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2020
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Do You love Bears? Do You Love Monster Trucks?Have you ever wondered How Bears Run-a-Muck!Get this Awesome fun filled story about Bears and their love for Monster Trucks.This 36 pg book will have you child luaghing, giggling, and enjoying theer time and they read and learn. This big is an entertaining easy read and great for those just starting out the introduction to books and reading,
2014
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The environmental movement has helped produce significant improvements in the world around us—from cleaner air to the preservation of natural wonders such as Yellowstone. But in recent years, environmental activists have arisen who regard humans as Public Enemy #1. In this provocative book, Wesley J. Smith exposes efforts by radical activists to reduce the human population by up to 90% and to grant legal rights to animals, plants, and Mother Earth. Smith argues that the ultimate victims of...
Culture of Death
The Age of Do Harm Medicine
2016
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When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy’s life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He demanded treatment and threatened legal action. The doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher’s temperature-which had eventually reached 107.6 degrees-subsided almost immediately. So...
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.
A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy
The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement
2012
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Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term animal rights” is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals. But although animal rights groups do sometimes focus their activism on promoting animal welfare, the larger movement they represent is actually advancing a radical belief system.For so...
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- Brian Emerson
Unabridged
8 hours 25 min
2006
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What is embryonic stem cell research? Why is it so controversial? What is its relationship to human cloning? Events are moving so fast—and biotechnology seems so complicated—that many of us don’t have an informed opinion about issues that are remaking the human future before our very eyes.Now Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to the new world that is no longer a figment of our imagination but right around the corner. This highly readable and carefully researched book reports...
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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...
Killing the Black Body
Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
2014
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Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.**"A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conv...
Bird on an Ethics Wire
Battles about Values in the Culture Wars
2015
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Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret Somerville explores the values needed to maintain a world that reasonable people would want to live in and pass on to their descendants.Somerville addresses the conflicts between...
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex
2008
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A pithy polemic bolstered by solid research, intellectual heft, and firsthand reporting, this is a book poised to change the debate over reproductive rights in this country wholesale. As activist and writer Cristina Page shows, the gains made by birth-control advocates (historically) and pro-choice organizations (currently) have formed the bedrock of freedoms few Americans would choose to live without. Now, not only is the future of legal abortion far from guaranteed, in many parts of the ...
Bioethics Beyond the Headlines
Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Decides?
2005
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Bioethics asks fundamental questions. 'Who lives? Who dies? Who decides?' These questions are relevant to us all. Too often, the general public's sole encounter with these weighty questions is through sound bites fed to us by the media-where complex, difficult matters are typically presented in superficial and inaccurate terms. Here, renowned bioethicist Albert R. Jonsen equips readers with the tools and background to navigate the fascinating and complex landscape of bioethics. Bioethics B...
Smart Mice, Not So Smart People
An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics
2006
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What do you think about cloning, stem cell research, brain enhancement, or doing experiments on newly dead patients? Read Smart Mice, Not so Smart People and you'll know what Art Caplan thinks. But this assortment of pithy, provocative opinions on all things bioethical does more than simply give you a piece of the author's mind-it also invites and even dares you to make up your own mind. In his typical style, Caplan-one of the most sought-after bioethicists of our time-provokes di...











