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What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning o...
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What is the meaning of life It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous and perhaps more than a little absurd. Is there one profound answer, an ultimate purpose behind hu..
What's Wrong?: Applied Ethicists and Their Critics
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Is abortion morally permissible Is it wrong to hunt animals for sport or to slaughter them for food Should human cloning be permitted Is torture ever justified Now in a second edition, What's Wrong Applied Ethicists and Their Critics presents a thorough and engaging exploration of these complex ..
When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish: ...and Ot...
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From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "bitter gene" that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the curious ways..
When Firms Change Direction
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Firms within the same competitive environment (industry) respond in different ways to changing environmental (competitive) conditions. The authors of this book argue that the strategy field has not found answers to the questions that flow from this observation. They answer these questions by using w..
When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities Acros...
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While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two forms of performance for men. Dance is often regarded as a feminine activity, and men who dance are frequently stereotyped as suspect, gay, or somehow unnatural. But what really happens when men danc..
When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Ele...
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In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the nineteenth century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of th..
When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Ele...
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Product DescriptionIn the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the 19th century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When Old Technologies Were New , Carolyn Marvin explores..
When the World Began: Stories Collected in Ethiopi...
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The classic stories of our childhood--"Cinderella," "The Sleeping Beauty," Little Red Riding Hood"--exist only in books today, but they started their lives as oral tales told from one generation to the next. In Ethiopia, however, great treasuries of fairy tales still live in people's heads andhave n..
Where's the Evidence?: Debates in Modern Medicine
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Medicine is moving away from reliance on the proclamations of authorities to the use of numerical methods to estimate the size of effects of its interventions. But a rumbling note of uneasiness underlines present-day medical progress: the more we know, The more questions we encounter about what to d..
White-Jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-War (Oxfor...
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Review "It's terrific to see this in print again, and with a useful appendix as well."--Charles Npravnik, State University of New York at Brockport"An unusually attractive edition, from the cover design to the print and the generous margins. The author chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes..
Who Are We?: Theories of Human Nature
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What is our nature What is this enigma that we call human Who are we Since the dawn of human history, people have exhibited wildly contradictory qualities: good and evil, love and hate, strength and weakness, kindness and cruelty, aggressiveness and pacifism, generosity and greed, courage and cow..
Who Chose the Gospels?: Probing the Great Gospel C...
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The Bible contains four Gospels which tell the story of Jesus of Nazareth. And yet, many more Gospels once existed. Who, then, determined which Gospels would, for the next two thousand years, serve as the main gateways to Jesus and his teaching Recent books and films have traced the decision to a se..
WHO SAYS?: The Writer's Research
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HOW to do research in today's digital ageWHY research is essential to academic workWritten for today's college students, Who Says The Writer's Research addresses contemporary research issues head on, including research in the age of collaborative information sites like Wikipedia. Authors Deborah H...
Who's Afraid of the WTO?
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Product DescriptionWho is afraid of the WTO, the World Trade Organization The list is long and varied. Many workers--and the unions that represent them--claim that WTO agreements increase import competition and threaten their jobs. Environmentalists accuse the WTO of encouraging pollution and preve..
Who's the Patient Here?: Portraits of the Young Ps...
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Written and illustrated by two psychiatrists-in-training, this book is a cartoon guide to the variety of feelings commonly experienced by beginning psychotherapists and other helping professionals, be they psychiatrist, social workers, counselors, teachers, bartenders, or cab drivers. The various de..
Why Be Good?: A Historical Introduction to Ethics
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In Plato's Republic, the character Thrasymachus asks whether it is important to be morally good. He contends that the only rational policy to follow is one of strict self-interest; if you can get away with it, why not do the "wrong" thing Why be good Ideal for courses in introductory ethics or the ..
Why Cooperate?: The Incentive to Supply Global Pub...
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Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that the..
Why Do Criminals Offend?: A General Theory of Crim...
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This book focuses on what is probably the most frequently asked question about crime: Why do criminals offend Renowned criminologist Robert Agnew draws on a broad range of crime theories and the latest research to present a general theory of crime and delinquency, rich with student-accessible examp..
Why Does College Cost So Much?
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Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a different view. To explain risi..
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?
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Why does tragedy give pleasure Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering and death Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature Nuttall's wide-ranging, lively,..
Why Have You Come Here?: The Jesuits and the First...
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Christian evangelism was the ostensible motive for much of the early European interaction with the indigenous population of America. The religious orders of the Catholic Church were the front-line representatives of Western culture and the ones who met indigenous America face-to-face. They were also..
Why Humans Have Cultures: Explaining Anthropology ...
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Why Humans Have Cultures examines three basic questions: what unity underlies human cultural diversity What are the origins of that diversity How can we understand it The author argues that it is the ways in which people interact--rather than technological advances--that have been of crucial impo..
Why Is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Cont...
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Why Is That Art addresses common questions that viewers raise about contemporary art: Why is that art Why is it in an art museum Who says it's art If I did this, would it be art Why is it good Covering a broad, diverse, and engaging sampling of works--abstract and representationalpainting, mon..
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in Internat...
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For more than two decades, John J. Mearsheimer has been regarded as one of the foremost realist thinkers on foreign policy. Clear and incisive as well as a fearlessly honest analyst, his coauthored 2007 New York Times bestseller, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, aroused a firestormwith its ..
Why People Buy
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Why People Buy provides an original approach to studying and understanding consumers, showing how to identify their goals, wants, dbeliefs, and choices. Discussing these and many other issues from the point of view of the marketing manager seeking to attract new customers, retain old ones, increase ..