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In Search of the Good

A Life in Bioethics

By: Daniel Callahan

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One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time. Daniel Callahan helped invent the field of bioethics more than forty years ago when he decided to use his training in philosophy to grapple with ethical problems in biology and medicine. Disenchanted with academic philosophy because of its analytical bent and distance from the concerns of real life, Callahan found the ethical issues raised by the rapid medical advances of the 1960s—which included the birth control pill, heart transplants, and new capacities to keep very sick people alive—to be philosophical questions with immediate real-world relevance. In this memoir, Callahan describes his part in the founding of bioethics and traces his thinking on critical issues including embryonic stem cell research, market-driven health care, and medical rationing. He identifies the major challenges facing bioethics today and ruminates on its future. Callahan writes about founding the Hastings Center—the first bioethics research institution—with the author and psychiatrist Willard Gaylin in 1969, and recounts the challenges of running a think tank while keeping up a prolific flow of influential books and articles. Editor of the famous liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal in the 1960s, Callahan describes his now-secular approach to issues of illness and mortality. He questions the idea of endless medical “progress” and interventionist end-of-life care that seems to blur the boundary between living and dying. It is the role of bioethics, he argues, to be a loyal dissenter in the onward march of medical progress. The most important challenge for bioethics now is to help rethink the very goals of medicine.

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0262018489

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What Price Better Health?

Hazards of the Research Imperative

By: Daniel Callahan

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What Price Better Health?

Hazards of the Research Imperative

By: Daniel Callahan

Medical research, with its power to attract money and political support, and its promise of cures for a wide range of medical burdens, has good and bad sides--which are often indistinguishable. In this book, the author teases out the distinctions and differences, revealing the difficulties that result when the research imperative is suffused with excessive zeal, adulterated by the profit motive, or used to justify cutting moral corners. Exploring the National Institutes of Health's annual budget, the inflated estimates of health care cost savings that result from research, the high prices charged by drug companies, the use and misuse of human subjects for medical testing, and the controversies surrounding human cloning and stem cell research, he clarifies the fine line between doing good and doing harm in the name of medical progress. His work shows that medical research must be understood in light of other social and economic needs and how even the research imperative, dedic.

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Univ of California Press

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0520246640

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9780520246645

The Roots of Bioethics

Health, Progress, Technology, Death

By: Daniel Callahan

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The Roots of Bioethics

Health, Progress, Technology, Death

By: Daniel Callahan

Daniel Callahan's life time work in bioethics has again and again returned to the root problems of health, progress, technology, and death. How we think about each of them individually and in relation to each other will shape the way we approach and deal with the most common dilemmas of modern medicine. They are at the roots of the field.

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Oxford University Press

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0199931372

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Taming the Beloved Beast

How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System

By: Daniel Callahan

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Taming the Beloved Beast

How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System

By: Daniel Callahan

Why health care reform must tackle the escalating cost of medical technology Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming everyone? In Taming the Beloved Beast, esteemed medical ethicist Daniel Callahan confronts this dilemma head-on. He argues that we can't escape it by organizational changes alone. Nothing less than a fundamental transformation of our thinking about health care is needed to achieve lasting and economically sustainable reform. The technology bubble, he contends, is beginning to burst. Callahan weighs the ethical arguments for and against limiting the use of medical technologies, and he argues that reining in health care costs requires us to change entrenched values about progress and technological innovation. Taming the Beloved Beast shows that the cost crisis is as great as that of the uninsured. Only a government-regulated universal health care system can offer the hope of managing technology and making it affordable for all.

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Princeton University Press

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0691177996

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9780691177991

Thriving in the Face of Mortality

Kenosis and the Mystery of Life

By: Daniel B. Hinshaw

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Thriving in the Face of Mortality

Kenosis and the Mystery of Life

By: Daniel B. Hinshaw

Kenosis, a Greek word meaning “depletion” or “emptying” and a concept borrowed from Christian theology, has deeply profound implications for understanding and ordering life in a world marked by suffering and death. Whereas the divine kenosis was voluntary, human beings experience an involuntary kenosis which is characterized by the inevitable losses experienced during the lives of mortal creatures. How one chooses voluntarily to respond to this involuntary kenosis, regardless of faith commitments, in effect defines us, both in our relationships with other suffering creatures and with the entire cosmos. This book offers a unique perspective on how the losses of involuntary kenosis choreograph the suffering which is such a defining aspect of the lives of persons, communities, and the environment in which they live, and how the kenotic process, rather than being a source of despair, can be a source of hope presenting opportunities for extraordinary personal growth.

