The book utilizes data from the Bristol Port Books to provide a fresh perspective on the history of trade in Bristol, highlighting the city's significant role in early trade practices, particularly its involvement in the slave trade. Through detailed analysis, it uncovers the complexities of Bristol's economic activities and their impact on both local and global scales, offering a critical examination of how trade shaped the city's development and historical narrative.
Exploring the integration of humanoid robots into society, this collection of seven stories delves into the potential benefits and challenges they bring to future communities. Each narrative offers a unique perspective on the evolving relationship between humans and robots, highlighting emotional connections, ethical dilemmas, and the impact on daily life. Through these tales, the author invites readers to reflect on the implications of advanced technology in our everyday existence.
Set in a future where the average lifespan reaches 102, the story follows Alan Connacher, a life sciences entrepreneur who pioneers rejuvenation techniques leading to near-immortality. As young people react to the threat of marginalization and loss of reproductive rights through terrorism, Alan is recruited by the FBI to rejuvenate himself and go undercover among the radicals. This narrative explores themes of youth, identity, and the societal implications of extended life.
Set against a backdrop of genetic research and drug addiction, the story follows Alex Morales, a young geneticist investigating a troubling phenomenon among indigenous coca-leaf chewers in Peru. This "Burn" sensation resurfaces in Miami's cocaine users, resulting in tragic deaths, including that of a sex worker. As Alex collaborates with Faymi Alonso to study the issue, he uncovers a potential viral infection. However, his investigation takes a dark turn when he is framed and arrested, complicating his quest for answers.
'The Modern Law of Contract' provides a detailed account of the subject in England and Wales. Centred around a thorough analysis of case law and statute, it also takes into account a variety of theoretical approaches.
Clear and accessible, this book provides full coverage of most topics in the contract law syllabus, alongside up-to-date illustrative case examples, stimulating commentaries and learning support from a regularly updated companion website.
No fabled creature of the Pleistocene Era has a more powerful hold on the imagination than does the woolly mammoth. Cave paintings of the giant beasts hint at the profound role they played in early human culture-our Ice Age ancestors built igloo-shaped huts out of mammoth bones and even feasted on mammoth tongues. Eager to uncover more clues to this mystical prehistoric age, explorers since the time of Peter the Great have scoured Siberia for mammoth remains. Now a new generation of explorers has taken to the tundra. Armed with GPS, ground-penetrating radar, and Soviet-era military helicopters, they seek an elusive prize: a mammoth carcass that will help determine how the creature lived, how it died-and how it might be brought back to life. In this adventure-filled narrative, science writer Richard Stone follows two teams of explorers-one Russian/Japanese, the other a French-led consortium-as they battle bitter cold, high winds, supply shortages, and the deeply rooted superstitions of indigenous peoples who fear the consequences of awakening the "rat beneath the ice." Stone travels from St. Petersburg to the Arctic Circle, from the North Sea to high-tech Japanese laboratories, as he traces the sometimes-surreal quest of these intrepid scientists, whose work could well rewrite our planet's evolutionary history. A riveting tale of high-stakes adventure and scientific hubris, Mammoth is also an intellectual voyage through uncharted moral terrain, as we confront the promise and peril of resurrecting creatures from the deep past.
The purpose of this book is twofold. First, it enables the student who has made some progress with studying contract law to revise the main points of a particular area in an easily digestible way. It should be of particular help to the student who finds that the mass of detail contained in some textbooks makes it difficult to identify the most important principles and essential cases. Secondly, it teaches, by illustration, the skills needed to write good answers to contract questions.
