A study of the abortion controversy in the United States. It examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. It draws data from public documents and newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-life and pro-choice activists.

Recordings are the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of 'absolute' instrumental music. This book argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. It reveals how mechanical reproduction has transformed classical musical culture and the very act of listening of everyday life.

Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this book addresses a longer history of experimentation in video, net art, installation, new media, expanded cinema, visual music, and experimental film.

In this engaging study, the authors put casuistry into its historical context, tracing the origin of moral reasoning in antiquity, its peak during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and its subsequent fall into disrepute from the mid-seventeenth century.