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Metro
Animal Rights And Wrongs Description: Approaching the issue of animal rights from a secure philosophical grounding, this book presents practical, unsentimental arguments on animal rights and human duties towards them. Fully updated with new ideas on the livestock crisis and fishing, and with a layperson`s introduction to philosophical concepts, the text presents a radical response to the defenders of animal rights and a challenge to those who think that because they are kind to pets, they are good for animals. Addressed are such paradoxes as why animal rights groups are so keen to protect the rights of badgers and foxes but not of mice and rats and why they find the raising of animals for fur more heinous than raising them for their meat. Insightful and challenging, animal welfare scientists, philosophers, and ethicists will find this brilliantly argued work full of humor, morality, and rationality.... Read More about the "Animal Rights And Wrongs" on the The Nile Book Store Website

BEACON PRESS
Bad For Us Description: Why do people do things that are blatantly bad for them? Think of the falls from grace of Richard Nixon, Gary Hart, Rob Lowe, Martha Stewart, and Kobe Bryant. Portmann argues that we are often our own worst enemies, and that the hardest kind of suffering to bear is what we inflict upon ourselves. This groundbreaking book is a wide-ranging exploration of self-destructive behavior and self-injury. It helps us better understand how and why we engineer our own downfalls, and why dizzying reversals of fortune often leave a trail that leads back to people who should have known betterlike Jayson Blair and his blatant plagiarism or Bill Clinton and his affair with Monica Lewinsky. After developing an exciting philosophical categoryravingin which we take leave of our senses and refuse to act according to societal mores, Portmann observes that we all occasionally crave the forbidden or the dangerous. While raving takes varied forms, from streaking nude across a college campus to indulging in unsafe sex, it is best described as a temporary vacation from the self. Cautioning that our very happiness is at stake, Portmann exhorts us to choose wisely. This rare book is the North Star for cautious rebels. Bad for Us is an engaging book that explores a social and moral paradox. Drawing from thinkers ranging from Immanuel Kant to Thomas Sowell to Madonna, John Portmann deeply explores a topic all but taboo among modern writersthe dual need each of us feels to develop and maintain a sense of self-control, and to lose it from time to time. William N. Eskridge, Jr., author of Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet and John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale LawSchool... Read More about the "Bad For Us" on the The Nile Book Store Website

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Breast Cancer Description: Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This is not a book about breast cancer as a biological disease, its diagnosis and treatment, or the latest research to cure it. Rather, it looks at how economics, politics, gender, social class, and race-ethnicity have deeply influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and defined and influenced women’s experiences with breast cancer. The contributors address the social construction of breast cancer as an illness and as an area of scientific controversy, advocacy, and public policy. Chapters on the history of breast cancer, the health care system, the environment, and the marketing of breast cancer, among others, tease apart the complex social forces that have shaped our collective and individual responses to breast cancer.... Read More about the "Breast Cancer" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Avalon Publishing
Cannabis Description: Whether you are a staunch supporter of marijuana, a passionate opponent, or somewhere in the vast in-between, one thing is for sure: there is no issue hotter than hemp. Cannabis is the first completely illustrated guide to all the ways which marijuana affects the lives of the user and nonuser alike. Included in the text are the many uses of marijuana, past and present, including discussions on medicinal marijuana, recreational smoking, and the use of pot for creative inspiration. Also addressed are the politics of pot, in particular how marijuana legislation has, in fact, increased use of the drug and caused an increase in potency. Cannabis also shows how different religions throughout the world have utilized hemp as a spiritual tool, oftentimes to enhance devotion and prayer. Green tackles all the important issues surrounding marijuana, including the gateway drug theory and the scientific causes of the high. Supplementing the text are 150 full-color and 30 black-and-white photographs illuminating the worldwide uses of marijuana, as well as an extensive dictionary of marijuana-related terms and endpapers made of high quality hemp paper. Cannabis is an often humorous, always enlightening look at the world`s most famous drug.... Read More about the "Cannabis" on the The Nile Book Store Website

