The Search for the Gene

The Search for the Gene

Author: Bruce Wallace

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780801499678

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From Gregor Mendel's experiments on garden peas to the mammoth Human Genome Project of today--how did we get where we are in the science of genetics? In this intriguing book, Bruce Wallace examines the concept of the gene and recounts the history of genetic research, providing a concise transition from genetics to modern molecular biology.


American Protest Literature

American Protest Literature

Author: Zoe Trodd

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2008-04-30

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 0674027639

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ÒI like a little rebellion now and thenÓÑso wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future. American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movementsÑpolitical, social, and culturalÑfrom the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genresÑpamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, postersÑand a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.


The Sex Drive Solution for Women

The Sex Drive Solution for Women

Author: Jennifer Landa

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1601387180

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Presents advice for women over forty years of age on restoring their sex drive, covering such topics as balancing hormones, overcoming stress and fatigue, improving nutrition, and increasing exercise, with real life examples from the author's patients.


Soundscapes

Soundscapes

Author: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 9780393975369

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Soundscapes organizes the study of music in the way people encounter it - by its function in their lives and their communities. Through a series of case studies, this text presents the fundamentals of music in a variety of social and cultural settings. This three-CD set contains 75 selections, each accompanied by a listening guide in the text. A Web-site enables students to reinforce their studies and explore related topics.


Bees

Bees

Author: Sam Droege

Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 0760347387

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Get a little seen, up close look at these fuzzy, hard-working pollinators. There's plenty to learn about these little pollinators and their world.


Devices and Designs

Devices and Designs

Author: C. Timmermann

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-10-31

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0230286402

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In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention on the material cultures of health care. They analyze how technology has become so central to medicine over the last two centuries and how we are coping with the consequences.


Frank Sinatra, My Father

Frank Sinatra, My Father

Author: Nancy Sinatra

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 067162508X

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Here at last is Nancy Sinatra's own story of her legendary father... the only authorized biography of the phenomenal superstar. From his boyhood in Hoboken to his first big breaks, from the heights and depths of Hollywood to Washington, New York, Brazil and the world, Nancy gives us the story of The Voice through many other voices, among them Cary Grant, Bing Crosby, Mia Farrow, Richard Burton, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. - and frequently in specially written personal commentary by Frank Sinatra himself. For the first time we come to know the complex, generous, controversial, charismatic man behind the elusive image. Much has been written about Francis Albert Sinatra - but the truth behind his agonies and triumphs is now revealed with the intimate understanding that only his daughter posesses.


The Defense of Western Europe

The Defense of Western Europe

Author: Lewis H. Gann

Publisher: Auburn House

Published: 1987-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9780865691599

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After World War II, Western Europe became closely linked to the United States--economically through a variety of associations within the Atlantic Community, and militarily through NATO. This volume stresses the strategic importance of Western Europe for the United States. It provides detailed surveys of the background and preparedness of the NATO defense forces and the forces of Austria, Switzerland, and other countries of strategic importance. Each chapter provides a general outline of military developments since 1945, including such topics as: the relationship between armed forces and society; recruitment practices; armaments; organization; relations with NATO; and future projections. The authoritative series of descriptive, historical, and analytical essays in this volume makes it an essential resource for defense specialists, policymakers, and scholars of Western Europe.


The Annenbergs

The Annenbergs

Author: John E. Cooney

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.