Download or read book The Aggressor Gene written by Carl Pfeiffer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Susan Miller is a brilliant, young, attractive marine biologist on a fast track career pathway at Memorial University of Newfoundland, doing behavioral studies on squid and octopuses, molluscan species noted for their high intelligence. Her studies are interrupted when the director of NOAAs Office of Research and Ocean Exploration requests her help aboard the oceanic research vessel, Okeanos Explorer, in the western Pacific Ocean to investigate the disappearance of some marine research divers from the ship. She is accompanied by her molecular biology post-doctoral trainee, Dr. Masami Matsumoto from Japan. It is suspected that one or more giant squid, usually a quiet, clandestine species, are responsible for these and other deaths in the region. Scientists aboard the research vessel are also investigating the increased submarine seismic activity occurring in the western Pacific. These dilemmas require the two young marine biologists to travel around the globe, and to examine the molecular genetics to solve this problem and to discover its amazing causation. The Aggressor Gene is a marine biology science-oriented thriller melding the areas of psychology, molecular biology and physical oceanography with marine biology in an exciting page turner.
Download or read book The Suffering Gene written by Roy Burdon and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer kills one man out of every two, and one woman out of three, in the industrialized countries today. And its incidence, despite all efforts to the contrary, is increasing at one per cent a year. The fact is that some 80 per cent of cancers are likely to be due to environmental factors that could be reduced or even eradicated. This book explains how our genes work, and how they are adversely affected by the modern environment in which we live, whether in the North or the South. The factors include toxic industrial and agricultural chemicals, excessive sunlight ( a result of the hole in the ozone layer), nuclear radiation from power plants and the military, other forms of radiation (mobile phones, electricity transmission systems), food contaminants, atmospheric pollutants (tobacco smoke, car exhaust fumes), and the potential impact of genetic engineering. It explains how the body defends itself from external attack, what happens when these defences are overwhelmed, and the need for much more careful development of new technologies, industrial processes, products and foodstuffs.
Download or read book Right as Rain written by George Pelecanos and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Strange is a black ex-cop in Washington D.C. who now makes a living running his own private detective agency. He is hired to investigate the killing of an off-duty black policeman by a white police officer -- a killing that was supposedly accidental, but that has opened difficult questions about racism on the force. In the course of that investigation the white officer, Terry Quinn, becomes Strange's friend and then his partner. Together they try to uncover what really happened that night, when Quinn came upon a confusing and treacherous crime scene. Along the way they confront the kingpins of a flourishing drug trade and some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel.
Download or read book Christianity and Politics written by Christopher R. Petruzzi and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Bride of Christ, the body of Christian believers has been called to serve Him. One aspect of this calling is that we are God's instrument to change the world. This book addresses the question of how Christians should go about facilitating that calling.Politics is the process through which some people attempt to prevail over others for the control of government. Is that what Christ wants for his holy people, or is the lure of politics an attempt to bring us into Satan's world?Christianity and Politics presents a logically developed analysis of this question using the Bible, history, and modern theories of economics and political science. Christians from all political and theological backgrounds are likely to find that this book changes their thinking about the church and political involvement.
Download or read book Genome Editing for Neurodegenerative Diseases written by Sandeep Kumar Singh and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genome Editing for Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Concept to Clinical Trials examines recent advances in neurodegenerative disease research and clinical challenges in practical applications. With an emphasis on genome editing tools such as ZFNs, TALENSs and CRISPR-Cas, this book sheds light on the possibilities to counteract genetic and neurodegenerative diseases. It will be of interest to researchers in neuroscience and biopharmaceuticals, as well as clinicians specializing in neurodegenerative diseases. - Covers basic mechanisms of genome-editing tools and their therapeutic potential - Highlights current research progress and therapeutic strategies to use genome-editing tools against neurodegenerative diseases - Includes research on genome-editing tool development, from basic concept to clinical trials
Download or read book Gene Factor written by Sanford J. Ritchey and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Jason Spradlin strives to gain tenure and start his new career at a research university, opposition from a senior professor in Biology becomes personal and dangerous. Jason's research into gene therapy is challenged by Jefferson Bell on ethical and moral issues. When the faculty fails to support Bell's demands that Jason's work be stopped, Bell and a local minister hire thugs to sabotage Jason. The destruction of scientific equipment, vandalism of the vivarium, and the firebombing of Jason's laboratory fail to deter him. An attempt to murder Jason backfires and an elderly neighbor is killed. Jason obtains an NIH grant and joins with an investigator in the Medical School to correct genetic defects in two children with Wilson's disease. He and his graduate students work through the intricacies of locating the defects and making corrections. They discover the disease involves as many as five genetic errors, all of which must be corrected. Jason's life is complicated through a brief affair with Elizabeth, a sensuous graduate student, before he discovers the love of his life, Lucy Bacon, a faculty in English. When neither the department head nor the police believe Bell is behind destructive acts, Jason, with Elizabeth's help sets out to find evidence. After Elizabeth is kidnapped and Lucy is almost killed, Bell and his cronies are brought to trial and found guilty. The book will interest readers of intrigue and mystery with a particular attraction to those interested in higher education and science. The manuscript address a topic currently in the headlines with genetic therapy promising to cure diseases, nut raising ethical questions about how far science should be permitted to go.
