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  • Research Ethics

    A Philosophical Guide to the Responsible Conduct of Research

    by Gary Comstock ...
    Education in the responsible conduct of research typically takes the form of online instructions about rules, regulations, and policies. Research Ethics takes a novel approach and emphasizes the art of philosophical decision-making. Part A introduces egoism and explains that it is in the individual's own interest to avoid misconduct, fabrication of data, plagiarism and bias. Part B explains ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • The Human–Animal Boundary

    Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction

    by Joshua A. Bergamin, Kristian Bjørkdahl, James P. Conlan, Sara Gavrell Ortiz, John Hartigan, Eduardo Mendieta, Sabine Lenore Müller, Aparajita Nanda, Sukanya Behura Senapati, Gary Comstock, Tomaž Grušovnik, Alison Suen ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference—rather than a porous transition—between the human and animal. Attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g., language, reason, or morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans..This book shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Chimpanzee Rights

    The Philosophers’ Brief

    by Kristin Andrews, Crozier G.K.D., Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, L. Syd M Johnson, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David Pena-Guzman, Jeff Sebo, Gary Comstock, Tyler John, Robert Jones ...
    Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.While the courts have agreed that chimpanzees share emotional, behavioural, and cognitive ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Moral Rights of Animals

    by Jeremy Garrett, Nathan Nobis, Anne Baril, Aaron Simmons, Molly Gardner, Evelyn Pluhar, Ramona Ilea, Robert Bass, Jason Hanna, Gary Lynn Comstock0, Scott D. Wilson1, Mylan Engel Jr.3, Tom Regan4, Alastair Norcross5, Jeff McMahan6 ...
    Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Vexing Nature?

    On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology

    by Gary L. Comstock ...
    Agricultural biotechnology refers to a diverse set of industrial techniques used to produce genetically modified foods. Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods manipulated at the molecular level to enhance their value to farmers and consumers. This book is a collection of essays on the ethical dimensions of ag biotech. The essays were written over a dozen years, beginning in 1988. When I began ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Whitman

    The Mystic Poets

    by Gary David Comstock, Walt Whitman ...
    Series series The Mystic Poets
    Discover How Whitmans Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your OwnWhitmans collected poems and prose are not an object or icon to be gazed upon or revered but a transparency we look through to see ourselves with greater clarity, excitement, and meaning. They wake us up to our potential, to learning about and from ourselves. To experience his writing is to experience ourselves more deeply.from ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Science Ethics

    Edited by Gary L. Comstock ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Does nature have intrinsic value? Should we be doing more to save wilderness and ocean ecosystems? What are our duties to future generations of humans? Do animals have rights? This revised edition of "Life Science Ethics" introduces these questions using narrative case studies on genetically modified foods, use of animals in research, nanotechnology, and global climate change, and then explores ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Whitman

    The Mystic Poets

    by Walt Whitman ...
    Offers insight into Whitmans quest for self-discovery, which involved an ongoing mystical experience of the world. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Delphi Classics)

    by Walt Whitman, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 30 - Delphi Poets Series
    Walt Whitman, whose work charted the transition between transcendental and realist verse, is regarded as one of the most influential poets in the American canon and is often celebrated as the father of free verse. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Whitman’s complete works, with beautiful illustrations, rare ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Leaves of Grass

    by Walt Whitman ...
    Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Works Of Walt Whitman: Including Leaves Of Grass, Specimen Days, Drum Taps & More (Mobi Collected Works)

    by Walt Whitman ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leaves of Grass

    by Walt Whitman ...
    Series series Enriched Classics
    A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century.Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems, the most famous of which is "Song of Myself"; however there are many others in the collection that display his poetic ability equally well, such as "I Sing the Body Electric", "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", and his ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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