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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Norma M Benjamin
This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies. Addresses the ethical questions which have arisen in response to new reproductive technologies. Helps students of theology, philosophy and health studies, as well as lay readers tackle these issues. Provides readers with relevant medical and scientific facts. Explains how different metaphysical frameworks affect the ways in which people solve these ethical problems. Topics covered include human embryo and embryonic cell stem research, infertility and its treatments, and prenatal screening and diagnosis. The author takes a balanced approach, acknowledging his loyalty to Catholicism, yet exploring freely the new options provided by advancing biological science.
This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies. Addresses the ethical questions which have arisen in response to new reproductive technologies. Helps students of theology, philosophy and health studies, as well as lay readers tackle these issues. Provides readers with relevant medical and scientific facts. Explains how different metaphysical frameworks affect the ways in which people solve these ethical problems. Topics covered include human embryo and embryonic cell stem research, infertility and its treatments, and prenatal screening and diagnosis. The author takes a balanced approach, acknowledging his loyalty to Catholicism, yet exploring freely the new options provided by advancing biological science.
Of all the horrors of the last century—perhaps the bloodiest century of the past millennium—ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term burst forth in public discourse in the spring of 1992 as a way to describe Serbian attacks on the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but as this landmark book attests, ethnic cleansing is neither new nor likely to cease in our time.Norman Naimark, distinguished historian of Europe and Russia, provides an insightful history of ethnic cleansing and its relationship to genocide and population transfer. Focusing on five specific cases, he exposes the myths about ethnic cleansing, in particular the commonly held belief that the practice stems from ancient hatreds. Naimark shows that this face of genocide had its roots in the European nationalism of the late nineteenth century but found its most virulent expression in the twentieth century as modern states and societies began to organize themselves by ethnic criteria. The most obvious example, and one of Naimark’s cases, is the Nazi attack on the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. Naimark also discusses the Armenian genocide of 1915 and the expulsion of Greeks from Anatolia during the Greco–Turkish War of 1921–22; the Soviet forced deportation of the Chechens-Ingush and the Crimean Tatars in 1944; the Polish and Czechoslovak expulsion of the Germans in 1944–47; and Bosnia and Kosovo.In this harrowing history, Naimark reveals how over and over, as racism and religious hatreds picked up an ethnic name tag, war provided a cover for violence and mayhem, an evil tapestry behind which nations acted with impunity.
A Financial Times Best Book of the YearWinner of the Norris and Carol Hundley AwardWinner of the US–Russia Relations Book Prize“The achievement of a lifetime.”—Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin“Naimark has few peers as a scholar of Stalinism, the Soviet Union and 20th-century Europe, and his latest work Stalin and the Fate of Europe is one of his most original and interesting.”—Financial Times“A timely and instructive account not merely of our own history but also of our fractious, unsettling present.”—Daniel Beer, The Guardian“Adds an abundance of fresh knowledge to a time and place that we think we know, clarifying the contours of Soviet–American conflict by skillfully enriching the history of postwar Europe.”—Timothy Snyder, author of BloodlandsWas the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order, Norman Naimark suggests that Stalin was far more open to a settlement than we have thought. Through revealing case studies from Poland and Yugoslavia to Finland and Albania, Naimark recasts the early Cold War by focusing on Europeans’ fight to determine their future.With Western occupation forces in central Europe and Soviet forces controlling most of the continent’s eastern half, European leaders had to nimbly negotiate outside pressures. For some, this meant repelling Soviet dominance. For others, it meant enlisting the Americans to support their aims. Revealing an at times surprisingly flexible Stalin and showing European leaders deftly managing their nations’ interests, Stalin and the Fate of Europe uncovers the lost potential of an alternative trajectory before 1949, when the Cold War split became irreversible.
