Download or read book The Cooperative Gene written by Mark Ridley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why isn's all life pond-scum? Why are there multimillion-celled, long-lived monsters like us, built from tens of thousands of cooperating genes? Mark Ridley presents a new explanation of how complex large life forms like ourselves came to exist, showing that the answer to the greatest mystery of evolution for modern science is not the selfish gene; it is the cooperative gene." "In this thought-provoking book, Ridley breaks down how two major biological hurdles had to be overcome in order to allow living complexity to evolve: the proliferation of genes and gene-selfishness. Because complex life has more genes than simple life, the increase in gene numbers poses a particular problem for complex beings."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Assassin Gene written by Marsell Morris and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Assassin written by Jim West and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drug and gang violence in the city of Chicago has finally risen to the point that something must be done. The usual law enforcement agencies have had their hands tied by liberal governmental policies and a corrupt system that is unable to administer justice. Black Water is called in to resolve the problem in ways that could never be approved by elected officials or established agencies. The task is to remove the top five gangs in Chicago and destroy their hold on the drug trade and the violence it brings. Muddy Water, their covert domestic enforcement arm, is tasked with the mission. As always with their clandestine operations, failure is not an option. Neither is the discovery of the company’s involvement. After over a year of gathering information on the leadership of the gangs and planning how to eliminate them, the assassins are brought in.
Download or read book The Assassin Galveston written by Jim West and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After failed attempts to penetrate the veil of one of several oyster wholesale companies operating in Galveston, Texas, suspected of involvement in the production and distribution of the deadly drug, fentanyl, Black Water is called upon to solve the mystery. Using investigative techniques unavailable to the DEA because of restrictions imposed by numerous laws, Black Water discovers the suspect company is involved in a most unique distribution chain, stretching from Mexico across over half of the United States. Beginning with the head of one of the largest drug cartels in Mexico to dozens of wholesale and retail oyster companies across the country and down to the street dealers, they are given approval to eradicate the entire distribution chain by whatever means necessary. Knowing the number of deaths attributed annually to fentanyl, Black Water is only too willing to do what the government cannot do: Remove everyone involved.
Download or read book The Angel and the Assassin written by Donna Jackson Nakazawa and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia—an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday lives. “The rarest of books: a combination of page-turning discovery and remarkably readable science journalism.”—Mark Hyman, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED Until recently, microglia were thought to be helpful but rather boring: housekeeper cells in the brain. But a recent groundbreaking discovery has revealed that they connect our physical and mental health in surprising ways. When triggered—and anything that stirs up the immune system in the body can activate microglia, including chronic stressors, trauma, and viral infections—they can contribute to memory problems, anxiety, depression, and Alzheimer’s. Under the right circumstances, however, microglia can be coaxed back into being angelic healers, able to make brain repairs in ways that help alleviate symptoms and hold the promise to one day prevent disease. With the compassion born of her own experience, award-winning journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa illuminates this newly understood science, following practitioners and patients on the front lines of treatments that help to “reboot” microglia. In at least one case, she witnesses a stunning recovery—and in others, significant relief from pressing symptoms, offering new hope to the tens of millions who suffer from mental, cognitive, and physical health issues. Hailed as a “riveting,” “stunning,” and “visionary,” The Angel and the Assassin offers us a radically reconceived picture of human health and promises to change everything we thought we knew about how to heal ourselves.
Download or read book The Assassin s Mate written by H. Linton and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selene never wanted a mate, even her wolf agreed that her destiny lay with the assassin's guild. Her work was blessed by the Goddess. Sent by the King to eliminate a threat to the kingdom, the haze drives her to make a fatal mistake. Her target is none other than her fated mate. Alpha Lucas had turned down the King's proposal to wed his daughter. The king was after his land, but Lucas just wanted a true mate. He found her in the darkness, her intent clear before the haze took them and forced the mate bond into completion, but can she overcome the lies whispered by her King and give in to the bond, or will her obsession with duty end them both?
Download or read book Assassin s Code written by Jonathan Maberry and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ASSASSIN'S CODE, the fourth book in New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series, Joe Ledger and the DMS go on a relentless chase to stop an ancient order of killers from plunging the entire world into Holy War. When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran, the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMDs will lead Joe and Echo Team into hidden vaults of forbidden knowledge, mass-murder, betrayal, and a brotherhood of genetically-engineered killers with a thirst for blood. Accompanied by the beautiful assassin called Violin, Joe follows a series of clues to find the Book of Shadows, which contains a horrifying truth that threatens to shatter his entire worldview. They say the truth will set you free...not this time. The secrets of the Assassin's Code will set the world ablaze.
