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UNINA9910465981903321 |
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Lestel Dominique |
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Eat this book : a carnivore's manifesto / / Dominique Lestel ; translated by Gary Steiner |
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New York, New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 |
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1 online resource (157 pages) |
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Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law |
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Meat - Moral and ethical aspects |
Vegetarianism - Moral and ethical aspects |
Human-animal relationships |
Animal welfare |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- A Sort of Apéritif -- APPETIZER. How Does One Recognize an Ethical Vegetarian? -- HORS D'OEUVRE. A Short History of Vegetarian Practices -- FIRST COURSE. Some (Good) Reasons Not to Become an Ethical Vegetarian -- SECOND COURSE. The Ethics of the Carnivore -- A SORT OF DESSERT -- POSTFACE -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. Lestel skillfully synthesizes Western philosophical views on the moral status of animals and holistic cosmologies that recognize human-animal reciprocity. He shows that the carnivore's position is more coherently ethical than vegetarianism, which isolates humans from the world by treating cruelty, violence, and conflicting interests as phenomena outside of |
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life. Describing how meat eaters assume completely-which is to say, metabolically-their animal status, Lestel opens our eyes to the vital relation between carnivores and animals and carnivores' genuine appreciation of animals' life-sustaining flesh. He vehemently condemns factory farming and the terrible footprint of industrial meat eating. His goal is to recreate a kinship between humans and animals that reminds us of what it means to be tied to the world. |
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UNINA9910783314603321 |
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Autore |
Lawrence Mark Atwood |
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Assuming the burden [[electronic resource] ] : Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam / / Mark Atwood Lawrence |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 |
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1-4175-8499-8 |
0-520-94085-7 |
1-59734-474-5 |
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1 online resource (372 pages) |
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From Indochina to Vietnam : revolution and war in a global perspective ; ; v. 1 |
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Indochinese War, 1946-1954 |
Indochina History 1945- |
United States Foreign relations France |
France Foreign relations United States |
United States Foreign relations Vietnam |
Vietnam Foreign relations United States |
France Foreign relations Great Britain |
Great Britain Foreign relations France |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contesting Vietnam -- Visions of Indochina and the world -- U.S. assistance and its limits -- Illusions of autonomy -- Constructing Vietnam -- Crisis renewed -- Domestic divides, foreign solutions -- Closing the circle. |
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This beautifully crafted and solidly researched book explains why and how the United States made its first commitment to Vietnam in the late 1940's. Mark Atwood Lawrence deftly explores the process by which the Western powers set aside their fierce disagreements over colonialism and extended the Cold War fight into the Third World. Drawing on an unprecedented array of sources from three countries, Lawrence illuminates the background of the U.S. government's decision in 1950 to send military equipment and economic aid to bolster France in its war against revolutionaries. That decision, he argues, marked America's first definitive step toward embroilment in Indochina, the start of a long series of moves that would lead the Johnson administration to commit U.S. combat forces a decade and a half later. Offering a bold new interpretation, the author contends that the U.S. decision can be understood only as the result of complex transatlantic deliberations about colonialism in Southeast Asia in the years between 1944 and 1950. During this time, the book argues, sharp divisions opened within the U.S., French, and British governments over Vietnam and the issue of colonialism more generally. While many liberals wished to accommodate nationalist demands for self-government, others backed the return of French authority in Vietnam. Only after successfully recasting Vietnam as a Cold War conflict between the democratic West and international communism-a lengthy process involving intense international interplay-could the three governments overcome these divisions and join forces to wage war in Vietnam. One of the first scholars to mine the diplomatic materials housed in European archives, Lawrence offers a nuanced triangulation of foreign policy as it developed among French, British, and U.S. diplomats and policymakers. He also brings out the calculations of Vietnamese nationalists who fought bitterly first against the Japanese and then against the French as they sought their nation's independence. Assuming the Burden is an eloquent illustration of how elites, operating outside public scrutiny, make decisions with enormous repercussions for decades to come. |
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UNINA9910557471903321 |
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Autore |
Boczar Tomasz |
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Titolo |
Advances in Sensors and Sensing for Technical Condition Assessment and NDT |
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Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Technology: general issues |
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The adequate assessment of key apparatus conditions is a hot topic in all branches of industry. Various online and offline diagnostic methods are widely applied to provide early detections of any abnormality in exploitation. Furthermore, different sensors may also be applied to capture selected physical quantities that may be used to indicate the type of potential fault. The essential steps of the signal analysis regarding the technical condition assessment process may be listed as: signal measurement (using relevant sensors), processing, modelling, and classification. In the Special Issue entitled "Advances in Sensors and Sensing for Technical Condition Assessment and NDT", we present the latest research in various areas of technology. |
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