Science

As the human genome is sequenced, attention is now turning to the analysis of the proteome, or proteomics (i.e. the protein products of the genome). Proteomics is a rapidly emerging research area, and the book reviews genome projects in relation to the need for complementary proteomics programmes.

Information and communication technologies have revolutionized our working practices. This book explores these transformations, and investigates both the impact of information technology on working practices and, how IT is bound up in social, political, and economic issues.

In Summoned by Science: Reporting Climate Change at Copenhagen and Beyond, researchers analysed more than 400 articles published in the print media in 12 countries from the developed and developing world. They found that the media in all the countries tended to 'under-report' climate science during the ...

An introduction to the universe, this work covers everything from the big bang and our understanding of the universe over time, to the earth's formation, the Sun and how it affects us, the Moon and planets, and black holes and galaxies. It focuses on the basic history and science of the universe, rather than on the practical skywatching aspects.

Presents simple but effective steps each person can take to help prevent and alleviate the devastation of global warming, including recycling, reducing energy use, and avoiding petroleum products and petrochemicals.

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Helps readers to learn meaningful ways to help reduce their carbon footprints, from saving energy and caring for water to putting the dustbin on a diet. Describing fifty simple daily actions, this book shows children that they can have a positive impact on the environment, and that every little action, no matter how small, counts.

Everyone-government agencies, private organizations, and individuals-is facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent to follow routines based on past climatic averages. State and local agencies in particular, as well as the federal government, need to consider what they ...

This guideline sets out clear, evidence-based recommendations for healthcare staff on how to work with people who misuse drugs (specifically opioids, stimulants and cannabis) to significantly improve their treatment and care. Four million people in the UK use illicit drugs each year and drunk misuse ...

Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being.

Based upon the Darwin seminars given at the LSE, this volume is one in a series of books drawing on the content of one of the seminars. This book discusses both evolutionary ideas and the applications of these ideas to a wide range of human behaviour.