Not everyone welcomes this scientific progress. Cries of "against nature" arise from skeptics even as scientists break new ground at an astounding pace. Across the political spectrum, the debate roils: Should we embrace the power to alter our minds and bodies, or should we restrict it? Distilling ... more »

Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for your children's education? Should you protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers? How do you handle questions such as these? We frequently face ethical dilemmas in our daily lives, and few have trouble with the right vs. wrong choices ... more »

The puropse of public and community health is to improve the health of populations or groups rather than concentrating on individuals. This book examines the ethical issues arising from this aim, including prioritisation and health screening. more »

Millions of Americans take personality tests each year: to get a job, to pursue an education, to settle a legal dispute, to better understand themselves and others. But where did these tests come from, and what are they saying about us? In The Cult of Personality, award-winning psychology writer Annie ... more »

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Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of empowered woman who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces raunch culture wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat ... more »

The Associated Press calls them The Entitlement Generation, and they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. They are today's young people, a new generation with sky-high expectations and a need for constant praise and fulfillment. In this provocative new book, headline ... more »

Women are the most powerful force reshaping the future of America. Stronger than political parties, mightier than religious differences, able to leap cultural schisms in a single bound, women are quietly exerting a unified power to make changes in our culture and in commerce, meeting in the middle to ... more »

For anyone who has ever wondered where our popular culture is taking us, Hating Women is at once an electrifying social commentary and a clarion call for change. In Hating Women , Shmuley Boteach, the passionate social critic and relationship guru, examines an alarming trend of misogyny in our popular ... more »

Product Info Proceedings of a workshop held in Brussels, Belgium, 26-27 October 1988, under the auspices of COST European Cooperation in Scientific and Technology Research - COST 641 and 681. more »

This reference illustrates the interaction and operation of transformer and system components and spans more than two decades of technological advancement to provide an updated perspective on the increasing demands and requirements of the modern transformer industry. Guiding engineers through everyday ... more »

Everyone in the modern world knows what technology is. But what is nanotechnology? Taken from the Greek, nano means one billionth part of a whole. In modern parlance, it means very, very small. Nano-tech is the next step after miniaturization. Cell phones are miniaturized versions of traditional landline ... more »