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In the United States roughly 2 million people are incarcerated; billions of animals are held captive (and then killed) in the food industry every year; hundreds of thousands of animals are kept in laboratories; thousands are in zoos and aquaria; millions of "e;pets"e; are captive in our homes. Surprisingly, despite the rich ethical...

Over the course of thirty-one essays, this Handbook provides a comprehensive view of the remarkable transformation of the nation's political system to a democratic model. Here, some of the world's leading scholars of Mexico will assess the most influential institutions, actors, policies and issues in the country's current evolution...

How Parents and their Allies Changed New York City&'s Child Welfare SystemIn the early 1990s 50,000 children were in New York City&'s foster care system. By 2011 there were fewer than 15,000. In his book, David Tobis shows how such radical change was driven largely by a movement of mothers whose children had been placed into foster care, who fought...

Blackstone&'s Handbook for Policing Students 2015 reflects the multitude of avenues into the police force now open to future police officers, from pre-join courses to PCSOs and Specials. Designed specifically to meet the new requirements of police training and developed from the best-selling Blackstone&'s Student Police Officer Handbook, this book...

A Very Short IntroductionNutrition is a topic of wide interest and importance. In spite of growing understanding of the underlying biochemistry, and health campaigns such as 'five-a-day', increasing obesity and reported food allergies and eating disorders, as well as the widely advertised 'supposed' benefits of food supplements...

Kant&'s discussion of the relations between cognition and self-consciousness lie at the heart of the Critique of Pure Reason, in the celebrated transcendental deduction. Although this section of Kant&'s masterpiece is widely believed to contain important insights into cognition and self-consciousness, it has long been viewed as unusually...