In 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not “occupied” but “liberated.” This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet Bloc, is what passed for history in the German Democratic Republic. Now, making use of newly opened archives in Russia and Germany, Norman Naimark reveals what happened during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany from 1945 through 1949. His book offers a comprehensive look at Soviet policies in the occupied zone and their practical consequences for Germans and Russians alike—and, ultimately, for postwar Europe.In rich and lucid detail, Naimark captures the mood and the daily reality of the occupation, the chaos and contradictions of a period marked by rape and repression, the plundering of factories, the exploitation of German science, and the rise of the East German police state. Never have these practices and their place in the overall Soviet strategy, particularly the political development of the zone, received such thorough treatment. Here we have our first clear view of how the Russians regarded the postwar settlement and the German question, how they made policy on issues from reparations to technology transfer to the acquisition of uranium, how they justified their goals, how they met them or failed, and how they changed eastern Germany in the process. The Russians in Germany also takes us deep into the politics of culture as Naimark explores the ways in which Soviet officers used film, theater, and education to foster the Bolshevization of the zone.Unique in its broad, comparative approach to the Soviet military government in Germany, this book fills in a missing—and ultimately fascinating—chapter in the history of modern Europe.
Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace--the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror--and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.
Asking Questions
Norman M. Bradburn; Seymour Sudman; Brian Wansink
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
2004
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Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Asking Questions has become a classic guide for designing questionnaires¾the most widely used method for collecting information about people’s attitudes and behavior. An essential tool for market researchers advertisers, pollsters, and social scientists, this thoroughly updated and definitive work combines time-proven techniques with the most current research, findings, and methods. The book presents a cognitive approach to questionnaire design and includes timely information on the Internet and electronic resources. Comprehensive and concise, Asking Questions can be used to design questionnaires for any subject area, whether administered by telephone, online, mail, in groups, or face-to-face. The book describes the design process from start to finish and is filled with illustrative examples from actual surveys
Designing the Good Life
Norman M. Giller; Sarah Giller Nelson; Eric Peter Nash
University Press of Florida
2007
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Miami Modernism, or MiMo, is the exotic brand of mid-century architecture ubiquitous in the world-famous city. ""Designing the Good Life"" is a personal account of the post - World War II movement that shaped a city and defined an era. This captivating story offers a unique look at the architecture of Norman M. Giller, one of the early godfathers of MiMo. Giller made an indelible mark on the urban landscape with architecturally progressive structures ideally suited to their surroundings. Discussing technologies, materials, and the key elements of MiMo, Giller offers an insider's view. He delves into Miami's architectural history to examine some of his most iconic structures, including the Ocean Palm Motel, the Carillon Hotel, the North Shore Band Shell, the Diplomat Hotel and Country Club, and the Giller Building. Each project is lavishly illustrated with vintage images from the architect's exclusive collection and contemporary photographs by Miami photographer Robin Hill. The only book to chronicle the movement's evolution from the perspective of one of its most distinguished exponents, ""Designing the Good Life"" reveals how Giller's vision helped to define Florida architecture since World War II.
In her meticulous and wide-ranging study, Nora M. Heimann follows the metamorphosis of Joan of Arc's posthumous representation during the years in which her image ascended from relative obscurity as a minor provincial figure in the middle ages through her treatment as a figure of political satire in the eighteenth century to her ultimate emergence as an image of piety and sanctity in the mid-nineteenth century. Offering the first scholarly art historical and cultural analysis of the origins of the modern Joan of Arc cult, she takes on the challenge of charting, as no previous critic has, why and how the Maid of Orl‘s has been all things to such a diverse public through the ages, particularly during the rapid shifts in political regimes that came in the wake of the French Revolution. Joan of Arc's image has shown a protean capacity to embody a vast and often contradictory range of qualities, from martial ascendancy to vulnerable piety, from maidenly purity to transgressive androgyny, from the power of the people to the divine right of kings. Heimann makes a persuasive case for this enduringly resonant woman as the only figure in French culture to be warmly embraced simultaneously by republicans, monarchists, feminists, and neo-fascists alike. In its recounting of the iconographic fortunes of this remarkable woman during her transformation from an image of satire to one of sanctity, Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700-1855) offers an illustrated, interdisciplinary depiction of the relationship between art and politics that will appeal not only to art historians but also to those working in literature, women's studies, cultural studies, intellectual history, and religious history.
Jewish Bible Personages in the New Testament
Norman M. Cohen
University Press of America
1989
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This unique book analyzes in a comprehensive manner all of the characters from the Jewish Bible who appear or are mentioned in the New Testament. The author traces the patterns and analyzes the possible reasons why the various writers of the New Testament used certain Jewish Bible personages to illustrate their theology. Beginning with an overview of the relationship of the New Testament to Jewish Scripture, including proof texting, allusion, allegory and typology and a spectrum of scholarship on this subject, this book suggests that the New Testament writers were attempting to affirm their authority and confirm their authenticity by elaborating this central relationship. The book then outlines the frequency with which individual Jewish Bible personages appear in the New Testament. Charts tabulate such appearances and map out their location in the various New Testament writings. The book's main task is a study of the 39 personages, in terms of their theological function in the New Testament. An invaluable resource for beginning and advanced students of New Testament.
