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Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: European Perspectives
The volume aims to capture a European gist of theoretical sensibilities, conceptual resources, and research interests, but not in an adversarial way, as opposed to American bioethics. The volume gathers contributions from European scholars as they collaborate and form a research network, drawing on a diversity of philosophical traditions and local knowledge, with the aim of debating universal b…
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- 9783110571219, 9783110571202
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Contemporary Housing Struggles
The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar structural conditions governed by different political constellations at the national and local scales.
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- 9783030974053
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Contemporary Gynecologic Practice
Gynecology is frequently changing due to extensive implementation of high technology in both, the diagnosis and management of gynecologic problems. General gynecologists, gynecologic endocrinologists, infertility specialists, gynecologic endoscopists, and gynecologic oncologists will find attractive, new information in this book.
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- 9789535117360, 9789535172277
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Contemporary French Administrative Law
Written from a comparative perspective, this book offers an authoritative English-language introduction to the key features of French administrative law and institutions. Using a systematic approach and with a variety of illustrative case study, this is a valuable resource for any student or researcher with an interest in French law.
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- 9781009057127, 9781316511169
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Contemporary France
Many recent studies of French politics have tended to concentrate on the French political system in isolation. Contemporary France aims to set the working of the French political system into its historical, social and economic context.
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- 9781134974238, 9780415025225
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Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty
Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future—a well-documented response in the environmental movement, for example. Yet stories, and in particular sophisticated fictional stories, can help us negotiate that uncertainty: they offer affective and imaginative tools that channel the instability of our climate future and invite audiences to accept its fundamental…
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- 9781350233911, 9781350233904
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Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe
This introductory chapter approaches two basic categories of the whole monography which is a family and a lifestyle. The first subchapter deals with the complexity around the definition of the term family nowadays and difficulties with its definition.
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Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
This pensée brute, traditionally known as metaphysics, dares to question the one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial and the world itself. This apparent kinship is not merely thematic, since contemporary thinkers explicitly and repeatedly return to the texts and figures of the Greco-Roman world
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- 9781474431194
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Contemporary Culture
Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets due to a deep and prolonged recession, the exigency of humanities research for society is increasingly put into question
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Contemporary Co-housing in Europe
Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context of wider social, economic, political and environmental developments.
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- 9780429832895, 9781138325913
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