Perfect Copy

Author : Jonathan Agar
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781840466454

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Perfect Copy by Jonathan Agar Pdf

Cloning is some of the most exciting science and one of the most keenly fought moral debates of our time. Perfect Copy is a uniquely accessible exploration this most vexed and pressing issue. In 1997 Ian Wilmut and his team announced that they had done what many thought to be impossible. They had cloned a mammal from an adult cell. This breakthrough prompted immediate calls for the new technology of mammalian cloning to be used on humans. Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori hopes to use cloning 'within two years' to give 200 infertile couples the opportunity to at last become parents. Cloning may also solve, once and for all, the problem of rejection that bedevils transplant surgery. Perhaps it even holds the promise of eternal life. But plans to clone humans have triggered a storm of protest. Scientists including Wilmut, politicians from left and right, and theologians from almost all religions find the idea abhorrent. We cannot possibly decide who is right in this debate unless we have a good understanding of what a human clone is and how one would be created. Nicholas Agar unravels the science - and the ethics - of cloning and begins to show how we should approach this fantastically problematic area.

Author : Allison Amend
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345803146

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A Nearly Perfect Copy by Allison Amend Pdf

Elm Howells has a loving family and a distinguished career at an elite Manhattan art auction house. But after a tragic loss throws her into an emotional crisis, she pursues a reckless course of action that jeopardizes her personal and professional success. Meanwhile, talented artist Gabriel Connois wearies of remaining at the margins of the capricious Parisian art scene. Desperate for recognition, he embarks on a scheme that threatens his burgeoning reputation. As these narratives converge, with disastrous consequences, A Nearly Perfect Copy boldly challenges our presumptions about originality and authenticity, loss and replacement, and the perilous pursuit of perfection.

Author : Shiamin Kwa
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978826540

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Perfect Copies by Shiamin Kwa Pdf

Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the “problem” of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa’s Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of production and the manner in which we perceive comics are often quite similar to the stories they tell. Perfect Copies considers the dual notions of reproduction, mechanical as well as biological, and explores how comics are works of reproduction that embed questions about the nature of reproduction itself. Through close readings of the comics My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris, The Black Project by Gareth Brookes, The Generous Bosom series by Conor Stechschulte, Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, and Panther by Brecht Evens, Perfect Copies shows how these comics makers push the limits of different ideas of “reproduction” in strikingly different ways. Kwa suggests that reading and thinking about books like these, that push us to engage with these complicated questions, teaches us how to become better readers.

Author : John Mackenzie Owen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402053405

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The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization by John Mackenzie Owen Pdf

This book outlines the consequences of digitization for peer-reviewed research articles published in electronic journals. It is argued that digitization will revolutionize scientific communication. However, this study shows that this is not the case where scientific journals are concerned. Authors make little use of the possibilities offered by the digital medium; electronic peer review procedures have not replaced traditional ones, and users have not embraced new forms of interaction offered by some electronic journals.

Author : Henry B. Wheatley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732652631

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Prices of Books by Henry B. Wheatley Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Prices of Books by Henry B. Wheatley

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCD:31175024106943

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Notes and Queries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Library science
ISBN : IOWA:31858045164286

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The Library Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert D. Montoya
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262362184

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Power of Position by Robert D. Montoya Pdf

How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies. The idea that species live in nature as pure and clear-cut named individuals is a fiction, as scientists well know. According to Robert D. Montoya, classifications are powerful mechanisms and we must better attend to the machinations of power inherent in them, as well as to how the effects of this power proliferate beyond the boundaries of their original intent. We must acknowledge the many ways our classifications are implicated in environmental, ecological, and social justice work—and information specialists must play a role in updating our notions of what it means to classify. In Power of Position, Montoya shows how classifications are systems that relate one entity with other entities, requiring those who construct a system to value an entity’s relative importance—by way of its position—within a system of other entities. These practices, says Montoya, are important ways of constituting and exerting power. Classification also has very real-world consequences. An animal classified as protected and endangered, for example, is protected by law. Montoya also discusses the Catalogue of Life, a new kind of composite classification that reconciles many local (“traditional”) taxonomies, forming a unified taxonomic backbone structure for organizing biological data. Finally, he shows how the theories of information studies are applicable to realms far beyond those of biological classification.

Author : Practical Text Book Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Type-writing
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5ZNU

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Typewriting Instructor and Stenographer's Hand-book by Practical Text Book Co Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000060098597

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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433089889376

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A General Catalogue of Books Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices by Bernard Quaritch ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1612 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11547708

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101063831935

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A General Catalogue of Books Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices by Bernard Quaritch ... by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015078051326

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The American Bibliopolist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : CORNELL:31924091796486

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Book-lore by Anonim Pdf