Author: C to investigate the evils of lotteries
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: lotteries, commonwealth, pennsy, evils, investigate, committee, appointed, report
Number of Pages: 20
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $14.75
ISBN-10: 1113297972
ISBN-13: 9781113297976

Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher: Masterson Press
Keywords: evils, eugenics
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2010-04-05
List price: $28.45
ISBN-10: 1445584107
ISBN-13: 9781445584102

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Herbert M. Shelton
Publisher: Health Research
Keywords: evils, serum, vaccine
Number of Pages: 46
Published: 1996
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 078730784X
ISBN-13: 9780787307844

"Do we really know what we are being immunized for? Are vaccinations really safe? Herbert Shelton brings light to how vaccinations and serums came about, uncovering the truth how people were enticed to believe it was for the better. Shelton brings this vast information from many articles of The Journal of The American Medical Association, Public Health Records and many years of testimonials and newspaper articles."

Author: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Publisher: Policy Pr
Keywords: evils, social, contemporary
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-06-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1847424082
ISBN-13: 9781847424082

Which underlying problems pose the greatest threat to British society in the 21st century? A hundred years after its philanthropist founder identified poverty, alcohol, drugs and gambling among the social evils of his time, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation initiated a major consultation among leading thinkers, activists and commentators, as well as the wider public. Individual contributors, ranging across the political spectrum, include Sean Bailey, Zygmunt Bauman, Anthony Browne, Chris Creegan, A.C. Grayling, Neal Lawson, Anna Minton, Ferdinand Mount, Julia Neuberger, Jeremy Seabrook, Matthew T

Author: Benjamin Aydelott
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: remedy, evils, country
Number of Pages: 62
Published: 2010-02-02
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1429042788
ISBN-13: 9781429042789

This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

Author: Claudia Card
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: genocide, torture, terrorism, evils, confronting
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-08-23
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 0521728363
ISBN-13: 9780521728362

In this new contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil as a secular concept and focusing on the inexcusability - rather than the culpability - of atrocities, Card examines the tension between responding to evils and preserving humanitarian values. This stimulating and often provocative book contends that understanding the evils in terrorism, torture and genocide enables us to recognise similar e

Author: Kimberley Patton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: ancient, cathartic, ocean, pollution, marine, wash, evils, modern, sea
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-11-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0231138067
ISBN-13: 9780231138062

Kimberley Patton examines the environmental crises facing the world’s oceans from the perspective of religious history. Much as the ancient Greeks believed, and Euripides wrote, that "the sea can wash away all evils," a wide range of cultures have sacralized the sea, trusting in its power to wash away what is dangerous, dirty, and morally contaminating. The sea makes life on land possible by keeping it "pure."Patton sets out to learn whether the treatment of the world’s oceans by industrialized nations arises from the same faith in their infinite and regenerative qualities. Indeed,