Author: Joan RothschildPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253345653
Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A feminist critique of bioethics and attitudes toward reproductive technologies.
How to Ruin the Perfect Child
Author: Antonio Le MonsPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059512870X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
What can happen when successful, well-respected people come face-to-face with themselves is mind boggling! Twins Maximillian and Montgomery Hamilton are born into wealth, power, and all the expectations that go with being heir to influence and money. After a rebellious Montgomery defects for an "alternative" lifestyle, Aprielle, the powerful, no- nonsense cosmetic giant, is more determined than ever to groom Maximillian, her remaining son, to successfully carry on the Hamilton legacy. Maximillian's eventual rebellion affects both him and the Hamilton family in an unexpected and devastating way.
Daddyman
Author: Craig BalcombPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664134271
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Faster than a speeding tricycle, More powerful than dirty diapers, Able to leap tall Legos in a single bound. Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Daddyman! Yes, Daddyman, Strange visitor from another dimension, With powers and abilities far beyond those of ordinary men. Daddyman, Who can change a pair of dirty diapers, Bend Play-Doh with his bare hands, And who, disguised as a mild-mannered father in a great metropolitan city, Fights a never ending battle for Truth, Justice, and Clean Underwear. Daddyman is your guide to becoming a good dad. It dosen't deal with problems like diaper rash to teething pain. Rather, it is a parenting philosophy with examples from the author's own personal experience. Daddyman is written specifically for men, who often often don't have a good role model and who sometimes feel left out of parenting discussions dominated by women and presented from a mother's perspective. Every man can be a good dad, if he chooses to be. Love, caring, support and encouragement are the cornerstones of good parenting. Hopefully, this book will put you in the frame of mind you need to be a better dad.
The Perfect Baby
Author: Glenn McGeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Perfect Baby is the most popular introduction to ethical issues in genetics. This new edition has been updated to discuss and debate advances in high tech reproduction, genetic testing, gene therapy, human cloning, and stem cell research. It includes a new epilogue, by cloning pioneer Ian Wilmut and Glenn McGee.
Your Angry Child
Author: Daniel L DavisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135415943
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Discover an important source of practical and understandable advice for parents of children with anger management issues! Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents was created to provide parents of angry children and teenagers with an up-to-date understanding of the “whys” and “hows” of anger problems. You’ll find specific, focused ways of helping angry children and managing the difficulties that anger causes—some brand new, some time-tested. Written by a psychologist with over 30 years of experience treating troubled and severely behaviorally disordered youth and 20 years experience as a forensic psychologist, this book provides practical and understandable advice that parents can make use of immediately. This insightful book presents up-to-date case histories, current research, and practical, down-to-earth techniques that can help parents of children and adolescents with anger problems. Extraordinarily useful for parents, this book is also an ideal adjunct to counseling and psychotherapy and an essential reference for teachers, pediatricians and family practice physicians, students of psychology, corrections officers, and others who work with angry/violent youth. The first chapters of Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents provide a thoughtful introduction to child development concepts and the development of anger, examining how hostility and aggression impact the family and illustrating the effects of resistance and oppositional behavior. Next, the book focuses specifically on practical aspects of anger management, including: attachment issues antisocial behavior anger’s impact on temperament, development, moral reasoning, and the thinking process in general indicators of anger problems, such as temper tantrums, cruelty to animals, and fire setting the effect of the media on violent tendencies in children ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, and other conduct disorders mood disorders, including suicidal feelings and depression links between anger and substance abuse problem solving the power of strong values and positive role models for angry youth and much more! With chapters specifically devoted to the anger problems of children and pre-teenagers as well as advice directed toward parents of angry adolescents, Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents is an ideal resource for helping professionals and the parents who come to them in varying degrees of desperation. Make this vital book a part of your therapeutic arsenal today!
Baakisimba
Author: Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-TamusuzaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456526
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967, baakisimba dance began to be performed in other contexts, with women sometimes playing the accompanying drums-traditionally a man's role-and with men occasionally performing the dance.Sylivia Nannyonga-Tamusuza argues that the music and dance of the Baganda people are not simply reflective of culture; baakisimba participates in the construction of social relations, and helps determine how these relations shape the performing arts. Integrating a study of foregrounds the conceptualization of gender as a time-specific cultural phenomenon. Illuminating the complex relationship between baakisimba and Baganda culture, this path breaking volume bridges the gaps in previous scholarship that integrates music and dance in ethnomusicological scholarship.
The Purpose of Everything
Author: W Gregory HallmanPublisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449752233
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Wouldnt you just love to truly understand the purpose of your life, along with that of everyone and everything else in existence? This is not as difficult to realize as some believe. We only need to openly resolve a few fundamental questions from a big-picture perspective. Then understanding the purpose of everything will become more a matter of common sense than such a great mystery. These are the basic questions: Did we merely evolve, or were we created? If we were created, why were we created? If we were created by God, whose god, from which religion, is the genuine God? Can we know with absolute certainty that particular God is real? Why would any factual God allow bad things to happen to so many good people? And, can we know with certainty whether theres an afterlife? We all instinctively contemplate these questions, either consciously or subconsciously, so we must resolve them to understand who we are and our place in the grand scheme of things. Lets settle these issues once and for all.
The Savage Nation
Author: Michael SavagePublisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418530034
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Michael Savage attacks big government and liberal media bias. The son of immigrants, Savage shows how traditional American freedoms are being destroyed from the outside and undermined from within-not just our own government, but also from alien forces within our own society. Savage argues that if the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, then only a more "savage nation" will enjoy these liberties. Savage's high ratings and the rapid growth of his program prove he is in touch with the concerns of the average American.
Human Enhancement
Author: Julian SavulescuPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191559601
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings? Because of the remarkable advances in biomedical science, we must now find an answer to this question. Human enhancement aims to increase human capacities above normal levels. Many forms of human enhancement are already in use. Many students and academics take cognition enhancing drugs to get a competitive edge. Some top athletes boost their performance with legal and illegal substances. Many an office worker begins each day with a dose of caffeine. This is only the beginning. As science and technology advance further, it will become increasingly possible to enhance basic human capacities to increase or modulate cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and to control the biological processes underlying normal aging. Some have suggested that such advances would take us beyond the bounds of human nature. These trends, and these dramatic prospects, raise profound ethical questions. They have generated intense public debate and have become a central topic of discussion within practical ethics. Should we side with bioconservatives, and forgo the use of any biomedical interventions aimed at enhancing human capacities? Should we side with transhumanists and embrace the new opportunities? Or should we perhaps plot some middle course? Human Enhancement presents the latest moves in this crucial debate: original contributions from many of the world's leading ethicists and moral thinkers, representing a wide range of perspectives, advocates and sceptics, enthusiasts and moderates. These are the arguments that will determine how humanity develops in the near future.
Author: Gerry Spence