Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 770
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 850
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 866
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carin Berkowitz
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2017-07-19
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0822982757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it—an institution of expert knowledge built to inform a lay public—was still very much in formation during this dynamic period. Science Museums in Transition provides a nuanced, comparative study of the diverse places and spaces in which science was displayed at a time when science and spectacle were still deeply intertwined; when leading naturalists, curators, and popular showmen were debating both how to display their knowledge and how and whether they should profit from scientific work; and when ideals of nationalism, class politics, and democracy were permeating the museum's walls. Contributors examine a constellation of people, spaces, display practices, experiences, and politics that worked not only to define the museum, but to shape public science and scientific knowledge. Taken together, the chapters in this volume span the Atlantic, exploring private and public museums, short and long-term exhibitions, and museums built for entertainment, education, and research, and in turn raise a host of important questions, about expertise, and about who speaks for nature and for history.
Author: M. Sleeboom-Faulkner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-04-25
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 113731740X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 1398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 1798
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kenneth A. Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1317170148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This well-documented study examines one of the increasingly pressing problems for US homeland security: the storage and management of radioactive waste. Despite pressing homeland security and energy security concerns associated with highly radioactive waste, political considerations have prevented policy makers from adopting adequate long-term solutions to the problem. This book explores nuclear waste problems through the broader lens of federal, state and local government and the resultant constraints on policy that emerge within the American political system. Presenting specific case studies to highlight the deficiencies in current policy and planning as well as the possibility of terrorist activity, it is highly suited to courses on security studies and environmental politics.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1996-12-29
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 0309055822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The United States is entering an era when, more than ever, the sharing of resources and information might be critical to scientific progress. Every dollar saved by avoiding duplication of efforts and by producing economies of scale will become increasingly important as federal funding enters an era of fiscal restraint. This book focuses on six diverse case studies that share materials or equipment with the scientific community at large: the American Type Culture Collection, the multinational coordinated Arabidopsis thaliana Genome Research Project, the Jackson Laboratory, the Washington Regional Primate Research Center, the Macromolecular Crystallography Resource at the Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source, and the Human Genome Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The book also identifies common strengths and problems faced in the six cases, and presents a series of recommendations aimed at facilitating resource sharing in biomedical research.