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1666744824

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In Search of the Good

A Life in Bioethics

By: Daniel Callahan

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In Search of the Good

A Life in Bioethics

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The Troubled Dream of Life

In Search of a Peaceful Death

By: Daniel Callahan

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The Troubled Dream of Life

In Search of a Peaceful Death

By: Daniel Callahan

Drawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death. He examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and he suggests ways of understanding death that can lead to a peaceful acceptance. Callahan's thoughtful perspective notably enhances the legal and moral discussions about end-of-life issues. Originally published in 1993 by Simon and Schuster.

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Georgetown University Press

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1589014715

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Public incentives in support of R+D and innovation in the Federal State of Espirito Santo, Brazil

By: Daniel Streit

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Public incentives in support of R+D and innovation in the Federal State of Espirito Santo, Brazil

By: Daniel Streit

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Die in englischer Sprache verfasste Arbeit gliedert sich in zwei große Abschnitte einen Theoretischen und einen Praktischen. Im theoretischen Teil werden zunächst die Begriffe Forschung & Entwicklung und Innovation definiert sowie die Eigenschaften eines Nationale Innovationssystems beschrieben. Weiter wird die Frage diskutiert, ob Innovationen beziehungsweise F&E staatliche Unterstützung brauchen, oder ob es angebrachter ist, vorhandene Marktmechanismen die Menge an F&E bestimmen zu lassen. Ein sehr großes Kapitel der Arbeit ist infolge der Beschreibung der einzelnen Instrumente der Innovationspolitik bzw. Innovationsökonomie gewidmet. Hierbei werden nicht nur die zwölf am häufigsten verwendeten staatlichen Maßnahmen zur Förderung von Innovationen und F&E auf ihre Stärken und Schwächen hin untersucht, sondern es wird auch erläutert welche Instrumente in welcher Art und Weise in der Lage sind, die Innovationstätigkeit in einem Land zu erhöhen. Der praktische Teil der Arbeit befasst sich zunächst mit der wirtschaftlichen Situation des Bundesstaates Espirito Santo und dessen Innovationssystem. Im Anschluss daran erfolgt eine Bestandsaufnahme der in Espirito Santo aktuell verwendeten innovationspolitischen Maßnahmen zur Förderung von Innovationen und F&E. Hierbei wurden Daten verwendet, die bei zahlreichen Interviews mit den zuständigen Stellen vor Ort gesammelt wurden. Darauf aufbauend (und mit Hilfe der Erkenntnisse aus dem theoretischen Teil der Arbeit) werden die innovationspolitischen Maßnahmen des Bundesstaates Espirito Santo evaluiert und vereinzelte Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten in der Innovationspolitik des Bundesstaates aufgezeigt. Ein zweiseitiges summary fasst die wichtigsten Ergebnisse am Ende der Arbeit noch einmal zusammen. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: LIST OF FIGURESIII LIST OF TABLESIV 1.INTRODUCTION1 2.EXPLANATION OF BASIC TERMS AND THEORIES2 2.1R&D AND INNOVATION2 2.2INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE POLICY5 2.3NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS7 3.SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT R&D AND INNOVATIONS?8 3.1THE ARGUMENTS FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT8 3.1.1Externalities9 3.1.2Public goods10 3.1.3Market structure11 3.1.4Imperfect information11 3.2THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST PUBLIC SUPPORT13 4.THE INNOVATION POLICY TOOLS14 4.1FINANCIAL MEASURES17 4.1.1Public funding17 4.1.2Venture capital21 4.1.3Tax incentives23 4.2NON-FINANCIAL MEASURES25 4.2.1Public procurement25 4.2.2Human resource [...]

