Parliaments and Technology Dr Philippe Reynier

Parliaments and Technology Dr Philippe ReynierThe first comparative analysis of the development and practice of technology assessment in different national settings. Parliaments and Technology explores an issue critically important to the practice of democracy everywhere: How do citizens and elected officials assess the opportunities and costs of new technologies that may profoundly impact their societies' future? For example, what are the social and moral implications of gene patents,

following the ill-starred religious revolution of Akhenaten

while also tending to the gruesome preparation of the mortal remains of the deceased

in particular video

By combining hard-to-find historical documents with new unpublished interviews with fellow activists

exciting and innovative organisation that opens up and extends previous scholarship of the suffrage movement

useful for students of film

Archaeological writing is faced with an impasse: it has become repetitive and remote from the reading public

Michael Roch and Ray D’Cruz provide guidance for senior partners

we discuss the future prospects for the use of grassland biomass in bioenergy applications

An essay interprets the role of the graffiti in understanding the political and religious activities at Philae during the last centuries of worship of the goddess Isis by Nubian priests and pilgrims

and what happens when immigrants appear before the District court

Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction