![]() ![]() She told Gideon Lewis-Kraus that the book was "fundamentally defensive in a lot of ways" in cautioning against over-interpretation of genetic data, such as the results of genome-wide association studies. ![]() Harden was motivated to write The Genetic Lottery to try to change people's minds about what she considers the need for social scientists to consider genetics in their research, and to assuage fears about the negative societal consequences of doing so. The book also aims to counter pseudoscientific ideas such as race science and eugenics that have been used to explain and justify social inequalities. She encourages people to conceptualize genetic predispositions to greater socioeconomic status and educational attainment as "genetic luck" rather than "superiority" or individual worth. Published on September 21, 2021, by Princeton University Press, the book argues that human genetic variation needs to be acknowledged in order to create a fair and equal society. The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality is a book by psychologist and behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And the language is inclusive, reflecting today's various family configurations such as single-parent families, blended families formed by second marriages, families with gay and lesbian parents, and families formed by open adoption or surrogacy. Throughout, the presentation is crystal-clear, the tone is reassuring, and the voice is empowering. ![]() Only then does it cover possible complications and the care practices and procedures for resolving them. Unlike pregnancy guides that can overwhelm and alarm by telling you up front all the things that can possibly go wrong, this book first describes normal, healthy processes, their typical variations, and the usual care practices for monitoring them. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn provides the information and guidance you need to make informed decisions about having a safe and satisfying pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period - decisions that reflect your preferences, priorities, and values. Parents love this book because it puts them in control experts love it because it's based on the latest medical research and recommendations from leading health organizations. The up-to-date and authoritative pregnancy guide that has sold 1.5 million copies - by recognizing that "one size fits all" doesn't apply to maternity care ![]() ![]() His moods vary between cool detachment, passionate involvement, and ironic comment. "A yawning gap in Anglophone historical literature has now been filled.Dr Davies writes interestingly and well. "The magnificence of God's Playground is that Norman Davies has given ust the music as well as the libretto, the passion, poetry, myth, and ancedote as well as the facts.Davies writes with spirit, and his enjoyment is infectious." – " The Observer" It is a book that reads, not as non-fiction history, but as a popular novel of our times." – Polish American Journal "He offers one of the best histories of the country. ".widely viewed as the best single-volume general history of Poland." – Richard Bernstein, The New York Times" ![]() The book (or two, as many editions are split into two volumes) has received good reviews in international press ![]() ![]() "God's Playground" is a book written in 1979 by Norman Davies, covering the history of Poland.ĭavies was inspired to the title by Jan Kochanowski's 1580s "Boże igrzysko" (Mankind: Bauble of the Gods). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We demonstrate that T圓/gypsy-like retrotransposons exist as multiple well supported sublineages in both the parental and hybrid derivative species and that the same element sublineage served as the source lineage of proliferation in each hybrid species' genome. The three hybrid species are independently derived from the same two parental species, offering a unique opportunity to explore patterns of retrotransposon proliferation in light of reticulate evolutionary events in this species group. Using a phylogenetic approach, we characterize dynamics of proliferation events of T圓/gypsy-like LTR retrotransposons that led to massive genomic expansion in three Helianthus (sunflower) species of ancient hybrid origin. Their large size and proliferative ability make them important contributors to genome size evolution, especially in plants, where they can reach exceptionally high copy numbers and contribute substantially to variation in genome size even among closely related taxa. ![]() Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are a class of mobile genetic element capable of autonomous transposition via an RNA intermediate. ![]() ![]() Todd - Contemporary Romance - She falls for her brother's best friend and renowned player. 3 - Wayfarer (Passenger #2) by Alexandra Bracken - YA Time Travel Romance - Sequel to Passenger Amazon US.3 - Lifeblood (Firstlife #2) by Gena Showalter - YA Dystopian Romance -Sequel to Firstlife Amazon US.3 - Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades #2) by E.L. ![]()
