Results for "Roberts, Jason"

An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth—a competition “with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid double biography is a passionate corrective” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Cho... Read More about Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precoci... Read More about Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

This adorable mini journal allows anyone to channel the quirky creativity of 642 into a unique and meaningful gift for the person they love best.... Read More about 642 Things About You (That I Love): (Romantic Valentine’s Day Gift, Writing Prompt Journal for Couples)

In this book, Jason Scott Robert takes a very broad view of bioethics, conceiving of the field as "bioscience ethics", that is ethics in and of biology. But while the subject matter is quite broad, the focus is uniquely sharp, settled on what bioethics is becoming and what it ought to be. Bioethics:... Read More about Bioethics: A Contemporary Introduction

In this book, Jason Scott Robert takes a very broad view of bioethics, conceiving of the field as "bioscience ethics", that is ethics in and of biology. But while the subject matter is quite broad, the focus is uniquely sharp, settled on what bioethics is becoming and what it ought to be. Bioethics:... Read More about Bioethics: A Contemporary Introduction

On a remote island in the South Pacific, the Lavongai have consistently struggled to obtain development through logging and commercial agriculture. Yet many Lavongai still long to move beyond the grind of subsistence work that has seemingly defined their lives on New Hanover, Papua New Guinea, for g... Read More about We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea (Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives)