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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025462008
Author : Ludvík Vaculík
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810107260
The Guinea Pigs is a chilling fable about dehumanization and alienation representing Vaculik's vision of the menace of Soviet domination in the wake of the 1969 invasion. Written in 1970, it is a sweeping condemnation of totalitarianism, embedded in a rich, imaginative, highly experimental narrative. In the words of the New York Review of Books it is "one of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe."
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : LCCN:80603050
Author : Jim Endersby
Publisher : Random House
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781448106851
The triumphs of recent biology - understanding hereditary disease, the modern theory of evolution - are all thanks to the fruit fly, the guinea pig, the zebra fish and a handful of other organisms, which have helped us unravel one of life's greatest mysteries - inheritance. Jim Endersby traces his story from Darwin hand-pollinating passion flowers in his back garden in an effort to find out whether his decision to marry his cousin had harmed their children, to today's high-tech laboratories, full of shoals of shimmering zebra fish, whose bodies are transparent until they are mature, allowing scientists to watch every step as a single fertilised cell multiples to become millions of specialised cells that make up a new fish. Each story has - piece by piece - revealed how DNA determines the characteristics of the adult organism. Not every organism was as cooperative as the fruit fly or zebra fish, some provided scientists with misleading answers or encouraged them to ask the wrong questions.
Author : W. E. CASTLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033619019
Author : Clive Harper,Beverley Randell
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1869556879
Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two
Author : John Burstein
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836889576
Provides basic information on guinea pigs and explains how they communicate and how their sense of smell keeps them out of danger.
Author : Jim Endersby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674027132
"Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved," Darwin famously concluded The Origin of Species, and for confirmation we look to...the guinea pig? How this curious creature and others as humble (and as fast-breeding) have helped unlock the mystery of inheritance is the unlikely story Jim Endersby tells in this book. Biology today promises everything from better foods or cures for common diseases to the alarming prospect of redesigning life itself. Looking at the organisms that have made all this possible gives us a new way of understanding how we got here--and perhaps of thinking about where we're going. Instead of a history of which great scientists had which great ideas, this story of passionflowers and hawkweeds, of zebra fish and viruses, offers a bird's (or rodent's) eye view of the work that makes science possible. Mixing the celebrities of genetics, like the fruit fly, with forgotten players such as the evening primrose, the book follows the unfolding history of biological inheritance from Aristotle's search for the "universal, absolute truth of fishiness" to the apparently absurd speculations of eighteenth-century natural philosophers to the spectacular findings of our day--which may prove to be the absurdities of tomorrow. The result is a quirky, enlightening, and thoroughly engaging perspective on the history of heredity and genetics, tracing the slow, uncertain path--complete with entertaining diversions and dead ends--that led us from the ancient world's understanding of inheritance to modern genetics.
Author : Jennifer Gray,Amanda Swift,Sarah Horne
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781623653484
A nasty builder with a huge digger is threatening the guinea pigs' woodland! The furry pals must protect it--but how? Terry wants to tell all his friends online. Eduardo thinks a protest song will do the trick. While Coco just wants everyone to get on with it! Then they meet Olaf the Viking guinea pig who claims to be over 1,000 years old. Can they use his ancient tactics to help fight the builder?
Author : Patricia Hutchinson
Publisher : Arco Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0668052139
Author : W. E. Castle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 1331950651
Excerpt from Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-Pigs and Rats For several years I have been engaged in studies of heredity in guinea-pigs. In the course of these studies all the common varieties of guinea-pigs have been investigated by the method of experimental breeding and something has been learned concerning their interrelationships and probable mode of origin. The actual origin of most of these varieties is, however, unknown, as is true also concerning most varieties of domesticated animals. One or two varieties have, however, been made synthetically in the laboratory and it is conceivable that, if we had the original wild stock to work with, from which the domesticated guinea-pig has arisen, some or all of the existing varieties might be synthesized anew and perhaps still others might be obtained, and that in this way something might be learned of the method by which new varieties arise. From considerations such as these I have for several years been seeking to obtain living specimens of the wild species which most closely resemble guinea-pigs. In 1903 I received from Campinas, Brazil, 3 wild-caught individuals referred at the tune to the species Cavia aperea, but since found to agree better with the description of C. rufescens. From two of these animals young were obtained, and crosses, the results of which have been described in detail by Dr. Detlefsen (1914), were made with domesticated guinea-pigs. It may be noted that all male F1 hybrids were sterile, but that the F1 females were fertile, and that upon repeated crossing of these with male guinea-pigs, a race of fertile hybrids was at last obtained, these being, in the language of breeders, about guinea-pig, rufescens. From this result it seems doubtful whether C. rufescens has any close genetic relationship to the domesticated guinea-pig, although by hybridization it has been found possible to produce races ( or more guinea-pig) which have derived certain characters from a rufescens ancestor. Cavia aperea from Argentina has been crossed with the guinea-pig by Nehring (1893, 1894) in Berlin, with the production of fully fertile hybrids. This result indicates a closer relationship with the guinea-pig than C. rufescens manifests. Darwin (1876), however, did not regard aperea as the ancestor of the guinea-pig, because he found it to be infested with a different species of louse. I have not myself been able as yet to obtain specimens of C. aperea. Nehring (1889) has argued with much plausibility that Cavia cutleri of Peru is more probably the ancestor of the guinea-pig, for (1) it agrees closely with the guinea-pig in cranial characters and it occurs in a region where guinea-pigs have been for a long time kept in domestication, as is shown by the occurrence of mummified guinea-pigs which had been buried with the dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Raye Ringholz
