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Basic Bioethics eBook Series

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  • Synthetic Biology and Morality

    Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature

    Edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick, Thomas H. Murray ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions—first and foremost ... Read more

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    The Science Behind the Headlines

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  • Sex and Rockets

    The Occult World of Jack Parsons

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  • Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine

    Authorship and Genre in Photojournalism and Film

    by Philippe D. Mather ...
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  • The Politics of Innovation

    Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology

    by Mark Zachary Taylor ...
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  • Exposed

    Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age

    by Bernard E. Harcourt ...
    Social media compile data on users, retailers mine information on consumers, Internet giants create dossiers of who we know and what we do, and intelligence agencies collect all this plus billions of communications daily. Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the ... Read more

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  • How to Breathe Underwater

    Field Reports from an Age of Radical Change

    by Chris Turner ...
    The essays and reportage in How to Breathe Underwater offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical change-from the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian government’s attempt to build its own Silicon Valley; from video game design to digital-age tabloid journalism to the artistry of The Simpsons; and from the fate of the Great Barrier Reef to Cuba’s economic limbo ... Read more

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  • Confronting Theory

    The Psychology of Cultural Studies

    by Philip Bell ...
    Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation and critique of what has come to be known as Theory (‘with a capital-T’) in cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as risibly pretentious and abstract, Confronting Theory examines its principal concepts from the perspective of academic psychology and shows that, ... Read more

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  • Dispelling the Darkness:Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin

    by John van Wyhe ...
    “The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently ... Read more

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  • Myths

    Decode Vol. 1

    by Gabriel Solomons ...
    Series series Decode
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  • The Resistance

    Digital dissent in the age of machines

    by Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post ...
    Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach explores our relationship with technology—frequently beneficial, occasionally adversarial, and rapidly changing in a world growing more connected by the minute.In the second decade of this new millennium, we are more connected than we have ever been, and digital utopians speak of the new wonders ahead—artificial intelligence and augmented intelligence, a ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Science

    by Cornelia Dean ...
    Cornelia Dean draws on her 30 years as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers when they try to make sense of science. She calls attention to conflicts of interest in research and the price society pays when science journalism declines and funding dries up. ... Read more

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