Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies, is covered regularly in the media, and affects people everyday around the globe.In response to the increasing need for information about medical genetics and biotechnology as wel...

Noam Chomsky célèbre cette année ses 90 ans ; depuis plus de 60 ans, il contribue au domaine des idées. L’auteur Normand Baillargeon, lui-même un penseur s’intéressant à mille et un aspects de l’humain et de la vie en société, a rassemblé dans ce collectif des chercheur(e)s et des professeur(e)s de différents horizons, proposant des essais synthétisant l’apport de Chomsky à leur discipline respective – dont la linguistique, les sciences politiques et cognitives, l’informatique, la philosop...

Eric Hobsbawm claimed that the international May Day, which dates back to a proclamation in 1889 by the Second International, 'is perhaps the most ambitious of labour rituals'. The first international May Day demonstrations in 1890 were widely celebrated across Europe and became the one day each year when organized labour could present its goals to the public, an eight-hour workday being the first concrete demand, shortly followed by those for improved working conditions, universal suffrag...

An in-depth portrait of the life and work of Shoji Hamada, one of the key figures behind the development of studio pottery in the 20th century, and the legacy he left.Shoji Hamada was one of the seminal figures in 20th century ceramics. Along with the British potter Bernard Leach, he was instrumental in the development of the international Studio Pottery movement in the early 1900s. Their dramatic influences are still felt today, particularly in the United States a...

The 1950s were a golden age of science fiction—a decade when writers imagined astonishing futures, questioned humanity’s place in the universe, and explored the consequences of technology with equal parts wonder and caution. 1950s Science Fiction 9 brings together twenty-five unforgettable stories from some of the greatest names ever to write the genre.Travel to distant worlds where first contact is anything but simple. Encounter mysterious alien visitors, abandone...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 6 from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 23 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most acclaimed, successful and influential authors of the time including, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, Robert Silverberg, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Ray Cummings, Lester del Rey, Alfred Bester, Murray Lein...