Books in the America In Transition series

Explains the biotechnology of the Human Genome Project in terms we all can understand. Not limiting her bioethics to the realm of abstraction, the author maintains that her new bioethics of birth can lead to the end of abortion and unwanted pregnancy and the creation of a world in which people can achieve a greater solidarity with one another.

Presents an argument for a vegetarian lifestyle. This book addresses vegetarianism's cultural, historical, and philosophical background, and details vegetarianism's impact on one's living and thinking. It is aimed at anyone looking to explore the relationship between dietary choice, lifestyle, and the treatment of animals and the environment.

Americans have been raised with the mantra that we can grow up to be anything we want to be, achieve anything we can imagine. How many of us believe the message? This work does more than outline this problem of American selfishness; it proposes a solution that is nothing less than a massive reconception of the way we relate to one another.

Argues that the public debates and political battles that have divided Vermont and Massachusetts will be repeated across the country as state after state confronts the issue of legalizing gay marriage. This work examines landmark decisions in state and federal high courts granting civil rights protections to homosexuals.