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874214734
A history of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s need for uranium ore in the 1950s, the frenzied search, and the aftermath. Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, UraniumFrenzy has become the classic account of the uranium rush that gripped the Colorado Plateau region in the 1950s. Instigated by the U.S. government’s need for uranium to fuel its growing atomic weapons program, stimulated by Charlie Steen’s lucrative Mi Vida strike in 1952, manned by rookie prospectors from all walks of life, and driven to a fever pitch by penny stock promotions, the boom created a colorful era in the Four Corners region and Salt Lake City (where the stock frenzy was centered) but ultimately went bust. The thrill of those exciting times and the good fortune of some of the miners were countered by the darker aspects of uranium and its uses. Miners were not well informed regarding the dangers of radioactive decay products. Neither the government nor anyone else expended much effort educating them or protecting their health and safety. The effects of exposure to radiation in poorly ventilated mines appeared over time. The uranium boom is only part of the larger story of atomic weapons testing and its impact in the western United States. Nuclear explosions at the Nevada Test Site not only spurred uranium mining, they also had a disastrous impact on many Americans: downwinders in the eastward path of radiation clouds, military observers and guinea pigs in exposed positions, and Navajo and other uranium mill workers all became victims, as deaths from cancer and other radiation-caused diseases reached much higher than normal rates among them. Tons of radioactive waste left by mines, mills, and the nuclear industry and how to dispose of them are other nagging legacies of the nuclear era. Recent decades have brought multiple attempts by victims to obtain compensation from the federal government and other legal battles over disposal of nuclear waste. When courts refused to grant relief to downwinders and others, Congress eventually interceded and legislated compensation for a limited number of victims able to meet strict criteria, but did not adequately fund the program. Recently, Congress attempted to fix this shortfall, but in the meantime many downwinders and others holding compensation IOUs had died. Congressional and other efforts to dispose of waste have lately focused on Nevada and Utah, two states all too familiar with nuclear issues and reluctant to take on further radioactive burdens. “In a perceptive and touching narrative, Ringholz (The Wilderness Handbook) recalls that the Federal government in the early 1950s subsidized uranium mining for the coming atomic age. . . . Ringholz intrigues the reader with an expert blending of science, adventure, industry mania, finance, human triumph and despair and shameful official neglect.” —Publishers Weekly “The frenzied search for a reliable domestic source of uranium ore needed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in the 1950s is the subject of Ringholz's breezy narrative, which is populated with colorful characters. . . . This is good popular reading for general collections in public libraries.” —Library Journal
Author : Jill Foran
Publisher : Av2 by Weigl
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Guinea pig
ISBN : 160596090X
Information about the characteristics of guinea pigs and how to care for them.
Author : Trisha T. Pritikin
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700629046
For more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production. For those who lived in the vicinity, many of them families of Hanford workers, the consequences soon became apparent as rates of illness and death steadily climbed—despite repeated assurances from the Atomic Energy Commission that the facility posed no threat. Trisha T. Pritikin, who has battled a lifetime of debilitating illness to become a lawyer and advocate for her fellow “downwinders,” tells the devastating story of those who were harmed in Hanford’s wake and, seeking answers and justice, were subjected to yet more suffering. At the center of The Hanford Plaintiffs are the oral histories of twenty-four people who joined In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, the class-action suit that sought recognition of, and recompense for, the grievous injury knowingly caused by Hanford. Radioactive contamination of American communities was not uncommon during the wartime Manhattan Project, nor during the Cold War nuclear buildup that followed. Pritikin interweaves the stories of people poisoned by Hanford with a parallel account of civilians downwind of the Nevada atomic test site, who suffer from identical radiogenic diseases. Against the heartrending details of personal illness and loss and, ultimately, persistence in the face of a legal system that protects the government on all fronts and at all costs, The Hanford Plaintiffs draws a damning picture of the failure of the US Congress and the Judiciary to defend the American public and to adequately redress a catastrophic wrong. Documenting the legal, medical, and human cost of one community’s struggle for justice, this book conveys in clear and urgent terms the damage done to ordinary Americans in the name of business, progress, and patriotism.
Author : Laura Howell
Publisher : Pet Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Guinea pigs
ISBN : 1409561887
Featuring useful guidance throughout, this is the perfect guide for young guinea pig owners and those who are thinking of getting a pet guinea pig.