what extent should we use technological advances to try to make better human beings? Leading philosophers debate the possibility of enhancing human cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and controlling aging. Would this take us beyond the bounds of human nature? These are questions that need to be answered now. Editor(s): Savulescu, Julian; Bostrom, Nick. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMG; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199594962
- ISBN
- 9780199594962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.55
€ 61.55
Hardback. This stimulating volume is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies from a broad range of perspectives, including philosophy, the biological and neurosciences, and the social sciences. Editor(s): Savulescu, Julian; ter Meulen, Rudd; Kahane, Guy. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFMG; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 177 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1174.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405195812
- ISBN
- 9781405195812
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.94
€ 113.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX; JFSP1; JKV; JMU; VFJ; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613748084
- ISBN
- 9781613748084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.86
€ 18.99
€ 18.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX; JFSJ1; JHBK5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 223 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781742198767
- ISBN
- 9781742198767
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.05
€ 26.99
€ 19.05
Hardback. This volume explores the connections between the global economy and sex work, focusing on the experiences and views of women, men, and children who sell sex. Editor(s): Kempadoo, Kamala. Num Pages: 368 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFMP; JFMX; KNSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847695164
- ISBN
- 9780847695164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 221.41
€ 221.41
Hardback. Cosmopolitan Animals asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing and 'becoming-with' animals. It calls for a fresh awareness that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly. Editor(s): Nagai, Kaori; Jones, Karen; Landry, Donna; Mattfeld, Monica; Rooney, Caroline; Sleigh, Charlotte. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFZ; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137376275
- ISBN
- 9781137376275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Exploring sexwork and trafficking in a globalized culture and economy, this book offers a critique of increasingly stringent policing worldwide following the UN protocol against trafficking in persons. It highlights the grey area between sex work and trafficking and draws on the themes of gender, migration and deviance. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMT; JFFN; JFMX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524668
- ISBN
- 9780230524668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardback. By analyzing the cases present in this volume, the editors develop important steps towards a theory of social change that can adequately address the complex realities and intersectionality of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality) within and among these new movements. Editor(s): Dellacioppa, Kara Z.; Weber, Clare. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFC; JFM; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340046
- ISBN
- 9780230340046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Paperback. This book uses 103 illustrations from the 16th century onward and the history of obstetrical and embryological knowledge to argue that modes of visualizing science have profoundly determined "fetal politics" and the contemporary abortion debates. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 176 pages, 103 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMA; JFSJ1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 215.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804726481
- ISBN
- 9780804726481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFMX; JFSJ1; MBNH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252082467
- ISBN
- 9780252082467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.52
€ 26.99
€ 25.52
Hardback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFMX; JFSJ1; MBNH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252040962
- ISBN
- 9780252040962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Paperback. How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty-First Century's big questions. Should it be legal to pay for sex? Isn't it a woman's choice whether she strips for money? Could online porn warping the attitudes of a generation of boys? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571278220
- ISBN
- 9780571278220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; HRCX6; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780800723453
- ISBN
- 9780800723453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. What is the legal status of abortion and the human fetus? In an extended analysis of mainstream arguments involving abortion and the status of 'personhood' that is often applied to the fetus, this book provides novel answers to some of the core 'pro-life' arguments in favour of recognizing fetal personhood and moral rights. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFMA; LAB; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198806608
- ISBN
- 9780198806608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.15
€ 57.15
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: JFMG; JHBK; JHMC; MFKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691167480
- ISBN
- 9780691167480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.32€ 83.75
€ 109.32
€ 83.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: JFMG; JHBK; JHMC; MFKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691171753
- ISBN
- 9780691171753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; HB; JFMX; JPA; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231106436
- ISBN
- 9780231106436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardcover. G is for Genes summariezes the latest research and explores, in a scientific and non-political way, what genetic research means for schools, and for the choices parents have to make about their children's education. Series: Understanding Children's Worlds. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMG; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781118482780
- ISBN
- 9781118482780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 78.61
€ 93.81
€ 78.61
Hardback. Delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. This work offers a critical analysis of Web culture as digital artistry and of the corresponding heightened government surveillance and censorship of the Internet. Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 218 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMP; JHMC; UDB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742554313
- ISBN
- 9780742554313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.58
€ 150.58
Hardcover. Chinese artists, activists, and netizens are pioneering a new order of pornographic representation that is in critical dialogue with global entertainment media. Jacobs examines the role of sex-positive feminists and queer communities to investigate pornography's "afterglow" (a state of crisis and decay within digital culture). Num Pages: 216 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485175
- ISBN
- 9781137485175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49