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Author : John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Friend, Mr. Leakey written by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. B. S. Haldane
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book My Friend Mr Leakey written by J. B. S. Haldane and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Friend Mr Leakey' explores the story of Mr. Leakey, a practical magician. He has the ability to become invisible whenever he wishes, has a valuable magic carpet for traveling, and a little dragon who can cook fish by spitting fire. In addition, he's an expert in bewitching things.
Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522857477
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book My Father's Daughter written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a daughter tell the story of her father? Sheila Fitzpatrick was taught from an early age to question authority. She learnt it from her father, the journalist and radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick. But very soon, she began to turn her questioning gaze on him. Teasing apart the many layers of memory, Fitzpatrick reveals a complex portrait of an Australian family against a Cold War backdrop. As her relationship with her father fades from girlhood adoration to adolescent scepticism, she flees Melbourne for Oxford to start a new life. But it's not so easy to escape being her father's daughter. My Father's Daughter is a vivid evocation of an Australian childhood; a personal memoir told with the piercing insight of a historian.
Author : John Marsden
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547528485
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Darkness Be My Friend written by John Marsden and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-04-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of A Killing Frost continues his bestselling series. “Marsden’s style is as surefooted as his independent band of teens.”—School Library Journal Ellie and her friends had been rescued. Airlifted out of their own country to the safe haven of New Zealand, they’d arrived burnt and injured and shocked, with broken bones, and scars inside and out. They did not want to go back. But five months later the war is not over, the nightmares continue, and there are two compelling reasons for them to return: a planned sabotage of the air base in Wirrawee and, most important, the families they left behind. In this episode of the tale begun in Tomorrow, When the War Began and continued in The Dead of Night and A Killing Frost, John Marsden takes us back to Hell, the outpost for a group of teens in a war-ravaged country. “Ellie is a solid narrator whose no-nonsense approach to love, war, and friendship makes her an unusual and impressive female protagonist. A personalized war novel that is apocalyptic yet open-ended enough for another sequel, Darkness benefits from not being limited to fitting into any one genre, but satisfactorily including aspects of several.”—Booklist “Contains as much riveting suspense and cliffhanger chapter endings as the first three.”—The Horn Book
Author : Samanth Subramanian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634256
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book A Dominant Character: How J. B. S. Haldane Transformed Genetics, Became a Communist, and Risked His Neck for Science written by Samanth Subramanian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of 2020 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2020 A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. J. B. S. Haldane’s life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama—from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first instilled in him a devotion to the scientific method; to his time in the trenches during the First World War, where he wrote his first scientific paper; to his numerous experiments on himself, including inhaling dangerous levels of carbon dioxide and drinking hydrochloric acid; to his clandestine research for the British Admiralty during the Second World War. He is best remembered as a geneticist who revolutionized our understanding of evolution, but his peers hailed him as a polymath. One student called him “the last man who might know all there was to be known.” He foresaw in vitro fertilization, peak oil, and the hydrogen fuel cell, and his contributions ranged over physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, mathematics, and biostatistics. He was also a staunch Communist, which led him to Spain during the Civil War and sparked suspicions that he was spying for the Soviets. He wrote copiously on science and politics in newspapers and magazines, and he gave speeches in town halls and on the radio—all of which made him, in his day, as famous in Britain as Einstein. It is the duty of scientists to think politically, Haldane believed, and he sought not simply to tell his readers what to think but to show them how to think. Beautifully written and richly detailed, Samanth Subramanian’s A Dominant Character recounts Haldane’s boisterous life and examines the questions he raised about the intersections of genetics and politics—questions that resonate even more urgently today.
Author : Krishna R. Dronamraju
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461416779
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Victor McKusick and the History of Medical Genetics written by Krishna R. Dronamraju and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is being planned as a tribute to Dr. Victor A. McKusick (1921-2008), who is well known as the “father of medical genetics”. He was long associated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, first as a student in the 1940s, and later as a faculty member, becoming the Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He was a co-founder of GENOMICS and founder and lifelong editor of Mendelian Inheritance in Man, a massive compendium of human syndromes and genetic variants. Dr. McKusick made distinguished contributions to all branches of medical genetics. He was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and many other academies in the world. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2002. He received many other honors including several honorary doctorates. The proposed book will reflect all the fields touched upon by Dr. McKusick’s contributions. It will be a valuable source of the latest progress in medical genetics. The contributors are internationally distinguished in their chosen specialties. Besides professional distinction, they are being selected because of their past association with Dr. McKusick, as former students or colleagues who extended his research in some fashion. The proposed book will reflect all the fields touched upon by Dr. McKusick’s contributions. It will be a valuable source of the latest progress in medical genetics. The contributors are internationally distinguished in their chosen specialties. Besides professional distinction, they are being selected because of their past association with Dr. McKusick, as former students or colleagues who extended his research in some fashion.
