How can someone who condemns hunting, animal farming, and animal experimentation also favor legal abortion, which is the deliberate destruction of a human fetus? The authors of Beating Hearts aim to reconcile this apparent conflict and examine the surprisingly similar strategic and tactical questions faced by activists in the pro-life and animal rights movements. Beating Hearts maintains that sentience, or the ability to have subjective experiences, grounds a being's entitlement to moral concern. The authors argue that nearly all human exploitation of animals is unjustified. Early abortions do not contradict the sentience principle because they precede fetal sentience, and Beating Hearts explains why the mere potential for sentience does not create moral entitlements. Late abortions do raise serious moral questions, but forcing a woman to carry a child to term is problematic as a form of gender-based exploitation. These ethical explorations lead to a wider discussion of the strategies deployed by the pro-life and animal rights movements. Should legal reforms precede or follow attitudinal changes? Do gory images win over or alienate supporters? Is violence ever principled? By probin... [Read More]

From the nothing sprang the Phoenix, and with her came life. Though her greatness came with a price, and her life was never her own. She was trapped in an endless pursuit and forced into a never-ending cycle of reincarnation, and her only desire was a life of her own.Iette, an exiled fairy isolated in the realms of men, became a source of hope and sadness for his seemingly mortal lover, only to find himself in a battle for the very soul of a goddess.This is a story steeped in turmoil and grief and carried through the ages by hope and love alone. Could their love be enough to save not only themselves but the world that has forgotten them?

The Beating Heart details the determined efforts since the 1830s of Te Arawa tribes to work with the Crown and settlers to pursue a mutually advantageous relationship under the Treaty while at the same time maintaining their autonomy, culture, and control over their land and resources.Although the ultimate outcomes were often calamitous for Te Arawa, the underlying theme of this work is positive. The tribes never ceased to struggle for a genuinely bicultural future. The Beating Heart tells the story of the survival and resurgence of a dynamic people under circumstances that were often extreme and, as such, reflects the experiences of many other iwi in New Zealand today.

Five guys mix song and dance and find rhythm-and-blues fame in the 1960s. Directed by Townsend.

A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college. HEARTS BEAT LOUD Blu-Ray + CD Combo includes CD

Five guys mix song and dance and find rhythm-and-blues fame in the 1960s. Directed by Townsend.