Jonathan Glover: 8 books
Choosing Children
Genes, Disability, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have. Should we welcome this power, or should we fear its implications? There is no ethical question more urgent than this: we may be at a turning-point in the history of...
by Jonathan Glover
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The twentieth century was the most brutal in human history, featuring a litany of shameful events that includes the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Stalinist era, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. This important book looks at the politics of our times and the roots of human nature to discover why so many atrocities...
Race and Displacement
Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions.
The multifaceted approach of the essays in Race and Displacement...
Alien Landscapes?
Interpreting Disordered Minds
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Do people with mental disorders share enough psychology with other people to make human interpretation possible? Jonathan Glover tackles the hard cases—violent criminals, people with delusions, autism, schizophrenia—to answer affirmatively. He offers values linked with agency and identity to guide how the boundaries of psychiatry should be drawn.
Causing Death and Saving Lives
The Moral Problems of Abortion, Infanticide, Suicide, Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, War and Other Life-or-death Choices
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1990
The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices.
Naciones, identidad y conflicto
Una reflexión sobre los imaginarios de los nacionalismos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Esta obra, junto con los títulos Nacionalismo: a favor y en contra, y Autodeterminación y secesión completa un estimulante enfoque sobre los nacionalismos. La pluralidad de este fenómeno merece ser examinada atendiendo a los muchos matices de los distintos puntos de vista en liza. La reflexión...
Complete Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Development with Unity
Leverage the power of Unity and become a pro at creating mixed reality applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Get close and comfortable with Unity and build applications that run on HoloLens, Daydream, and Oculus Rift
Key Features
Build fun augmented reality applications using ARKit, ARCore, and Vuforia
Explore virtual reality by developing more than 10 engaging projects
Learn how to integrate AR and...
'That Astonishing Infantry'
The History of The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1689-2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The Royal Welch Fusiliers were present at all Marlborough's great victories; they were one of the six Minden regiments; they fought throughout the Peninsula and were present at Wellington's final glorious victory at Waterloo. In The Great War their officers included the writer poets Siegfried Sassoon...