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Hardback. Editor(s): Dalla, Rochelle L.; Baker, Lynda M.; DeFrain, John D.; Williamson, Celia. Num Pages: 384 pages, figures. BIC Classification: JFMX; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 169 x 27. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739143858
ISBN
9780739143858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.98

Hardback. What does it mean to re-conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Sidestepping the legal debates over their civil ordinance, and drawing on phenomenology of the lived body, Mason-Grant returns to the innovative core of the Dworkin- MacKinnon critique of mainstream pornography. Series: Feminist Constructions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742512221
ISBN
9780742512221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.28

Paperback. What does it mean to re-conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Sidestepping the legal debates over their civil ordinance, and drawing on phenomenology of the lived body, Mason-Grant returns to the innovative core of the Dworkin- MacKinnon critique of mainstream pornography. Series: Feminist Constructions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742512238
ISBN
9780742512238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.74

Hardback. A Christian Response to the New Genetics appeals to both secular and religious readers in the center of the great debate over our new genetic powers. These essays affirm many traditional Christian perspectives and virtues, while also introducing new insights. Editor(s): Smith, David H.; Cohen, Cynthia B. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HRC; JFM; MFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742514980
ISBN
9780742514980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.43

Hardback. A discussion of whether competent, terminally-ill patients have a right to die with the assistance of their physicians, or whether state and national governments have legitimate interests in forbidding this to happen. The debate covers constitutional issues and ethical and medical reflections. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFME; LND; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742517240
ISBN
9780742517240
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.28

Paperback. A discussion of whether competent, terminally-ill patients have a right to die with the assistance of their physicians, or whether state and national governments have legitimate interests in forbidding this to happen. The debate covers constitutional issues and ethical and medical reflections. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFME; LND; MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742517257
ISBN
9780742517257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Hardback. This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age. Num Pages: 384 pages, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFM; MBDC; PDZ; PSAK; TCBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742521957
ISBN
9780742521957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.29
€ 87.88

paperback. A collection of articles, essays, speeches and testimony, chronicling the start of America's national debate on genetics. It begins with selections from Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis, then looks to the future, moving on to the questions surrounding the debate over human cloning and stem cells. Editor(s): Kristol, William; Cohen, Eric. Num Pages: 384 pages, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFM; MBDC; PDZ; PSAK; TCBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742521964
ISBN
9780742521964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.75

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

€ 138.17

hardcover. This book examines the history of male opinion about women's participation in procreation and explores the status of women in classical Europe, the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and today's American procreative policies. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFMA; JFSJ1; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761857587
ISBN
9780761857587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.87

Hardback. 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 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726474
ISBN
9780804726474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.43

Hardback. Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731997
ISBN
9780804731997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.98

Hardback. This book covers many important events for those studying censorship conflicts. Num Pages: 395 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; DSB; HBT; JFMD; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 144 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810821514
ISBN
9780810821514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.82

Hardback. Reasoned arguments support the teaching of books that are challenged by would-be censors. This work covers literature from the Harry Potter books to Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying". Some books are challenged in the name of political correctness, others over concern over violent or sexual content. Num Pages: 496 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSB; JFMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 32. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810841475
ISBN
9780810841475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.10

paperback. Editor(s): Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker; Ballard, James O. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DD; DSBH; DSG; JFME; MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812215199
ISBN
9780812215199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99

Paperback. The Fantasy Factory reveals the ways phone sex operators and callers negotiate the shifting borders between desire and disgust, fantasy and reality, and deception and belief. Series: Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, & Political Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMP; JFMX; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216431
ISBN
9780812216431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.90

paperback. George Cotkin looks at diverse yet central issues such as the problem of evil, moral responsibility, racial identity, and capital punishment, juxtaposed against events such as the bombing of civilians during World War II, the My Lai Massacre, and the invasion of Iraq to demonstrate that moral complexity and confusion can be productive. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222494
ISBN
9780812222494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.81

Hardback. "This is a major work. Shuger deals with the rules of appropriate language use in early modern Europe, making an argument about censorship in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England that is original, surprising, and, in her thorough presentation, entirely plausible."-Katharine Eisaman Maus, University of Virginia Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 677.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812239171
ISBN
9780812239171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.85

Hardback. These essays examine the Confucian view towards women and whether old and modern attitudes and beliefs about women are a necessary implication of its general philosophy. The collection also compares ancient and modern opportunites for Chinese women in societal contributions and personal growth. Editor(s): Li, Chenyang. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF; HPQ; JFM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812694185
ISBN
9780812694185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.64
€ 46.52

paperback. Presents the teachings of the Catholic Church as they relate to more than one hundred specific and challenging moral questions as they have been asked by business leaders. Andrew V. Abela and Joseph E. Capizzi have assembled the relevant quotations from recent Catholic social teaching as responses to these questions. Editor(s): Abela, Andrew V.; Capizzi, Joseph E. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC7; JFM; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press United States
Edition
second edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813228846
ISBN
9780813228846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.42

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