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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Global Legal Practice
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Elsevier Science Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
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Hachette Australia Right and Wrong How to decide for yourself make
Book SynopsisHow can you be sure you''re doing the right thing? Can some actions be legally right, yet morally wrong? What are the rights and wrongs of leaving a relationship? Are the rules different for sex? Is it always wrong to tell a lie? Why be good?No one pretends that making moral choices is easy. In this updated edition, which includes a new prologue on the moral minefields of power and wealth, Hugh Mackay argues that because morality is all about the way we treat each other, we make our best decisions - at work, among friends, in the neighbourhood, in a marriage or a family - when we imagine how our actions might affect the wellbeing of others. Our moral choices actually help shape the kind of society we live in, for better or worse.At a time when many of us are struggling to navigate an ever more complex world, Right & Wrong offers you the essential tools for making confident moral choices, and for deciding what''s right for you and for the people around you.Trade ReviewMackay writes about complex issues in a wise and deceptively simple way - Anne Deveson, Sydney Morning Herald challenges us to face the future with more imagination and optimism - Maggie Hamilton, Good Reading
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Edinburgh University Press Health Inequalities and Global Justice
Book SynopsisExplores the moral dilemmas posed by disparities in health across nationsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Health inequality as a concern for global redistributive justice, Patti Tamara Lenard and Christine Straehle; Part 1: A right to equal health?; 1. Is there a human right to health?, Adina Preda; 2. What's Wrong with Global Health Inequalities?, Daniel M. Hausman; 3. Ecological Subjects, 'Ethical Place-making', and Global Health Equity, Lisa Eckenwiler; 4. Health inequalities, capabilities, and global justice, Sridhar Venkatapuram; Part 2: Who is responsible for remedying global health inequality?; 5. Reexamining the Ethical Foundations: Behind the Distribution of Global Health, Garrett Wallace Brown; 6. Global Health and Responsibility, Gillian Brock; 7. Outlining the global duties of justice owed to women living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, Angela Kaida and Patti Lenard; Part 3: Measuring heath or health outcomes; 8. Measuring Global Health, Kristin Voigt; 9. Exploring a Sufficiency View of Health Equity, Yukiko Asada; 10. Rating Efforts to Extend Access on Essential Medicines: Increasing Global Health Impact, Nicole Hassoun; Part 4: Borders and health; 11. Justice and Health Inequalities in Humanitarian Crises: Structured Health Vulnerabilities and Natural Disasters, Matthew R. Hunt and Ryoa Chung; 12. 'Illegal' Migrants and Access to Public Health: A Human Rights Approach, Phillip Cole; 13. Medical Migration between the Human Right to Health and Freedom of Movement, Eszter Kollar; 14. Health Care Migration, Vulnerability and Individual Autonomy - The Case of Malawi, Christine Straehle; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Cyberspace and Instability
Book SynopsisA wide range of actors have publicly identified cyber stability as a key policy goal but the meaning of stability in the context of cyber policy remains vague and contested: vague because most policymakers and experts do not define cyber stability when they use the concept; contested because they propose measures that rely ? often implicitly ? on divergent understandings of cyber stability. This is a thorough investigation of instability within cyberspace and of cyberspace itself. Its purpose is to reconceptualise stability and instability for cyberspace, highlight their various dimensions and thereby identify relevant policy measures. It critically examines both ?classic? notions associated with stability ? for example, whether cyber operations can lead to unwanted escalation ? as well as topics that have so far not been addressed in the existing cyber literature, such as the application of a decolonial lens to investigate Euro-American conceptualisations of stability in cyberspace.
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Edinburgh University Press Dwelling in the Age of Climate Change
Book SynopsisCurrently, adaptation policy for climate change prioritises economic and technological dimensions of governance and action. Now, Elaine Kelly brings continental theory into the conversation to explore the ethical dilemmas stemming from emerging global political crises of migration, displacement and communal relocation related to climate change.
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Edinburgh University Press Dwelling in the Age of Climate Change
Book SynopsisCurrently, adaptation policy for climate change prioritises economic and technological dimensions of governance and action. Now, Elaine Kelly brings continental theory into the conversation to explore the ethical dilemmas stemming from emerging global political crises of migration, displacement and communal relocation related to climate change.
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Edinburgh University Press Ethics of Drone Strikes
Book SynopsisThe violent use of armed, unmanned aircraft ('drones') is increasing worldwide, but uncertainty persists about the moral status of remote-control killing and why it should be restrained.