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3832477438

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Medjugorje and the Supernatural

Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience

By: Daniel Maria Klimek

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Medjugorje and the Supernatural

Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience

By: Daniel Maria Klimek

In June 1981, six young Croatians in the village of Medjugorje, in the former Yugoslavia, reported that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. The Medjugorje visionaries say that Mary has returned every day since then, bringing them important messages from heaven to convey to the world. Throughout history, people have reported encountering extraordinary religious experiences-apparitions of the Virgin Mary, visions of Jesus Christ, weeping statues and icons, the stigmata, physical healings and miracles, and experiences of the afterlife-and interpreted them as supernatural in origin. Scholars have often tried to reinterpret such experiences, including those described by the great mystics like Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, and Teresa of Avila, into natural or psychopathological categories, such as hysteria, hallucination, delusion, epileptic seizures, psychosis, the workings of the unconscious mind, or fraud. Are such reductionist explanations valid? Over the past three decades the Medjugorje visionaries have been subjected to extensive medical, psychological, and scientific examination, even while undergoing their visionary experiences. Daniel Klimek argues that the case of Medjugorje affords a rare opportunity to understand a deeper dimension of extraordinary religious phenomena. Presenting and analyzing the scientific studies on the visionaries in juxtaposition with the major scholars and debates surrounding religious experience, Klimek concludes that a multidisciplinary approach grants a more holistic and deeper understanding of such extraordinary religious experiences.

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0190679220

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Justice, Care, and the Welfare State

By: Daniel Engster

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Justice, Care, and the Welfare State

By: Daniel Engster

Western welfare states are in a period of significant transition. Changes in the nature of work and the family, the growing elderly population, and other developments over the past fifty years have rendered existing welfare policies largely out-of-step with economic and social conditions. While welfare state reform clearly raises important questions about justice and social policy, political philosophers have been slow to address it. Justice, Care, and the Welfare State takes up the important task of developing a theory of justice to guide contemporary welfare state reform. Applying normative political philosophy to public policy issues, it addresses questions such as: What role, if any, should states play in supporting families? Should the state support national health care and, if so, why and in what form? What does society owe to the elderly? What role should welfare states play in supporting disabled people? What obligations does the state have toward the poor? As distinct from many works of political philosophy, Justice, Care, and the Welfare State draws on empirical data about the populations and circumstances of existing Western societies and offers concrete policy advice for reforming welfare policies. Noting that many of the challenges confronting people in post-industrial societies involve issues of care, Engster draws on a public ethics of care to develop his theory of welfare state justice, outlining specific policy proposals in the areas of the family, education, health care, old age pensions and long-term care, disability, and poverty and unemployment. The book offers important insights into how Western welfare states can be reformed in light of recent economic and social changes in order better to promote justice. It should be of interest to political philosophers, welfare state scholars, public policy analysts, and others interested in thinking about contemporary policy reform and justice.

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0191030252

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Texas Indiana II

By: Daniel Sullivan MD.,Daniel Sullivan

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Texas Indiana II

By: Daniel Sullivan MD.,Daniel Sullivan

Barbara Callahan received a phone call that would change her life. Her father, Raymond Morrison, one of the richest men in Indiana, needed her help. The burden of owning and running the large corporation that he had founded and built over many decades had now overwhelmed him. He wanted to retire and have her take over the company. He told her she could burst through the glass barrier of corporate management. As CEO, she would have total control of the company and its subsidiaries He hadn't told her everything. Barbara, in her early fifties, had worked in marketing for twenty years. She had sat on the board of directors of her father's corporation even longer. She felt thrilled, yet apprehensive at the same time. Her husband, Tom, had died ten years ago, and she still missed his presence. Her grown children had major problems, and she wanted to help them. Her best friend, Steve Van Hayden, the ex-governor of the state of Indiana, wanted to marry her. Her decision and the challenges and consequences of that decision could overwhelm her. What would it be?

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American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941

By: Daniel Nelson

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American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941

By: Daniel Nelson

In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concentrated in Ohio, the labor force was largely native born and highly paid, and labor organizations had a decisive influence on the industry. Daniel Nelson tells the story of these changes as a case study of union growth against a background of critical developments in twentieth-century economic life. The author emphasizes the years after 1910, when a crucial distinction arose between big, mass-production rubber producers and those that were smaller and more labor intensive. In the 1930s mass-production workers took the lead in organizing the labor movement, and they dominated the international union, the United Rubber Workers, until the end of the decade. Professor Nelson discusses not only labor's triumph over adversity but also the problems that occurred with union victories: the flight of the industry to low-wage communities in the South and Midwest, internal tensions in the union, and rivalry with the American Federation of Labor. The experiences of the URW in the late 1930s foreshadowed the longer-term challenges that the labor movement has faced in recent decades. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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I Was a Communist for the FBI

