Summary: This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Island 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOCFaulks, Sebastian
Summary: When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire entrepreneur plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics as never before. Through a series of IVF treatments, which they hope to keep secret, they propose an experiment that will upend the human race as we know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hutchinson Heinemann 2023
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Summary: "What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This ... book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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Summary: "Eating Ethically helps readers trace the history of ethical eating and human ways of treating animals, explore the science behind it, and discuss controversies from an objective viewpoint. The title will engage readers on the topic and help them to weigh the pros and cons as they make their own food decisions."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J178 FELSinger, Peter
Summary: An investigation of the food choices people make and practices of the food producers who create this food for us leading to a discussion of how we might put more ethics into our shopping carts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 178 SINRieder, Travis N.
Summary: "A warm, personal guide to building a strong ethical and moral compass in the midst of today's confusing, scary, global problems. The moral challenges of today are unfamiliar in the history of philosophy. Climate change is the paradigm example of what Travis Rieder calls "The Puzzle" in the way your choices can seem at odds with what the planet urgently needs. How do we decide the right thing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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Summary: "Unmanned is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety. Drones, however, are only part of the problem. William Arkin shows that security is actually undermined by an impulse to gather as much data as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 ARKRomeo, Nick
Summary: "Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century -- widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world -- many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 174 ROMCripps, Elizabeth
Summary: Philosopher Elizabeth Cripps approaches climate justice not just as an abstract idea but as something that should motivate us all. Using clear reasoning and poignant examples, starting from irrefutable science and uncontroversial moral rules, she explores our obligations to each other and to the non-human world, unravels the legacy of colonialism and entrenched racism, and makes the case for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Continuum 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 CRISteinhauer, Jason
Summary: The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History as a discipline. This is the first book to chronicle how and why it matters. Why does History matter at all? What role do history and the past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2022
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Summary: A Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan), exploring the history of the vegan movement and its present-day tensions, grapples with the most fundamental questions of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat?, which results in an eye-opening portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates--and our planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2024
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Summary: "An urgent and prescient look at how technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it, and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead. Battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous systems that can process information and strike violently before a human being can blink-- in Future War, Robert H. Latiff examines tomorrow's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 LATCaplan, Bryan Douglas
Summary: "American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and work in the country. Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive laws argue the need to protect native citizens. But economist Bryan Caplan adds a new, compelling perspective to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 CAPCulatta, Richard E. (Richard Edward)
Summary: "Kids deserve a better digital future. Help them create it. When it comes to raising children in a digital world, every parent feels underprepared and overwhelmed. We worry that our children will become addicted to online games, be victims of cyberbullying, or get lost down the rabbit hole of social media. We tell them time and again what not to do and list dangers to avoid when online. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Review Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.67 CULPhillips, Whitney
Summary: "Drawing on ecological, social justice and storytelling frameworks, this . . . book discusses how information pollution spreads and why, tackling the topic of internet ethics while empowering readers to create a safe, secure and inclusive digital world"--OCLC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MiTeen Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 302.3 PHIGrayling, A. C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GRAHornblum, Allen M.
Summary: "The sad history of young children, especially institutionalized children, being used as cheap and available test subjects - the raw material for experimentation - started long before the atomic age and went well beyond exposure to radioactive isotopes. Experimental vaccines for hepatitis, measles, polio and other diseases, exploratory therapeutic procedures such as electroshock and lobotomy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174.2 HORSummary: On September 30, 2004, pharmaceutical giant Merck voluntarily withdrew its popular painkiller Vioxx after it was linked to increased risks of heart attack and stroke. Was Merck's move driven by genuine concern for patients? Or, given findings from earlier studies, was the recall a self-protective move that came too late? This CNBC investigation takes viewers through the process by which one of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Buolamwini, Joy
Summary: "Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the self-described "Poet of Code" who has had a lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art-disciplines that, she felt, pushed the boundaries of reality. After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Tennessee, to developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini eventually found herself at MIT. As a graduate student at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What's wrong with enjoying the rich variety of foods that importers make available? Do the reported drawbacks of globalization mean that we should eat only locally grown food? How are Western food choices related to environmental problems and to developing-world farmers? This program explores those questions by studying agricultural practices in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Comparing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Takes the viewer behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons for fighting a "preemptive" war against Iraq that wasn't necessary. Includes interviews with more than 20 experts in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCElton, Sarah
Summary: Examines the reasons why people choose to eat the way they do, looking at such reasons as health, taste, ethics, religion, and environmental concerns, and discusses a vegetarian lifestyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.2 ELTDomby, Adam H.
Summary: "This book examines the foundational role of deliberate misrepresentation in various elements of white supremist Lost Cause mythology, from Confederate soldiers' military prowess, loyalty, motivation, and unity, to mythical black Confederates, to the evolution of Lost Cause myths to support present-day white supremacy. It adds to the understanding of the memory and reality of the American Civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2020