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Edinburgh University Press Data Justice and the Right to the City
Book SynopsisExplores of social justice, citizenship, and community in the context of data-driven urbanism
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Pan Macmillan Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive
Book Synopsis'This is a life-changing book. Read it three times and then give a copy to anyone you care about. It will make things better' – Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing'All you need is Buster Benson. His methods are instantly actionable, [and] his writing is funny and relatable' – Adam Grant, author of OriginalsWhy Are We Yelling is Buster Benson's essential guide to having more honest and constructive arguments.The way we argue is broken. Whether it’s about Brexit, the existence of ghosts, the best burger in the city or who’s allowed to sit in your favourite chair, we end up digging our heels in and yelling at one another or choosing to avoid heated topics entirely. There has to be a better way.Buster Benson, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur with two decades of experience facilitating hard conversations at some of the biggest tech companies in the world, recommends eight things to try in order to make disagreements more productive. By applying these eight new habits, we can flip frustrating, unproductive disagreements into ones that bear fruit and bring people closer together.In this book you'll master practical skills to make your disagreements more productive by:- Understanding four ways of disagreeing that are more valuable than simply ‘winning’ the argument- Identifying the kind of argument you’re having so you know how best to negotiate it- Articulating the best possible version of your opponent’s argument before attacking itWith this toolkit we can explore more possibilities and perspectives in the world, simply because we’ll no longer be afraid to wade into scary topics of conversation.Trade ReviewConflict can be ugly. But if you follow the precepts of Buster Benson, you’ll discover that it’s also inevitable, necessary, and even helpful. Why Are We Yelling? provides a taxonomy of disagreement - explaining how arguments arise, how to handle them, and how to resolve them. Nobody can completely avoid conflict, but everybody can learn how to argue better and more productively with this provocative book. -- Daniel H. Pink, author of When and To Sell Is HumanThis is a life-changing book. Read it three times and then give a copy to anyone you care about. It will make things better -- Seth Godin, author of This is MarketingAll you need is Buster Benson. His methods are instantly actionable, his writing is funny and relatable, and his book is the ideal companion to Difficult Conversations -- Adam Grant, author of Originals and Give and Take, and host of the TED podcast WorkLifeI’m a sucker for frameworks, and this is one of the greats. You'll learn to turn the messy, frustrating, emotional experience of arguing into a fine art. You'll watch the quality of your collaborations—and your ideas—go through the roof -- Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and IndistractableConflict can be ugly. But if you follow the precepts of Buster Benson, you’ll discover that it’s also inevitable, necessary, and even helpful . . . everybody can learn how to argue better and more productively with this provocative book -- Daniel H. Pink, author of When and To Sell Is HumanReading Why Are We Yelling? is like having your most calm, level-headed friend explain how you might diffuse a tense situation in your life and work. I especially recommend this book to anyone who has ever tried to ‘win’ an argument only to end up frustrated with the results -- Jason Shellen, co-founder of Google Reader, Boxer, and Brizzly; founder of A Little DriveWith provocative ideas—and the brain science to back them up—Why Are We Yelling? offers fresh approaches to conflict and connection -- Sarah Milstein, author of The Twitter BookLively, accessible, and practical guide . . . eight valuable principles for turning rude arguments or suppressed differences into dynamic conversations that illuminate, connect, and yield better results for all -- William Ury, co-author of Getting to Yes, and author of Getting to Yes with YourselfThis clever, empowering book shows how conflict can be a source of growth, intrigue, and joy . . . This is the perfect book at the perfect time to bring some sanity back into disagreements -- Annie Duke, author of Thinking in BetsBuster Benson turns everything you know about arguing on its head. Before reading this book, I never thought I’d be looking forward to my next disagreement. Productive disagreeing is the most underrated life skill you can build -- Ev Williams, CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of TwitterIn today’s polarized climate, 'productive disagreement' often feels like an oxymoron. Benson brilliantly challenges this idea, offering a thoughtful guidebook on how to lower our voices, tolerate tension, and have the constructive dialogue our world needs -- General Stanley McChrystal, author of Leaders and Team of Teams
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Autonomedia Don't Network: The Avant Garde After Networks
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Voices from Captivity: Incarceration from Siberia
Book SynopsisBringing together a range of first-hand testimonies of captives, this personal and arresting collection provides an overview of what life inside is actually like. Drawing on memoirs of captives - including those imprisoned for stealing money, murder, illegal protest or no reason at all - this book presents the universal experience of being incarcerated and brings to life the humanity of those behind locked doors.Tracing the career of the captive from the moment the door is first locked behind them, to analysis of the oddities of relationships developed in prison and how the deprivation of sex is dealt with, the book then reflects on the cruelties faced while inside, and concludes by looking at the problems faced when the supposedly happy day of release finally arrives. These insightful accounts help empathise and reflect on the impact of prison practices on inmates.Trade ReviewThis book uses the words of prisoners of all varieties - criminal, political, wartime - to give a moving flavour of life in confinement. It should be read by all those with an interest in penology, by those responsible for administering a penal system, and by those of us in whose name imprisonment is inflicted on others. -- Professor Bill ForsterPrisoners are often talked about, but less often heard. By foregrounding the voice of those who have been subjected to imprisonment, JE Thomas illuminates their emotional and psychological experiences. This approach is compassionate and humane, resisting the marginalisation of prisoners and challenging popular misconceptions about prisons. -- Dr. Jamie Bennett, Governor of HMP Grendon & Springhill and Research Associate at University of OxfordWhat a good idea for a book! The author is someone with extensive professional experience of prisons and of prisoner education and welfare. He is also a man with a humane understanding of the varying psychological conditions of prisoners. These qualities do not necessarily go together. They have enabled him to write a book that explains such conditions to the reader in a detailed and empathetic way. It provides an account of a regrettably common and yet far from uniform part of the human condition too often either ignored or regarded with prejudice. -- Professor W. John Morgan, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. On being locked up; 2. Settling down; 3. A community?; 4. Dealing with the staff; 5. Prisoners in authority; 6. The world of communication; 7. The studied organisation of cruelty; 8. Cruel and unusual punishment; 9. Sex and the captive; 10. Political prisoners; 11. On freedom; Bibliography
