Author: Susan Crites Price
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990954804
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Generous Genes is a road map for parents, grandparents and others who want to teach kids--from 2 to 20--to live compassionately. This indispensable guide is full of practical advice, inspiring stories and resources to help adults encourage their kids to share their time, talent, treasure...and ties. The fourth T reflects the new ways youth are using online tools and social media to generate support for the charitable causes they care about.
Generous Genes
Author: Susan Crites Price
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990954804
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Generous Genes is a road map for parents, grandparents and others who want to teach kids--from 2 to 20--to live compassionately. This indispensable guide is full of practical advice, inspiring stories and resources to help adults encourage their kids to share their time, talent, treasure...and ties. The fourth T reflects the new ways youth are using online tools and social media to generate support for the charitable causes they care about.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990954804
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Generous Genes is a road map for parents, grandparents and others who want to teach kids--from 2 to 20--to live compassionately. This indispensable guide is full of practical advice, inspiring stories and resources to help adults encourage their kids to share their time, talent, treasure...and ties. The fourth T reflects the new ways youth are using online tools and social media to generate support for the charitable causes they care about.
The Code Breaker
Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982115874
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post 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. 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. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would. Driven 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. 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. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an “enthralling detective story” (Oprah Daily) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982115874
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post 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. 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. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would. Driven 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. 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. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an “enthralling detective story” (Oprah Daily) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
The Natural Selection of Autonomy
Author: Bruce N. Waller
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791438190
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Challenges the deep traditional assumption that autonomy, morality, and moral responsibility are uniquely human characteristics.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791438190
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Challenges the deep traditional assumption that autonomy, morality, and moral responsibility are uniquely human characteristics.
The Genetic Lottery
Author: Kathryn Paige Harden
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691226709
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health—and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society. Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugenics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691226709
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health—and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society. Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugenics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery.
Easytalk - Advanced
Author: Tom Dillman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665503319
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
EasyTalk is designed to help many millions of yearly visitors (business and pleasure) to the United States, the many business owners throughout the World who want to take part in the giant U.S. economy, the slightly over 1 million new legal immigrants to the U.S. every year and the millions of resident professionals from the last dozen years or more. Many formerly foreign medical folks in the one of the World’s largest Medical Centers, for example, who asked me to compile a book so they can at least enjoy going to the grocery store, do other shopping or their jobs better. Underlying EasyTalk is the little understood Science of Phonology (hearing and listening) expressed in common, simplified language to achieve these goals. The book’s area of phonology focuses on short and long sounds of our alphabets vowels as they modify conversation syllables in talking or listening to others.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665503319
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
EasyTalk is designed to help many millions of yearly visitors (business and pleasure) to the United States, the many business owners throughout the World who want to take part in the giant U.S. economy, the slightly over 1 million new legal immigrants to the U.S. every year and the millions of resident professionals from the last dozen years or more. Many formerly foreign medical folks in the one of the World’s largest Medical Centers, for example, who asked me to compile a book so they can at least enjoy going to the grocery store, do other shopping or their jobs better. Underlying EasyTalk is the little understood Science of Phonology (hearing and listening) expressed in common, simplified language to achieve these goals. The book’s area of phonology focuses on short and long sounds of our alphabets vowels as they modify conversation syllables in talking or listening to others.
Bios
Author: Hector C. Sabelli
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 981256103X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
This book focuses on a prototype of creative causal processes termed BIOS and how the concept can be applied to the physical world, in medicine and in social science. This book presents methods for identifying creative features in empirical data; studies showing biotic patterns in physical, biological, and economic processes; mathematical models of bipolar (positive and negative) feedback that generate biotic patterns. These studies support the hypothesis that natural processes are creative (not determined) and causal (not random) and that bipolar feedback plays a major role in their evolution. Simple processes precede, coexist, constitute and surround the complex systems they generate (priority of the simple). In turn, complex processes feedback and transform simpler ones (supremacy of the complex).
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 981256103X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
This book focuses on a prototype of creative causal processes termed BIOS and how the concept can be applied to the physical world, in medicine and in social science. This book presents methods for identifying creative features in empirical data; studies showing biotic patterns in physical, biological, and economic processes; mathematical models of bipolar (positive and negative) feedback that generate biotic patterns. These studies support the hypothesis that natural processes are creative (not determined) and causal (not random) and that bipolar feedback plays a major role in their evolution. Simple processes precede, coexist, constitute and surround the complex systems they generate (priority of the simple). In turn, complex processes feedback and transform simpler ones (supremacy of the complex).
THE SEDUCTION GENE How to use genes to win at the seduction game
Author: Lázaro Droznes
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1547510358
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
60% of men wish to improve their sex lives, while 50% of women desire the same. The problem is how to do so. Sex is undoubtedly one of the greatest human enigmas. Everything that happens in sexual relationships appears inexplicable: relationships just happen, some people are very sexually attractive, others not so much, passions come and go, infidelity is irresistibly attractive, but short lived. The list of questions is endless.... This book presents an evolutionary focus for sexual relationships based on the fact that all sexual conduct is motivated by the need genes have to reproduce themselves. Humans are platforms for gene reproduction and if we can know what genes want, we can learn how to improve our sex lives. Are you interested in understanding the answers to the following questions? Why doesn’t love last forever? Why are we against unfaithfulness, yet we all practice or fantasize about it? Why is the attraction to be unfaithful so irresistible? Why does romantic love exist? Why do women fall in love with the wrong men? Why is being in love such a magic, sublime state? Why is sex so complicated? Which reproductive strategies differentiate man from woman? Why do women make so many mistakes in choosing? Why does courtship exist? What can women do to choose better? Why does sexual attraction exist? Why is what is sexy for one person not sexy for another? How can we improve our ability to seduce? Why is the penis shaped as it is? What is the foreskin for? Does size matter? How does sexual selection work? Why do men sometimes fall in love at first sight? Why do women need to talk in order to fall in love? Why are women attracted to men who give them diamonds? Buy this book and start to improve your sex life!
