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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Examines the rise of industrial agriculture and plant biotechnology, the fall of public interest science, and the folly of patenting seeds. The author suggests how green technologies and new approaches to food and farming methods will provide a way out of this growing predicament.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A killer virus is let loose in the New York subway and one of the first victims is a teenage school girl who nose-bleeds to death. The novel follows the efforts of Dr. Alice Austen to identify the virus and the FBI hunt for the terrorist who introduced it.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Seventy-five percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves--from soda to soup, crackers to condiments--contain genetically engineered ingredients. The long-term effects of these foods on human health and ecology are still unknown, and the public concern has been steadily intensifying. This new book from the Council for Responsible Genetics gathers the best, most thought-provoking essays by the leading scientists, science writers, and public health...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind--an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen. It's a useful skill for a certain kind of company. A unique blend of cutting-edge technology and traditional cyberpunk, Last Tango in Cyberspace explores...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that scientists have developed a bionic tool shaped like an elephant's trunk that helps lift heavy objects? Or that the needle-like pointed beak of the kingfisher bird encouraged engineers in Japan to change the design of the Shinkansen "bullet trains" to reduce noise? Across multiple fields of study and methods of problem-solving, scientists are turning to biomimicry, or engineering inspired by biology or nature, to make all kinds of...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Sensory science is increasingly proving that we don't perceive reality: we construct it through perception."--Dust jacket.
"How do we know what|s real? That|s not a trick question: sensory science is increasingly finding that we don|t perceive reality: we create it through perception. In We Have the Technology, science writer Kara Platoni guides us through the latest developments in the science of sensory perception. We Have the Technology introduces...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
260 years after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, sixteen-year-old Locke and seventeen-year-old Kara have been brought back to life in newly bioengineered bodies, with many questions about the world they find themselves in and more than two centuries of horrible memories of being trapped in a digital netherworld wondering what would become of them.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the West, we have identified only four basic tastes--sour, sweet, salty, and bitter--that, through skillful combination and technique, create delicious foods. Yet in many parts of East Asia over the past century, an additional flavor has entered the culinary lexicon: umami, a fifth taste impression that is savory, complex, and wholly distinct. Combining culinary history with recent research into the chemistry, preparation, nutrition, and culture...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao--literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had a visionary idea: the personal computer known as the...
18) Fox forever
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Before he can start a life with Jenna, seventeen-year-old Locke, who was brought back to life in a newly bioengineered body after an accident destroyed his body 260 years ago, must do a favor for the resistance movement opposing the nightmarish medical technology.
19) Lucy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees, is running for her life with the child of a murdered fellow scientist after a civil war explodes. Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who's been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely, her name is Lucy. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for her as her own. When she reads the notebooks...
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