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2023.
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English
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"A rock star academic explores the final frontier of personal privacy: your mind. Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, thought crimes are punishable by law, and your own feelings can be used against you. Where perfumers create customized fragrances to perfectly suit your emotions, and social media titans bypass your conscious mind to hook you to their products. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Is homosexuality unnatural? Does the Bible condemn it? Are people born gay (and should it matter either way)? Corvino approaches such questions with precision, sensitivity, and good humor. In the process, he makes a fresh case for moral engagement, forcefully rejecting the idea that morality is a "private matter." This book appears at a time when same-sex marriage is being hotly debated across the U.S. Many people object to such marriage on the grounds...
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English
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"When the application for a new sedative called Kevadon--commonly known as thalidomide--landed on Frances Kelsey's desk at the FDA in 1960, it seemed destined to sail through the review process. The drug, billed as entirely risk-free, was already being sold in forty-six countries. But when Kelsey learned that the drug caused terrible birth defects, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents, and journalists fought Merrell, the drug's American manufacturer,...
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Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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A holistic health counselor and author of the best-selling Creating a Charmed Life shares practical advice for gradually shifting to a vegan lifestyle, providing recommendations for becoming an informed consumer while sharing 40 vegan recipes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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When a deranged gunman forces his way into the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic, and takes hostages, the police hostage negotiator discovers his daughter is inside the clinic.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Centera womens reproductive...
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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World War II remains in our collective memory the "good war" in which the forces of freedom triumphed over the forces of darkness. Now, historian Bess explodes the myth that this was a war without moral ambiguity. Although undeniably a just war--of defense against unprovoked aggression--it was fraught with painful dilemmas, uneasy trade-offs, and unavoidable compromises. Bess confronts its most difficult questions: Was the bombing of civilian populations...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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A founder of an organization dedicated to promoting the compassionate treatment of animals and combating factory farming addresses the ethics of breeding animals for food, exposing inhumane practices utilized by typical food-production companies.
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Many pet dogs are experiencing anxiety and frustration as they struggle to adapt to human home environments--despite being pampered, poofed, and petted, or perhaps in part because of this. We can do better for them. Who's a Good Dog challenges us to think more carefully about the limits we place on their inherited, deep-rooted behaviors. Bioethicist Jessica Pierce explores common practices of caring for, socializing, and training pet dogs. She asks...
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Focus Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Describes possible ethical concerns of Artificial Intelligence, including applications in medical fields, the military, criminal justice systems, or in hiring practices. Includes fun facts and 'Leading the Way' special features"--
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Kindle County novels volume 5
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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An appeal for environmental action by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and spiritual leader of Tibet urges decision-makers to fight climate change ignorance while encouraging younger readers to assert their right to a climate-friendly future.
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Nightboat Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In 'Plastic: an autobiography,' Cobb's obsession with a large plastic car part leads her to explore the violence of our consume-and-dispose culture, including her own life as a child of Los Alamos, where the first atomic bombs were made. The journey exposes the interconnections among plastic waste, climate change, nuclear technologies, and racism"--
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Beacon Press
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English
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"A culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined alternative food. The vegan diet used to be associated only with eccentric hippies and tofu-loving activists who shop at co-ops and live on compounds. We’ve come a long way since then. Now, fine-dining restaurants like Eleven Madison Park cater to chic upscale clientele with a plant-based menu, and Impossible...
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English
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By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara shows the thought process we need to best achieve truth and justice in our daily lives and within our society.
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Criterion collection volume 25
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Français
Description
Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion.
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