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Oneworld Publications Cloning: A Beginner's Guide
Book SynopsisWould you drink milk from a cloned cow? Should we clone extinct or endangered species? Are we justified in using stem cells to develop cures? When will we clone the first human? Ever since Dolly the sheep, such questions have rarely been far from the public consciousness. Aaron Levine explains the science of cloning and guides readers around the thorny political and ethical issues that have developed.Trade Review"I highly recommend this book to everyone: I think it would be especially good as additional reading material for introductory genetics courses, bioethics and biomedical classes." * Scienceblogs.com *
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New Clarion Press Nudes, Prudes and Attitudes: Pornography and
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Quercus Publishing An Unsolicited Gift: Why We Do What We Do
Book SynopsisThis book explores the profound effect that our upbringing has on our adult lives. Friedman skilfully explores the way that lifestyles choices reflect our interactions with our parents during childhood. He attempts to show how parents are behind many of the decisions we make, ranging from the work we do and the leisure activities we enjoy to our choice of partner and our sexual interest. He makes a strong case that a better understanding of the way we were brought up can give us the tools to avoid antisocial behaviour. He shows how this knowledge can help us to avoid the mistakes our parents made with us, and stop us from passing them on to our children. An Unsolicited Gift sums up the views of an author with wide experience of the psychology on parenting and its influences.Trade Review'It's been a great year for books about naughty ladies - I loved Dennis Friedman's Ladies of the Bedchamber' Edwina Currie, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'A very good read, full of old nuggets of fascinating information' What's On in London
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The Westbourne Press Invisible: Britain's Migrant Sex Workers
Book SynopsisAdapted into the Channel 4 documentary 'Sex: My British Job' by Nick Broomfield. Ming and Beata share neither the same language nor cultural background, yet their stories are remarkably similar. Both are single mothers in their thirties and both came to Britain in search of a new life: Ming from China and Beata from Poland. Neither imagined that their journey would end in a British brothel. In this chilling expose, investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai works undercover as a housekeeper in a brothel and unveils the terrible reality of the British sex trade. Workers are trapped and controlled - the lack of freedoms this invisible strait of society suffers is both shocking and scandalous and at odds with the idea of a modern Britain in the twenty-first century.Trade Review'A profound, disturbing and compassionate account of the tragic lives of women migrant workers who live and suffer in our midst - Once read there is no place for denial or complacency - they can be invisible no longer' Helen Bamber OBE 'This is investigative journalism at its best. Fearless, rigorous and compassionate, Invisible is a shocking expose of Britain's shadow world of sex slaves that enthrals and shames by turn. A master storyteller, Hsiao-Hung Pai opens a door onto one of the most secretive and least understood communities in the UK. Essential reading for anyone interested in the real price of sex.' James Brabazon, author of My Friend the Mercenary 'To navigate the sex trade of Chinese women in the UK with Invisible is to feel the desperation of thousands of women who enter sex work as the only option for survival. Hsiao-Hung Pai has done it again; she went undercover, smelled the breath of violence, cried hidden in a brothel bathroom and videotaped the underworld of pimps and madams who make their living off slaving women in need. Hsiao-Hung deflates the myth of sex work as a free choice for migrant women.' Lydia Cacho, author of Slavery Inc. 'Hsiao-Hung Pai is an intrepid seeker of truth, fearless and unstoppable.' --Nick Broomfield 'Drawing out her subjects most intimate stories, Pai delivers an engrossing and compassionate account of their lives.' --Sunday Times
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University of Hertfordshire Press Prostitution in Victorian Colchester: Controlling
Book SynopsisThe decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest in the country and the town experienced an economic upturn as well as benefiting from the many social events organised by officers. But there was a downside: some of the soldiers' behaviour was highly disruptive and, since very few private soldiers were allowed to marry, prostitution flourished. As a result the number of cases of venereal disease soared. Having compiled a database of nearly 350 of Colchester's nineteenth-century prostitutes, the authors examine how they lived and operated and who their customers were. What were the routes into and out of prostitution and what was life like as a prostitute? Was it even seen by some as an acceptable way for girls and young women to boost inadequate earnings from more respectable work? How did prostitution intersect with the social life of the town, especially as this was played out in local beerhouses? This is also an investigation of how authority in its many guises - from policeman and solicitor to magistrate and lady reformer - dealt with prostitution and the many problems associated with it, bringing a great many vested interests into conflict with each other. Such large numbers of women could not be tidied away into a discreet red-light district but lived and worked all over the town. They gave the police considerable trouble, but it was routinely declared that nothing could be done about them. Prostitution itself was not illegal whilst efforts to tackle the women's criminal activity, such as soliciting, theft or assault, were largely ineffective. Under pressure from the army, Parliament passed the Contagious Diseases Acts, allowing prostitutes affected with venereal symptoms in garrison towns to be confined for treatment, but there was widespread opposition to these controversial laws. Bringing to bear considerations of class and gender, urban development, health and welfare, religion and moral reform, this is a wide-ranging, detailed and original study. As well as providing a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century Colchester, it will appeal to all those interested in the history of women's work, policing and society more widely.Table of Contents1. Colchester's Victorian Garrison 2. The Life of the Prostitute, Cradle to Grave 3. Hannah Murrells and Thomas Platford 4. Men who Encouraged Prostitution 5. The Lifeboat and the Anchor 6. The Contagious Diseases Acts and the Lock Hospital 7. Policing Prostitution 8. The Role of Colchester's Solicitors 9. Adjudicating Prostitution 10. The Ship at Headgate 11. Reformers and Neighbours
