Queen Victoria's Gene
Author: D. M. Potts
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780750911993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family.
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Author: D. M. Potts
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780750911993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family.
Author: Betsy Haynes
Publisher: HarperTorch
Published: 1997-04-16
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780061064487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe latest installment in a series that is the basis of a Saturday morning cartoon finds Isabella having second thoughts about her attraction to gargoyles after the kids in her building begin to disappear. Original.
Author: Traci Harding
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Published: 2010-02-01
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 0730444341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKthe spellbinding new trilogy from the author of the bestselling Ancient Future. Mia Montrose is a 21st-century Australian woman with a Doctorate in Ancient Languages who has just scored the most promising job of her career.When Mia experiences mysterious happenings and forces beyond her control, she begins to understand that history does not always stay in the past.Ashlee Granville is a 19th-century clairvoyant, forced to suppress her talents as she enters the marriage market of English upper-class society. But Ashlee is not a girl who likes to bow to the inevitable - she has plans of her own.Lillet du Lac is a 13th-century woman, priestess of an ancient order now protected by the Cathar faith, who are making their last stand against the Roman Catholic Franks at the giant hill fort of Montsegur. As the castle falls, Lillet escapes with something more valuable than any of their lives ... Despite the time, distance and cultures that separate them, these women have several things in common. they belong to an ancient bloodline of Grail kings, protected by a Sion knight named Albray, and they are each compelled to visit an ancient mountain in the Sinai. this mountain contains the keys which may unlock a gateway to a dimension of light and the Gene of Isis.
Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780192860927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic and selfish behaviour; the genetical definition of selfish interest; the evolution of aggressive behaviour; kinshiptheory; sex ratio theory; reciprocal altruism; deceit; and the natural selection of sex differences. 'Should be read, can be read by almost anyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science
Author: Matthew A. Schnurr
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2019-11-07
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0228000459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as the final frontier in the global debate over agricultural biotechnology. The first data-driven assessment of the ecological, social, and political factors that shape our understanding of genetic modification, Africa's Gene Revolution surveys twenty years of efforts to use genomics-based breeding to enhance yields and livelihoods for African farmers. Matthew Schnurr considers the full range of biotechnologies currently in commercial use and those in development - including hybrids, marker-assisted breeding, tissue culture, and genetic engineering. Drawing on interviews with biotechnology experts alongside research conducted with more than two hundred farmers across eastern, western, and southern Africa, Schnurr reveals a profound incongruity between the optimistic rhetoric that accompanies genetic modification technology and the realities of the smallholder farmers who are its intended beneficiaries. Through the lens of political ecology, this book demonstrates that the current emphasis on improved seeds discounts the geographic, social, ecological, and economic contexts in which the producers of these crops operate. Bringing the voices of farmers to the foreground of this polarizing debate, Africa's Gene Revolution contends that meaningful change will come from a reconfiguration not only of the plant's genome, but of the entire agricultural system.
Author: Gene Wolfe
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2005-08-01
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 142991551X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Able and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, however, Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, wizards, and dragons. His adventure will conclude next year in the second volume of The Wizard Knight, The Wizard. Gene Wolfe is one of the most widely praised masters of SF and fantasy. He is the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Nebula Award, twice, the World Fantasy Award, twice, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and France's Prix Apollo. His popular successes include the four-volume classic The Book of the New Sun. With this new series, Wolfe not only surpasses all the most popular genre writers of the last three decades, he takes on the legends of the past century, in a work that will be favorably compared with the best of J. R. R. Tolkien, E. R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake, and T. H. White. This is a book---and a series---for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Queen Latifah
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006-09-26
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780060778569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA self-confident young African-American girl explains why she is "queen of the scene" at the playground.
Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-03-16
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0191537551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research.
Author: Elizabeth Cole
Publisher: Elizabeth Cole
Published: 2021-04-29
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781737160205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTired of telling your child not to shout or kick things when they are angry? Then this book is the perfect solution for you!When children are angry, they can manifest their anger through bad behavior. They might shout, cry, throw things and roll on the floor or all of these things combined. That's why most parents need help managing their kids emotions and feelings.This book about little Nick:contains lovely illustrations and lightly rhyming storylinehelps children recognize and cope with their anger in a funny way through communication with zoo animalsoffers a variety of calming techniques and is aimed to improve kids self-regulation skillsteaches children to admit their mistakes and say "I'm sorry"includes a bonus coloring pageEven if you have tried everything, this book is perfect for gaining a deeper understanding of children anger management and how to help kids control their emotions. We highly recommend it to parents.
Author: D M Potts
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-10-21
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0752471961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQueen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from haemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibilities: either one of Victoria's parents had a 1 in 50,000 random mutation, or Victoria was the illegitimate child of a haemophiliac man. However the haemophilia gene arose, it had a profound effect on history. Two of Victoria's daughters were silent carriers who passed the disease to the Spanish and Russian royal families. The disease played a role in the origin of the Spanish Civil War; and the tsarina's concern over her only son's haemophilia led to the entry of Rasputin into the royal household, contributing directly to the Russian revolution.