The day America told the truth

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Pierre Cousin, Christine Fourage, Kristoff Talin

Que deviennent les valeurs et les croyances chez les 25 - 40 ans ? Ce groupe d'âge n'a fait l'objet d'aucune étude sociologique bien qu'il soit à la charnière des évolutions actuelles tant sociales que religieuses. Cet ouvrage présente une étude comparative entre Angers et Grenoble, deux villes avec leurs spécificités culturelles, socio-économiques et institutionnelles. Il permet d'analyser l'influence de ces deux contextes différents et d'en mesurer l'impact. Les démarches quantitatives et qualitatives tentent de cerner la recomposition des croyances et des attitudes religieuses confrontées à la modernité, les mutations dans l'univers politique et social ainsi que la transmission des valeurs dans le nouveau contexte familial.

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Neil Larsen

"Seminal work deals with the import and political consequences of the most influential approaches to the study of Latin American literature in the US. Chief virtue resides in scholarly method: a deep investigation of the theoretical foundations of major contributions. Essays demonstrate how many important approaches lack theoretical rigor due to a failure to investigate the philosophical grounding of the ideas deployed in the literary studies. A crucial book for serious critics. Absolutely required for all work on the boom and critical approaches that brought it about and maintain it; as well as for colonial discourse, testimonio, hegemony and ideology, and 'invention' approaches"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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John Gardner

This selection of John Gardner's influential pieces in criminal law theory tackles persistent, troublesome questions including Which wrongs should be crimes and why? Should crimes ever be excused, and if so on what basis? What are the conditions of criminal responsibility, and how do they relate to conditions of moral responsibility?

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Bernard E. Rollin

In Science and Ethics, Bernard Rollin examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science. Providing an introduction to basic ethical concepts, he discusses a variety of ethical issues that are relevant to science and how they are ignored, to the detriment of both science and society. These include research on human subjects, animal research, genetic engineering, biotechnology, cloning, xenotransplantation, and stem cell research. Rollin also explores the ideological agnosticism that scientists have displayed regarding subjective experience in humans and animals, and its pernicious effect on pain management. Finally, he articulates the implications of the ideological denial of ethics for the practice of science itself in terms of fraud, plagiarism, and data falsification. In engaging prose and with philosophical sophistication, Rollin cogently argues in favor of making education in ethics part and parcel of scientific training.