Download or read book Seed Quest written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study with reference to Karnataka, India.
Download or read book The Seeds of Life written by Edward Dolnick and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from. Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery. These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs. A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from.
Download or read book Quests written by Sylvia Hortense Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alterquest the Alternative Quest for Answers written by Karen Fiala and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the 21st century and what have we got to show for it? Does humanity really want to continue its downward spiral or are we ready to create a different reality? The purpose of this book is many-fold. 1. It shows you ways in which our civilization can progress. 2. It challenges all the old methods of doing things. 3. It offers workable methods, which have been tried and proven by individuals and communities all over the globe, with the sole purpose of making life better. 4. It is interactive. It offers its readers an invitation to join the AlterQuest Organization and be part of a practical Global Network for the advancement of our world. AlterQuest is the most exciting, inspirational book you will ever read. Its topics will give you unlimited hope for the present and the future. You'll find yourself grasping at every wonderful idea with a renewed sense of enthusiasm. Here at last we have the answers we've all been searching for.
Download or read book How We Are written by Vincent Deary and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in a major new trilogy, How to Live: How We Are, How We Break, and How We Mend We live in small worlds. How We Are is an astonishing debut and the first part of the monumental How to Live trilogy, a profound and ambitious work that gets to the heart of what it means to be human: how we are, how we break, and how we mend. In Book One, How We Are, we explore the power of habit and the difficulty of change. As Vincent Deary shows us, we live most of our lives automatically, in small worlds of comfortable routine—what he calls Act One. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, so for the most part we avoid it. But inevitably, from within or without, something comes along to disturb our small worlds—some News from Elsewhere. And with reluctance, we begin the work of adjustment: Act Two. Over decades of psychotherapeutic work, Deary has witnessed the theater of change—how ordinary people get stuck, struggle with new circumstances, and finally transform for the better. He is keenly aware that novelists, poets, philosophers, and theologians have grappled with these experiences for far longer than psychologists. Drawing on his own personal experience and a staggering range of literary, philosophical, and cultural sources, Deary has produced a mesmerizing and universal portrait of the human condition. Part psychologist, part philosopher, part novelist, Deary helps us to see how we can resist being habit machines, and make our acts and our lives more fully our own.
Download or read book Seed written by G. Kalloo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented at the conference.
Download or read book Food Security Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights written by Muriel Lightbourne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume advances the claim that the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) adopted in 2001 is the only existing international agreement with the potential to promote food security, conservation of biodiversity and equity. However, for germplasm-rich countries, national interests come into conflict with the global interest. This work shows that the pursuit of national interests is counterproductive when it comes to maintaining genetic resources, food-security and rent-seeking and that optimally, the coverage of the FAO Treaty should be widened to apply to all crops.
Download or read book The Seed Underground written by Janisse Ray and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the loss of fruit and vegetable varieties and the genetically modified industrial monocultures being used today, shares the author's personal experiences growing, saving, and swapping seeds, and deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds.
Download or read book Seed Money Monsanto s Past and Our Food Future written by Bartow J. Elmore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us. When researchers found trace amounts of the firm’s blockbuster herbicide in breakfast cereal bowls, Monsanto faced public outcry. Award-winning historian Bartow J. Elmore shows how the Roundup story is just one of the troubling threads of Monsanto’s past, many told here and woven together for the first time. A company employee sitting on potentially explosive information who weighs risking everything to tell his story. A town whose residents are urged to avoid their basements because Monsanto’s radioactive waste laces their homes’ foundations. Factory workers who peel off layers of their skin before accepting cash bonuses to continue dirty jobs. An executive wrestling with the ethics of selling a profitable product he knew was toxic. Incorporating global fieldwork, interviews with company employees, and untapped corporate and government records, Elmore traces Monsanto’s astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startup to a global agribusiness powerhouse. Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products—including PCBs and Agent Orange—to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically engineered technology. Skyrocketing sales of Monsanto’s new Roundup Ready system stunned even those in the seed trade, who marveled at the influx of cash and lavish incentives into their sleepy sector. But as new data emerges about the Roundup system, and as Bayer faces a tide of lawsuits over Monsanto products past and present, Elmore’s urgent history shows how our food future is still very much tethered to the company’s chemical past.
