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“silja samerski”

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  • The Decision Trap

    Genetic Education and Its Social Consequences

    by Silja Samerski ...
    The Decision Trap questions a dogma of our time: the assumption that genetic education empowers citizens and increases their autonomy. It argues that professional instructions about genes, genetic risks, and genetic test options convey a genetic worldview which destroys self-confidence and makes clients dependent on genetic experts and technologies. Part one of the book introduces the reader to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time-must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself-a struggle to ... Read more

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  • The City of the Sun

    by Tommaso Campanella ...
    The City of the Sun is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella. It is an important early utopian work. The work was written shortly after Campanella's imprisonment for heresy and sedition.The book is presented as a dialogue between "a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain". Inspired by Plato's Republic and the description of Atlantis ... Read more

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  • Mankind in the Making

    by H.G. Wells ...
    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres. Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man. This edition of Wells’ Mankind in the Making includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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  • Experiment in Autobiography

    by H. G. Wells ...
    This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E. Slosson called "H. G. Wells - A Major Prophet Of His Time". Wells confesses in his autobiography that most of his novels have an autobiographical background; now he pieces them together. Wells has filled more than 700 pages of text with matter of great diversity both in kind and in interest. ... Read more

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  • Placenta

    The Tree of Life

    Edited by Ornella Parolini ...
    Series series Gene and Cell Therapy
    Long regarded as biological waste, the placenta is gaining momentum as a viable product for clinical use. Due to their unique properties, placental cells and derivatives show great promise in curing various diseases. Utilizing contributions from world-renowned experts, Placenta: The Tree of Life considers the therapeutic potential of these cells. I ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement

    A Biocultural Perspective

    by Jon Entine, Bernd Heinrich, Clifford Geertz, Robert Scott, Greg Downey, Vilma Charlton, Dirk Lund Christensen, Loren Cordain, Søren Damkjaer, Joe Friel, Rachael Irving, Kerrie P. Lewis, Peter G. Mewett, Andy Miah, Timothy Noakes, Yannis P. Pitsiladis ...
    The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to the relationship between biology and culture, and the human condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games, and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on movement and social activity, and these activities have served throughout history to encourage the proliferation of human culture for any ... Read more

    $63.39 CAD

  • PRINCIPLES OF CRITICAL CARE 4/E (SET 2)

    by Jesse B. Hall, Gregory A. Schmidt, John Kress ...
    Quickly and accurately diagnose and treat the critically ill patient with guidance from the field's definitive text"…Clearly the finest textbook available in the field." -- Critical Care Medicine journal"…Very well done…unusually user-friendly…excellent…a significant contribution to the field. It should be placed not only in the critical care practitioner's library, but also in the rounds and ... Read more

    $267.19 CAD

  • Knowledge Brokerage for Sustainable Development

    Innovative Tools for Increasing Research Impact and Evidence-Based Policy-Making

    by André Martinuzzi, Michal Sedlacko ...
    The menace of a post-truth era challenges conventional policy-making and science. Instead of fighting an uphill battle against populist solutions, those involved in both policy-making and science have to find innovative ways to collaborate, and make use of the vast amounts of knowledge that are already available. Knowledge brokerage, in this context, is more than a simple question-and-answer game: ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness

    Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment

    by Brian Michael Norton ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel’s participation in eighteenth-century “inquiries after happiness,” an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness with illuminating readings of Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, ... Read more

    $63.39 CAD

  • Essays on the Christian Worldview and Others Political, Literary, and Philosophical

    by Andrew J. Schatkin ...
    This collection of essays and thoughts covers such areas as basic Christian thought, which includes traditional family morality and a great concern for alleviating poverty and promoting social justice, political thought comparing the need for a system which includes both socialist and capitalist elements, and the need for values in our society, which has come to emphasize money, power, and greed ... Read more

    $50.79 CAD

  • The Person and the Common Good

    by Jacques Maritain ...
    Translated by John J. Fitzgerald ...
    The Person and the Common Good, originally published in 1947, presents Jacques Maritain's clearest and most sustained treatment of the person. He asks whether the person is simply the self and nothing more. After more than half a century, Maritain's question still has great validity, given the current inordinate preoccupation with individualism.Presenting with moving insight the relations between ... Read more

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