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Melinda A. Roberts introduces the newcomer to population ethics and investigates the key issues in a way that will be of interest to professional philosophers, economists, lawyers, and students in all those areas who seek to understand what a cogent, intuitively plausible theory of population will look like. To that end, Roberts presents five perplexing but telling existence puzzles that already are or shall soon become important parts of the ...

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Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, University of BristolThis volume presents 10 papers from the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, held at the University of Bristol in September 2004.

Hazardous Waste Incineration: Evaluating the Human Health and Environmental Risks summarizes recent research by experts in the United States. Commissioned in part by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, this volume compiles reports and observations from specialists of various fields. Fourteen chapters respond to the key questions posed by the researchers: What is known about existing hazardous waste incinerators, and their impac...

Poetry and Contemporary Culture: The Question of Value addresses the place of poetry through the cultural institutions and practices which mediate our sense of its value, from anthologies and academia to film and the Internet. Attention is also given to the role of political ideologies and local, national and ethnic identities in the formation of poetic values.With chapters by distinguished critics from both sides of the Atlantic, the book ran...

The fifth revised edition was published in Great Britain as The new Penguin history of the world by Penguin Press/Allen Lane, 2012"--Title page verso.

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Volume V deals with the problems of turnover in the nervous system. "Turnover" is defined in different ways, and the term is used in different contexts. It is used rather broadly in the present volume, and intentionally so. The turnover of macromolecules is only one aspect, here "turnover" in­ dicates the simultaneous and coordinated formation and breakdown of macromolecular species. The complexities of cerebral protein turnover are shown in a...

La presenza della Cina sulla scena internazionale si è rafforzata negli ultimi anni in modo spettacolare, con lo sviluppo impetuoso dell'economia e con l'apertura al turismo. Ma che cosa sappiamo davvero di questo paese? Il libro intende rispondere all'esigenza di una prima informazione, e abbraccia in un solo sguardo l'intera vicenda della storia cinese, dalla preistoria a oggi. Questa edizione aggiornata comprende una sintesi degli avvenimen...

Seeing the UnseenEducating in the Twilight Zone of God's GloryA breakthrough in thinking and practical psychology. Reviewers have likened his style to that of C. S. Lewis and Philip Yancy.Dana Roberts believes that modern psychotherapy, romanticism, repetitious advertising and electronic entertainment haven weakened our mind. It's hurt the reasoning voice inside our head-the theater of our mental images.-what the Bible calls the heart. It enab...