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Medizinischer Standard und digitale
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Daten teilen besser heilen
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Health Care Compliance im Datenschutzbereich
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Lit Verlag Voices from the Edge: Justice, Agency and the
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Hirmer Verlag Terrible Beauty: Elephant – Human- Ivory
Book SynopsisThe elephant is a much-admired animal, but it is also endangered. The ivory from its tusks has been in great demand across the centuries and throughout all cultures. What sort of material is it? How has it been used in the past and the present? And what can we do today to protect the world’s largest mammals from poachers? This lavishly illustrated volume embarks on a journey through cultural history and takes up a contemporary position. Ivory fascinates. As long as 40,000 years ago people carved mammoth tusks into artful figures and musical instruments, and it remains popular as a material to this day. Ivory polarises, because the animal’s tusks also stand for injustice and violence. The exploitation of man and nature, the threatened extinction of the elephant, poaching and organised crime are phenomena which we associate with ivory. The publication approaches the subject critically and poses the question as to our responsibility in our dealings with both animal and material.Trade Review“Terrible Beauty: Elephant, Human, Ivory . . . . was one of the first exhibits sponsored by the Stiftung Humboldt Forum, a newly formed partnership of cultural institutions in Berlin. This catalog, of the same name, documents the primary challenge undertaken in the exhibit: to examine ethical questions related to the appreciation, study, and exhibition of ivory, a material that is inevitably tied to and dependent upon the killing of elephants. The conflicting dynamics of this ‘fatal combination of beauty and cruelty’ are woven throughout the catalog, poignantly leaving the reader both awed and saddened.” * ARLIS/NA Reviews *
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Religionsphilosophie
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Ewald von Kleist Verlag Arztrecht leicht gemacht
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The University of Chicago Press Temporarily Yours
Book SynopsisDespite increased economic opportunities for women, sexual commerce has not only thrived in the Western world, it has diversified along technological, spatial, and social lines. This work paints a picture of the state of global sexual commerce and its relationship to a burgeoning consumer culture.Trade Review"This is an ambitious book - highly readable, compelling, and original. Bernstein's claim is that the character and organization of sex work has shifted. Whereas the signature form of sex work used to be the nonwhite streetwalker working in largely marginal neighborhoods, today, she reveals, sex work is largely private, relying heavily on the Internet, and provided by someone that is as often white and middle-class as nonwhite and poor." - Steven Seidman, author of Beyond the Closet"
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The University of Chicago Press The Reinvention of Obscenity Sex Lies and
Book SynopsisThe concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan de Jean suggests, its modern form, the same that today's politicians decry, was invented in seventeenth century France. This work also casts a fresh light on the mythical link between sexual impropriety and all things French.Trade Review"Joan DeJean's new book is a fascinating study that like so much of her work identifies some of the sources of our own modernity in practices and concepts that emerged and took characteristic form in seventeenth-century France. It is masterfully written, beautifully conceived, convincingly argued, tellingly organized, and a delight to read." - Ross Chambers, author of The Writing of Melancholy: Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism
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The University of Chicago Press The Death Penalty Volume I
Book SynopsisWhile much has been written against the death penalty, the author contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always obviously, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life.
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The University of Chicago Press Playing God
Book SynopsisTechnology evolves at a dazzling speed, particularly in the field of genetic engineering. But the public has not had much to say about the advancements in human genetics. This text asks why and explores the social forces that have led to the thinning out of public debate over genetic engineering.
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The University of Chicago Press Playing God Human Genetic Engineering and the
Book SynopsisTechnology evolves at a dazzling speed, particularly in the field of genetic engineering. But the public has not had much to say about the advancements in human genetics. This text asks why and explores the social forces that have led to the thinning out of public debate over genetic engineering.
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The University of Chicago Press Tourist Attractions
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The University of Chicago Press The Art of Moral Protest Culture Biography
Book SynopsisProtest has become an everyday part of modern societies, an outlet for voicing and discussing basic moral issues. This study integrates diverse examples of protest, from 19th-century boycotts to recent anti-nuclear, animal-rights and environmental movements, showing how social movements operate.Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Pt. 1: Basic Approaches Pt. 2: Biography, Culture, and Willingness Pt. 3: Movement Culture Pt. 4: Protest and the Broader Culture Pt. 5: A Normative View Appendix on Evidence Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Art of Moral Protest Culture Biography and
Book SynopsisProtest has become an everyday part of modern societies, an outlet for voicing and discussing basic moral issues. This study integrates diverse examples of protest, from 19th-century boycotts to recent anti-nuclear, animal-rights and environmental movements, showing how social movements operate.