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1547510358
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
60% of men wish to improve their sex lives, while 50% of women desire the same. The problem is how to do so. Sex is undoubtedly one of the greatest human enigmas. Everything that happens in sexual relationships appears inexplicable: relationships just happen, some people are very sexually attractive, others not so much, passions come and go, infidelity is irresistibly attractive, but short lived. The list of questions is endless.... This book presents an evolutionary focus for sexual relationships based on the fact that all sexual conduct is motivated by the need genes have to reproduce themselves. Humans are platforms for gene reproduction and if we can know what genes want, we can learn how to improve our sex lives. Are you interested in understanding the answers to the following questions? Why doesn’t love last forever? Why are we against unfaithfulness, yet we all practice or fantasize about it? Why is the attraction to be unfaithful so irresistible? Why does romantic love exist? Why do women fall in love with the wrong men? Why is being in love such a magic, sublime state? Why is sex so complicated? Which reproductive strategies differentiate man from woman? Why do women make so many mistakes in choosing? Why does courtship exist? What can women do to choose better? Why does sexual attraction exist? Why is what is sexy for one person not sexy for another? How can we improve our ability to seduce? Why is the penis shaped as it is? What is the foreskin for? Does size matter? How does sexual selection work? Why do men sometimes fall in love at first sight? Why do women need to talk in order to fall in love? Why are women attracted to men who give them diamonds? Buy this book and start to improve your sex life!
Two Become One
Author: Karen Mason
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409271374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Farrah OâRourke has spent her adult life breaking the law, opening an illegal rave club and marrying a gangster - she likes nothing more than living on the edge. Recently widowed she is struggling to get on with life when a bombshell is dropped upon her â sheâs the twin sister of Antonia Smedley, the Mayor of Londonâs wife and one of the most loved women in the world.Former supermodel Toni - fashion icon and patron of many causes is catapulted to fame when her husband Jonathan becomes Mayor of London. Adored for her beauty and compassion no one knows her apparently perfect marriage is a sham. At just 38 she is diagnosed with terminal cancer and has one final request â to be reunited with the twin she was separated from as a baby.How did these two identical women end up living such different lives?As Farrah struggles with her sisterâs legacy, bringing up a family alone and avenging the death of her beloved husband, a face from the past returns to rock her already tumultuous world.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409271374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Farrah OâRourke has spent her adult life breaking the law, opening an illegal rave club and marrying a gangster - she likes nothing more than living on the edge. Recently widowed she is struggling to get on with life when a bombshell is dropped upon her â sheâs the twin sister of Antonia Smedley, the Mayor of Londonâs wife and one of the most loved women in the world.Former supermodel Toni - fashion icon and patron of many causes is catapulted to fame when her husband Jonathan becomes Mayor of London. Adored for her beauty and compassion no one knows her apparently perfect marriage is a sham. At just 38 she is diagnosed with terminal cancer and has one final request â to be reunited with the twin she was separated from as a baby.How did these two identical women end up living such different lives?As Farrah struggles with her sisterâs legacy, bringing up a family alone and avenging the death of her beloved husband, a face from the past returns to rock her already tumultuous world.
A Path Appears
Author: Nicholas Kristof
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345805100
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
An exploration of how altruism affects us, what are the markers for success, and how to avoid the pitfalls—with scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky and Tightrope Kristof and WuDunn will inspire you to "change lives for the better, including your own (The New York Times Book Review). In their recounting of astonishing stories from the front lines of social progress, we see the compelling, inspiring truth of how real people have changed the world, underscoring that one person can make a difference. A Path Appears offers practical, results-driven advice on how best each of us can give and reveals the lasting benefits we gain in return. Kristof and WuDunn know better than most how many urgent challenges communities around the world face today. Here they offer a timely beacon of hope for our collective future.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345805100
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
An exploration of how altruism affects us, what are the markers for success, and how to avoid the pitfalls—with scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky and Tightrope Kristof and WuDunn will inspire you to "change lives for the better, including your own (The New York Times Book Review). In their recounting of astonishing stories from the front lines of social progress, we see the compelling, inspiring truth of how real people have changed the world, underscoring that one person can make a difference. A Path Appears offers practical, results-driven advice on how best each of us can give and reveals the lasting benefits we gain in return. Kristof and WuDunn know better than most how many urgent challenges communities around the world face today. Here they offer a timely beacon of hope for our collective future.
The Expanding Circle
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400838436
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism? In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues that altruism began as a genetically based drive to protect one's kin and community members but has developed into a consciously chosen ethic with an expanding circle of moral concern. Drawing on philosophy and evolutionary psychology, he demonstrates that human ethics cannot be explained by biology alone. Rather, it is our capacity for reasoning that makes moral progress possible. In a new afterword, Singer takes stock of his argument in light of recent research on the evolution of morality.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400838436
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism? In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues that altruism began as a genetically based drive to protect one's kin and community members but has developed into a consciously chosen ethic with an expanding circle of moral concern. Drawing on philosophy and evolutionary psychology, he demonstrates that human ethics cannot be explained by biology alone. Rather, it is our capacity for reasoning that makes moral progress possible. In a new afterword, Singer takes stock of his argument in light of recent research on the evolution of morality.