The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic

By: Daniel J. Leab

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I Was a Communist for the FBI

The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic

By: Daniel J. Leab

Who is Matt Cvetic? Hero? Scoundrel? Mole? The man who loosely provided the inspiration for the B-Grade cult movie I Was a Communist for the FBI had a life that was marred by alcoholism, damaged expectations, and greed. Cvetic, at the request of the FBI, joined a Pittsburgh branch of the CPUSA in 1943. He became one of many plants in the Party during that decade and gained the nickname &"Pennsylvania&’s most significant mole.&" However, because of his erratic behavior, the FBI fired him in 1950, at which time he surfaced and suddenly became a celebrity through his testimony before the HUAC hearing. Journalist Richard Rovere described Cvetic as a &"kept witness,&" a term that fits those who &"made a business of being witnesses,&" thereby &"befouling due process.&" Cvetic was the subject of a multipart series in the Saturday Evening Post. The articles bordered on fiction, but they gave Cvetic the national exposure he needed to secure a screen deal. Warner Brothers bought the story, made the movie, and enhanced Cvetic&’s celebrity as pop icon. In the mid&–1950s, Cvetic was discredited as a witness by the courts. His career ended and he found a new niche on the Radical Right, yet he died in 1962 after years of fighting to uphold his image with the media. Today Cvetic&’s image is dimly remembered as he continues to fight &"the Red Menace&" on late-night television. Leab juxtaposes Cvetic&’s real life with his reel life. He chronicles his fall from grace, yet admits that Cvetic&’s life offers fascinating and useful insights into the creation, merchandising, and distribution of a reckless professional witness. Leab also writes about Cvetic&’s life prior to his involvement with the FBI, his glory days, and shows that there is much to be learned from the story of an &"anti-Communist icon.&

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Penn State Press

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0271038381

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Life Among the Dead 4:The End

By: Daniel Cotton

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Life Among the Dead 4:The End

By: Daniel Cotton

THE END IS HERE! Ushering in Man's Ruin, several survivors are about to embark upon their personal Trail of Tears. The world has died around them only to rise up. It's a test of strength where only the strongest will survive to see THE END.

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1365130061

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Politics and Film

The Political Culture of Film in the United States

By: Daniel P. Franklin

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Politics and Film

The Political Culture of Film in the United States

By: Daniel P. Franklin

Politics and Film explores the meaning of film within a societal context. In examining the political role of films we become real time cultural anthropologists, sifting through the artifacts of modern society to determine what our culture really is all about. Common sense tells us that if filmmakers want to make a profit, they have to be responsive to the market. This doesn't mean that they have to produce a product that simply delights the eyes. Films must also please the mind, and not just in terms of satisfying our desire to be entertained (although that alone is sometimes enough) but also deepen our understanding of people, ideas, and problems that we may confront in everyday life. In this respect, even commercial films are political. And, if 'we are what we eat,' we may also say, 'we are what we pay to see.' This book contends that to a large extent American film reflects political culture in American society.

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1461641012

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Dimensions of the Fantastic

A Theory of the Unknown from Stoker's Dracula to Little Marvin's Them

By: Daniel Ferreras Savoye

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Dimensions of the Fantastic

A Theory of the Unknown from Stoker's Dracula to Little Marvin's Them

By: Daniel Ferreras Savoye

Not to be confused with fantasy or the supernatural, the fantastic is in actuality its own beast and perhaps the most deeply frightening of all narrative modes. From Dracula and Nightmare on Elm Street, to Carrie and Them, the fantastic has become an ideal vehicle to denounce deep cultural dysfunctions that affect not only the way we understand reality, but also how we construct it. This work studies the various dimensions of the fantastic mode, examining the influences of iconic authors such as H.P. Lovecraft and Jean Ray, and addressing key narrations such as Guy de Maupasasant's The Horla and Jordan Peele's Get Out. It explains why the fantastic is not about ghosts or monsters, but about the incomprehensible sides of our own reality, and the terrifying unknown.

