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This book presents a review of all current knowledge about the developmental effects of media on adolescents, from television and movies to magazines and advertising. Legal restrictions and less formal regulatory bodies are reviewed to present a full picture of the ways in which media is constrained to protect adolescents' development....

This is the first single-author book on what has come to be known as neuroethics. Walter Glannon uses a philosophical framework that is fully informed by cutting edge neuroscience as well as contemporary legal cases such as Terri Schiavo, to offer readers an introduction to this fascinating topic....

A compelling new interpretation of early Mormonism, Samuel Brown's In Heaven as It        Is On Earth views this religion through the lens of founder Joseph Smith's profound        preoccupation with the specter of death.Revisiting historical documents and        scripture from this novel perspective, Brown offers new insight into the origin...

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Journeys with Moby-DickAn easy-to-navigate guide to Herman Melville's epic American novel, Dive Deeper consists of 135 brief chapters, along with Etymology, Extracts, and Epilogue, each keyed to a phrase, issue, image, sensibility or notion in corresponding chapters of the original....