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Deleuze And Feminist Theory Description: Ever since Deleuze and Guattari provocatively declared that all becoming must go by way of a `becoming-woman`, their work has been the subject of intense feminist interrogation. This book highlights the key points of this ongoing inquiry, focusing particularly on the implications of Deleuze`s work for a specifically feminist philosophy. It brings together the work of some of Deleuze`s finest commentators and today`s most important feminist thinkers, including new work by Elizabeth Grosz, Rosi Braidotti, and Dorothea Olkowski. With chapters on film, the colonial imaginary, desire and embodiment, this book is the first sustained examination of the impact of Deleuze on feminist thought.... Read More about the "Deleuze And Feminist Theory" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Scribe Publishing
Enrique`s Journey Description: In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. Five year old Enrique is like many young Hondurans. His family is too poor to feed the children and to keep him in school, so his mother leaves Honduras to work in the United States with the promise that she will return quickly. But she struggles in America. Years pass. Enrique despairs of ever seeing her again and begs for his mother to come home. Finally, after eleven years of separation and patience, he decides he will go find her. Enrique sets off alone from Honduras, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother`s North Carolina telephone number. With gritty determination and a deep longing to be by his mother`s side, Enrique travels through hostile, unknown worlds the only way he can, by clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains of the moving boxcars they call El Tren de la Muerte - The Train of Death. Each step of the way through Mexico, he and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. Gangsters control the tops of the trains. Bandits rob and kill migrants up and down the tracks. Corrupt cops all along the route are out to fleece and deport them. Enrique pushes forward using his wit, courage, and hope - and the kindness of strangers.... Read More about the "Enrique`s Journey" on the The Nile Book Store Website

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Feminist Theory And The Body Description: This work gives students an overview of the historical developments and current controversies within this area of feminist theory. Wide-ranging articles stress the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary feminist thought and include sexy bodies and performing bodies.... Read More about the "Feminist Theory And The Body" on the The Nile Book Store Website

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Feminist Visual Culture Description: This collection of essays looks at the contribution of feminist theory and practice in visual culture media and considers the place women have and the role that they play. The volume is divided into three sections: fine art, design and mass media.... Read More about the "Feminist Visual Culture" on the The Nile Book Store Website

LYNNE RIENNER
Globalisation And Inequality Description: Rapley argues provocatively that the seeds of political tensions that began in the third worldand are now being manifested around the globecan be found in neoliberal prescriptions for economic reform.... Read More about the "Globalisation And Inequality" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Vision Paperbacks
Human Traffic Description: Revealing investigation into international people-smuggling and those behind this illicit trade, now bigger than drug trafficking. People smuggling is now a more lucrative illicit industry than drug smuggling. Human Traffic is the first general interest book to examine this phenomenon, and the only book that takes a global overview of this criminal activity. There are more than five million illegal aliens residing in the U.S. alone. They mostly come from Mexico, the Philippines, India, Vietnam and China. But how did they get into the country? And who helped them? Human Traffic is the first book to investigate these questions, and it contains interviews from the individuals and criminal gangs that mastermind the unlawful movement of people across international borders. Investigative journalist Craig McGill also examines the people who are willing to risk their life savings, and sometimes even their lives, in order to escape poverty by moving to the West. He finds that the smugglers` promises of a new and better life often amount to nothing, and frequently the migrants find themselves in worse circumstances than they were before. Through powerful interviews, the reader learns what it is like to be an illegal immigrantthe difficulties that the lack of an official identity can bring, the strain of a secret existence and, in all too many cases, the devastation of being sold into sexual and economic slavery. Human Traffic will appeal to anyone with an interest in immigration matters, as it is a balanced investigation that looks at the issue on a truly global level. With chapters on North America, Europe, Australasia and the Far East, as well as first-person accounts from the smugglers andthe smuggled, this book is a timely insight into a growing North American problem.... Read More about the "Human Traffic" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Seal Press
Listen Up Voices Form The Next Feminist Generation Description: In this second edition, writers such as Rebecca Walker, Nomy Lamm, and Inga Muscio are joined by Lisa Miya-Jervis, publisher of Bitch; Alison Crews, editor of Girl-Mom; and Daisy Hernandez of Ms. Together, they cover a wide range of topics, from blending careers and feminist politics to the intersection of traditional culture and third-wave sensibilities.... Read More about the "Listen Up Voices Form The Next Feminist Generation" on the The Nile Book Store Website

MACMILLAN
Martyrs Of Columbine Description: On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 fellow students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Two of the victims of the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the gunmen if they believed in God. Both allegedly answered Yes and were killed. Within days of their death, Cassie and Rachel were hailed as modern-day Christian martyrs, and became useful symbols for those seeking to advance a conservative political agenda. According to police investigators, however, Cassie and Rachel may never have been asked by their killers about God; they simply may have been victims of a senseless crime rather than martyrs to a cause. As the religious and political use of Cassie and Rachel continues, The Martyrs of Columbine provides a careful examination of the available evidence and attempts to discover what really occurred.... Read More about the "Martyrs Of Columbine" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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