This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.

Is it ethically acceptable? Should we be trying to improve on nature? In Improving Nature?, the authors, a biologist and a moral philosopher, examine the implications of genetic engineering in every aspect of our lives.

Despite the loss of its central archive in the sixteenth century, the Order left many records of its existence as the spearhead of crusading activity in Palestine and Syria, as the administrator of a great network of preceptories and lands ...

Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories.

An exploration of the world of microbes, and what it reveals about the origin and evolution of life. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.