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Midget: A unique and unnerving story about Midget - fifteen years old, three feet tall, and target of his older brother&'s bullying and cruelty. Midget dreams of buying a boat and sailing away, but people say it&'ll take a miracle for that to happen. Midget knows miracles can happen, but sometimes they hurt people who get in the way. Dragon&'s...

The Ethics of Biomedical EnhancementBiotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives. Allen Buchanan explores urgent ethical issues raised by these developments, about what it is to be human and what sort...

A collection of eighteenth-century poems, fiction, political pamphlets, letters, petitions and other writings, Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions recovers a revolutionary moment in world history in which women stepped into a globalizing world and imagined themselves free....

Perrault's classic fairy tales in a scintillating new translation, including the less familiar verse tales and with illustrations by Gustave Dor'e. The introduction explores the imaginative power of the stories and the many interpretations to which they have been subject....

This volume collects thirty years worth of articles on the emotions written by the distinguished philosopher Robert Solomon. Solomon's thesis is that we are significantly responsible for our emotions, which are evaluative judgments that in effect we choose. This is the first of several volumes (the second is     In Defence of Sentimentality) that...

A Very Short IntroductionRen'e Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. In this book Tom Sorell shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he...