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Presenting a history of woman's oppression, this book attempts to document the sad legacy of injustice and discrimination against women, which is inseparable from the history of both Christianity and the evolution of the Western state. It also traces the patterns of male domination in both church and state that kept women in virtual bondage.

Explores the risk to corporations from al Qaeda and its affiliates suggesting practical measures to counter such threats. On the subjects of kidnapping and extortion, this title suggests strategies for prevention and response. It scrutinizes bodyguards and armoured vehicles, as well as the problem of residential security.

Presents a fictional account of the events and the key players involved in the Wall Street panic of 1907. This book depicts the glittering society of New York's fabulously wealthy, for whom money is not the object of existence, just the means of wielding power.

Gathers together scholarly studies of Satanism and original source material, focusing on two aspects - organised religious Satanism and the Satanic Ritual Abuse hoax. This volume concludes with primary source material, including a report from the Ritual Abuse Task Force and selections from Satanism groups.

Biologists study life in its various physical forms, while philosophers of biology seek answers to questions about the nature, purpose, and impact of this research. This edition contains material on design without selection, testing macroevolutionary claims, biotechnological issues, key ecological concerns, the Gaia hypothesis, and more.

An anthology of Latin American philosophers in English. Besides the contemporary period, it includes key texts from the colonial and independent period to provide the reader with some historical background. It is divided into four sections - Colonial Beginnings and Independence, Philosophical Anthropology, Values, and The Search for Identity.

Advances in medical technology and science have made organ procurement, or the search and transfer of organs and tissue from one body to another, an important issue. How are we to meet the need? Can we do so and still respect personal ethics and religious convictions? This book examines the issues that surround organ procurement and distribution.

Where does a young woman find straight talk about sex? And how can she tell whether the information from those sources is accessible, accurate and complete? This book aims to educate, entertain, and empower you to deal wisely with the questions, decisions and consequences that surround sex and intimate relations.

Discusses the inherently intolerant attitude that has characterised monotheistic belief systems generally and Christianity in particular. This work presents a textual analysis of some of the letters in the "New Testament". In each case the author demonstrates how the text reflects Christian intolerance of heretics and non-believers.

From well-known problems such as hypertension, high cholesterol, and angina, to lesser-known conditions such as valvular heart disease, rheumatic fever, and arrhythmia, this work provides fact-based medical information, while avoiding confusing jargon as well as fad therapies.

Explores the culture clash that pervades nearly every business-technology interaction. This work provides members of both camps a practical guide to working together effectively. Using many real-world examples, it also illustrates the consequences in time, money, careers, and even lives when the separate cultures fail to communicate.

Aimed at ages 9-12, this collection of biographies - covering historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Helen Keller as well as contemporary figures such as Toni Morrison and Michael Jordan - teaches young people that heroes were once ordinary people whose strength of character helped them to achieve extraordinary things.

A collection of twelve short stories, this work explores themes for which London became famous: the struggle for survival in the midst of hostile environments, human nature's most elemental drives, and worker abuse in industrialised society.

Chronicles the grim spectrum of religious persecution from ancient times, including such historic massacres as the Crusades, the Islamic jihads, the Catholic wars against heretics, the Inquisition, witch hunts, the Reformation, and such atrocities as the Holocaust, and the barbaric cruelty of the theocracy in Iran.

A guide that offers a realistic picture of the education, skills, challenges, and rewards involved in the many specialties that encompass forensic science. It focuses on careers in forensic science, illustrated by descriptions of high profile cases that required different forensic disciplines, including engineering, accounting, and psychology.

In contrast to atheism, which asserts that God does not exist, agnosticism holds that reason and the best scientific evidence do not allow one to reach a decisive conclusion regarding the existence of God. This work includes selections of some of the pioneering discussions of agnosticism.

While science offers a wealth of rational explanations for natural phenomena, we often prefer to embrace the fantasies that reassured our distant ancestors. This book encourages us to transcend the mental default settings and tribal loyalties that worked well for our ancestors back in the Pleistocene age.

Carl is a small-town mid western businessman who is accidentally put into a coma when he receives an inadequately tested vaccine. When he finally regains consciousness, he discovers that it is the year 2045 and his unusual medical story and recovery have turned him into an international celebrity.

Offers a concise overview of the problems of animal suffering, linking them to larger issues of human and environmental exploitation. This book examines industries that exploit animals such as meat processing companies and agribusinesses, medical experimentation and cosmetic testing facilities, the entertainment industry, and others.

Reviews the history of AI and discusses some of the roadblocks that the field has overcome. Weaving disparate threads together in an enlightening manner from cybernetics, computer science, psychology, philosophy of mind, neurophysiology, game theory, and economics, this book provides a glimpse into the possibilities and dilemmas.

Reflects on the happiness and difficulties we encounter at each stage of life, pointing out that all growth requires separation from previous attachments. This book explains what is required for personal growth, details the aspects of life that touch us profoundly, and lays out the choices that can lead to the highest state of humanness possible.

Over the centuries the starry night sky has inspired poets and scientists alike, and though the fruits of these inspirations take very different forms, they often enrich each other. This book celebrates the complementary visions of human wonder and curiosity that are expressed in the separate disciplines of poetry and astronomy.

For over fifty years Dr Robert Spencer (1889-1969) practiced medicine in the small coal-mining town of Ashland, PA. He gained another kind of notoriety for performing safe and reliable abortions. This book presents his biography. It is suitable for those interested in the issue of abortion.

Highlights the problem areas common to the codes that should be changed and recommends ways that seniors can protect themselves to preserve their personal and financial freedom in their retirement years. This book suggests alternatives to conservatorships and guardianships that exist in states to help the elderly with aspects of daily living.

While masturbation is a universal behaviour, there are differences in motivation, frequency, technique, and fantasy patterns between men and women. The author discusses these differences while emphasising that masturbation can be good sex and should be experienced for pleasure not just as a tension release.

Antisocial behavior takes on many forms, from rebellious teens with green hair and pierced skin to the truly dangerous homicidal individuals whose horrible stories fill our newspapers. This work examines the familial and societal causes, and proposes solutions to the problem - including radical changes to our educational system and the mass media.

Michel Foucault''s Force of Light offers a comprehensive, chronological reading of Foucault''s published, and many unpublished, writings. James Bernauer claims that Foucault''s achievement was to have fashioned a series of inquiries that makes it possible to question the activity of thought itself as an ethical practice. Foucault''s ethic historicizes Kant''s great questions on knowledge, obligation, and hope. He asks not "What can I know?" but rather "How have my questions been produced? How has the path of my knowing been determined?" Not "What ought I to know?" or "What may I hope for?" by "How have the parameters of my aspirations been defined?"

Born in Venezuela in 1920, Benacerraf's childhood was spent in Paris, until fear of war with Nazi Germany compelled his family to flee to Venezuela in 1939. By the time he received a Nobel prize in 1980 for his discovery of immune response genes, he had travelled a long way on the road to success. This book presents the story of his life.

Argues that we can reduce alarming rates of sexually transmitted disease, sexual violence and abuse, and unwanted pregnancy through responsible co-operative action. This work provides an analysis of these problems which demonstrates that our sexual malaise emerged from Victorian attitudes, religious intolerance, and misconceptions about sexuality.