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Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 657 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to link themselves to missing parents, to distant ancestors, to ethnic...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Our genes are the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans; it governs our form, function, and fate, and that determines the future of our children. The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 as Mendel's idea of a "unit of heredity; " intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. Mukherjee tells the story of her own family...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 255 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains new concepts in human genetics and health that indicate that the fundamental nature of the human genome is much more fluid and flexible than originally thought.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The crowning work of the best-selling Earth chronicles series"--Provided by publisher.
Sitchin asserts that there exists physical evidence that could prove that Adam was engineered by the gods of Sumer and Babylon, who had come to Earth from their planet, Nibiru. Is this the key to unlocking the ultimate mystery of life and death?
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"There's a secret code inside you, a code called DNA. A code that tells your body's cells what they should do each day. It looks like twisted ladders, or tiny, twirling noodles. It makes us into people, instead of into poodles. Why can't humans breathe underwater? Why are some people tall and others short? Why do we resemble our parents and grandparents? This book explores all this and more in flowing, rhyming text, explaining cells, DNA, and genetics...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But in the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics revolution to paint a more complete picture of human social life than ever before. The Genome Factor describes the latest astonishing discoveries being made at the scientific frontier where genomics and the social sciences intersect. The Genome...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides an A-to-Z almanac and encyclopedia of Christopher Paolini's world of Alagaësia, the magical land of the Inheritance cycle, discussing mysterious people, objects, and places.
Author
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey comes a love story as passionate and tumultuous as the old American West, about an heiress who discovers passion in the arms of a Texas cowboy.
Amanda and Marian Laton are identical twins but they are as different as night and day. Amanda is beautiful but nasty, and Marian is kind but plain—purposely so to avoid provoking her spiteful twin's jealousy. When their wealthy...
Amanda and Marian Laton are identical twins but they are as different as night and day. Amanda is beautiful but nasty, and Marian is kind but plain—purposely so to avoid provoking her spiteful twin's jealousy. When their wealthy...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Noted social scientist Eviatar Zerubavel casts a critical eye on how we trace our past-individually and collectively arguing that rather than simply find out who our ancestors are from genetics or history, we actually create the stories that make them our ancestors.
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