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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Sex and Terror

Quignard Pascal

ISBN: HB: 9781906497866, Seagull Books, February 2012
192 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.

The fascinus, or phallus, was at the heart of classical Roman art and life. No god was more represented in ancient Rome than the phallic deity Priapus, and the fescennine verses, one of the earliest forms of Roman poetry, accompanied the celebrations...

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Media Studies

Philosophy

Human Rights In Camera

Sliwinski Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780226762760, ISBN: HB: 9780226762753, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 halftones

From the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Hannah Arendt's furious critiques, the definition of what it means to be human has been hotly debated...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Creating a Physical Biology The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology

Sloan Phillip R., Fogel Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226767833, ISBN: HB: 9780226767826, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 9 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbruck published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure", known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper". This seminal paper adva...

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Philosophy

Regimens of the Mind Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition

Corneanu Sorana

ISBN: HB: 9780226116396, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Regimens of the Mind", Sorana Corneanu proposes a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, p...

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Philosophy

Technology & Engineering

Moralizing Technology Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things

Verbeek Peter-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226852935, ISBN: HB: 9780226852911, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.

Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply n...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture A Philosophical Analysis

Allhoff Fritz

ISBN: HB: 9780226014838, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In "Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture", Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a mo...

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