Social Problems and Issues, a Canadian Perspective

Subhas Ramcharan

University of Windsor

<p>Would you take a potentially life-saving drug if you knew that your children and grandchildren might suffer the side effects? Would you change your lifestyle if it meant you could reverse disadvantages built into your genes? Would you be comfortable if corporations could infer intimate details about your life history without asking? What if that data could improve your quality of life? Epigenetics - our epigenome - controls how our genes behave without altering their sequence. Just about everything affects it, from nutrition, drugs, and toxins to child rearing, culture, and society. Many diseases, from obesity to addiction to cancer, can be linked to epigenetic modifications. Furthermore, throughout development and life, from conception to death, the exposures you have will not only affect your own epigenome, but potentially also your child’s, and your grandchild’s. This rapidly expanding field of biological, physiological, sociological, and psychological research could be key to discovering why, and more importantly how, we are the way we are. Epigenetics has consequences for medicine, pregnancy, childcare, law and how we live on an everyday basis. This book will provide a comprehensive introduction to the mechanisms and real-life consequences of epigenetics, and will arm the reader with the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions about the future of epigenetics in modern society. This is a call for serious consideration about the effects of epigenetics on society. Epigenetics has been independently peer-reviewed for accuracy by international experts. It is written by students of diverse disciplines, and intended for students and educated lay people.</p>

Epigenetics in Society

Science & Math

Group, Epigenetics Study

Market, Marisa

Pfaff, Jake

Scott, Kaela

Spencer, Cace

Timperio, Nadia

Tobin, Kaylyn

Venney, Clare

Woghiren, Melissa

Zakaria, Sy

Evolution

Problems in Argument Analysis and Evaluation (Windsor Studies in Argumentation)

Politics & Social Sciences

Govier, Trudy

Philosophy

Inquiry: A New Paradigm for Critical Thinking (Windsor Studies in Argumentation)

Education & Teaching

Bailin, Sharon

Battersby, Mark

Schools & Teaching

Studies in Critical Thinking

Blair, J. Anthony

<p>The informal logic movement began as an attempt to develop – and teach – an alternative logic which can account for the real life arguing that surrounds us in our daily lives – in newspapers and the popular media, political and social commentary, advertising, and interpersonal exchange. The movement was rooted in research and discussion in Canada and especially at the University of Windsor, and has become a branch of argumentation theory which intersects with related traditions and approaches (notably formal logic, rhetoric and dialectics in the form of pragma-dialectics). In this volume, some of the best known contributors to the movement discuss their views and the reasoning and argument which is informal logic’s subject matter. Many themes and issues are explored in a way that will fuel the continued evolution of the field. Federico Puppo adds an insightful essay which considers the origins and development of informal logic and whether informal logicians are properly described as a “school” of thought. In considering that proposition, Puppo introduces readers to a diverse range of essays, some of them previously published, others written specifically for this volume.</p>

Informal Logic: A ‘Canadian’ Approach to Argument (Windsor Studies in Argumentation)

Puppo, Federico

Critical Thinking Education and Assessment, 2nd ed.: Can Higher Order Thinking Be Tested?

Sobocan, Jan

Economics: Survey of course reading lists in North America universities

Venkateswarlu, T

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