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Fathom.com (2002)

Anthrax Attacks, Biological Terrorism and Preventive Responses
Author: John Parachini
RAND

A Treasure of the 'Golden Age': The Benedictional of St Æthelwold
Author: Andrew Prescott

Does Business Impact Peace?
Author: Timothy L. Fort
University of Michigan

Coming of Age in the Fifties and Sixties: Gender, Race, and Generational Identity
Author: Abigail J. Stewart
University of Michigan

A Path to Burmese Culture: The Art of Lacquer
The British Museum

Proposed Title: The Road to Jihad: 1970 to September 11, 2001

The Risky Business of Offshore Marine Aquaculture
Author: Tracey Crago
WHOI

Edward Lear's Gift of Nonsense
Author: Nancy Finlay
NYPL

Learning Plan
Seminar Title: Sustainable Tourism
Author: Tim Forsyth
Session 1 : What is Sustainable Tourism?
Session 2:   Sustaining Thailand: Agriculture and tourism
Session 3:   Regulating Tourism: Sustainability in the Free Market
Session 4: The impact of tourism
London School of Economics and Political Science


Learning Plan
Seminar Title: Next Stop Environmental Paradise?
Author: Eric Neumayer
Session 1: The Environmental Debate
Session 2: The Environmental Optimists and Pessimists
Session 3: Sceptical About the Environmentalist: Bjorn Lomborg's Thesis
Session 4: The Similarities Between Optimists and Pessimists
Session 5: Explaining the Divergence
Session 6: The Final Word on the Environment
London School of Economics and Political Science

DNA Fingerprinting, Genetics, and Crime: DNA Testing and the Courtroom
Author: Julian Adams
University of Michigan

Resistant Microbes, Antibiotic Abuse, and the Threat to Public Health
Author: Randolph E. Regal
University of Michigan

Charles Darwin and Bio-diversity
Author: Andy Hector
The British Library

The Fate of the North Atlantic Right Whale
Author: Tracey Crago
WHOI

Homo Sapiens as Hero: When Science Becomes Storytelling
Author: Roger Lewin
University of Chicago Press

Seminar: What's in a Name: The Past, Present and Future of Taxonomy
Author: Sandra Knapp

Learning Plan
Seminar Title: Protecting Emergency Responders: Lessons Learned from Terrorist Attacks
Experts: Brian Jackson, D.J. Peterson, James Bartis, Tom LaTourrette, Irene Brahmakulam, Ari Houser, Jerry Sollinger
Session 1: The Disaster Site
Session 2: Multiple Threats, Multiple Events
Session 3: Performance and Protection On-Ste
Session 4: Communication & Site Management
Session 5: Moving Forward
Sidebars & Captions
RAND

Ancient Egyptian Society and Its Expectations
Author: Douglas J. Brewer and Emily Teeter
University of Chicago and Cambridge University Press

Learning Plan
Movie Scientists: Beyond Their Time
Expert: Pat Hanson AFI

Seminar: Biogenetics and the movie scientist
Expert: Pat Hanson
Session 1: Popular Science
Session 2: The Scientist as God
Session 3: The Scientist as Devil
Session 4: Men Beyond Their Time

Naming the World
Author: Peter Forey

Learning Plan
Seminar Title: Poland's Century: War, Communism and Anti-Semitism
Author: Anita Prazmowska
Seminar Introduction
Session 1: Poland: Victim of the Second World War
Session 2: Fallout from the war: Anti-Semitism in Poland
Session 3: (title unavailable)
Session 4: Auschwitz: A Contested Space
London School of Economics and Political Science

Transforming the Face of the Holy City: Political Messages in the Built Topography of Jerusalem
Contributor: Rashid Khalidi
University of Chicago

"Obey My Voice and Keep My Covenant": Identity, Exile and Conquest in the Bible
Author: Regina M. Schwartz
UC Press

Horseflies, robberflies, blowflies and their allies
Authors: John Chainey and Nigel Wyatt

 

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