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Book Synopsis The Hunt for the Parathyroids by : Jörgen Nordenström
Download or read book The Hunt for the Parathyroids written by Jörgen Nordenström and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hunt for the Parathyroid Gland is a part fact, part fiction overview of the discovery of the parathyroid gland by a Swedish scientist in 1880. The discovery of the parathyroid gland in humans in 1880 by an unknown Swedish medical student, Ivar Viktor Sandström, ended a 30 year search for its exact location within the human body, following its discovery in an Indian rhino 30 years before. It is one of the most engaging and remarkable stories in the history of medicine. This book offers a fascinating insight into its discovery. Endocrinologists and ENT health professionals, both in clinical practice and researchers, as well as anyone with an interest in the history of medicine, will find this a fascinating insight into one of the 19th century’s key medical discoveries.
Book Synopsis Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation by : Scira Menoni
Download or read book Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation written by Scira Menoni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the main results of the Scenario (Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards mitigation) project, funded as a Specific Support Action under the VI FP. This book addresses three main needs: first, it constitutes an assessment of the situation of Europe as far as natural na-tech risks are considered; second, it suggests future research themes to be opened of widened so as to tackle new and emerging threats as well as changes in the potential response to risk governance, in order to improve the way scientific and technical expertise informs decision making regarding all fields of mitigation, ranging from structural to non structural measures, such as training, education and land use planning.
Book Synopsis Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800 by : Gary K Waite
Download or read book Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800 written by Gary K Waite and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile was a central feature of society throughout the early modern world. For this reason the contributors to this volume see exile as a critical framework for analysing and understanding society at this time.
Book Synopsis Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic by : August den Hollander
Download or read book Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic written by August den Hollander and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic explores various aspects of the religious and cultural diversity of the early Dutch Republic and analyses how the different confessional groups established their own identity and how their members interacted with one another in a highly hybrid culture. This volume is to honour Dr. Piet Visser on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Piet Visser has become a leading scholar in the field of the Anabaptist and Mennonite History. Since January 1, 2002, he served as the chair of Anabaptist/Mennonite History and Kindred Spirits at the Doopsgezind Seminarium, VU-University, Amsterdam.
Book Synopsis The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 by : Andy Gregory
Download or read book The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 written by Andy Gregory and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TheInternational Who's Who in Popular Music 2002offers comprehensive biographical information covering the leading names on all aspects of popular music. It brings together the prominent names in pop music as well as the many emerging personalities in the industry, providing full biographical details on pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists. Over 5,000 biographical entries include major career details, concerts, recordings and compositions, honors and contact addresses. Wherever possible, information is obtained directly from the entrants to ensure accuracy and reliability. Appendices include details of record companies, management companies, agents and promoters. The reference also details publishers, festivals and events and other organizations involved with music.
Book Synopsis Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres by : Catherine Brady
Download or read book Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres written by Catherine Brady and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-02-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful opportunism that characterizes the best scientific thinking. Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn—one of Time magazine's 100 “Most Influential People in the World” in 2007—made headlines in 2004 when she was dismissed from the President's Council on Bioethics after objecting to the council's call for a moratorium on stem cell research and protesting the suppression of relevant scientific evidence in its final report. But it is Blackburn's groundbreaking work on telomeric DNA, which launched the field of telomere research, that will have the more profound and long-lasting effect on science and society. In this compelling biography, Catherine Brady tells the story of Elizabeth Blackburn's life and work and the emergence of a new field of scientific research on the specialized ends of chromosomes and the enzyme, telomerase, that extends them. In the early stages of telomere research, telomerase, heralded as a potential cure for cancer and diseases related to aging, attracted the voracious interest of biotech companies. The surrounding hype succeeded in confusing the role of telemorase in extending the life of a cell with a mechanism that might extend the lifespan of an entire organism. In Brady's hands, Blackburn's story reveals much about the tension between pure and applied science, the politicking that makes research science such a competitive field, and the resourceful opportunism that characterizes the best scientific thinking. Brady describes the science accessibly and compellingly. She explores Blackburn's struggle to break down barriers in an elite, male-dominated profession, her role as a mentor to other women scientists (many of whom have made their mark in telomere research), and the collaborative nature of scientific work. This book gives us a vivid portrait of an exceptional woman and a new understanding of the combination of curiosity, imaginative speculation, and aesthetic delight that powers scientific discovery.
