In Rationality and Ritual, internationally renowned expert Brian Wynne offers a profound analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusing on an episode of major importance in Britain's nuc
`Profound and stimulating ... a brilliant analysis' Dr Alvin Weinberg, former Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Physics Division`A wonderful, original and still-timely book. Very sensitively
Illustrates how legal procedure and administration embody non-neutral assumptions about science. Discusses the establishment of the rules of law, forensic pathology, the problem of rationality in Amer
A boy turns an everyday outing into a thrilling, top-secret adventure in this stylish picture book for imaginative secret agents everywhere.Secret Agent Man (S.A.M.) needs new shoes. His mum – er, sid
A charismatic young boy turns an everyday outing into a thrilling, top-secret adventure in this energetic, offbeat picture book.Secret Agent Man (S.A.M.) needs new shoes. His mom — er, sidekick, &
The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system
DNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the idea that a small standard fragment of any organism’s genome (a so-c
Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. T
This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environment