Author : John Rowe Townsend
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461731046
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Written for Children written by John Rowe Townsend and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated edition provides children's and young adult librarians, teachers, literature classes, and library school classes with an authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript including such recent phenomenons as J.K.Rowling and Philip Pullman. Written for Children traces the development of children's literature from its origins through the beginnings of the multimedia revolution. In effortless and entertaining style, Townsend, a world-renowned authority in the field, examines the changing attitudes toward children and their literature and analyzes the various strands that make up this important field. While examining many well-known American classics, Townsend also looks at British works that American audiences may have overlooked. With illustrations and bibliography.
Author : C. Prevatt-Wiltshire
Publisher : Ginn
ISBN 13 : 9780602311254
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Kaleidoscope written by C. Prevatt-Wiltshire and published by Ginn. This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Almond
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 038572988X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Skellig written by David Almond and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2001-11-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary! Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. . . .
Author : Krishna R. Dronamraju
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199333920
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Popularizing Science written by Krishna R. Dronamraju and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family background and early life (ancestry, childhood, education) -- Charlotte and sex viri (marriage and scandal, sex viri) -- Eugenics and predictions -- Population genetics -- Evolutionary biology -- On being a guinea pig -- Chemical genetics -- Origin of life -- Human genetics -- The Marxist years -- Lysenko controversy -- Helen Spurway (second wife) -- Popularizing science -- Haldane and Huxley -- Relations with other scientists -- Moving to paradise -- Life in paradise (1957-1964) (death) -- Haldane and religion -- Impact of Haldane today
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Church Missionary Intelligencer and Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. B. S. Haldane
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Possible Worlds and Other Essays written by J. B. S. Haldane and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Possible Worlds and Other Essays" by J. B. S. Haldane. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476733147
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Brat Farrar written by Josephine Tey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What begins as a ploy to claim an inheritance ends with the impostor’s life hanging in the balance. In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerism's, appearance, and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that jeopardize the imposter's plan and his life. Culminating in a final terrible moment when all is revealed, Brat Farrar is a precarious adventure that grips the reader early and firmly and then holds on until the explosive conclusion.
Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135923736
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Science Fact and Science Fiction written by Brian Stableford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.
Author : Daniel Hahn
Publisher : Oxford Quick Reference
ISBN 13 : 0199695148
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature written by Daniel Hahn and published by Oxford Quick Reference. This book was released on 2015 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books. A fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature, this volume covers every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns
Author : Julie Cross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136839860
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature written by Julie Cross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of ‘simple’ versus ‘complex’ humor. The varied combinations of so-called high and low forms of humor within junior texts for young readers, who are at such a crucial stage of their reading and social development, provide a valuable commentary upon the culture and values of contemporary western society, making the book of considerable interest to scholars of both children’s literature and childhood studies. Cross explores the ways in which the changing content, forms and functions of the many varied combinations of humor in junior texts, including the Lemony Snickett series, reveal societal attitudes towards young children and childhood. The new compounds of seemingly paradoxical high and low forms of humor, in texts for developing readers from the 1960s onwards, reflect and contribute to contemporary society’s hesitant and uneven acceptance of the emergent paradigm of children’s rights, abilities, participation and empowerment. Cross identifies four types of potentially subversive/transgressive humor which have emerged since the 1960s which, coupled with the three main theories of humor – relief, superiority and incongruity theories – enables a long-overdue charting of developments in humor within junior texts. Cross also argues that the gradual increase in the compounding of the simple and the complex provide opportunities for young readers to play with ambiguous, complicated ideas, helping them embrace the complexities and contradictions of contemporary life.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book New York Times Saturday Book Review Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
