Contents: Blended Learning — The Web: Using authentic materials — ELT Materials — Electronic dictionaries — Office Software — Interactive whiteboards — Portable devices — Computer-mediated communication — Creating and using your own resources — A brief look at the future — Appendix 1: Teacher's Resource Bank — Appendix 2: Getting started on the Web

(Replaces Human and Animal Cloning)

What is cloning? Is it ethical? What impact could it have on society?
Recent advances in science have provoked debate about where cloning will take us. This book considers the social and ethical considerations of cloning — including:
— whether cloning humans is acceptable
— whether people are willing to eat cloned food
— whether we should take advantage of medical therapies associated with cloning.  

Key Facts;  Glossary;  Additional Resources;  Index

A documentary that warns that the age of abundant oil is over. Taking a similar line to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, the premise behind this documentary is that we're all drinking in the last chance saloon. Featuring testimonies from the world's top experts, the film reaches an ominous yet logical conclusion — the Earth's oil supplies are peaking and a crisis of global proportions looms. Even more alarmingly, industrial societies don't have any plans on how to deal with the shortage, threatening the future of our post-industrial fossil fuel-addicted civilization with disaster. Unless western society re-invents its relation to energy needs, economic meltdown is inevitable.

An anthology that plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to chaos theory. It consists of accounts by scientists themselves – astronomers, physicists, biologists, chemists, psychologists – who talk about their moments of breakthrough: the discovery of the secret of malaria; the first electric-light bulb; the construction of the world's first atomic pile. The book shows how science has changed art: how Newton's "Optics" flooded 18th-century poetry with colour; how the vastness of geological time terrified Tennyson and the Victorians; and how modernist writers struggled to adapt to Einstein's relativity. The classic science-writers are included – Darwin, Huxley etc. So too are today's experts and representatives of the late-20th-century genre of popular-science writing. (528 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet/HTX/Projects/Library/Depot

(Replaces Genetic Modification)

Chapter One: GM Trends
What is GM?, Genomics in the UK, Glossary, GM (Genetic Modification), Why GM?, GM labelling, Genetic modification and the environment, Scientists create healthier tomatoes, Biotechnology: growing in popularity, UN upholds moratorium on terminator seed technology, GM contamination, GM drug crops, Modified hens lay eggs to help beat cancer, GM tobacco could save lives.

Chapter Two: The GM Debate
What are the ethics?, What’s the problem?, GM material in animal feed, Supermarkets supporting GM through the back door, International politics, Potato research trials, Farmer quits GM trial after phone threats, EU must wake up from ‘GM food inertia’, Are EU GMO rules starving the poor?, Rice contaminated by GM, Legal challenge to FSA, Out of control?, Developing countries and GM crops, Plans to allow GM farming in secret ‘are irresponsible’, This crop revolution may succeed where GM failed, There’s no chance that this technology will replace GM, Tories rally against Frankenstein foods.

Key Facts;  Glossary;  Additional Resources;  Index

Now in paperback in a revised 2006 edition that brings the story up to date. This is the highly readable account of the most compelling innovation since the creation of the internet. Used in over 100 countries by more than 65 million users a day, Google is the most well known global brand to emerge in decades. This book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company that has transformed how we access information about everything and everybody. Learn about the amazing network of thousands of computers that store over four billion web documents ... discover the creative ways Google makes money while it provides a free service to millions ... experience something of the world of Googleplex, the company's colourful Silicon Valley headquarters, where staff receive free massages at the end of the day ... evaluate the ethical standards that determine which ads Google accepts and doesn't accept (company motto: Do No Evil!). Can Google continue to compete in a business that changes at lightning speed?  Hardback (306 pages)
Level: A (esp. HHX)

This is a beautiful, quietly provocative book which sets out to understand the human diet by exploring what culturally diverse families eat for a week.. Photojournalist Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Aluisio began their research for this book on the world's eating habits in 2000, visiting some 30 families in 24 countries. Each family was asked to purchase — at the authors' expense — a typical week's groceries, which were arrayed for a full-page family portrait. This is followed by a detailed listing of the goods, broken down by food groups and expenditures, then a more general discussion of how the food is raised and used, illustrated with a variety of photos and a family recipe. A sidebar of facts relevant to each country's eating habits (e.g. the cost of Big Macs, average cigarette use, obesity rates, life expectancy etc.) raise further questions. The photos are extraordinary and it's the questions they ask that make this volume so gripping. After considering the Darfur mother with five children living on $1½ a week in a refugee camp and then the German family of four spending $500, and a host of families in between, we may think about food in a whole new light.  We see how some people can survive healthily on far less food than others — and end up with less diabetes, heart disease, etc. We learn that diet is determined by largely uncontrollable forces like poverty, conflict and globalization, which can bring change with startling speed. Cultures can suddenly move from traditional diets to the world of global-food production. People have more to eat and, too often, eat more nutritionally questionable food. There are also essays from leading nutritionists, scientists, environmentalists, for instance Diabesity and Slow Foods. The photography and descriptions of the families are brilliant — because the book makes many of its points through the eye, we see, and feel, more than we might otherwise do.
Level: Gymnasiet/HTX etc. — A great resource for projects together with samfundsfag, biologi etc./Library/Depot

(Replaces Our Internet Society)

The web has made the world a smaller place in the last 15 years. It has become a powerful tool for sharing ideas and information. But the web can also be a dangerous place ... :

Key Facts;  Glossary Index;  Additional Resources (websites etc.);  Index.