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1476648891

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Wales Unchained

Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century

By: Daniel G Williams

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Wales Unchained

Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century

By: Daniel G Williams

Contributes to the fields of Welsh Studies, Comparative Studies, Transatlantic Studies Offers analyses of key chapters in the cultural making of modern Wales. Offers insights into national and ethnic identity, and encourages readers to consider the extent of Welsh tolerance and intolerance. Draws on Welsh and English language sources, and ranges across literature, history, music and political thought. The book is an example of Welsh cultural studies in action. The book intervenes in key debates within cultural studies: nationalism and assimilationism; language and race; class and identity; cultural identity and political citizenship

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1783162139

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Escaping the Progress Trap

By: Daniel Brian O'Leary

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Escaping the Progress Trap

By: Daniel Brian O'Leary

The Progress Trap? As the name implies, it is the condition in which we find ourselves when science, technology and industry create more problems than they can solve. Often inadvertently. Many experts have warned about the resulting ecological crisis. The prophets of doom have spoken and alarm bells have sounded. Some critics are even optimistic, but they have no plan. They have not provided a detailed analysis of why humans fall into progress traps. They have not put forward what is necessary for emerging from them. Until now. Find out why societies have a tendency to become entangled in their own ingenuity. Then learn how well-equipped we humans are for resolving the environmental quandary, and other traps. Finding our way out of this predicament is a vital idea, when we learn how to nurture and use our talent for creative-problem-solving.

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0978126203

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How Can I Heal What Hurts?

Wholistic Healing and Bioenergies

By: Daniel J. Benor

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How Can I Heal What Hurts?

Wholistic Healing and Bioenergies

By: Daniel J. Benor

Reviews and discusses the research studies of self-healing, CAM and bioenergy therapies in less detail, with explanations appropriate for lay readers. It is not referenced as extensively as the Professional edition. An additional chapter provides many self-healing approaches and exercises. Learn how the body and mind work together in health and illness, and how to use new and ancient wholistic mind-body techniques to heal physical and psychological problems. Explore techniques used for self-healing; Learn about biological energy medicine from Acupuncture to Yoga; Learn the interactions of biological energies with environmental energies; See research in unconventional energies and their relevance to healing.

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0975424831

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The Indian Army and the End of the Raj

By: Daniel Marston

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The Indian Army and the End of the Raj

By: Daniel Marston

The Partition of British India in 1947 resulted in the establishment of the independent states of India and Pakistan and the end of the British Raj. The decision to divide British India along religious lines led to widespread upheaval and communal violence in the period leading up to and following the official day of independence, 15 August 1947. In this book, Daniel Marston provides a unique examination of the role of the Indian army in post-World War II India. He draws upon extensive research into primary source documents and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the vital part that the Indian Army played in preserving law and order in the region. This rigorous book fills a significant gap in the historiography of the British in India and will be invaluable to those studying the British Empire and South Asia more generally.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139915762

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Defenders of the Unborn

The Pro-life Movement Before Roe V. Wade

By: Daniel K. Williams

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Defenders of the Unborn

The Pro-life Movement Before Roe V. Wade

By: Daniel K. Williams

Provocative and insightful, Defenders of the Unborn is a must-read for anyone who craves a deeper understanding of a highly-charged issue"--Provided by publisher.

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Oxford University Press

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0199391645

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Uncle Sam Wanted Me

Ripened Reflections of a Lucky Vietnam Era Draftee

By: Daniel Kornstein

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Uncle Sam Wanted Me

Ripened Reflections of a Lucky Vietnam Era Draftee

By: Daniel Kornstein

Uncle Sam Wanted Me is the story of Daniel Kornstein’s being drafted out of the comparative comforts and intellectual stimulation of law school into the rigors and worries of Army life during the Vietnam War. In clear, entertaining, and memorable language, Kornstein looks back more than half a century to explain and try to understand how he and his generation felt about and dealt with the moral issues posed by the Vietnam draft. The author describes what it was like to receive his draft notice as he studied for his first-year final exams, what his reactions were, and what choices he made and why. Like Proust, the seventy-four-year-old author moves back through time into his memory, dipping into and out of his consciousness, with his old Army dog tags as his madeleine. Kornstein turns the story of his being drafted into the Vietnam Era Army into an expansive meditation on coming of age in the shadow of an unpopular war and making important life decisions about reacting to that war. It is his eloquent attempt to use his personal experiences and moods to explore larger issues, to connect social, cultural and historical dots about the relationship between the military and civilian spheres of life in America, to think about what it even means to be an American citizen. The climax of Kornstein’s time in uniform was being assigned as a legal clerk for the prosecutors of a court-martial arising from the horrible 1968 My Lai Massacre in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed, non-combatant old men, women and children. He discusses and analyzes that case. In a final chapter, the author provides a personal long-delayed after-action report summarizing significant lessons from his two-year military experience as a draftee. He considers the pros and cons of an all-volunteer military, whether a draft is necessary and if so how to make it fair and equitable, the possibility of other forms of national service, our continuing entanglement in undeclared wars, more recent examples of war atrocities, and the residual effects of military service on individuals. Uncle Sam Wanted Me offers insights, ripened reflections, for the author’s generation as well as for a new generation that overwhelmingly isn’t personally exposed to anything military, much less the draft.

