Why have children?: The ethical debate

"In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful justification and reasoning than the choice not to. Arguing that the choice to have children i…

Julius the street boy : or, Life in the west

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History of civilization in Europe : from the fall of the Roman Empire to the …

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Helmholtz: From enlightenment to neuroscience

"Although Hermann von Helmholtz was one of the most remarkable figures of nineteenth-century science, he is little known outside his native Germany. Helmholtz (1821-1894) made significant contributions to the study of vision and perception and was also influential in the painting, music, and literature of the time; one of his major works analyzed tone in music. This book, the first in English t…

Holiday tales

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Half-hours with the early explorers

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The Ethical Treatment of Depression: Autonomy Through Psychotherapy

Is there is a moral imperative on physicians to refer patients with mental depression for psychotherapy rather that treating the ailment with drugs? Psychotherapy, in particular cognitive behavior therapy, promotes autonomy & it is the loss of autonomy, argues Paul Biegler, that is at the heart of depression.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and proce…

"David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the field. In Vision, Marr describes a general framework for understanding visual perception and touches on broader questions about how the brain and its functions can be studied and understood. Researchers from a range of brain and cognitive sciences have long v…

Felix Holt, the radical

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction, Love stories, PR, Legal stories, Radicals -- Fiction, Political fiction, Elections -- Fiction, England -- Fiction, Domestic fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction

Reminiscences of an engineer, at home and abroad

MY HISTORY begins at 1836, at which time I went to one of the largest manufacturers then in London of Marine Engines. There were two factories belonging to the same firm