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The University of Chicago Press Phoenix Zones Where Strength Is Born and
Book SynopsisFerdowsian combines compelling stories of survivors with the latest science on resilience to help us understand the link between violence against people and animals and the biological foundations of recovery, peace, and hope.Trade Review"Human and nonhuman animal rights activist Dr. Hope Ferdowsian has witnessed the horrific effects of brutality directed at both. Phoenix Zones are sanctuaries throughout the earth that extraordinary people have created to allow these dignified human and nonhuman victims to reclaim their lives. An acute observer of all animals, human and nonhuman, Hope's fine prose and deftly drawn portraits allow us to understand how we can not only support these Phoenix Zones, but create a world in which they become obsolete."--Steven Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project "An extraordinary, vital book that demonstrates how trauma runs deep, not recognizing gender, race, nationality, age or species. An absorbing read that combines hard science with adventure, personal observation, and compassion."--Ingrid Newkirk, president and cofounder of PETA "This is a gem of a book. Using real stories about real people, Phoenix Zones delivers a powerful message about how we may confront, understand, and overcome adversity, and make the world a better place for ourselves and the other animals that we share it with. It radiates light and offers hope in these dark and dangerous times."--David Livingstone Smith, author of Less Than Human
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The University of Chicago Press Casuistry and Modern Ethics A Poetics of
Book SynopsisIn this text Richard B. Miller attempts to shed new light on the potential of casuistry case-based reasoning for resolving questions of conscience raised by the practical quandaries of modern life.
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The University of Chicago Press Public Enemies Public Heroes Screening the
Book SynopsisA study of Hollywood gangster films. This book examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Combining film analysis with archival material, the study shows how the industry circumvented censure.
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The University of Chicago Press Caribbean Pleasure Industry
Book SynopsisAnalyzes men who have sex with male tourists, yet identify themselves as "normal" hetero-sexual men and struggle to maintain this status within their relationships with wives and girlfriends. This book is suitable for those concerned with health and sexuality in the Caribbean or beyond.Trade Review"A first-rate analysis.... This wonderfully nuanced study challenges readers to think simultaneously about the cultural and structural aspects of cross-cultural sexual interactions across international borders, and how those interactions impact local and global constructions of sexuality." - Hector Carrillo, San Francisco State University"
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The University of Chicago Press The Comfort Women Sexual Violence and
Book SynopsisIn an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the comfort women - mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by Japanese army - endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. This study reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together determined the fate of Korean comfort women.Trade Review"A courageous, judicious, and well-written book that refuses to yield to knee-jerk responses or politically correct narratives, but rather insists on setting the comfort women within broader historical and cultural contexts. Sympathetic and sensitive, C. Sarah Soh nevertheless challenges both feminist and ethnic nationalist paradigms in an astonishing display of objectivity." - Gail Lee Bernstein, author of Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family"
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The University of Chicago Press Touching Encounters
Book SynopsisOften depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. This book addresses how masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era of Internet communications.Trade Review"Strongly grounded in debates within sociology, Kevin Walby's work reaches beyond its disciplinary base by drawing on anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, as well as on literary/cultural theory and queer theory. Touching Encounters is very well-researched, well-organized, and well-written - an original and fascinating contribution to the new sociology of sex." (Tim Dean, University at Buffalo, SUNY)"
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McGill-Queen's University Press Net Privacy How We Can Be Free in an Age of
Book SynopsisThe internet is unprecedented and ubiquitous. Everyone can watch everyone and be watched back, now or later, again and again. What does this mean for privacy?Trade Review"Molitorisz has a mastery of this sprawling and complex topic and has succeeded in navigating the tricky balance between scholarly rigour and accessibility. A well-written, lively, and persuasive book." Colin Bennett, University of Victoria
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Columbia University Press Sex Among Allies
Book SynopsisThis study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level.Trade ReviewIn a carefully researched study of U.S. military prostitution in Korea, Moon validates Cynthia Enloe's claim that the personal is international. These moving stories tell how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as nearly invisible instruments of U.S.-Korean military policies at the highest level. Moon's innovative case study demonstrates how a Cold War alliance was maintained at the price of these women's personal insecurity and challenges us to reconsider the human costs of international security policies. -- J. Ann Tickner
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Columbia University Press Hollywoods Censor
Book SynopsisFrom 1934 to 1954 Joseph I Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. This title tells the story of Breen's ascent to power and the widespread effects of his reign.Trade ReviewDoherty writes with such wit and verve, bringing the past to life... a very entertaining read. Publishers Weekly Compelling, colorful, insightful, and nearly encyclopedic in detail, this book seems destined to become the definitive scholarly biography of Breen. Highly recommended. Library Journal [An] entertaining and rigorous biography of Breen. -- Ada Calhoun New York Times Book Review A fascinating read for anyone interested in American film history. -- Carol O'Sullivan Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [An] authoritative, entertaining, unexpectedly unnerving biography. -- Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times [A] brilliant and absorbing new book. -- Gerald Peary The Phoenix Hollywood's Censor is a stinging portrait of a cultural strongman who made it his business to baby his fellow citizens. -- Dennis Drabelle Washington Post Written with controlled exuberance, and much wit. -- Scott Eyman Palm Beach Post A pleasure to read. -- Rob Hardy Commercial Dispatch An exemplary biography... Highly recommended. CHOICETable of ContentsOpening Credits Prologue: Hollywood, 1954 1. The Victorian Irishman 2. Bluenoses Against the Screen 3. Hollywood Shot to Pieces 4. The Breen Office 5. Decoding Classical Hollywood Cinema 6. Confessional 7. Intermission at RKO 8. At War with the Breen Office 9. In His Sacerdotalism 10. "Our Semitic Brethren" 11. Social Problems, Existential Dilemmas, and Outsized Anatomies 12. Invasion of the Art Films 13. Amending the Ten Commandments 14. Not the Breen Office 15. Final Cut: Joseph I. Breen and the Auteur Theory Appendix: The Production Code Notes Film Index Index
