Inspired by Darwin's observations of the Galapagos finches, the author reveals how the incremental changes that occur between generations of finches demonstrate natural selection. Through the author's discussions with many prominent ornithologists, the reader learns the differences among these finches and the effects the environment and sexual ...
Focusing on the genes that determine human behaviour, this book discusses how human beings' emotional responses can be genetically isolated and manipulated. The author also considers the political and social implications of this scientific breakthrough.
The ninetieth edition of this respected series reflects growing 21st-century concerns with global warming, Alzheimer's disease, and stem cell research, among other phenomena. Its authors are unafraid to challenge accepted wisdom on ordinarily sacrosanct subjects like posttraumatic stress syndrome, here reassessed by The New Yorker's Malcolm ...
HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER details the efforts of a young entrepreneur to save his brother's life, using experimental gene therapy to combat the disease that is killing him. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner's book is both a story about the limits of medicine, and a personal saga of how far one man is willing to go in his attempts to keep ...
HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER details the efforts of a young entrepreneur to save his brother's life, using experimental gene therapy to combat the disease that is killing him. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner's book is both a story about the limits of medicine, and a personal saga of how far one man is willing to go in his attempts to keep ...
The author of Planet Earth covers topics from the greenhouse effect to holes in the ozone layer and details actions that can reverse our current course. Showing the need for global interdependence, Weiner shows what readers can expect in the coming century. 32 line drawings.
This collection of millennial prognostications from the London Times includes contributions from Francis Fukuyama, Steven Pinker, John Kenneth Galbraith, Noam Chomsky, and others.
After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends." This book is the classic account of how much we have since learned about the evolution of these remarkable birds. Based upon over a decade ...
Nadia is the flower girl in Aunt Laila's Pakistani wedding. Her hands will be decorated with beautiful and intricate designs of a natural dye called henna. Will her classmates understand and not laugh at her?
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