Download or read book The Works of Isaac Penington written by Isaac Penington and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book GOD Speaks to His Bridal Presence written by Anthony A Eddy and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOD SPEAKS TO HIS BRIDAL PRESENCE IS PART OF THE END-TIME PSALMS OF GOD "I, The Lord, Speak to My bridal presence, intend to bind with a band of gold, ... I, The Lord, repeat the calling of The Lord, as the end-time builds unto a climax, as grace prepares to depart, as mercy waits upon the sidelines, as The Earth awaits her mantle of due honour, as life capitulates from evil with a change of heart, as truth and righteousness usher in the peace fields of divinity, ... " This is of extreme interest to all who do, and would, love The Lord Jesus
Download or read book Selections from the Works of Isaac Penington written by Isaac Penington and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vegetables and Fruits written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leads Lynxes written by Rebecca Chastain and published by Mind Your Muse Books. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kylie’s good intentions may be her downfall... Once a generation, an enchanted tree blooms, gifting magic seeds to those who ask it a question. Each seed is a clue, not an answer. It guides the recipient toward the information they seek, but only if they have the patience and bravery to see it through. Kylie dreams of using her career as a journalist to make a positive, lasting impact. What better question could she pose to the enchanted tree than for the story of a lifetime? However, improving the world isn’t simple...or safe. Every new lead forces Kylie and her gargoyle companion, Quinn, deeper into a deadly maze of warped magic, bloodthirsty beasts, and deranged madmen. Kylie is determined to unlock the answer to her question, but she’s beginning to wonder: Will she survive long enough to share her findings with the world? From the USA Today bestselling author of the Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles comes an extraordinary new series filled with elemental magic, mythic creatures, and heroic gargoyles. Pick up your copy of this action-packed fantasy today! READER REVIEWS "You'll be swept up in Kylie's story and the magical world she lives in from page one." (Reading Between the Wines Book Club) "Chastain’s take on classic monsters is wonderfully original...Leads and Lynxes is a terrific first book in a new urban fantasy/paranormal romance series." (ev0ke Magazine) "I enjoy how many different weird and wonderful magical creatures we're getting to meet." (Goodreads Review) "Leads and Lynxes is a mix of mystery and fantasy, with a good dose of action and a hint of romance....I really like the world the author has created, especially the characters." (Musings of a Bookish Kitty) "there is never a dull moment" (Goodreads Review) THE NOVELS OF TERRA HAVEN READING ORDER TERRA HAVEN CHRONICLES Deadlines & Dryads (prequel) Leads & Lynxes Headlines & Hydras Muckrakers & Minotaurs GARGOYLE GUARDIAN CHRONICLES Magic of the Gargoyles Curse of the Gargoyles Secret of the Gargoyles Lured (a newsletter-exclusive novella) Flight of the Gargoyles FORMATS Available in ebook, print, and audiobook ABOUT REBECCA CHASTAIN Rebecca Chastain is the USA Today bestselling author of the Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles fantasy trilogy and the Madison Fox urban fantasy series, among other works. Inside her novels, you'll find spellbinding adventures packed with mythological creatures, elemental magic, heartwarming characters (human and otherwise), and page-turning action. Rebecca lives in Northern California with her charming husband. She has yet to encounter a baby gargoyle, but that doesn't stop her from looking. Find out more at RebeccaChastain.com.
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Download or read book Creative Quest written by Questlove and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Esquire • PopSugar • The Huffington Post • Buzzfeed • Publishers Weekly A unique new guide to creativity from Questlove—inspirations, stories, and lessons on how to live your best creative life Questlove—musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary entrepreneur, professor, and all-around cultural omnivore—shares his wisdom on the topics of inspiration and originality in a one-of-a-kind guide to living your best creative life. In Creative Quest, Questlove synthesizes all the creative philosophies, lessons, and stories he’s heard from the many creators and collaborators in his life, and reflects on his own experience, to advise readers and fans on how to consider creativity and where to find it. He addresses many topics—what it means to be creative, how to find a mentor and serve as an apprentice, the wisdom of maintaining a creative network, coping with critics and the foibles of success, and the specific pitfalls of contemporary culture—all in the service of guiding admirers who have followed his career and newcomers not yet acquainted with his story. Whether discussing his own life or channeling the lessons he’s learned from forefathers such as George Clinton, collaborators like D’Angelo, or like-minded artists including Ava DuVernay, David Byrne, Björk, and others, Questlove speaks with the candor and enthusiasm that fans have come to expect. Creative Quest is many things—above all, a wise and wide-ranging conversation around the eternal mystery of creativity.