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1665552891

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Indivisible

By: Daniel Aleman

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Indivisible

By: Daniel Aleman

This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation. Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico started to fade. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. With his parents' fate and his own future hanging in the balance, Mateo must figure out who he is and what he is capable of, even as he's forced to question what it means to be an American. Daniel Aleman's Indivisible is a remarkable story—both powerful in its explorations of immigration in America and deeply intimate in its portrait of a teen boy driven by his fierce, protective love for his parents and his sister.

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The Literature 100

A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time

By: Daniel S. Burt

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The Literature 100

A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time

By: Daniel S. Burt

Here is the revised and expanded edition of Daniel S. Burt's fascinating assessment of the 100 most influential novelists, playwrights, and poets of all times and cultures now with 25 additional entries and some reassessments as well as 25 new black-and-white photographs and illustrations. From Doris Lessing and Gabriel Garc a M rquez to Homer and Marcel Proust, the entries provide a compelling, accessible introduction to significant writers of world literature. All of the writers selected have helped to redefine literature, establishing a standard with which succeeding generations of writers and readers have had to contend. The ranking attempts to discern, from the broadest possible perspective, what makes a literary artist great and how that greatness can be measured and compared. Each profile distills the essence of the writer's career and character to help prompt consideration of literary merit and relationships by the reader.

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1438127065

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The Church at War: The Military Activities of Bishops, Abbots and Other Clergy in England, c. 900-1200

By: Daniel M. G. Gerrard

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The Church at War: The Military Activities of Bishops, Abbots and Other Clergy in England, c. 900-1200

By: Daniel M. G. Gerrard

The fighting bishop or abbot is a familiar figure to medievalists and much of what is known of the military organization of England in this period is based on ecclesiastical evidence. Unfortunately the fighting cleric has generally been regarded as merely a baron in clerical dress and has consequently fallen into the gap between military and ecclesiastical history. This study addresses three main areas: which clergy engaged in military activity in England, why and when? By what means did they do so? And how did others understand and react to these activities? The book shows that, however vivid such characters as Odo of Bayeux might be in the historical imagination, there was no archetypal militant prelate. There was enormous variation in the character of the clergy that became involved in warfare, their circumstances, the means by which they pursued their military objectives and the way in which they were treated by contemporaries and described by chroniclers. An appreciation of the individual fighting cleric must be both thematically broad and keenly aware of his context. Such individuals cannot therefore be simply slotted into easy categories, even (or perhaps especially) when those categories are informed by contemporary polemic. The implications of this study for our understanding of clerical identity are considerable, as the easy distinction between clerics acting in a secular or ecclesiastical capacity almost entirely breaks down and the legal structures of the period are shown to be almost as equivocal and idiosyncratic as the literary depictions. The implications for military history are equally striking as organisational structures are shown to be more temporary, fluid and 'political' than had previously been understood.

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Universal, Intuitive, and Permanent Pictograms

A Human-Centered Design Process Grounded in Embodied Cognition, Semiotics, and Visual Perception

By: Daniel Bühler

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Universal, Intuitive, and Permanent Pictograms

A Human-Centered Design Process Grounded in Embodied Cognition, Semiotics, and Visual Perception

By: Daniel Bühler

This book presents a complete human-centered design process (ISO 9241:210) that had two goals: to design universal, intuitive, and permanent pictograms and to develop a process for designing suitable pictograms. The book analyzes characteristics of visual representations, grounded in semiotics. It develops requirements for pictogram contents, relying on embodied cognition, and it derives content candidates in empirical studies on four continents. The book suggests that visual perception is universal, intuitive, and permanent. Consequently, it derives guidelines for content design from visual perception. Subsequently, pictogram prototypes are produced in a research through design process, using the guidelines and the content candidates. Evaluation studies suggest that the prototypes are a success. They are more suitable than established pictograms and they should be considered universal, intuitive, and permanent. In conclusion, a technical design process is proposed.

