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Ethical Tensions from New Technology: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology
by Rachel A. Ankeny • Philipp Aerni • Bartosz Bartkowski • Heather J. Bray • Bradley Martin Jones • Deepthi E. Kolady • Jane Kolodinsky • Katie M. MacDonald • Kelly A. McKinley • Desmond Ng • Frauke Pirscher • Roberto Quiroz • Dane Scott • Shivendra Kumar Srivastava • Debra M. Strauss • Insa Theesfeld • Johannes Timaeus • Corrine Valdivia • Duane WindsorThe introduction of new technologies can be controversial, especially when they create ethical tensions as well as winners and losers among stakeholders and interest groups. While ethical tensions resulting from the genetic modification of crops and plants and their supportive gene technologies have... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Pigments, Extenders, and Particles in Surface Coatings and Plastics: Fundamentals and Applications to Coatings, Plastics and Paper Laminate Formulation
This book discusses the diverse array of particles that are found in coatings from both a physical and a performance standpoint. It also describes the fundamentals of particle behavior and shows how these affect the performance and properties of their end-use applications. It consists of nineteen c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Security and Privacy Preserving for IoT and 5G Networks: Techniques, Challenges, and New Directions (Studies in Big Data #95)
by Wojciech Mazurczyk • Brij B. Gupta • Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif • Bassem Abd-El-Atty • Salvador E. Venegas-AndracaThis book presents state-of-the-art research on security and privacy- preserving for IoT and 5G networks and applications. The accepted book chapters covered many themes, including traceability and tamper detection in IoT enabled waste management networks, secure Healthcare IoT Systems, data transf... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Quest Biography 35-Book Bundle: Marshall McLuhan, Nellie McClung, René Lévesque and many more
by Edward Butts • John Wilson • Arthur Slade • Kathryn Bridge • Sharon Stewart • Roderick Stewart • Heather Kirk • Ged Martin • T. F. Rigelhof • Tom Henighan • Peggy Dymond Leavey • Nathan Tidridge • Rosemary Sadlier • Nicholas Maes • Ray Argyle • Julie H. Ferguson • Valerie Knowles • Deborah Cowley • Wayne Larsen • Michelle Labrèche-Larouche • Raymond Plante • Kate Braid • Judith Fitzgerald • Margaret Macpherson • Lian Goodall • Marguerite Paulin • Francine Legaré • Gary Evans • Tom Shardlow • Anne Cimon • André Vanasse • D. T. LaheyThis special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound effect on their country and the world. Some of these figures are truly famous, while others were quietly influential. Among the wide variety of people... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1812 -
Reading across the Disciplines (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
by Rosemary Green • Daniel Shapiro • Pat Hutchings • Margaret Mackey • Angela Zito • Heather C. Easterling • Joyce Tang Boyland • M. Soledad Caballero • Yvonne Davila • John Eliason • Nelson Graff • Neela Griffiths • Rachel Henry • Rebecca Kersnar • Aimee Knupsky • Ryne Leuzinger • Elizabeth Marquis • Trent W. Maurer • Brett McCollum • Layne A. Morsch • Catelyn Shipp • Dana Statton Thompson • Kris Vasquez • Jakob T. Zehms • Jordan R. DonovanReading Across the Disciplines offers a collection of twelve essays detailing a range of approaches to dealing with students' reading needs at the college level. Transforming reading in higher education requires more than individual faculty members working on SoTL projects in their particular fields... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Submerged
by David Farland • Esther Friesner • Jody Lynn Nye • Jenna Rhodes • Joshua Palmatier • Marsheila Rockwell • James Van Pelt • Michael Robertson • Susan Jett • S. C. Butler • Nicky Drayden • F. Brett Cox • Wendy Nikel • J. C. Koch • Jeffrey J. Mariotte • Bill Kte'Pi • Misty Massey • A. Merc Rustad • Sara M. Harvey • Seanan McGuireEveryone has their eyes set on the black depths of space…but what about the deep abysses of the ocean? What dark monsters swim unseen beneath the waves? What ancient wonders lie hidden, waiting to be discovered? What sirens call, either here on Earth or in the icy waters of a far off planet…or even ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017