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Columbia University Press Genetic Justice
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Genetic Justice, the authors provide a thorough discussion of the concerns they believe the DNA revolution and the use of DNA databases in law enforcement pose. While I do not agree with all of their policy conclusions, I commend the authors for their bold and uncompromising positions. Providing discussion of these sensitive criminal justice matters is critical for generating the best tools to serve society while maintaining those precious rights that we enjoy. I recommend the book to all who seek a better understanding of the impact of the genomic age on the criminal justice process. -- Bruce Budowle, executive director, Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Essential reading for anyone concerned with balancing public safety and personal freedom. The proliferation of DNA databases is not simply 'all good' or 'all bad.' Genetic Justice admirably deconstructs opposing arguments and then erects an inspiring yet realistic vision of justice. -- Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, codirectors of the Innocence Project Genetic Justice provides a lucid assessment of forensic DNA data banking that counters our CSI-infatuated culture in which DNA testing is assumed to be infallible. The authors reveal the serious threats that misuses of modern genetic technology and DNA databases can pose to cherished constitutional rights. This book is essential reading for all who care about pursuing justice while ensuring fairness to our diverse citizenry and the protection of our individual right to privacy. -- Nadine Strossen, New York Law School and former president, American Civil Liberties Union Genetic Justice illuminates every important controversy in the way DNA has entered the criminal justice system: from arguments about a universal DNA databank to the efficacy of DNA dragnets, from whether the state has the right to search your 'abandoned DNA' to the pros and cons of familial searching. Moreover, it accomplishes this in an engaging style that requires no technical background. A vital reference work for the next decade. -- Troy Duster, New York University Sheldon Krimsky is one of the most intelligent and creative multidisciplinary scholars working in bioethics, genetics and society, science studies, and biotechnology. He always knows how to pick topics that are socially significant and require careful public attention. -- Phil Brown, author of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement Firmly grounded in science, this inquiry proves that while DNA can be dramatic in its disclosures, it is not to be used lightly, as is so often depicted in crime stories. Booklist A thoughtful and informative read -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review For anyone concerned about DNA technology, evolving concepts of justice, or the erosion of the basic freedoms of our democracy, Genetic Justice is a book not to miss. -- Doug Pet Biopolitical Times The book offers a lucid and accurate presentation of DNA forensic technology that will be useful to any nonspecialist. -- Michael A. Goldman Science Genetic Justice constitutes the single most comprehensive articulation of the civil-liberties concerns associated with law-enforcement DNA databases and should, therefore, serve as a touchstone for debates about the spread of DNA profiling. -- Simon A. Cole American Scientist Engaging and informative. -- Charalambos P. Kyriacou Times Higher Education Thoroughly researched and well referenced, Genetic Justice distinguishes itself as an interesting and informative book on the history of the development of DNA testing, forensic DNA databanks, and the justice system's evolving approaches... -- Ananda M. Chakrabarty BioScience required reading -- Richard Lewontin New York Review of Books An important strength of this timely,engaging, and readable book-and what distinguishes it from some others-is the clarity with which it demonstrates how genomics findings in one discipline... are applied to others... -- Lundy Braun PsycCRITIQUES I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in and concerned about the balance between the protection of rights such as privacy and autonomy and public safely and criminal justice imperatives... -- Wilhelm Peekhaus Science and SocietyTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: DNA in Law Enforcement 1. Forensic DNA Analysis 2. The Network of U.S. DNA Data Banks 3. Community DNA Dragnets 4. Familial DNA Searches 5. Forensic DNA Phenotyping 6. Surreptitious Biological Sampling 7. Exonerations 8. The Illusory Appeal of a Universal DNA Data Bank Part II: Comparative Systems 9. The United Kingdom 10. Japan's Forensic DNA Data Bank 11. Australia 12: Germany 13. Italy Part III: Critical Perspectives 14. Privacy and Genetic Surveillance 15. Racial Disparities in DNA Data Banking 16. Fallibility in DNA Identification 17. The Efficacy of DNA Data Banks 18. Toward a Vision of Justice Appendix: A Comparison of DNA Databases in Six Nations Notes Selected Readings Index
£84.00
Columbia University Press Genetic Justice
