The Fate Of Mice

Author : Susan Palwick
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616960360

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The Fate of Mice by Susan Palwick Pdf

Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick’s twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless killer who protects her, a wolf who is willingly ensnared by a devious academic, a businessman resurrected to play at politics, and an ingenious mouse dreaming beyond the laboratory. With the perceptiveness of Joyce Carol Oates, the inventiveness of Ray Bradbury, and the emotional resonance of Alice Sebold, The Fate of Mice is a meditation on the very art of storytelling: mythic, beautiful, and often brutal, filled with authentic compassion.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479456475

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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Pdf

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck and first ublished in 1937. It chronicles the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States. Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences working alongside migrant farm workers as a teenager in the 1910s (before the arrival of the Okies that he would describe in The Grapes of Wrath). The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse", which reads: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley". (The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry.) While it is a book taught in many schools, Of Mice and Men has been a frequent target of censors for vulgarity, and what some consider offensive and racist language; consequently, it appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century.

Author : Joe Haldeman,Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434442727

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Science Fiction: The Year's Best (2006 Edition) by Joe Haldeman,Alastair Reynolds Pdf

Horton's elegiac anthology of 15 mostly hard SF stories illuminates a broad spectrum of grief over love thwarted through time, space, human frailty or alien intervention, from the gentle melancholy of Michael Swanwick's "Triceratops Summer," which posits tame Technicolored time-warped dinosaurs in Vermont, to newcomer Leah Bobet's "Bliss," an agonizing riff on near-future drug addiction. Several selections address current political-social issues, like Mary Rosenblum's "Search Engine," which extrapolates today's technology to chilling, Big Brotherly results. The long closing story, Alastair Reynolds's "Understanding Space and Time," however, presents a ray of cosmic hope: the sole survivor of a plague that decimated humanity is rescued and healed by intergalactic entities and lives out millennia while seeking ultimate truths, returning to see mankind regenerated. This anthology reflects the concerns of the genre today—and the apparent inability of our society to do anything about them. -- Publishers Weekly

Author : Bryan Jl Glass,Michael Avon Oeming
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781534310919

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The Mice Templar Vol. 2 Part 1 by Bryan Jl Glass,Michael Avon Oeming Pdf

Karic might be the Chosen One...but what does such a title even mean for the young mouse who desires only to save his family from a monstrous fate. Under the training of exile Cassius, Karic learns what it truly is to be a Templar knight and warrior. While One-Arm Leito rallies his fellow prisoners, struggling to become a leader against impossible odds. Both mice find themselves on a collision course with destiny. FOREWORD BY GAIL SIMONE! Collects MICE TEMPLAR: DESTINY #1-5

Author : Susan Palwick
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429959650

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Shelter by Susan Palwick Pdf

An ambitious near-future SF novel of climate change, artificial intelligence, and human feeling. The three basic human needs are food, water...and shelter. But in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help. Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or the needs of his own daughter. Meredith Preston has reason to seek shelter. She needs protection from the monsters in her mind, in her history, in her family. And the great storms of a changing climate have made literal shelter imperative. When a cutting-edge, high-tech house, designed by a genius with a unique connection to Meredith, overcomes its programming to give shelter to a homeless man in a storm, from its closets emerge the revelations of a past too painful to remember. In the world of Susan Palwick's Shelter, perception is about to meet reality, and reality has mud all over it. The truth won't make you happy, but it may just make you whole. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Karen Rader
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691187587

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Making Mice by Karen Rader Pdf

Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. Karen Rader introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, to scientific entrepreneurs like geneticist C. C. Little, and to the emerging structures of modern biomedical research centered around the National Institutes of Health. Throughout Making Mice, Rader explains how the story of mouse research illuminates our understanding of key issues in the history of science such as the role of model organisms in furthering scientific thought. Ultimately, genetically standardized mice became icons of standardization in biomedicine by successfully negotiating the tension between the natural and the man-made in experimental practice. This book will become a landmark work for its understanding of the cultural and institutional origins of modern biomedical research. It will appeal not only to historians of science but also to biologists and medical researchers.

Author : Robin Jarvis
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1587171929

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The Final Reckoning by Robin Jarvis Pdf

The Deptford Mice and their allies rush once again into battle with old enemies, grown much more powerful, as a devastatingly cold winter threatens to keep the Green Mouse from returning in the spring.

Author : John Lithgow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416927150

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Mahalia Mouse Goes to College by John Lithgow Pdf

Mahalia Mouse discovers she has an aptitude for science.