In the same series as New Technology, which has already proved very popular.
This Australian-made DVD contains 37 short high-quality video units about a multitude of aspects of life sciences. Great for introducing new topics, starting class debates etc.
Subjects include: nutrition and food technology (replacing the fat in cold meats, experiments to lower the saturated fat content of milk, an investigation of the connection between high protein diets, weight gain and health etc.), psychology (how vitamins affect thinking, memory and mood), health (new treatments for cancer, transmitters that monitor the vital signs and movements of elderly patients etc.) and biology (many units).
A booklet is included with details of all the units.
Smart detail: The DVD also includes all the videos as QuickTime files, which can be distributed on your school's network to the individual PCs and played in any Player (Real/Windows Media/QuickTime). This means that the individual students can do written work or vocabulary work on the units in their own time.
Level: GYM esp. HTX B+ og studieområdet

This Australian-made DVD contains 39 short high-quality video units about a multitude of aspects of new technology. Great for introducing new topics, starting class debates etc. Subjects include: genetic modification of food (how to produce “naturally white sugar”, food with increased nutrients), of plants (with turbocharged growth, with resistance to fungi) and of animals (mice with reduced fertility, cane toads that never become adults); video cameras that can recognise faces; a biodegradable plastic that can be made from wheat starch etc. A booklet is included with details of all the units.
Smart detail: The DVD also includes all the videos as QuickTime files, which can be distributed on your school's network to the individual PCs and played in any Player (Real/Windows Media/QuickTime). This means that the individual students can do written work or vocabulary work on the units in their own time.
Level: GYM esp. HTX B og studieområdet

Series: Classified (“You can't hide the truth forever”) — investigations of the greatest unsolved mysteries of recent times throuh a combination of fiction and factual information:
Vladimir Valentinovich Alexandrov was a popular and outspoken Russian scientist. On April 1, 1985, Alexandrov disappeared while attending an international scientific conference in Spain. Were this world expert's theories about nuclear winter close enough to a top-secret reality to make MI6, and perhaps even the CIA want to dispose of him? When young KGB officer Ilya Piankoff is charged with investigating the case he learns how desperate and extreme governments can become when the stakes run as high as the possibility of nuclear war. (this section: 47 pages)
Factual information files follow the main story, including biographies, witness statements and debriefings — these allow pupils to make up their own mind about the event. (this section: 42 pages)
Level: 9.-10. kl./C-D-E

In the same series as New Technology and Life and Living, which have already proved very popular.
This Australian-made DVD contains 37 short high-quality video units about a multitude of aspects of environmental sciences. Great for introducing new topics, starting class debates etc.
Subjects include: acid rain; global warming; conserving water; bacteria that eat pesticides and herbicides; rainforest research; new crops; deep sea mapping etc.
A booklet is included with details of all the units.
Smart detail: The DVD also includes all the videos as QuickTime files, which can be distributed on your school's network to the individual PCs and played in any player that can display QuickTime fíles. This means that the individual students can do written work or vocabulary work on the units in their own time.
Level: GYM esp. HTX B+ og studieområdet

Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, this is a collection of the finest writings by scientists written for a wider audience. It reveals that many of the best scientists have displayed as much skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This anthology captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. It includes writing from a wide range of scientists, some of whose works have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar, but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science.

Contents: PART I: The Natural World; PART II: Science and Scientists; PART III: Concepts; PART IV: Truth, Beauty, Imagination 

Contributors include: Jacob Bronowski, Francis Crick, Helena Cronin, Sir Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, R. A. Fisher, S. J. Gould, Stephen Hawking, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Fred Hoyle, Julian Huxley, David Lack, Richard Leakey, Primo Levi, Roger Lewin, John Maynard Smith, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Roger Penrose, Steve Pinker, Carl Sagan, Erwin Schrodinger, Lee Smolin, C.P. Snow, Alan Turing, Steven Weinberg and many others.

The internet has changed the way we communicate, learn, work and relax. But there are dangers out there: indentity theft, online predators, e-mail con artists and much more. Policing the internet has become an issue of worldwide interest. Editor: Peggy Daniels. (131 pages)
Level: Mainly Second and Third year Gymnasium

Author: Christopher Cumo. Hardback. (182 pages)
Level: Library/Depot — a great resource especially for 2nd and 3rd years of the gymnasium/HTX

Science in Society is an attractive advanced “reader” that explores important areas where science impacts upon our society. It is designed to help students understand the underlying principles of science and explore these key scientific principles in the context of historic and modern society. There are “in-text” and review questions for each chapter which test knowledge and encourage students to engage with the issues, promoting discussion.

Contents: Chapter 1: The germ theory of disease; Chapter 2: Infectious diseases now; Chapter 3: Transport issues; Chapter 4: Medicines to treat disease; Chapter 5: Ethical issues in medicine; Chapter 6: Reproductive choices; Chapter 7: Radiation: risks and uses; Chapter 8: Lifestyle and health; Chapter 9: Evolution; Chapter 10: The universe; Chapter 11: Are we alone in the universe?

Level: 3rd year of the gymnasium/HTX