Download or read book Biosocial Interplay During Elementary School written by Pol A.C. van Lier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of social relations during primary school on children’s neurobiology and pathways to maladaptation. It explores the ways in which after the transition to primary education children, supervised by teachers, need to function with their peers. The volume addresses issues affecting 10% to 20% of children who become poorly accepted or victimized by peers, receive low support by teachers or even have conflictual relations with teachers, and may perceive the classroom as a whole as nonsupportive. Key areas of coverage include: Detrimental effects of such social experiences, providing an overview of how such experiences affect children’s neurobiology factors to understand why these children develop maladaptive outcomes. Manifestations of social relations, their complexity, interrelations, and pathways leading to the maladaptive outcomes. How genetic factors may evoke children’s social environment and make them susceptible to its impact (e.g., findings on DNA methylation at both epigenome-wide level as well as on particular loci on candidate genes). Links between social environmental stressors and the psychophysiology of elementary school children and reviews both links with the autonomic nervous system as well as with the HPA-axis. The impact of social experiences on neurocognitive function development, decision making, and structural and functional brain development and discusses implications for research, prevention, and intervention. Biosocial Interplay During Elementary School is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and other professionals in clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, educational psychology/policy and politics, social work, neuroscience, public health, and all related disciplines.
Download or read book Unhinged written by E J Findorff and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Decland Dupree arrives at the crime scene, where the recipient of his first childhood kiss lies in a pool of blood. Not fifteen minutes later, the body of a man is found next door. The most sadistic serial killer in New Orleans history is on the prowl. He selects both a man and a woman, raping and killing them on the same night. When another woman from Deck’s past is found and identified, the young detective is flooded with questions. How does this maniac know Deck? Why is the FBI deputy director sabotaging his efforts to capture the killer? And, most unsettling, who’s next? As the Absinthe Killer continues to evade arrest, Deck is relieved of duty. But he’s far from giving up—and, unfortunately for Deck, the FBI knows it.
Download or read book Neurotransmitters and Emotions written by Fushun Wang and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.
Download or read book Cosmic Explorers written by Courtney Brown and published by Farsight, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A followup to Cosmic Voyage introduces readers to the aliens who have been watching humans for a long time and who may pose a threat to the planet. Original.
Download or read book Stress and Your Health written by Hymie Anisman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress and Your Health: From Vulnerability to Resilience presents an evidence-based evaluation of the various effects of stress, along with methods to alleviate distress and stress-related illnesses. Examines myriad stressor effects and proven ways to alleviate stress in our lives Covers a wide range of stressor-related topics including therapeutic strategies to deal with stress and factors that hinder treatment of stress Makes difficult biochemical and immunological concepts accessible to a non-specialist audience Addresses many of the factors that cause individuals to be more vulnerable to the impact of stressors and at increased risk for pathology
Download or read book Following Breadcrumbs written by Jamie Johnston and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an LA tween in the mid-1960s, Jamie Johnston—free-spirited, fiercely independent Hollywood brat and daughter of ’40s/’50s actor-singer Johnny Johnston (“Rock Around the Clock”)—had two significant events forever frozen in her mind. The first of these memories she would share with millions—the era-defining appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in 1964. The second memory, however, was much more intimate. It was a bright summer’s day in 1966 when she stood rapt, watching one of the undisputed kings of the Sunset Strip, the Byrds’ Gene Clark, coolly entering the legendary Whisky a Go Go. Little did Jamie know that a mere nine years after having her life changed by the Fab Four, her female duo, the Skiffles, would be signed to a record deal with Beatles producer, George Martin, or that twenty years hence, she would embark upon a passionate affair with the ill-fated ex-Byrd Clark, who died at the age of forty-six in 1991. What begins as an up-close-and-personal commentary of an era that changed the world, with many of its famous players traversing through the pages, evolves into a tragic love story. Praise for Following Breadcrumbs “Following Breadcrumbs is a tell-all rock-and-roll memoir with a conscience” (Tom Sandford, the Clarkophile Blog, Toronto, Canada).
Download or read book Civilization in the 21st Century written by and published by How to Save the Future?. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Name of Justice written by Garry Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life goes on. In the Name of Justice is a story of people who live their lives in the shadow of the atrocities, coping with dreams, desires, and ambitions. Tommy Wilson travels across the United States in search of love, fun, education, and reconciliation. He has an ultimatum for his wife: Love me or leave me. His journey has him confront the insanity, which is modern life. He finds sex, drugs, fear, adventure, friendship, knowledge, harassment, imprisonment, and intimidation. Life is a challenge for those who stand against oppression, ignorance. and violence when racism, corruption, major indifference. and lunacy reign. Behind the headlines of 2014, life goes on.
Download or read book Indoctrinability Ideology and Warfare written by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent ethno-nationalist conflicts continue to mar the history of the twentieth century; yet no satisfactory answer to the question of why humans are susceptible to indoctrination by ideologies that lead to inter-group hostility has so far been found. In this volume an international team of leading scientists from many different fields approach this complex issue from a biological perspective, treating indoctrinability as a predisposition that has its roots in humanity's evolutionary past.
Download or read book The Youngest Minds written by Ann B. Barnet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychological research, this book offers a fundamentally new understanding of how children learn language, establish emotional ties, and embrace moral values. Line drawings.
Download or read book Issues in Evolutionary Ethics written by Paul Thompson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-01-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores historical and current discussions of the relevance of evolutionary theory to ethics. The historical section conveys the intellectual struggle that took place within the framework of Darwinism from its inception up to the work of G. C. Williams, W. D. Hamilton, R. D. Alexander, A. L. Trivers, E. O. Wilson, R. Dawkins, and others. The contemporary section discusses ethics within the framework of evolutionary theory as enriched by the works of biologists such as those mentioned above. The issue of whether ethical practice and ethical theory can be grounded in the theory of evolution has taken a new and significant direction within the context of sociobiology and is proving to be a challenge to previous thinking. This book conveys that challenge.
