Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource : digital, HTML file(s)
Disciplina	363.32
Soggetto topico	Police-community relations Demonstrations Crowd control Conflict management
ISBN	1-84966-090-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	pt. 1. Protest crowd-police dynamics -- part 2. The mutual respect paradigm in practice.
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bloomsbury Academic
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	Biblical Terror
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910476845103321

Autore	Gill Josie
Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (208 pages)
Disciplina	823.92093529
Collana	Explorations in science and literature
Soggetto topico	English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism Race in literature Science in literature
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction 1. The Roots of African Eve: Science Writing on Human Origins and Alex Haley's Roots 2. Race, Genetic Ancestry Tracing and Facial Expression: "Focusing on the Faces" in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 3. "One Part Truth and Three Parts Fiction": Race, Science and Narrative in Zadie Smith's White Teeth 4. "The Sick Swollen Heart of This Land": Pharmacogenomics, Racial Medicine and Colson Whitehead's Apex Hides the Hurt 5. Mutilation and Mutation: Epigenetics and Racist Environments in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (561 p.)
Disciplina	181/.07
Soggetto topico	Islamic philosophy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4725-6946-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; Islamic History Timeline; How to Use the Encyclopedia; General Bibliography; List of Contributors; List of Biographical Entries and Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z; Glossary; Index
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Autore	Brassington Iain
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (208 pages)
Disciplina	174.957
Collana	Science, ethics & society
Soggetto topico	Philosophy and the life sciences
ISBN	1-84966-339-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Good of Bioscience; Understanding the good life; Happiness and flourishing; The importance of projects; Function and the good life; The reasonable expectation standard; Rebooting the therapy/enhancement distinction; Closing the distinction?; The structure of this book; Notes; Chapter 2 Bad Arguments against Better Lives; Repugnance as a moral tool; Nature and human nature; Habermas' future; The argument from dignity; A slight reprieve?; The mythologization of the given; Is enhancement permissible?; Notes. Chapter 3 Must We Make Better People?John Harris' argument for a duty to enhance; Harris' argument; Why would enhancement be a duty?; Beneficence and duties to enhance; What is enhancement?; What is 'acceptable'?; A duty to enhance?; Notes; Chapter 4 Sex, Death and Cabbages: A Defence of Mortality; Defending against death; Avoiding deaths and saving lives; What's wrong with mortality ; Why not be immortal?; Self-inflicted boredom?; Filling a life, and the LOT revisited; Mortality and the good life; The boon of mortality; Notes; Chapter 5 Designs for Life; Enhancement in sport. The character of the sportBecoming a blade-runner; On me, not in me; Other objections; Body modification and the good life; Notes; Chapter 6 Thinking Better about Better Thinking; Enhancing memory; Out of our heads; Criminal detection: A duty to remember?; Memory and absentmindedness; Enhancing processing; The argument from alienation; The social benefits of cognitive enhancement; The benefits of distraction; Alienation revisited; The case for cognitive enhancement: Not wholly proven; Notes; Chapter 7 Good Is as Good Does? The Case of 'Moral Enhancement' The possibility of 'moral enhancement'Strategies for moral enhancement; The argument from freedom; Freedom and options; Nicomachean moral enhancement; Rebuilding the argument from freedom; The argument from reasonable disagreement; Enhancing moral reasoning; Is moral enhancement desirable anyway?; Notes; Chapter 8 Bioscience and the Duty to Research, Part 1: Ways to Make Life Better; Is there a duty of beneficence?; Beneficence, benefit and obligation; What would be beneficial research?; The argument from incommensurability; The argument from anthropology; Ecology and economy. Is there a duty to research?Notes; Chapter 9 Bioscience and the Duty to Research, Part 2: Non-Beneficent Arguments; Formulating the duty to research; The prevention and causation argument; The argument from rescue; The argument from filial piety; The free rider argument; Fairness and the future; Reason and obligation; A puzzle about duties; Notes; 9-and-a-bit Bioscience and the Good Life; Note; Bibliography; Index.
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