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  • Righting Health Policy

    Bioethics, Political Philosophy, and the Normative Justification of Health Law and Policy

    by D. Robert MacDougall ...
    Series series Revolutionary Bioethics
    In Righting Health Policy, D. Robert MacDougall argues that bioethics needs but does not have adequate tools for justifying law and policy. Bioethics’ tools are mostly theories about what we owe each other. But justifying laws and policies requires more; at a minimum, it requires tools for explaining the legitimacy of actions intended to control or influence others. It consequently requires ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of Hands and Feet

    by Robert Macdougall, Henry Bernard ...
    In the great family of the animals, to which we ourselves belong, many different kinds of feet and hands are to be found. This book deals with the evolution of our feet and hands. “The succession of organic modifications which resulted in the formation of the human hand is part of the general process of evolution by which in the animal series the means of progression and of the taking of food were ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Leaders in Dangerous Times

    Douglas Macarthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower

    by ROBERT MACDOUGALL ...
    Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower brought World War II to a close in decidedly different ways. Was MacArthur a vainglorious actor, as some who observed his triumphant ceremony aboard the Missouri concluded? Was Eisenhower as dry and colorless as the ceremony at Reims suggests? In MacArthur and Eisenhower, author Robert McDougall describes how these two very different leaders came to be ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The People's Network

    The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age

    by Robert MacDougall ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Communication and Control

    Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions

    by Robert MacDougall, Kevin Cummings, Vincenzo DeFlorio, Ryan Eanes, Robert Gehl, Zeke Kimball, Cameron Kunzelman, Karla Loya, Benjamin Morton, Kathleen Oswald0, Rachel Plotnick1, Madhusudan Raman2, Jim Thatcher3, Brett Lunceford4, R.E. Burnett5, Matthew Pittman6 ...
    Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions advocates a systems view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines. This edited collection sheds new light on things as mundane yet still profoundly consequential (and seemingly “low-tech”) as push buttons, pagers, and telemarketing systems. Contributors also investigate aspects of “remote control” related to ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • The People's Network

    The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age

    by Robert MacDougall ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

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  • Systemic Racism 101

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