Author : Bryan Jl Glass,Michael Avon Oeming
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781534310902

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The Mice Templar Vol. 1: Prophecy by Bryan Jl Glass,Michael Avon Oeming Pdf

For the young mouse Karic, the Mice Templar are merely an exciting legend. They were real, though, and a vicious civil war left them scattered and all mouse culture in the grip of brutal rat masters. When Karic's family is enslaved, he realizes their only hope of freedom lies in his paws?if he can only find the courage and strength to become one of the legendary Templar himself.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438139975

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Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck by Harold Bloom Pdf

Provides a collection of critical essays on Steinbeck's Of mice and men.

Author : Ronald Eisler
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080547079

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Eisler's Encyclopedia of Environmentally Hazardous Priority Chemicals by Ronald Eisler Pdf

Thousands of inorganic and organic chemicals and their metabolites enter the biosphere daily as a direct result of human activities. Many of these chemicals have serious consequences on sensitive species of natural resources, crops, livestock, and public health. The most hazardous of these were identified by a panel of environmental specialists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; these chemicals are the focus of this encyclopedia. For each priority group of chemicals, information is presented on sources, uses, physical and chemical properties, tissue concentrations in field collections and their significance, lethal and sublethal effects under controlled conditions. This includes effects on survival, growth, reproduction, metabolism, carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, and mutagenicity - and proposed regulatory criteria for the protection of sensitive natural resources, crops, livestock, and human health. Taxonomic groups of natural resources covered include terrestrial and aquatic plants and invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. * The only product that centers on the most hazardous environmental chemicals to sensitive natural resources * The only single volume compendium on the subject, allowing ease in consulting * Written by a noted national and international authority on chemical risk assessment to living organisms

Author : Deepak Malhotra
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609940676

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I Moved Your Cheese by Deepak Malhotra Pdf

The author of Negotiating the Impossible “tackles our assumptions about business and life with humor, zest, and wisdom in this delightful fable” (Daniel H. Pink, New York Times-bestselling author). If you were a mouse trapped in a maze and someone kept moving the cheese, what would you do? In a world where most mice dutifully accept their circumstances, ask no questions, and keep chasing the cheese, Deepak Malhotra tells an inspiring story about three unique and adventurous mice—Max, Big, and Zed—who refuse to accept their reality as given. I Moved Your Cheese reveals what is possible when we finally discard long-held and widely accepted assumptions about how we should live our lives. After all, achieving extraordinary success, personal or professional, has always depended on the ability to challenge assumptions, reshape the environment, and play by a different set of rules—our own. But rejecting deeply ingrained beliefs is not easy. As Zed explains, “You see, Max, the problem is not that the mouse is in the maze, but that the maze is in the mouse.” “Deepak Malhotra allows you to glimpse a world of your own making without the limits and barriers that others create.” —Stephen R. Covey, New York Times-bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People “A magnificent story with a powerful message. As someone who has encouraged scores of professionals into breaking through the maze and defining their own pursuits, I find this to be a gem of a book.” —Vinod Khosla, cofounder, former CEO and Chairman, Sun Microsystems, and founder, Khosla Ventures “This book’s message is both profound and durable. Malhotra has left the maze, and so can we.” —Foreword Reviews

Author : Jeffrey E. Green,Thomas Ried
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387698038

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Genetically Engineered Mice for Cancer Research by Jeffrey E. Green,Thomas Ried Pdf

Genetically-engineered mouse models for cancer research have become invaluable tools for studying cancer biology and evaluating novel therapeutic approaches. This volume focuses on state-of-the-art methods for generating, analyzing and validating such models for studying aspects of human cancer biology. Additionally, these models are emerging as important pre-clinical systems in which to test cancer prevention and therapeutic strategies in order to select compounds for testing in clinical trials.

Author : William Barri Kirkham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:46608965

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The Fate of Homozygous Yellow Mice ... by William Barri Kirkham Pdf

Author : W.K. Silvers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461261643

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The Coat Colors of Mice by W.K. Silvers Pdf

Many investigators seem to be fascinated by the coat colors of the mam mals with which they work. This seems to be the case particularly for those utilizing isogenic strains of mice, not only because such strains display wide ly different phenotypes, but because scientists, by definition, are an inquisi tive lot and it is sometimes difficult for the uninitiated to comprehend how such phenotypes are produced. This bewilderment becomes even more ap parent if the investigator happens to be involved in breeding studies and a number of attractively colored animals, quite different from the original stocks, appear. Thus I can recall numerous occasions when my colleagues, frequently working in areas completely unrelated to any aspect of genetics, have come to me with an attractively pigmented animal or, more likely, with a popUlation of segregating coat color types (usually because they have not tended their animals properly and have ended up with a cage full of F 2S displaying a number of different colors). How, they ask, do such colors come about? While in some cases it is easy to take chalk in hand and explain what has been going on (segregating) and why, in other cases it is virtually impossible. It is extremely difficult because while the interactions of many coat-color factors obey the simple laws of heredity and of predictable gene interactions, others do not.