Using a style that draws students into the ongoing inquiry into how intimate relationships work, Love and IntimateRelationships investigates the life cycle of relationships influences that affect them, theories behind them, and ways to improve them. Dozens of stories from students themselves, case examples and over 150 tables, figure, and the cartoons of Don Edwing of Mad Magazine help bring the material alive. The book is also unique in exploring aspects of human relationships not covered in other textbooks on the subject.Loveand Intimate Relationships helps bring the complex issues surrounding intimate relationships into focus for students from diverse backgrounds. The multidisciplinary perspective of the textbook makes it ideal for introductory courses in psychology, marriage counseling, human relations, and sexuality, and interpersonal relationships
What is an Investment Policy Statement? The IPS provides the foundation for all future investment decisions to be made by an investor.It serves as a guidepost, identifying goals, creating a system and discipline for a decisions. A client said,"Once the trustees adopted the Investment Policy Statement, we found that we were making our decisions in a deliberate fashion, rather than in the "heat of battle."Since we'd already thought about how things would get done under a variety of circumstances, we no longer found ourselves getting emotional. Planning ahead makes it easier for all of us when the investment markets get turbulent." If you are an investment advisor, financial planner, stock broker, insurance agent, CPA or attorney advising your clients about their money, this innovative book will be a key tool for working with clients.
How to Lower Blood Sugar: Natural Remedies for Diabetes
Nora M. Greenway
Creative Bookworm Press
2012
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Perhaps your doctor has said those painfully unwelcome words to you - "If we don't get your blood sugar under control, you'll have diabetes"...or, worse, "Your blood sugar is too high. It's time to put you on treatment." Your weight, your eating habits, your lack of exercise, chronic stress, and your genes - have finally caught up with you. You are now one of the over 79 million adults and children with prediabetes or the 25.8 million adults and children with actual diabetes in the United States. You need to make changes...Now But, how? If you want to learn how to lower your blood sugar naturally, reduce the risk of diabetic complications, and cut down on the diabetes drugs you have to take, this book is for you. "How To Lower Blood Sugar: Natural Remedies for Diabetes" reveals the tools to help you reduce your blood sugar naturally. Here you'll discover how to... -Eat foods and superfoods to lower blood sugar -Find low glycemic index foods and recipes that taste good -Take the right herbal remedies for diabetes and prediabetes -Choose the best vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that can improve your blood sugar control -Stop compulsive overeating that adds on the pounds -Reduce stress that makes it hard to keep your blood sugar levels normal -Get support from alternative therapies to improve your energy and mental clarity so that you can succeed at losing that excess weight This guide book will show you step-by-step ways to lower blood sugar. This self-empowering package can make all the difference for you. End your sense of helplessness over your high blood sugar levels. Get this book and get answers today
Compelled To Act reveals the inner workings of an international government/corporate cabal organized to support the extraordinary profits of the ultra-capitalist structure in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. It follows the dynamics of a small group of people who are determined to fight the corporate greed and corruption that is rotting the soul of the U.S. They start out forming a secret club--the XDS-- to disrupt a major pharmaceutical company that, with the aid of the food industry, is helping to create an ADHD epidemic that only their drug can cure. On a parallel path, the cabal has taken over editorial control of the major newspaper in the U.S. and Europe. One of the founding members of the XDS is forced into the role of the newspaper representative to the cabal. As the group of would-be revolutionaries move forward with their plan to disrupt the Pharma company, a member of the group uncovers the true objective of the cabal--to destroy the pollinators and control enough of the world's food supply to give the U.S. global dominance. On their own, two members of the group--lovers-- execute a plan to derail the pollinator plot. They assassinate those in the cabal who know the entire pollinator plan. The two along with the spouse of one of them become a polyamorous household and escape the dangers posed by their actions.
100 words time 100 poems equals 10,000 sounds then silence
Norman M Sinel
stonesthrowe press
2023
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