Download or read book Body 2 0 written by Sara Latta and published by Twenty-First Century Books ™. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists are on the verge of a revolution in biomedical engineering that will forever change the way we think about medicine, even life itself. Cutting-edge researchers are working to build body organs and tissue in the lab. They are developing ways to encourage the body to regenerate damaged or diseased bone and muscle tissue. Scientists are striving to re-route visual stimuli to the brain to help blind people see. They may soon discover methods to enlist the trillions of microbes living in our bodies to help us fight disease. Learn about four strands of bioengineering—tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, neuroengineering, microbial science, and genetic engineering and synthetic biology—and meet scientists working in these fields.
Download or read book The Fifth Cylinder written by Ian Campbell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-05-18 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is a spectre hidden in the mists of a large multinational. After waiting years, planning, building, assembling, his time has finally come!. Only when it exploded onto the TV screens of American homes and transformed the streets of Washington into a blood bath did the world comprehend his arrival. By then however, it was too late! Whether he lived or died, his plan would unfold and soon it would hang Tsunami-like over our lives. So begins the story that will make you look twice at every tablet you take. Sandy, a South African stockbroker is drawn into a terrifying web of hired assassins, some visible but others hidden within the human body!Her best friend is brutally murdered and then she is held hostage. The story her captor tells her before she kills him chills her blood! Across the ocean, the top genetic engineer from an ultra secret biolab disappears.Five months later the US President is infected with the perfect weapon: unseen, unstoppable, irreversible. He dies within 3 weeks. The Vice President takes over the reins but he too is infected with a much deadlier genetic assassin. Within days he becomes demented and in a fit of induced madness unleashes 3 nuclear weapons against a fleet of sinister battle craft off the Californian coast. Estimated American dead: 14 million! In a huge mansion overlooking the Bosphorus Straits sits the man who is the key to both these events. A product of Nazi genetic testing, his time for revenge has come! From Libya to the Ukraine, from Washington to Munich, from Cape Town to Jerusalem he draws the world into a spiral of horror and terror it beyond our comprehension! China threatens the USA with a naval power that can defeat even her most awesome super carriers! Ukranian troops invade Belerus. In the terrifying climax deep beneath the Mamara Sea, Sandy must confront this devil personified whose sole desire is to bring humankind to the brink of extinction! If she fails, we all lose! Unknown to her, this evil genius is one step ahead of her all the way. His final act is to use Sandy to reproduce his ultimate creation: ADAPT, code named Lucifer!
Download or read book The Divinity Gene written by Matthew J. Trafford and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mob of teens descends upon Paris in the thrall of a self-help author; a grotesque yard-sale statuette frees a dying man from his silence; the hottest club in town is staffed by angels. This is the uncanny world of The Divinity Gene, Matthew J. Trafford's debut story collection, and it bristles with humour, pathos, and imaginative power. Skewering urban culture even as it conjures up the magic in the mundane, the stories of The Divinity Gene map the frailty of the human heart. Caught in the crosshairs of faith and science, its characters-bereaved, sidelined, cast adrift-journey forth to undiscovered places, in search of something to believe in, someone to love, always with disarming results. A passionately devout scientist clones Jesus Christ from the DNA contained in holy relics; a man makes a Faustian cyber deal with the devil for the sake of his family; bereaved parents sign on for an unorthodox government reparations project following a school tragedy. Masterfully original, deeply human, The Divinity Gene introduces a bold and evocative new writer.
Download or read book On the Trail of the JFK Assassins written by Dick Russell and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using newly declassified information, Dick Russell builds on three decades of painstaking research in On the Trail of the JFK Assassins, offering one of the most comprehensive and authoritative examinations of the assassination of our thirty-fifth president. Included are new revelations, such as the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was subjected to “mind control,” Russell’s personal encounters inside the KGB headquarters, and new information gleaned from an interview with Oswald’s widow. Russell here comes closer than ever to answering the ultimate question: Who killed JFK?
