Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
A Few Acres of Ice
A Few Acres of Ice is an in-depth study of France's complex relationship with the Antarctic, from the search for Terra Australis by French navigators in the sixteenth century to France's role today as one of seven states laying claim to part of the white continent. Janet Martin-Nielsen focuses on environment, sovereignty, and science to reveal not only the political, commercial, and religious challenges of exploration but also the interaction between environmental concerns in polar regions and the geopolitical realities of the twenty-first century. Martin-Nielsen details how France has worked (and at times not worked) to perform sovereignty in Terre Adélie, from the territory's integration into France's colonial empire to France's integral role in making the environment matter in Antarctic politics. As a result, A Few Acres of Ice sheds light on how Terre Adeìlie has altered human perceptions and been constructed by human agency since (and even before) its discovery.
Partisan Interventions
Ideological differences among political parties result in consistently different understandings of the national interest, Brian C. Rathbun shows. These differences between parties are critical as major international events unfold. In the first comprehensive treatment of the effects of partisan politics in foreign affairs, Rathbun examines domestic party disagreements across the 1990s in Britain, France, and Germany regarding humanitarian interventions and the creation of a European Union security force. The different reactions of the left and the right in the Western European nations had, for example, profound implications for the resolution of conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo. Rathbun argues ...
Poison Powder
In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. They made the poison under contract for a much larger Hopewell company, Allied Chemical. Life Science workers had been breathing in the dust for more than a year. Ingestion of the chemical made their bodies seize and shake. News of ill workers eventually led to the discovery of widespread environmental contamination of the nearby James River and the landscape of the small, working-class city. Not only had Life Science dumped the chemical, but so had Allied when the company manufactured it in the 1960s and early...
European Directory of Bioethics
For the first time, based on an extensive survey conducted across the whole of Europe by the Association Descartes, the details of over 1,000 persons and organisations are now available. The Directory is broken down into 14 sections : the first section is devoted to European institutions; the next twelve cover each EEC country and list the names of persons and organisations involved in bioethics; a complementary listing covers indispensable persons or organisations; A reference work both for researchers and anybody concerned with bioethics.
Rapport de l'office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques sur le tournant énergétique allemand: quels enseignements pour la transition énergétique française ?
En 2011, l’Allemagne a amorcé un « tournant énergétique » (Energiewende), en décidant d’abandonner rapidement la production d’électricité d’origine nucléaire, tout en maintenant des objectifs ambitieux de réduction des gaz à effet de serre, grâce à l’amélioration de l’efficacité énergétique et au développement des énergies renouvelables. Tandis que commence, en France, l’examen du projet de loi relatif à la transition énergétique, il a paru utile à l’Office de réunir, pour éclairer les parlementaires, un certain nombre d’acteurs et d’observateurs du tournant énergétique en Allemagne, afin de débattre des progrès réalisés ainsi que des diffic...
Rapport de l'office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques sur "Les médicaments biosimilaires"
Les médicaments biologiques, appelés également biomédicaments ou biothérapies, sont issus des biotechnologies. Ces techniques permettent d’élaborer des vaccins, des hormones, des virus transformés, des cellules ou des plantes modifiées. Dans la plupart des cas, les médicaments biologiques sont produits à partir de cellules vivantes en utilisant des technologies d’ADN recombinant. Beaucoup de médicaments biologiques, mais pas tous, sont fabriqués à l’aide de cellules génétiquement modifiées. Au cours des cinq prochaines années, un grand nombre de brevets de médicaments biologiques, issus des biotechnologies, tombera dans le domaine public. D’ores et déjà, de nombre...