![]() ![]() 2010 was not as powerful as the original.ĭune, based on Frank Herbert’s novel. Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two, a sequel to the wonderful 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Highway to Heaven, a fluffy, feel-good series about an angel that helps troubled people overcome difficulties.Ģ010, which wasbased on Arthur C. The Transformers, the cartoon series that launched a franchise that is still spitting out movies. ![]() Some of the movies and television of 1984: Lucius Shepard’s Salvador, which won the Locus Poll award for Best Short Story and the SF Chronicle award for Short Story Gardner Dozois’s Morning Child, which won the Nebula Award for best short story George Alec Effinger’s The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything John Varley ’s PRESS ENTER, which won the Hugo for best novella Within the story, Brin presents a possible explanation for the Fermi Paradox Butler’s Bloodchild, which won the Hugo Award for best noveletteĭavid Brin’s The Crystal Spheres, which won the Hugo Award for best short story (1985). Some of the notable short speculative fiction: ![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents consider themselves lucky that they have such an intertwined history with their enslaver, Pierce Butler, because they believe that this will protect them from being sold. ![]() The book begins on the second day of the auction during which Emma’s family attempts to make sense of the dislocation that is happening while reflecting on the heavy rains that resemble divine tears. This study guide quotes and obscures the author’s use of the n-word. ![]() As such, language itself is key throughout the novel, especially as it determines and reflects one’s social positionality.Ĭontent Warning: The source material mentions sexual assault and features other instances of graphic violence, as well as suicide ideation and offensive, outdated language. Racism remains prevalent throughout the novel, both in the overtly derogatory remarks of slave owners and in the more subtle beliefs of white abolitionists, whose speech reflects notions of white superiority. The book’s multiple perspectives examine the nature of slavery-and by extension, of freedom-including those of slaves who wish for freedom, slave owners and sellers, abolitionists, and even one slave, Sampson, who believes slavery to be beneficial for Black people. The book brings to light many themes common throughout slave narratives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The love of books is bibliophilia, and someone who loves to read, admire, and a person who collects books is often called a bibliophile but can also be known as an bibliolater, meaning being overly devoted to books, or a bookman which is another term for a person who has a love of books.īook collecting can be easy and inexpensive: there are millions of new and used books which are available in brick and mortar bookstores as well as online bookstores. Field, Bryce, Woolf, and Asimovīook collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given collector. ![]() Some inexpensive collectible books: these are, left to right, by Tyndall, Collingwood, H. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the end, humans have largely propagated outward to other planets, and Earth is left to the intelligent dog civilization, to whom these stories are myths. The book tells the future of humanity as it abandons cities for country estates and then moves off Earth to settle other planets, and in parallel the rise of an artificially created Dog civilization. It’s Simak’s most popular book along with his Way Station, published a decade later. An enduring work, it won one of the very earliest awards for SF or fantasy, the International Fantasy Award, in 1953 (two years after Stewart’s Earth Abides, which I reviewed here in January, won the same award). ![]() ![]() City was his earliest significant work, published in 1952 but composed of stories published mostly in Astounding from 1944 onward. Campbell’s Astounding in the 1940s (and later Galaxy in the 1950s). Simak was a Midwestern US newspaperman who wrote science fiction on the side, and published stories beginning in the 1930s in magazines like Wonder Stories until finding a home in John W. Gnome Press (224 pages, $2.75 in hardcover, May 1952)Ĭlifford D. First Edition: Gnome Books, 1952.Ĭover by Frank Kelly Freas (click to enlarge) ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been attending an "progressive" church, and even goes with an African American friend, but she is unprepared for the diversity of "sisters" represented at the conference. Plot Summary: What happens, When & Where, Central Characters, Major ConflictsJodi Baxter is unaware of how her life will change when she agrees to attend a women's conference in Downtown Chicago. In the thick of the holiday season, God gives the Yada Yadas an unforgettable celebration. The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Decked Out Just when the Yada Yadas want to get comfy, they realize God is on the move. The Yada Yada Prayer Group is in trouble -and they’re having a hard time getting out. And the Yada Yadas are about to learn just how strong it really is. The sisters of the Yada Yada Prayer Group are learning how to be real-with each other and with God. The Yada Yada Prayer Group seems invincible-until tension and distrust shake its very foundation. What do an ex-con, a former drug addict, a real estate broker, a college student and a married mother of two have in common? Now available in one volume - all seven of the Yada Yada Prayer Group novels by Neta Jackson! ![]() |