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3658323108

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Interesting Times

By: Daniel Blair Stewart

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Interesting Times

By: Daniel Blair Stewart

Interesting Times is an anthology of four stories that confront the mysteries of time and space to present the readers with the ultimate possibility--anything goes.

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1387865501

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Thunder on the River

The Civil War in Northeast Florida

By: Daniel L Schafer

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Thunder on the River

The Civil War in Northeast Florida

By: Daniel L Schafer

When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city was taken four separate times by Federal forces but abandoned after each of the first three occupations. During the fourth occupation, it was used as a staging ground for the ill-fated Union invasion of the Florida interior, which ended in the bloody Battle of Olustee in February 1864. This late Confederate victory, along with the deadly use of underwater mines against the U.S. Navy along the St. Johns, nearly succeeded in ending the fourth Union occupation of Jacksonville. Writing in clear, engaging prose, Daniel Schafer sheds light on this oft-forgotten theatre of war and details the dynamic racial and cultural factors that led to Florida’s engagement on behalf of the South. He investigates how fears about the black population increased and held sway over whites, seeking out the true motives behind both the state and federal initiatives that drove freed blacks from the cities back to the plantations even before the war's end. From the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction, Thunder on the River offers the history of a city and a region precariously situated as a major center of commerce on the brink of frontier Florida. Historians and Civil War aficionados alike will not want to miss this important addition to the literature.

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0813047021

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Dying Right

The Death with Dignity Movement

By: Daniel Hillyard,John Dombrink

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Dying Right

The Death with Dignity Movement

By: Daniel Hillyard,John Dombrink

Dying Right provides an overview of the Death With Dignity movement, a history of how and why Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide, and an analysis of the future of physician-assisted suicide. Engaging the question of how to balance a patient's sense about the right way to die, a physician's role as a healer, and the state's interest in preventing killing, Dying Right captures the ethical, legal, moral, and medical complexities involved in this ongoing debate.

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113595769X

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NIVAC Bundle 7: Pauline Epistles

By: Douglas J. Moo,Craig L. Blomberg,Scott J. Hafemann,Scot McKnight,Klyne Snodgrass,Frank S. Thielman,Daniel Garland,Michael W. Holmes,Walter L. Liefeld

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NIVAC Bundle 7: Pauline Epistles

By: Douglas J. Moo,Craig L. Blomberg,Scott J. Hafemann,Scot McKnight,Klyne Snodgrass,Frank S. Thielman,Daniel Garland,Michael W. Holmes,Walter L. Liefeld

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context. To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections: Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context. Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible. Contemporary Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved. This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

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0310530091

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A History of Boston

By: Daniel Dain

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A History of Boston

By: Daniel Dain

“Dain’s A History of Boston helps the reader understand how land-use and environment contribute to shaping a community. Dain’s Boston is the go-to book.” - R.J. Lyman Boston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the first civil rights movement, the abolition movement, and the women’s rights movement. But the city that gave us the first use of ether as anesthesia, the telephone, technicolor film, and the mutual fund—the city where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott founded their world-changing partnership—was also the hub of the anti-immigration movement, the divisive busing era, and decades of self-inflicted decay. Boston has the most important history of any American city. Yet its history has never been given a comprehensive treatment until now. Join Dan Dain as he acts as your tour guide from the arrival of First Peoples up to the election of Boston’s first woman and person of color as mayor. Dain’s masterful work explores the policies and practices that took Boston from its highest heights to its lowest lows and back again, and examines the central role that density, diversity, and good urban design play in the success of cities like Boston.

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1942155638

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False Hopes

Overcoming the Obstacles to a Sustainable, Affordable Medicine

By: Daniel Callahan

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False Hopes

Overcoming the Obstacles to a Sustainable, Affordable Medicine

By: Daniel Callahan

This text exposes the cause of the health care crisis and proposes an alternative to make care affordable and available to all. It shows how the quest for perfection is the core of the crisis, and suggests a medicine that bows to the limits of human nature and gives priority to meeting basic needs.

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0813526744

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