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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicola Chiarenza
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 3110677067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWater is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle Ages have hardly been researched until now. The numerous contributions to this volume pose questions such as what the basic cultural significance of water was, the power of water, in the town and for the town, from different points of view. Symbolic, aesthetic, and cult aspects are taken up, as is the role of water in politics, society, and economy, in daily life, but also in processes of urban planning or in urban neighbourhoods. Not least, the dangers of polluted water or of flooding presented a challenge to urban society. The contributions in this volume draw attention to the complex, manifold relations between water and human beings. This collection presents the results of an international conference in Kiel in 2018. It is directed towards both scholars in ancient and mediaeval studies and all those interested in the diversity of water systems in urban space in ancient and mediaeval times.
Author: Robert M. Cook-Deegan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780393035728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCook-Deegan, a former director of the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee of the US Congress and an advisor to the National Center for Human Genome Research, gives a firsthand account of the struggle to launch the Human Genome Project. Using primary documents and interviews, Cook-Deegan explains scientific details, chronicles the origins of the project, covers the conflicts and partnerships between the organizations involved, and examines ethical, legal, and social issues of DNA research. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780788104688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes the costs, risks, and economic rewards of pharmaceutical R&D and the impact of public policy on both costs and returns. Examines the rapid increase in pharmaceutical R&D that began in the 1980s in the light of trends in science, technology, drug discovery, and health insurance coverage; Government regulation; product liability; market competition; Federal tax policy; and Federal support of prescription drug research. 12 appendices, including a glossary of terms.
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987-09-10
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0300187580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Author: Carol Anne Ogdin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 216
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1428951938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carol Anne Ogdin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublisher description: During a time of accelerating momentum for radical change in the study of economics, A Guide to What's Wrong with Economics comprehensively re-examines the shortcomings of neoclassical economics and considers a number of alternative formulations. In it, a distinguished list of non-neoclassical economists provide a study of some of the many worldly and logical gaps in neoclassical economics, its hidden ideological agendas, disregard for the environment, habitual misuse of mathematics and statistics, inability to address the major issues of economic globalization, its ethical cynicism concerning poverty, racism and sexism and its misrepresentation of economic history. In clear and engaging prose, A Guide to What's Wrong with Economics shows how interesting, relevant and exciting economics can be when it is pursued not as a defence of an antiquated and close-minded system of belief, but as a no-holds-barred inquiry looking for real-world truths.
Author: Dan Banik
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780754674986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow best to improve the position of the world's poorest people remains one of the major issues facing the human species. This book investigates the role that legal empowerment and rights (including human rights) can play in tackling poverty and enabling poor people in developing countries to take action to improve their positions.
Author: Congressional Budget Office
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-06-09
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1304121445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerceptions that the pace of new-drug development has slowed and that the pharmaceutical industry is highly profitable have sparked concerns that significant problems loom for future drug development. This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study-prepared at the request of the Senate Majority Leader-reviews basic facts about the drug industry's recent spending on research and development (R&D) and its output of new drugs. The study also examines issues relating to the costs of R&D, the federal government's role in pharmaceutical research, the performance of the pharmaceutical industry in developing innovative drugs, and the role of expected profits in private firms' decisions about investing in drug R&D. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, the study makes no recommendations. David H. Austin prepared this report under the supervision of Joseph Kile and David Moore. Colin Baker provided valuable consultation...
