The powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members. A compelling testament to a woman's most essential freedom—control over her own body—and to the power of women helping women. • Also the subject of the acclaimed HBO documentary The Janes.The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of the Abortion Counseling Ser...

First published in 1997, The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of Jane, the underground group in Chicago that performed abortion services before the procedure was legalized. An extraordinary history by one of its members, this is the first account of Jane's evolution, the conflicts within the group, and the impact its work had both on the women it helped and the members themselves.This audiobook stands as a compelling testament to a woman's most essential freedom—contro...

Pendant des millénaires, les femmes ont enfanté avec la même facilité que les autres mammifères. Elles peuvent retrouver cette aisance aujourd'hui en se fiant à leur instinct. L'expérience de Laura Kaplan Shanley et les recherches qu'elle a menées le confirment brillamment. Notre société tient pour acquis qu'accoucher est un acte douloureux et dangereux ; cette croyance entrave l'accouchement, car le corps fait obstacle au bon déroulement de la naissance lorsque la mère en a peur. Alors qu...

This book reveals how giving birth is an inherently safe, relatively painless process that is best performed without the assistance of doctors or midwives, and how confidence and a positive attitude reduces fear—and therefore the pain—of labor.According to Laura Kaplan Shanley, a renowned leader in the natural-birth movement, human birth is inherently safe and relatively painless—provided we refrain from physical or psychological interference. The problems often as...

En el pasado, el contexto geográfico y las realidades naturales de los imperios y las naciones siempre fueron determinantes en los conflictos internacionales. Así ha sido hasta ahora y así será en el futuro, por encima de cualquier condicionante que la globalización imponga. Esa es la sorprendente y brillante tesis que se postula en La venganza de la geografía. Serán la distribución del espacio, el clima y otras circunstancias exclusivamente físicas los parámetros que definirán el...

Le persone non servono è il saggio che ha introdotto al grande pubblico il tema dell’intelligenza artificiale e dei suoi rischi. Oggi considerato un vero e proprio classico, questo libro adesso è diventato ancora più attuale, poiché l’impatto tecnologico dell’intelligenza artificiale, profetizzata da Kaplan, può essere oggi analizzato e misurato con maggiore consapevolezza. Oggi più di qualche anno fa, il genere umano si trova nel pieno di un cambiamento profondo e senza precedenti. Jerry ...

Multireligious Reflections on Friendship: Becoming Ourselves in Community presents a multi-religious discussion of spiritual and ethical formation through friendship. Contributors discuss the positive effects of friendship and some of the culturally diverse ways that friendships develop. Friends help us co-exist in diverse societies, live sustainably in our ecosystems, heal from trauma, develop inner virtues, engage wisely in social action, and connect with the divine. While friendship is ...

The Helping Professional's Guide to Ethics, Second Edition develops a comprehensive framework for ethics based on Bernard Gert's theory of common morality. Moving beyond codes of ethics, Bryan, Sanders, and Kaplan encourage students to develop a cohesive sense of ethical reasoning that both validates their moral intuition and challenges moral assumptions. Part I of the text introduces basic moral theory, provides an overview to moral development, and introduces the common morality...

The Hebrew Bible is filled with animals. Snakes and ravens share meals with people; donkeys and sheep work alongside us; eagles and lions inspire us; locusts warn us. How should we read their stories? What can they teach us about ecology, spirituality, and ethics? Author Laura Duhan-Kaplan explores these questions, weaving together biology, Kabbalah, rabbinic midrash, Indigenous wisdom, modern literary methods, and personal experiences. She re-imagines Jacob's sheep as family, Balaam's don...

"A moving, thoughtful, and scrupulous examination of both [ The Plague ] and its readers, the book's inheritors." — Times Literary SupplementAs one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus's classic novel The Plague has become a new kind of literary touchstone. Surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, readers sought...

Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientific workers—including translators, activists, archivists, technicians, curators, and ethics review boards—are absent in publications and omitted from stories of discovery. Scientific reports are often held to ideals of transparency, yet they are the result of careful judgments about what (and what not) to reveal. Professional scientists ...

Join author Laura Duhan-Kaplan in the Kabbalah practice of Sefirat ha'Omer, a forty-nine-day program of spiritual reflection. Rabbi Laura weaves Kabbalah, philosophy, psychology, and her own experiences of love and loss into a series of daily reflections. She invites readers to explore the meaning of love, boundaries, beauty, endurance, gratitude, grounding, and presence. With a mix of stories and ideas, she helps readers find Shechinah, a divine archetypal mother, in the intimacy of ordin...