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Genetic Justice, the authors provide a thorough discussion of the concerns they believe the DNA revolution and the use of DNA databases in law enforcement pose. While I do not agree with all of their policy conclusions, I commend the authors for their bold and uncompromising positions. Providing discussion of these sensitive criminal justice matters is critical for generating the best tools to serve society while maintaining those precious rights that we enjoy. I recommend the book to all who seek a better understanding of the impact of the genomic age on the criminal justice process. -- Bruce Budowle, executive director, Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Essential reading for anyone concerned with balancing public safety and personal freedom. The proliferation of DNA databases is not simply 'all good' or 'all bad.' Genetic Justice admirably deconstructs opposing arguments and then erects an inspiring yet realistic vision of justice. -- Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, codirectors of the Innocence Project Genetic Justice provides a lucid assessment of forensic DNA data banking that counters our CSI-infatuated culture in which DNA testing is assumed to be infallible. The authors reveal the serious threats that misuses of modern genetic technology and DNA databases can pose to cherished constitutional rights. This book is essential reading for all who care about pursuing justice while ensuring fairness to our diverse citizenry and the protection of our individual right to privacy. -- Nadine Strossen, New York Law School and former president, American Civil Liberties Union Genetic Justice illuminates every important controversy in the way DNA has entered the criminal justice system: from arguments about a universal DNA databank to the efficacy of DNA dragnets, from whether the state has the right to search your 'abandoned DNA' to the pros and cons of familial searching. Moreover, it accomplishes this in an engaging style that requires no technical background. A vital reference work for the next decade. -- Troy Duster, New York University Sheldon Krimsky is one of the most intelligent and creative multidisciplinary scholars working in bioethics, genetics and society, science studies, and biotechnology. He always knows how to pick topics that are socially significant and require careful public attention. -- Phil Brown, author of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement Firmly grounded in science, this inquiry proves that while DNA can be dramatic in its disclosures, it is not to be used lightly, as is so often depicted in crime stories. Booklist A thoughtful and informative read -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review For anyone concerned about DNA technology, evolving concepts of justice, or the erosion of the basic freedoms of our democracy, Genetic Justice is a book not to miss. -- Doug Pet Biopolitical Times The book offers a lucid and accurate presentation of DNA forensic technology that will be useful to any nonspecialist. -- Michael A. Goldman Science Genetic Justice constitutes the single most comprehensive articulation of the civil-liberties concerns associated with law-enforcement DNA databases and should, therefore, serve as a touchstone for debates about the spread of DNA profiling. -- Simon A. Cole American Scientist Engaging and informative. -- Charalambos P. Kyriacou Times Higher Education Thoroughly researched and well referenced, Genetic Justice distinguishes itself as an interesting and informative book on the history of the development of DNA testing, forensic DNA databanks, and the justice system's evolving approaches... -- Ananda M. Chakrabarty BioScience required reading -- Richard Lewontin New York Review of Books An important strength of this timely,engaging, and readable book-and what distinguishes it from some others-is the clarity with which it demonstrates how genomics findings in one discipline... are applied to others... -- Lundy Braun PsycCRITIQUES I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in and concerned about the balance between the protection of rights such as privacy and autonomy and public safely and criminal justice imperatives... -- Wilhelm Peekhaus Science and SocietyTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: DNA in Law Enforcement 1. Forensic DNA Analysis 2. The Network of U.S. DNA Data Banks 3. Community DNA Dragnets 4. Familial DNA Searches 5. Forensic DNA Phenotyping 6. Surreptitious Biological Sampling 7. Exonerations 8. The Illusory Appeal of a Universal DNA Data Bank Part II: Comparative Systems 9. The United Kingdom 10. Japan's Forensic DNA Data Bank 11. Australia 12: Germany 13. Italy Part III: Critical Perspectives 14. Privacy and Genetic Surveillance 15. Racial Disparities in DNA Data Banking 16. Fallibility in DNA Identification 17. The Efficacy of DNA Data Banks 18. Toward a Vision of Justice Appendix: A Comparison of DNA Databases in Six Nations Notes Selected Readings Index
£26.60
Columbia University Press Perversion for Profit
Book SynopsisTrade Review[Strub] conveys how pornography comes into contact with greater narratives of obscenity, permissiveness, sexuality, and gender. It is apparent from [his] accounts how pornography is a vital and rich subject for analyzing a range of social pressures and competing narratives. H-Histsex Perversion for Profit situates the pornography battles within the tricky ideological crosscurrents of the culture war. -- David T. Courtwright Journal of American History Strub does a masterful job of making the complicated postwar legal history of the shifting definitions of obscenity clear in a nuanced analysis that is always attentive to issues of gender and sexuality. -- David K. Johnson American Historical Review Well-researched and wide-ranging... [Perversion for Profit] deserves accolades for charting conservatism's ongoing affair with pornography and convincingly demonstrating the centrality of sexuality to an understanding of modern political history. -- Gillian Frank Journal of the History of SexualityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Rediscovery of Pornography: Emergence of a Cold War Moral Panic 2. Ambivalent Liberals: Theorizing Obscenity Under Consensus Constraints 3. Arousing the Public: Citizens for Decent Literature and the Emergence of the: Modern Antiporn Movement 4. Damning the Floodtide of Filth: The Rise of the New Right and the Political Capital of Moralism 5. The Permissive Society: Porno Chic and the Cultural Aftermath of the Sexual Revolution 6. Resurrecting Moralism: The Christian Right and the Porn Debate 7. Pornography Is the Practice, Where Is the Theory? Second-Wave Feminist Encounters with Porn 8. Vanilla Hegemony: Policing Sexual Boundaries in the Permanent Culture-War Economy Notes Acknowledgments Index
£83.60
Columbia University Press Nomadic Theory
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFans of Rosi Braidotti's unique approach to feminism and philosophy will appreciate having her recent essays collected in one volume. Her call to 'construct social horizons of hope and sustainable futures' offers a reassuring 'politics of affirmation' for these troubled and troubling times. -- Joan W. Scott, professor of social science, Institute for Advanced Study For all of those seeking a positive turn building on the powerful critique that so influenced the academy in recent decades, Rosi Braidotti offers an understanding of philosophy-of thinking-that she views as crucial to creative production. At a time when intellectual discourse is becoming increasingly disciplinary, Braidotti opens a path for broad discussion and debate. -- Elizabeth Weed, director, Pembroke Center, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 1. Transposing Differences 2. Meta(l)morphoses: Women, Aliens, and Machines 3. Animals and Other Anomalies 4. The Cosmic Buzz of Insects 2 5. Matter-Realist Feminism 6. Intensive Genre and the Demise of Gender 7. Postsecular Paradoxes 3 8. Complexity Against Methodological Nationalism 9. Nomadic European Citizenship 4 10. Powers of Affirmation 11. Sustainable Ethics and the Body in Pain 12. Forensic Futures 5 13. A Secular Prayer Notes Bibliography Index
