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Heineken Lectures 2004
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Author :Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) Publisher : ISBN 13 :9789069844367 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (443 download)
Book Synopsis Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Heineken Lectures 2004 by : Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW)
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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 413 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.
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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 European Business Ethics Cases in Context by : Wim Dubbink
Download or read book European Business Ethics Cases in Context written by Wim Dubbink and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business ethics as a discipline leans on cases but flourishes by thorough analysis and reflection. The present volume offers both. After three introductory chapters into business ethics eight recent European cases, mainly stemming from The Netherlands and Belgium and all of them with a clear moral impact, are extensively described and analysed. Among them are the Lernout and Hauspie speech technology disaster, Heineken’s 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. Each case is followed by two expert comments, from the fields of general ethics, but also of law, economics, management and organisation theory, sociology and social psychology. Cases and comments together offer an unique entrance in varieties of moral reasoning and in the personal and institutional dimensions to be taken into account when facing a corporate case saturated with moral ambiguities. This 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 find moral guidance in their specific field.
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Book Synopsis The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2004 by : Yale Daily News
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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.
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Book Synopsis One Breath at a Time by : Kevin Griffin
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Book Synopsis Pragmatic Toleration by : Victoria Christman
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Book Synopsis Institutions and Economic Performance by : Elhanan Helpman
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Book Synopsis Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth by : Sebastian Galiani
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Book Synopsis The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 by : Tessa Whitehouse
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