Download or read book Beneath the Floodlights written by MARTIN TRACEY and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Birmingham football club Kingsbarr United are relegated from the English Premier League they are seemingly rescued by a mysterious new manager from Transylvania, Professor Cezar Prodanescu and his stable of young superstars who also happen to be a nest of vampires! Once darkness falls and the floodlights glow, their powers enable United to win games by incredible margins. Buried nearby is the worlds first vampire and Cezars plan is to resurrect a clone from the extracted DNA of his ancient bones. But Cezar did not legislate for falling in love with human girl, Lily, or for acquiring such admiration for team captain and local hero Johnny Knox and Uniteds other human footballers. But as Cezar struggles with his emotions and attempts to shield his identity as a master vampire, his finest example, star striker Andrei is eager to keep things on course. But will the cloning of the worlds first vampire materialise? Will Cezar lead United back to Premiership glory? Does Cezar hold any answers for the disappearance of Johnnys long lost son? And when the evil Andrei takes a shine to Johnnys teenage daughter, a dramatic showdown ensues in a desperate bid to rescue her and the entire human race.
Download or read book Assassin s Blood written by Malcolm Shuman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digging near a mental hospital, Alan Graham and his team come under attack A dying town just a few miles from the Mississippi River, Jackson has a psychiatric hospital, a sprawling forest, and a bloody history. In the summer of 1963, a drifter passed through town in search of work. Not finding any, he returned to New Orleans and then moved on to Dallas, where he assassinated a president. His name was Lee Harvey Oswald, and his ghost is said to haunt the woods of Jackson. Archaeologist Alan Graham has no time for ghost stories, but he can’t deny that there is something evil in this tiny Louisiana town. Digging near the Oswald cabin, he becomes engrossed in the unsolved murder of its original owner, who was killed with the same kind of rifle that killed Kennedy. When a member of Graham’s team is shot during the dig, he must unravel a pair of mysteries—or risk joining Oswald in death.
Download or read book Assassin s Silence written by Ward Larsen and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today bestselling author Ward Larsen's celebrated protagonist, assassin David Slaton, returns for another breathless adventure in Assassin's Silence Every so often, a great assassin novel comes along: Brad Meltzer's The Fifth Assassin, David Baldacci's The Hit, Daniel Silva's The Kill Artist. Now Ward Larsen brings us Assassin's Silence, featuring David Slaton, hero of Larsen's Assassin's Game and the award-winning The Perfect Assassin. When it comes to disappearing, David Slaton has few equals. Police in three countries have written off trying to find him. His old employer, Mossad, keeps no forwarding address. Even his wife and son are convinced he is dead. So when an assault team strikes, Slaton is taken by surprise. He kills one man and manages to escape. Half a world away, in the baleful heat of the Amazon, an obscure air cargo company purchases a derelict airliner. Teams of mechanics work feverishly to make the craft airworthy. On the first flight, the jet plunges toward the ocean. The CIA assesses the two spectacles: a practiced killer leaving a trail of bodies across Europe, and a large airplane disappearing without a trace. The two affairs are increasingly seen to be intertwined. Langley realizes the killer is a man long thought to be dead, and the lost airliner has been highly modified into a tool of unimaginable terror. When their worst fears are realized, Langley must trust the one man who can save them: David Slaton, the perfect assassin. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Assassin s Mark written by Ella Sheridan and published by Ella Sheridan. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I inhaled this sexy, gritty, thrilling new series and I can’t wait for more!” — Lara Adrian, NYT Best-selling Author I knew the minute I saw him that Levi Agozi was too perfect to be real. I didn't care. He came to me, asked for me, and, dazzled by his dark good looks and the bad-boy aura surrounding him, I gave in. Willingly. My father is set to become the next governor of Georgia, and he'll use me to get there if he has to. He'll hand me over, virginity and all, to the man with the biggest bank account and political pull. I wanted something more. I wanted Levi. And I had him—until I woke up, disoriented and confused, at his mercy. He’s a bad boy, all right. A sexy, deadly assassin. And I'm the pawn torn between him and my father, two powerful men intent on destroying each other. I might not understand their war, but I do understand one thing: no matter who wins, I lose.
Download or read book Assassin S Thief written by Jillian Hartle and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carter Koniares is the top assassin in the guild. Ruthless and skilled in his trade he makes quick work of each and every target, until now. Elena Jones, by day a waitress trying to make rent, by night a criminal hacker capable of crumbling any security system. These two are about to be forced back into the world of politics, powerful families, and most of all, lies; a world they have both fought to avoid.
Download or read book Assassin s Run written by Ward Larsen and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Tom Doherty Associates book"--Title page.
