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Author | : Tim Birkhead |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-07-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1620406497 |
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Winner of the Consul Cremer Prize, The Red Canary follows the compelling quest to turn the green canary red. The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new, for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Favored originally for their voice, by the middle of the nineteenth century canaries had become so popular that millions were exported from Europe to the United States to satisfy demand. During the 1870s, English canary breeders caused a scandal by feeding their birds red peppers to turn them orange. In the 1930s, Duncker's genetics efforts caught the attention of the Nazi regime who saw him as a champion of their eugenic policies, even though his ingenious experiments were not successful. Nonetheless, Duncker's work paved the way thirty years later for an Englishman, Anthony Gill, and an American, Charles Bennett, to succeed, after recognizing that the red canary would need to be a product of both nature and nurture. In Tim Birkhead's masterful hands, this highly original narrative reveals how the obsession of bird keepers turned the wild canary from green to red, and in the process, heralded exciting but controversial developments in genetic manipulation.
Author | : Rachel McDaniel |
Publisher | : Smitten Historical Romance |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781645262817 |
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Author | : Tim Birkhead |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1620407574 |
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"First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in 2003"--T.p. verso.
Author | : Steve Neil Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-09-29 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | : 9780615695846 |
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LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST MYSTERY! Los Angeles, 1956. It's a dangerous time to be gay. Nobody knows that better than closeted prosecutor Paul Winters, the rising star in the L.A. District Attorney's office. But when the police insist a gay man arrested for soliciting committed suicide in custody--and Paul knows it was murder--he risks everything to uncover the truth. Thrown together with a strikingly handsome vice cop with a dark past, the two men race to expose a conspiracy at the highest levels of government that threatens to tear the city apart. THE YELLOW CANARY is the first book in The L.A. AFTER MIDNIGHT Quartet, a four-book four-decade spanning saga of gay life from the 1950s to the 1980s in America's most corrupt city.
Author | : Lauren E. Oakes |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-11-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1541617428 |
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The surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment. Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is a case for hope in a warming world.
Author | : Sandi Toksvig |
Publisher | : Roaring Brook Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2007-03-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429969318 |
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"My brother stood up so quickly he almost knocked Mama over. 'Why aren't you doing something? Do you know what the British are calling us? Hitler's canary! I've heard it on the radio, on the BBC. They say he has us in a cage and we just sit and sing any tune he wants.'" Bamse's family are theater people. They don't get involved in politics. "it had nothing to do with us," Bamse tells us. Yet now he must decide: should he take his father's advice and not stir up trouble? Or should he follow his brother into the Resistance and take part in the most demanding role of his life?
Author | : William Cooke |
Publisher | : Tyndale House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2023-05-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1496446496 |
Download Canary in the Coal Mine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One doctor's courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the community's future--and exposed a national health crisis. When Dr. Will Cooke, an idealistic young physician just out of medical training, set up practice in the small rural community of Austin, Indiana, he had no idea that much of the town was being torn apart by poverty, addiction, and life-threatening illnesses. But he soon found himself at the crossroads of two unprecedented health-care disasters: a national opioid epidemic and the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever seen in rural America. Confronted with Austin's hidden secrets, Dr. Cooke decided he had to do something about them. In taking up the fight for Austin's people, however, he would have to battle some unanticipated foes: prejudice, political resistance, an entrenched bureaucracy--and the dark despair that threatened to overwhelm his own soul. Canary in the Coal Mine is a gripping account of the transformation of a man and his adopted community, a compelling and ultimately hopeful read in the vein of Hillbilly Elegy, Dreamland, and Educated.
Author | : Jane Louise Curry |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2005-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0689864787 |
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As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.
Author | : Joseph Hilldorfer |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-09-14 |
Genre | : Current Events |
ISBN | : 9780743246521 |
Download The Cyanide Canary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this true story of a horrific environmental crime, written by an EPA Special Agent, a brave young man suffers severe brain damage after being pulled from a poison-saturated 25,000-gallon storage tank. of photos.
Author | : George Jackson French |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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"All About Your Canary" by George Jackson French. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.