She Has Her Mother`s Laugh, Zimmer Carl

Автор: Marion Zimmer Bradley
Название: The Mists of Avalon
ISBN: 0140177191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140177190
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Here is the tragic tale of the rise and fall of Camelot - but seen through the eyes of Camelot`s women: The devout Gwenhwyfar, Arthur`s Queen; Vivane, High priestess of Avalon and the Lady of the Lake; above all, Morgaine, possessor of the sight, the wise, the wise-woman fated to bring ruin on them all...

Автор: Zimmer Carl
Название: She Has Her Mother`s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
ISBN: 1101984619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101984611
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist
"Science book of the year"--The Guardian
One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018
One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018
"Extraordinary"--New York Times Book Review
"Magisterial"--The Atlantic
"Engrossing"--Wired
"Leading contender as the most outstanding nonfiction work of the year"--Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to link themselves to missing parents, to distant ancestors, to ethnic identities...

But, Zimmer writes, "Each of us carries an amalgam of fragments of DNA, stitched together from some of our many ancestors. Each piece has its own ancestry, traveling a different path back through human history. A particular fragment may sometimes be cause for worry, but most of our DNA influences who we are--our appearance, our height, our penchants--in inconceivably subtle ways." Heredity isn't just about genes that pass from parent to child. Heredity continues within our own bodies, as a single cell gives rise to trillions of cells that make up our bodies. We say we inherit genes from our ancestors--using a word that once referred to kingdoms and estates--but we inherit other things that matter as much or more to our lives, from microbes to technologies we use to make life more comfortable. We need a new definition of what heredity is and, through Carl Zimmer's lucid exposition and storytelling, this resounding tour de force delivers it.

Weaving historical and current scientific research, his own experience with his two daughters, and the kind of original reporting expected of one of the world's best science journalists, Zimmer ultimately unpacks urgent bioethical quandaries arising from new biomedical technologies, but also long-standing presumptions about who we really are and what we can pass on to future generations.

Автор: Emlen Douglas J., Zimmer Carl
Название: Loose-Leaf Version for Evolution: Making Sense of Life
ISBN: 1319235220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781319235222
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Автор: Zimmer, Kristen
Название: The gravity between us
ISBN: 190949013X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781909490130
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Описание: After a generation of efforts to reverse the historic exclusion of minorities from their campuses, US colleges and universities are facing a frontal attack on the programs, policies, and commitments born of these efforts. This book examines their struggle to foresee the consequences of abandoning affirmative action, and to devise viable alternatives for promoting and preserving campus diversity.

Автор: Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, editor
Название: First fieldwork
ISBN: 0824872096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824872090
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960–1985 explores what a generation of anthropologists experienced during their first visits to the field at a time of momentous political changes in Pacific island countries and societies and in anthropology itself. Answering some of the same how and why questions found in Terence E. Hays’ Ethnographic Presents: Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (1993), First Fieldwork begins where that collection left off in the 1950s and covers a broader selection of Pacific Islands societies and topics. Chapters range from candid reflections on working with little-known peoples to reflexive analyses of adapting research projects and field sites, in order to better fit local politics and concerns. Included in these accounts are the often harsh emotional and logistical demands placed on fieldworkers and interlocutors as they attempt the work of connecting and achieving mutual understandings. Evident throughout is the conviction that fieldwork and what we learn from and write about it are necessary to a robust anthropology. By demystifying a phase begun in the mid-1980s when critics considered attempts to describe fieldwork and its relation to ethnography as inevitably biased representations of the unknowable truth, First Fieldwork contributes to a renewed interest in experiential and theoretical nuances of fieldwork.Looking back on the richest of fieldwork experiences, the contributors uncover essential structures and challenges of fieldwork: connection, context, and change. What they find is that building relationships and having others include you in their lives (once referred to as “achieving rapport”) is determined as much by our subjects as by ourselves. As they examine connections made or attempted during first fieldwork and bring to bear subsequent understandings and questions—new contexts from which to view and think—about their experiences, the contributors provide readers with multidimensional perspectives on fieldwork and how it continues to inspire anthropological interpretations and commitment. A crucial dimension is change. Each chapter is richly detailed in history: theirs/ours; colonial/postcolonial; and the then and now of theory and practice. While change is ever present, specifics are not. Reflecting back, the authors demonstrate how that specificity defined their experiences and ultimately their ethnographic re/productions.

Автор: Sonny Barger, With Keith Zimmerman and Kent Zimmer
Название: Hell`s Angel
ISBN: 1841153362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841153360
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The autobiography - the dangerous life and wild times - of Sonny Barger, the legendary leader of the Hell`s Angels.

Автор: Zimmer Carl
Название: Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
ISBN: 1454912405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781454912408
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13750.00 T
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Описание: In this book, each tattoo is accompanied by a reflection on the science in question by bestselling essayist and lecturer Zimmer. Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned science writer Carl Zimmer. Showcasing hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology and neuroscience to mathematics and astrophysics, Science Ink reveals the stories of the individuals who chose to inscribe their obsessions in their skin.

Best of all, each tattoo provides a leaping-off point for bestselling essayist and lecturer Zimmer to reflect on the science in question, whether it's the importance of an image of Darwin's finches or the significance of the uranium atom inked into the chest of a young radiologist.