Book Synopsis Economics, Anthropology and the Origin of Money as a Bargaining Counter by : Patrick Spread
Download or read book Economics, Anthropology and the Origin of Money as a Bargaining Counter written by Patrick Spread and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many decades economists have disputed with economic anthropologists over the origins of money. Economists claim that money emerged from barter exchange; anthropologists claim that it originated as a ‘unit of account’ in the temples and palaces of ancient Mesopotamia. This book argues that money originated as a bargaining counter in a system of money-bargaining, emerging almost seamlessly from barter-bargaining. This is not the ‘money’ of mainstream economic conception – a ‘veil’ cast over a system of resource allocation defined in mathematical terms. Confidence in the bargaining counter is sustained through ‘support-bargaining,’ a process in which individuals seek the support of their associates but seek at the same time to advance their own interests. A comprehensive ‘Introduction to Support-Bargaining and Money-Bargaining’ is provided by the work. The arrival of coin-money is recognised by many as a crucial event in the history of mankind, and it is argued here that the distinctive character of support-bargaining in ancient Greek city states made possible the introduction of coin-money. The dependence of coin-money on a particular form of support-bargaining also suggests the reason why coin-money was not introduced much earlier, given that the technology for producing coins was available long before their adoption. This book will be of great interest to researchers in the history and origins of money, banking and economic theory more broadly.
Book Synopsis Journal of Modern European History by :
Download or read book Journal of Modern European History written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Institutions and Development by : M. M. Shirley
Download or read book Institutions and Development written by M. M. Shirley and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both economic research and the history of foreign aid suggest that the largest barriers to development arise from a society's institutions - its norms and rules. This book explains how institutions drive economic development. It provides numerous examples to illustrate the complex, interlocking, and persistent nature of real world rules and norms.
Book Synopsis European Business Ethics Casebook by : Wim Dubbink
Download or read book European Business Ethics Casebook written by Wim Dubbink and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business cases are at the heart of business ethics as a discipline. Analysis and reflection on the morality of business often is triggered by concrete cases. After four introductory chapters into recent developments within business ethics and the value of case analysis, the present volume offers extensive description of eight recent European cases, mainly stemming from The Netherlands and Belgium and all of them with a clear moral impact. Among them are the Lernout and Hauspie speech technology disaster, Heineken struggle with the promotion girls selling beer in Cambodia, cartels in the Dutch construction industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the Aids crisis, and Unilever allegedly making use of child labour in the cotton industry in India. The book will be of interest to researchers as well as teachers of undergraduate and graduate courses in Business Ethics, Business in Society, Management and Organisation Theory and Strategic Management. It will also be useful for business practitioners eager to learn about business ethics by means of cases.
Book Synopsis The International Who's Who of Women 2002 by : Elizabeth Sleeman
Download or read book The International Who's Who of Women 2002 written by Elizabeth Sleeman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 5,500 detailed biographies of the most eminent, talented and distinguished women in the world today.
Book Synopsis A Question of Trust by : Onora O'Neill
Download or read book A Question of Trust written by Onora O'Neill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2002 book, Onora O'Neill investigates sources of deception in our society and re-examines questions of press freedom.
Download or read book HJIL written by Viktor Bruns and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The International Foundation Directory 2002 by : Europa Publications
Download or read book The International Foundation Directory 2002 written by Europa Publications and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background information and directory details on the world of foundations providing a quick and easy reference to an invaluable collection of contact names and addresses.
Book Synopsis Knowledge Networks and Markets in the Life Sciences by : OECD
Download or read book Knowledge Networks and Markets in the Life Sciences written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report considers the development of Knowledge Networks and Markets and examines the impact of current initiatives and the possible options for governments, working with the private sector, to improve innovation efficiency and effectiveness.
Book Synopsis The Myth of Measurement by : Nick Frost
Download or read book The Myth of Measurement written by Nick Frost and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the public sector inspection regimes and performance targets provide a powerful and dominant narrative, often placing pressure on professionals and organisations to continuously quantify the quality of services and to achieve targets. This book explores the background, development, techniques and impact of such regimes across areas of the public sector including schools, universities, police forces, children’s services and health services. Putting inspection and audit regimes under scrutiny, the author questions their role and function across these organisations and builds a persuasive critical argument for the re-thinking of public accountability mechanisms and techniques.
Download or read book A Culture of Growth written by Joel Mokyr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to today's unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebrated economic historian Joel Mokyr argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the scientific advances and pioneering inventions that would instigate explosive technological and economic development. Bringing together economics, the history of science and technology, and models of cultural evolution, Mokyr demonstrates that culture--the beliefs, values, and preferences in society that are capable of changing behavior--was a deciding factor in societal transformations. Mokyr looks at the period 1500-1700 to show that a politically fragmented Europe fostered a competitive "market for ideas" and a willingness to investigate the secrets of nature. At the same time, a transnational community of brilliant thinkers known as the "Republic of Letters" freely circulated and distributed ideas and writings. This political fragmentation and the supportive intellectual environment explain how the Industrial Revolution happened in Europe but not China, despite similar levels of technology and intellectual activity. In Europe, heterodox and creative thinkers could find sanctuary in other countries and spread their thinking across borders. In contrast, China's version of the Enlightenment remained controlled by the ruling elite. Combining ideas from economics and cultural evolution, A Culture of Growth provides startling reasons for why the foundations of our modern economy were laid in the mere two centuries between Columbus and Newton.
