Download or read book Unnatural Descendant written by Kate Porter and published by Kate Porter. This book was released on with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen years ago, five-year-old Jesse Daniel Messenger was targeted for termination. The Committee thought they’d succeeded in erasing all evidence of the illegal cloning experiment in a fiery explosion that killed Jesse and his protectors, Travis Brody and Janey Carmichael. They were wrong. With new names, a new home and a boatload of secrets, Kevin and Maggie Jacobson rebuild their lives giving their son, Dylan and their new baby daughter, Tina, as normal a childhood as they could provide. Now, over a decade and a half later, their ordinary lives come unraveled the day before Thanksgiving when Dylan and Tina watch their home erupt into flames. Their parents’ greatest fears have come to pass . . . The Committee has found them. Dylan and Tina have no time to grieve over the deaths of their parents as they run for their lives. From frantic car chases, dodging gunfire and near-death experiences, this brother and sister find their strength in each other as they seek out who betrayed their family. Fiercely loyal to each other in spite of the derisive quips, they must pit their wits against an unknown enemy as they try to figure out who they can trust. With each terrifying event, Dylan must dig deeper into his dormant gifts to save them. As they push for answers, more questions arise: 1) where Dylan’s powers come from and 2) why he has had a target on his back since the day he was born.
Download or read book Visitor s Guide to Salem written by Thomas Franklin Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unnatural Selection written by Emily Monosson and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result. Monosson reveals that the very code of life is more fluid than once imagined. When our powerful chemicals put the pressure on to evolve or die, beneficial traits can sweep rapidly through a population. Species with explosive population growth--the bugs, bacteria, and weeds--tend to thrive, while bigger, slower-to-reproduce creatures, like ourselves, are more likely to succumb. Unnatural Selection is eye-opening and more than a little disquieting. But it also suggests how we might lessen our impact: manage pests without creating super bugs; protect individuals from disease without inviting epidemics; and benefit from technology without threatening the health of our children.
Download or read book Twice Dead written by Margaret M. Lock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases individuals diagnosed as "brain dead" are the source of the organs without which transplants could not take place. In this compelling and provocative examination, Margaret Lock traces the discourse over the past thirty years that contributed to the locating of a new criterion of death in the brain, and its routinization in clinical practice in North America. She compares this situation with that in Japan where, despite the availability of the necessary technology and expertise, brain death was legally recognized only in 1997, and then under limited and contested circumstances. Twice Dead explores the cultural, historical, political, and clinical reasons for the ready acceptance of the new criterion of death in North America and its rejection, until recently, in Japan, with the result that organ transplantation has been severely restricted in that country. This incisive and timely discussion demonstrates that death is not self-evident, that the space between life and death is historically and culturally constructed, fluid, multiple, and open to dispute. In addition to an analysis of that professional literature on and popular representations of the subject, Lock draws on extensive interviews conducted over ten years with physicians working in intensive care units, transplant surgeons, organ recipients, donor families, members of the general public in both Japan and North America, and political activists in Japan opposed to the recognition of brain death. By showing that death can never be understood merely as a biological event, and that cultural, medical, legal, and political dimensions are inevitably implicated in the invention of brain death, Twice Dead confronts one of the most troubling questions of our era.
Download or read book Ancestors written by William Hare Newell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1976 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Ancestors".
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Download or read book Descendants of Slavery on the Event Horizon written by Steven Nur Ahmed and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descendants of Slavery: on the Event Horizon is book about problems and problem solving in the African American community. It is a red flag on the field because the United States is on track for a convergence of unparalleled national and global crises some of which are unsolvable. What does that mean for descendants of slavery? Not since the beginning of the civil war have descendants of slavery been in such tenuous circumstances. Unimaginable fifty years ago, our individual life chances are fast approaching zero.
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Download or read book Queer Street written by James McCourt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid, anecdotal history of gay life in twentieth-century New York.
Download or read book The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton Mass written by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Angell who Settled in Providence 1636 written by Avery F. Angell and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burgess Genealogy written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Burgess Sr. (ca. 1603-1685) emigrated from England, ca. 1630 arrived at Salem, and lived for a time at Lynn, Massachusetts. He settled at Sandwich, Massachusetts, in 1637. He was the father of at least five children. Descendants listed lived in Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Ohio, Iowa, California and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada.
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