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Ronald Bailey, Marian L. Tupy

“I would say that learning this material … has lifted some of the existential weight from me. Things aren’t as bad as they are trumpeted to be. In fact, they’re quite a bit better, and they’re getting better, and so we’re doing a better job than we thought. There’s more to us than we thought. We’re adopting our responsibilities as stewards of the planet rapidly. We are moving towards improving everyone’s life." —Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

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Ronald Bailey

In the past five decades there have been many, many forecasts of impending environmental doom. They have universally been proven wrong. Meanwhile, those who have bet on human resourcefulness have almost always been correct.In his widely praised book Ecoscam, Ronald Bailey strongly countered environmentalist alarmism, using facts to demonstrate just how wildly overstated many claims of impending ecological doom really were. Now, twenty years later, the Reason Magazine scienc...

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Ronald Bailey, Wendell Berry, Norman Borlaug, M F. K. Fisher, Nichols Fox, Greenpeace International, Garrett Hardin, Mae-Wan Ho, Marc Lappe, Britt Bailey, Tanya Maxted-Frost, Henry I. Miller, Helen Norberg-Hodge, Stuart Patton, C Ford Runge, Benjamin Senauer, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Peter Singer, Anthony J. Trewavas, Food and Drug Administration

Food makes philosophers of us all. Death does the same . . . but death comes only once . . . and choices about food come many times each day. In The Ethics of Food, Gregory E. Pence brings together a collection of voices who share the view that the ethics of genetically modified food is among the most pressing societal questions of our time. This comprehensive collection addresses a broad range of subjects, including the meaning of food, moral analyses of vegetarianism and starvation, the ...

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Ronald Bailey

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This program is read by an AI-based synthesized voice.In the past five decades there have been many, many forecasts of impending environmental doom. They have universally been proven wrong. Meanwhile, those who have bet on human resourcefulness have almost always been correct.In his widely praised book Ecoscam, Ronald Bailey strongly countered environmentalist alarmism, using facts to demonstrate just how wildly overstated many claims of impending ...

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Eric Cohen, George J. Annas, Ronald Bailey, Sen Christopher "Kit" Bond, J Bottum, Sen Sam Brownback, President George W. Bush, Kenneth L. Connor, Richard M. Doerflinger, Michael J. Fox, Bill Frist, Francis Fukuyama, Robert P. George, James K. Glassman, Rep James Greenwood, Sen Tom Harkin, Sen Orrin G. Hatch, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Aldous Huxley, Leon R. Kass, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Rep Dennis J. Kucinich, Joshua Lederberg, Gilbert Meilaender, H J. Muller, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Rael, Paul Ramsey, William Saletan, Wesley J. Smith, James A. Thomson, Laurence H. Tribe, James D. Watson, Michael D. West, Ian Wilmut, Adam Wolfson

This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age.

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James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles, Patrick J. Deneen, William English, Benjamin Hippen, Adam Keiper, Charles T. Rubin, Ari N. Schulman, Benjamin Storey, Ronald Bailey, Marc D. Guerra, Robert P. Kraynak, Peter Augustine Lawler

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation; Tocqueville’s prescience on how a “cognitive elite” might be the aristocracy to be most feared in our time; robotization and the possibility of being ruled by morally challenged robots; organ ...

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Ronald D. Attanasio, Dennis R. Bailey

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The Clinics: Dentistry

Sleep Medicine is a relatively new medical specialty that has demonstrated its clear relevance to the practice of many other specialties, and dentistry is no exception. This issue of Dental Clinics of North America includes articles that address aspects of sleep medicine most relevant to the dentist, such as bruxism, breathing disorders, and Insomnia.

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Sara C. Charles, M.D., Paul R. Frisch, J.D.

What is it like to be sued for medical malpractice? Bad medical outcomes traumatize patients but they also traumatize physicians. The litigation that often follows is a profoundly human, rather than just a legal experience. Although every physician's case is different, this book shows how each case goes through the same judicial stages of complaint, discovery, depositions, motions, and delays that lead to trial, settlement, or being dropped. It also gives doctors an understanding of how la...

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Susan Ronald

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Josephine Bailey

Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, Elizabeth I was feared and admired by her enemies. Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power. Her visionary accomplishments were made possible by her daring merchants, gifted rapscallion adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy Council, including Sir William Cecil, Sir Francis Walsingham, and Sir Nicholas Bacon. All these men contributed their vast genius, power, greed, an...

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Donald P. Ryan

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Paul Boehmer

A real-life "Indiana Jones," Donald P. Ryan, PhD, offers a breathtaking personal account of his adventures in archaeology in Beneath the Sands of Egypt. Fans of The Lost City of Z will thrill to the exploits of this "unconventional archaeologist" as he retrieves the remains of Egypt's past—including his breakthrough discovery in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt's famous female pharaoh, Hatshepsut.

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Randi Zuckerberg

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Randi Zuckerberg

With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement since Facebook’s early days and her following six years as a marketing executive for the company. Her part memoir, part how-to manual addresses issues of privacy, online presence, networki...

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Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney

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Bret Baier

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Three Days Series

President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier.""An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan.” — Jay WinikMoscow, 1988: 1,000 miles behind the Iron Curtain, Ronald Reagan stood for freedom and confronted the Soviet empire.In his acclaimed bestseller Three Days in Januar...