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2026
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The Chinese Communist Party and their world dominion objective is the biggest enemy of religion and religious people around the world.China is at war with faith.It is a war they must not win. The future of the free world depends on it.The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spends billions of dollars annually to either control or exterminate people of all faiths. It is a strategic imperative for them. Christians, Buddhist, Muslims, Falun Gong, and more ar...
The Future is Now
America Confronts the New Genetics
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- Eric CohenGeorge J. AnnasRonald BaileySen Christopher "Kit" BondJ BottumSen Sam BrownbackPresident George W. BushKenneth L. ConnorRichard M. DoerflingerMichael J. FoxBill FristFrancis FukuyamaRobert P. GeorgeJames K. GlassmanRep James GreenwoodSen Tom HarkinSen Orrin G. HatchGertrude HimmelfarbAldous HuxleyLeon R. KassMichael KinsleyCharles KrauthammerRep Dennis J. KucinichJoshua LederbergGilbert MeilaenderH J. MullerNational Bioethics Advisory CommissionEdmund D. PellegrinoRaelPaul RamseyWilliam SaletanWesley J. SmithJames A. ThomsonLaurence H. TribeJames D. WatsonMichael D. WestIan WilmutAdam Wolfson
2002
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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.
International Religious Freedom
The Rise of Global Intolerance
2019
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This book documents the history of religious persecution, especially focusing on early Jewish and Christian experiences and the culmination of horrors in the Nazi era, in which six million Jews, over a million Catholics, and many others were put to death for their beliefs. The book then focuses on the many types of religious intolerance in the world today, particularly the genocide against Christians in the Middle East and Africa, and resurgent Anti-Semitism in the Middle East, Europe and ...
From Power to Purpose
A Remarkable Journey of Faith and Compassion
2009
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A sense of mission for America . . . a heart for God.Senator Sam Brownback grew up in the heartland, in a family of hard-working Kansas farmers. Instilled from an early age with a strong work ethic and a fierce sense of independence, he continues to be guided by Christian values and beliefs: strength, courage, character, common sense, faith, and a keen sense of justice and moral responsibility.From Power to Purpose is the firsthand account of his remarkable journey...
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A Troublesome Inheritance
Genes, Race and Human History
2014
EN
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human storyFewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than jus...
2011
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For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively reared animals? Am I doin...
A Call to Action
Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
2014
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In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls.President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of equal opportunity in wealt...
Golden Cell
Gene Therapy, Stem Cells and the Quest for the Next Great Medical Breakthrough
2010
EN
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The promise of a regenerative medicine -- the regrowth of lost limbs and organs, new hope for patients with Alzheimer's or multiple sclerosis, the "cellular fountain of youth" -- sounds like science fiction, but it's real and on the cutting edge of medicine. Veteran medical journalist Karen van Kamped looks at this new technology through the stories of the scientists who are creating it and the ethical and legal questions with which they must deal. Many companies and universities in Canada...
Liberty Defined
50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
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- Ron Paul
2011
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The political activist and #1 New York Times –bestselling author presents his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom.The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliche. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of lib...
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Reclaiming Abortion Rights
2014
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A New York Times Book Review Notable BookFrom noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights presents a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good. As the Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide, this urgent, controversial book reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive...
The Party Is Over
How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
2012
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The New York Times bestselling exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington todayThere was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk— they are zombies, a party of the living dead.Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties—tho...
Good Work
When Excellence and Ethics Meet
2008
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What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces have unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These questions lie at the heart of this eagerly awaited new book. Focusing on genetics and journalism-two fields that generate and manipulate information and thus affect our lives in myriad ways-the authors show how in their quest to build meaningful caree...











