Английский язык : устная речь : практикум

Содержание книги "Английский язык"

Предисловие
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Landmark Inventions of the Millennium (H. Brody)
NUCLEAR POWER AND WEAPONS
Energy: How Nuclear Power Works (I. Sample)
Nuclear Weapons: How Many Are there in 2009 and Who Has Them?
ROBOTS AND ROBOTICS
Robots Create Revolution in Evolution (J. Borger, T. Radford)
Guilty Robots (D. Kerr)
Robot Wars Are a Reality (N. Sharkey)
War Crimes and Killer Robots (A. Brown)
Centre Pioneers Robotic Surgery
An Interview at the Operating Table: Your Life in a Robot’s Hands (E. Midgley)
The Incredible Bionic Man
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Future Impact of Nanotechnology (P. Yang, D. E. Luzzi)
The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön — Nanotechnology
GENETIC ENGINEERING
The Theory of Genetic Engineering
False Dawns in the Brave World of New Genetics (M. Bygrave)
The Ethics of Human Cloning (L. J. Morse)
Scientists Say Food Supplies Hinge on Genetic Engineering (C. Wallerstien)
Brave New World by A. Huxley
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
The Issues and Ethics of Organ Transplantation
Euthanasia: Notion and Ethics (T. L. Beauchamp)
Australia: Euthanasia Law Overturned
LAW AND ORDER
Commonly Used Legal Terms
Saving Lives and Money
Executing Justice
Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished? (L .C. Marshall)
Why the Death Penalty Is a Necessary and Proper Means of Punishment? (P. G. Cassell)
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND PROTECTION
Threats to the Environment (M. Zimmerman)
Global Warming (J. Hart)
Pacific Islands in Danger: Tuvalu and Kiribati
Buried in Garbage? (S. Swanson)
Will Renewable Sources of Energy Come of Age in the 21st Century? (Ch. Flavin, S. Dunn)
THE CONSUMER SOCIETY
But Will It Make You Happy? (S. Rosenbloom)
Effects of Consumerism
Advertising (B. Robbs)
GLOBALIZATION
Life in the Global Marketplace (M. I. Hassan)
GLOBAL THREATS AND TERRORISM
The Enduring Impact of 9/11 (G. LaFree, L. Dugan, E. Miller)
THE INTERNET AND SOCIETY
Don’t Take My Internet Away (L. Hickman)
What Will the Internet Look Like 40 Years in the Future? (E. Bell)
Addiction to Internet ‘Is an Illness’ (D. Smith)
The Internet and the ‘E-solated’ (T. Adams)
The Dark Side of the Internet (A. Beckett)
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