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"Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn't check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it 'two thumbs up'"--
When Gene Siskel, a film critic for the Chicago Tribune, and Roger Ebert, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work at the Chicago Sun-Times, reluctantly agreed to collaborate on a new movie review show with PBS, there was at least as much sparring off-camera as on. Their...
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Singer returns to the major arguments and examples of his seminal 1975 work and brings us to the current moment. This edition, revised from top to bottom, covers important reforms in the European Union, and now in various U.S. states. On the flip side, Singer shows the impact of the expansion of factory farming due to demand for animal products in China. Singer describes how meat consumption is taking a toll on the environment, and factory farms pose...
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"David Stromberg's chronological presentation of Singer's highly readable articles takes readers on a dual journey: one of history, and one of a writer watching history unfold. Every piece in Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt was originally published in the Forverts, the world's largest and most influential Yiddish newspaper. Stromberg's careful curation, contextual explanations, and excellent translations give the readers a unique lens onto the...
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With the opening of the interstellar colonial era, mankind has finally spread the core values of civilization to the vast river of stars. Crushing the planet's battleship cannons for the dark and cold universe ignited the fire of positive energy, within the range of the cannons, everywhere the truth This is the best of times, this is the worst of times.
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Building or running a business is more than a journey. It's an adventure. Adventure assumes there is risk in the air. For many business owners, the adventure of building a business is a long one and there are many lessons to be learned over that extended period of time. That takes unwavering commitment, a serious dose of tenacity, and the ability to embrace adventure.
Using the experience of successfully summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro drives years of...
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Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and the recipient of the Berggruen Prize for ideas that shape human self-understanding. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, and The Life You Can Save.
Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher
Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential...
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From the author of Animal Liberation, an examination of the chasm between the words and actions of George W. Bush, who claimed the moral high ground more than any president in recent US history During his time in public office, George W. Bush framed a striking number of his major policies and initiatives with the concepts of good and evil. From his christening of the "axis of evil" to the wars in the Middle East to his condemnation of stem cell research,...
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The Cultural Revolution was an emotionally charged political awakening for the educated youth of China. Called upon by aging revolutionary Mao Tse-tung to assume a "vanguard" role in his new revolution to eliminate bourgeois revisionist influence in education, politics, and the arts, and to help to establish proletarian culture, habits, and customs, in a new Chinese society, educated young Chinese generally accepted this opportunity for meaningful...
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Take a fresh look at an up-and-coming art medium with “Anywhere, Anytime Art: Gouache!”
Gouache paint has a long history, but it's often associated with watercolor and multimedia art. Until now, that is! Trendy artists with large social-media followings are reinvigorating gouache, making this the ideal time to add this medium to your toolbox...or start your art journey with it!
Like the other books in this series, Gouache explores this medium...
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This book will change your lifeYou're Not Crazy: Living with Anxiety, Obsessions and Fetishes is designed to help those who suffer deeply from anxiety and its manifestations, especially in these times of escalating mental health concerns exacerbated by the devastating pandemic.Are you suffering from any of the following?Anxiety (a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome)Agoraphobia...
11) Gravity Gone
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A fusion accident in 1977 creates unusual stones eventually acquired by a bright young man, Ray Holland. Many years later a mysterious levitation event which directly involve the stones pushes Ray to design and create a device called GG-1. He and his soon to be wife Tessa pool their resources and together they begin an adventure in unraveling the undetermined power of the stones. To complicate matters, two FBI agents start poking around under inscrutable...
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Lovelife Stories, by Bob Singer, is a collection of short stories about love and life and laughter and sex... especially sex.
Lovelife Stories tells real life stories, about sex in a flower garden, sex in a college dorm, sex in a basketball gymnasium, sex in the ocean, sex on the road, sex on a bike, sex on a motorcycle, and even, sex in bed.
Lovelife Stories could possibly be the funniest book you'll ever read on the subject of love and life and...
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The award-winning textile artist presents her modern approach to 150 fabric manipulation techniques in this fully illustrated sewing guide.
In Fabric Manipulation, Ruth Singer presents the most in-depth and comprehensive guide to sculptural and embellishing effects since Collette Wolff's The Art of Manipulating Fabric.
Divided into three sections-Pleat and Fold, Stitch and Gather, Apply and Layer-Fabric Manipulation teaches sewists of all skill...
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This open access Topical Survey offers a brief overview of the current state of research on and activities for mathematically gifted students around the world. This is of interest to a broad readership, including educational researchers, research mathematicians, mathematics teachers, teacher educators, curriculum designers, doctoral students, and other stakeholders. It first discusses research concerning the nature of mathematical giftedness, including
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A month after Lincoln's assassination, William Alvin Lloyd arrived in Washington, DC, to press a claim against the federal government for money due him for serving as the president's spy in the Confederacy. Lloyd claimed that Lincoln personally had issued papers of transit for him to cross into the South, a salary of $200 a month, and a secret commission as Lincoln's own top-secret spy. The claim convinced Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and Judge...
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Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. He helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words.
In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to...
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Since its original publication in 1975, Animal Liberation has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"-our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals-inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Animal Liberation Now, Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory farms" and product-testing procedures, destroying the spurious justifications behind...
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In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives both of readers and the people they helped. Learn how you can be part of the solution, doing good for others while adding fulfillment to your own life....
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La guía transformadora que te conducirá a una vida despierta
Todos deseamos alcanzar la felicidad y encontrar un sentido más profundo a nuestra vida, pero los estamos
buscando en los lugares equivocados. Cuando nuestra sensación de plenitud depende de personas u objetos
externos -un trabajo muy deseado, una nueva casa, unas vacaciones espléndidas o incluso una nueva
relación-, tarde o temprano acabamos sintiéndonos insatisfechos. Si...