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El autor defiende la legalizacion de la eutanasia y del suicidio asistido, castigados en el Codigo Penal espanol. Eso permitiria, con requisitos muy concretos, que determinados enfermos pudieran decidir sobre su modo de morir, de acuerdo con su dignidad, libertad y convicciones, y respetando los derechos humanos. Los pacientes podrian morir en paz y sin que se penalice a los medicos o ayudantes.En este libro, Marcelo Palacios considera necesar...

First of a series of books based on the spiritual wanderings of the author and others with the intent of sharing ideas about peace and harmomy and of responding effectively to Obama's personal challenge of change.

The book will fill a long-standing gap in Australian intellectual history and the history of early socialist movements in Australia.

This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study.

An exploration of the social and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the tropical rainforest.

Dr Steinberg discusses Andrey Bely's novels by analysing Wagner's musical techniques and literary devices that Bely employs.

This book contains an in-depth treatment on distillation tray hydrodynamics and efficiency.

Written primarily as an undergraduate text, this book is also a useful general reference for professional pomologists, researchers, extension agents, and progressive fruit growers.

Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, ...

Sixteen Greek myths, especially selected and carefully adapted for young listeners. Includes the stories of Arachne, Pandora, Clytie, Pandora, and a dozen other short myths. While the outlines of the stories come, for the most part, from the Roman poet Ovid, additional details are included to enhance their appeal to children. Suitable for ages 8 and up.

The way in which we understand the concept of intelligence is rooted in metaphor and metonymy, for example, it is common to describe people as bright or thick or call them silly asses. This book explores the motivation for some of the lexemes in this semantic field across the history of the English language, considering the range of cognitive mechanisms and cultural factors that can inform metaphorical and metonymical mappings. It focuses on d...

Philosophy of Language: Philosophical Perspectives" brings together state of the art essays to address the key issues at the heart of the philosophy of language and philosophical linguistics, written by some of the top minds in the field Explores cutting-edge research topics including semantic relativism, presupposition, vagueness, quantification, and the foundations of semanticsIncludes contributions from some of the top minds in the field, i...

Leading Chinese and Western philosophers work alongside one another to explore the writings of one of the twentieth century's most perplexing and original ethical and metaphysical thinkers.Comparative discussion of Levinas on phenomenology, ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy within European philosophy and with Chinese philosophyInnovative accounts of Levinasian themes of surpassing phenomenology, post-Heideggerian philosophy, the phi...

A data-intensive guide to the culture of species in the orchid genus Dendrobium.

This book features a collection of poems that expresses the author's thoughts about life, death and all of what occurs in between.

Statistical and Methodological Aspects of Oral Health Research Methodological Aspects of Oral Health Research provides oral health researchers with an overview of the methodological aspects that are important in planning, conducting and analyzing their research projects whilst also providing biostatisticians with an idea of the statistical problems that arise when tackling oral health research questions. This collection presents critical r...

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Mind Travel is a ride through the history of man written in the chromosomes of mankind. At all levels it is two tales pitting opposites, ancient and modern, greed and understanding, interwoven and conflicting until they finally merge to one.

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Of all the millions of organisms alive on Earth today and that lived in the past, the human species, Homo sapiens, is the only one, as far as the scientists can tell, that is capable of creative thoughts. All of us, every one of us can do it as it is part of our badge of humanity. Indeed, it might be our only true badge of humanity since in no other characteristics are we truly unique and supreme among all species, living or extinct. Creative ...