![]() ![]() Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn't become scientists, she decided she would.ĭriven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book's author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. ![]() When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a "compelling" ( The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post ![]()
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![]() ![]() Technology and text messaging are often seen as cold and divisive, pulling people away from "real" interactions, but this is such a tender and revelatory moment for these characters - and one that couldn't have taken place face to face for them. There is something super romantic about two people trying to figure out themselves and each other, and Jay figuring out the exact right thing to say in that moment, even if he doesn't have the words. I'm pretty sure that's emoji for 'hold me.'" "I send her an emoji string: a heart, a bowl of soup, and heels. After Jay and Maria, as their online selves, open up to one another about past trauma, Jay responds to Maria with emojis of things he has learned she loves over the course of their online relationship: ![]() But Jay and Maria have online personas, Actual Physicist and Em, and those personas chat constantly and like each other very much - maybe too much for either of them to handle. Jay is being a jerk, and Maria has a very low jerk tolerance. The romance itself is an amazingly crafted story: Chemistry professor Jay and apocalypse blogger Maria meet and instantly (and believably) dislike each other. The reason: Eddy Carmichael, the young woman he rescued in the desert. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the faade. ![]() One of my favorite romantic moments is from Courtney Milan's contemporary romance, Hold Me. Forbidden (Old West 1) Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed ofone that depends upon him passing for White. ![]() ![]() Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 82 pages. Hurtling towards its tragic climax, Bolo's transformation embodies the tragedy manifested when a people are pushed too far.īook Synopsis The Wine of Astonishment by : Mary Hastings Bradleyĭownload or read book The Wine of Astonishment written by Mary Hastings Bradley and published by Theclassics.Us. Told from the perspective of a religious wife, Eva retells the torment and tribulations her family and friends endure at the hands of abusive police and corrupt government officials. ![]() One day we was Baptist, the next day we is criminals.' The Wine of Astonishment is a poignant and devastating tale of the discrimination the Black community of Bonasse faced during the first half of the 20th century. ![]() 'If we clap we hands and catch the Spirit, the police could arrest us. Book excerpt: Earl Lovelace writes about the survival of a small community of Spiritual Baptists with a lyricism and understanding of dialogue which has established an international reputation. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Book Synopsis The Wine of Astonishment by : Earl Lovelaceĭownload or read book The Wine of Astonishment written by Earl Lovelace and published by Hachette UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the brilliant travelogue-cum-memoir, Colour by Victoria Finlay to Kassia St Clair’s The Secret Life of Colour, readers are spoiled for choice. There has been an endless supply of books about colour in recent years. ![]() The history and theory of colour is a wide and fascinating field. It became the third-greatest traded product from the New World after gold and silver.” When the Spanish invaded the Aztec Empire, they discovered this valuable export, protecting “their exclusive supply by disguising the red dye’s origins in mystery, spreading the story that the cochineal was a pea-like vegetable. ![]() Carmine was used in the Americas for dyeing textiles as early as 700 BCE: “One of the reddest dyes that the natural world has ever produced, the crimson dye is carminic acid which is produced by the female cochineal to deter other insect predators.” It’s a laborious process yet for thousands of years mankind has gone to considerable trouble to produce dyes, inks and paints.Ĭolour is fundamental to our experience of the world – so fundamental that throughout history, health and lives were risked for the sake of treasured pigments. ![]() About 14,000 insects are needed to make just 100 grams of cochineal dye according to Chromatopia, David Coles’s illustrated history of colour. Also known as E120, its presence in the red of Skittles sweets was an issue for vegans and vegetarians until it was finally removed in recent years. As any self-respecting vegan knows, carmine food colouring comes from the cochineal insect. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, they eschewed all video games, smart phones, talk shows, and Twitter. They had learned early, at least as far back as the 700s, that there’s not much sanctifying taking place in the world of human passions. These early inhabitants of Iceland were “Culdees.” Culdee comes from the Celtic Céile Dé, which means “God worshipper.” These monks lived lives of asceticism apart from human society, seeking entire sanctification. These were Irish monks, who’d been there for over 100 years. Nevertheless, after several exploratory ventures, they found a place where at least the modicum of a village might be established.