£87.40
Columbia University Press Second Read
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLet us now praise forgotten nonfiction. It is the fate of great journalism, perhaps, to fade away just a few decades after appearing. Yet that leaves for us the pleasures of rediscovery, which the essays collected in Second Read bring off in superb style. -- Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew and What's the Matter with Kansas? A book of journalism about books of journalism that are worth reading twice? The essays here honor their subject in the best possible way: they are so good, so rich, and so finely written, they deserve to be read again. -- David Hajdu, music critic for The New Republic and professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism contemporary journalists offer fresh looks at the work of previous generations in this rich collection.Daily News Daily News Second Read carries value for any writer, whether oft-published or a novice or in between. -- Steve Weinberg WriterTable of ContentsIntroduction Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The Tribes of America Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to Sport Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein's Keep Your Head Down Evan Cornog on A. J. Liebling's The Earl of Louisiana Ted Conover on Stanley Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Naresh Fernandes on Palagummi Sainath's Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts Chris Lehmann on Charles Raw, Bruce Page, and Godfrey Hodgson's Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich? Connie Schultz on Michael Herr's Dispatches Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the Former World Scott Sherman on Marshall Frady's Wallace Gal Beckerman on Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart John Maxwell Hamilton on Vincent Sheean's Personal History Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night Thomas Mallon on William Manchester's The Death of a President Miles Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem Justin Peters on Peter Fleming's Brazilian Adventure Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody Can Do Anything Contributors
£68.00
Columbia University Press Second Read
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLet us now praise forgotten nonfiction. It is the fate of great journalism, perhaps, to fade away just a few decades after appearing. Yet that leaves for us the pleasures of rediscovery, which the essays collected in Second Read bring off in superb style. -- Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew and What's the Matter with Kansas? A book of journalism about books of journalism that are worth reading twice? The essays here honor their subject in the best possible way: they are so good, so rich, and so finely written, they deserve to be read again. -- David Hajdu, music critic for The New Republic and professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism contemporary journalists offer fresh looks at the work of previous generations in this rich collection.Daily News Daily News Second Read carries value for any writer, whether oft-published or a novice or in between. -- Steve Weinberg WriterTable of ContentsIntroduction Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The Tribes of America Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to Sport Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein's Keep Your Head Down Evan Cornog on A. J. Liebling's The Earl of Louisiana Ted Conover on Stanley Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Naresh Fernandes on Palagummi Sainath's Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts Chris Lehmann on Charles Raw, Bruce Page, and Godfrey Hodgson's Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich? Connie Schultz on Michael Herr's Dispatches Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the Former World Scott Sherman on Marshall Frady's Wallace Gal Beckerman on Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart John Maxwell Hamilton on Vincent Sheean's Personal History Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night Thomas Mallon on William Manchester's The Death of a President Miles Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem Justin Peters on Peter Fleming's Brazilian Adventure Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody Can Do Anything Contributors
£20.00
Columbia University Press The Metamorphoses of Fat
Book SynopsisTracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.Trade ReviewVigarello offers up a grande bouffe of food for thought, tracing the impact of evolving mores and medicines on society's perception of an often stigmatized condition. Nature Vigarello masterfully traces...the stigmatization of the fat person over time. Times Literary Supplement Overall, a useful resource on the sociology and history of obesity... Choice At once compelling and ground-breaking... this work represents all that is best in new histories of the body. Modern Language Review A brilliant piece of work... A great opening point to the many opaque aspects of the consequences of body size for the fate of individuals and societies for future historians to explore. Social History of Medicine Enjoyable and useful. Vigarello manages to deliver an impresive amount of material in less than two hundred pages... Thought-provoking and entertaining. Bulletin of the History of Medicine The most impressive history of corpulence to date... essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how our modern preoccupations with size, weight, health, beauty, and morality have changed over time. American Historical Review In short, the breadth and detail of the account presented here provides a valuable resource for researchers to begin to understand the multiplicity of approaches to fatness over time. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Exceptionally well organized and presented, The Metamorphoses of Fat is a unique and seminal work of outstanding scholarship that is unreservedly recommended. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 1. The Prestige of the Big Person 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind 3. The Horizon of Fault 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming Part 2 5. The Shores of Laziness 6. The Plural of Fat 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms 8. Constraining the Flesh Part 3 9. Inventing Nuance 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness 11. Toning Up Part 4 12. The Weight of Figures 13. Typology Fever 14. From Chemistry to Energy 15. From Energy to Diets Part 5 16. The Dominance of Aesthetics 17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity 18. The Thin Revolution 19. Declaring "The Martyr" Part 6 Conclusion Notes Index
£69.26