īut there was a modicum already there-with some strange fellows in cowls. Whoever designed Iceland had put in lots of lava streams and glaciers, rocks and crags, and one strip mall with a tattoo parlor and the offices of the physician Dag “Dr. It was hard at first to find a hospitable spot to set down roots. ![]() So let’s put in some family homes, a fish market or two, and a boat yard.” When word got to the king, he said, “The future is all about real estate. ![]() And so it was claimed for good King Fairhair. “Let’s call it Iceland,” one of them said. They didn’t know how cold this land could get, for if they had they might have turned right around and headed home. ![]() They saw some land, and decided to check it out. a crew of Scandinavians was sailing around and got off course. ![]() ![]() ![]() This optimism is subtly implied by the bird's song being described as "sweetest" in a dramatic "gale." Human sufferingĭickinson refers repeatedly to the inhospitable nature of the dark and stormy weather in the poem's setting. The speaker appears optimistic about the human ability to hope and survive through suffering. Human endurance is a significant aspect of the poem and is symbolized by the strong little bird, who sings and endures extreme weather conditions. The poem concludes on a softly optimistic note, maintaining that hope is a force to be reckoned with, still singing in the face of adversity. ![]() Dickinson uses the features and characteristics of a bird to illustrate her opinions about human hope in times of hardship. Hope is depicted as a little bird that continues to sing even in face of trouble and pain. Hope is the main theme of the poem and is the subject of its central metaphor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ackroyd, meantime, has also heard the screams and has seen a black-clad woman and a child walking beneath the trees but he refuses to discuss key events-a tragic love affair, a brutal murder-that occurred 70 years before. Ackroyd, by putting dead rats in the old man's water tank. Meanwhile, developer Lance Klein is attempting to buy up the properties in the canyon, hoping to make a real-estate killing his agent is Barney Pomeroy, a dangerous blackmailer and obsessed voyeur who haunts Beth's dwelling and who tries to drive out another resident, Mr. Soon after a visit from his wife Amanda and son David, Peter discovers that they have disappeared two bodies, a woman's and a child are reported lying in a pool higher up the canyon where Peter lives-but the bodies also vanish. But he keeps seeing-or hallucinating-scenes from his marriage, and hearing a woman's screams far off in the night. ![]() Peter Travers is trying to put his failed marriage behind him and enter into a new relationship with girlfriend Beth. Fairly orthodox ghost story set in the California hill country, from the author of The Paper Grail, Lord Kelvin's Machine, etc. ![]() ![]() Tanenbaum, Distributed Systems, 3rd ed.,, 2017. Please refer to the book (when you need to cite it) as: You can order a printed version of the book through. All suggestions for improvements are welcome. ![]() The examples in the book leave out many details for readability, but the complete code is available. To assist in understanding the more algorithmic parts, example programs in Python have been included. The latter have been organized into boxed sections, which may be skipped on first reading. ![]() This page refers to the 3rd edition of Distributed Systemsįor this third edition of “Distributed Systems,” the material has been thoroughly revised and extended, integrating principles and paradigms into nine chapters:Ī separation has been made between basic material and more specific subjects. You can get a digital (personalized) copy of this book for free. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But she has another life to think about, that of her child. ![]() So when someone she loves most dearly, the most important person in all the worlds is lost and all but dead she refuses to give up hope in recovering them, even if it means her life. Rosette had died but she had also come back from death, her and her child. But everything depends of your perspective. Time is not fixed, events are not random, anything is possible and nothing is for certain. The future can affect the past just as easily as the past can create the future. If you think time is simple, set moments in history moving ever forward towards the future, then you best think again. ![]() ![]() It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. ![]() It brings families together for meals and new memories. ![]() It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal. ![]() Lovely stuff.” ― The New York Times Book Review Sibert Informational Book MedalĪ 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner ![]() |