Genetic jigsaw story

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Features Summary A beautiful 30-piece jigsaw and Cinderella picture book, both illustrated by Lorena Alvarez. Presented in a sturdy, attractive box, the book and puzzle set makes a lovely gift and a delightful way for children to enjoy this much-loved story... Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd Release date 20180301 Pages 24 ISBN 1-4749-2904-4 ISBN 13 978-1-4749-2904-2

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Author: Parragon Publisher: Parragon ISBN-10: 1474898254 ISBN-13: 9781474898256 Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Pages: Box Set Dimensions: 22 x 20.5 x 4 cm +++ by Parragon +++ The Snow Queen Book and Puzzle Pack is a sparkling carry case that contains a beautifully illustrated book of the classic wintry tale The Snow Queen, plus a magical 36-piece jigsaw puzzle to accompany the delightful storybook. Hans Christian Andersen's classic story The Snow Queen is brought to life with illustrations by Charlottte Cooke. Perfect for playtime and reading fun with your little one when the weather is cold outside!

One dark night the Gruffalo's Child disobeys her father's warnings and ventures out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn't really exist...does he? Children will have hours of fun assembling six favourite scenes from the best-selling book, and reading the original story. Format:Board book Pages:14

We combine postage, so do look at our other items on offer. Postage prices outside of South African borders will differ. Please enquire before purchasing. SAPO and PAXI packages Dispatched within 4 business days. Courier  packages Dispatched within 3 business days.   Condition: Very Good 1st British Edition, Bantam, 2005, Hardback - Science - 354pp. From a leading voice in the debate on genetic engineering comes a look at the contemporary relationship of science and religion. 'The Story of God' explores the relationship between humanity & the divine across time, from the primitive worship of our early ancestors to faith in the modern world. The author provides a startling discourse between science & religion.   Free and discounted shipping on bulk purchases (postal and courier) within the RSA. See shipping for details.   Please Click --->   HERE     PTO Books   is selling.

Hardback. English. Oxford University Press. 2009. good. Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct comparison of the differences between the two, letter by letter along the billions of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts of the DNA code, has led to the widely vaunted claim that we differ from chimps by a mere 1.6% of our genetic code. A mere hair's breadth genetically! To a rather older tradition of anthropomorphizing chimps, trying to get them to speak, dressing them up for 'tea parties', was added the stamp of genetic confirmation. It also began an international race to find that handful of genes that make up the difference - the genes that make us uniquely human. But what does that 1.6% really mean? And should it really lead us to consider extending limited human rights to chimps, as some have suggested? Are we, after all, just chimps with a few genetic tweaks? Is our language and our technology just an extension of the grunts and ant-collecting sticks of chimps? In this book, Jeremy Taylor sketches the picture that is emerging from cutting edge research in genetics, animal behaviour, and other fields. The indications are that the so-called 1.6% is much larger and leads to profound differences between the two species. We shared a common ancestor with chimps some 6-7 million years ago, but we humans have been racing away ever since. One in ten of our genes, says Taylor, has undergone evolution in the past 40,000 years! Some of the changes that happened since we split from chimpanzees are to genes that control the way whole orchestras of other genes are switched on and off, and where. Taylor shows, using studies of certain genes now associated with speech and with brain development and activity, that the story looks to be much more complicated than we first thought. This rapidly changing and exciting field has recently discovered a host of genetic mechanisms that make us different from other apes. As Taylor points out, for too long we have let our sentimentality for chimps get in the way of our understanding. Chimps use tools, but so do crows. Certainly chimps are our closest genetic relatives. But relatively small differences in genetic code can lead to profound differences in cognition and behavior. Our abilities give us the responsibility to protect and preserve the natural world, including endangered primates. But for the purposes of human society and human concepts such as rights, let's not pretend that chimps are humans uneducated and undressed. We've changed a lot in those 12 million years.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine. The book brings home for all of us the hopes and fears of the new biology. In this dramatic and suspenseful narrative, Jonathan Weiner gives us a remarkable portrait of science and medicine today. We learn about gene therapy, stem cells, brain vaccines, and other novel treatments for such nerve-death diseases as ALS, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's -- diseases that afflict millions, and touch the lives of many more. "The Heywoods' story taught me many things about the nature of healing in the new millennium," Weiner writes. "They also taught me about what has not changed since the time of the ancients and may never change as long as there are human beings -- about what Lucretius calls 'the ever-living wound of love.'"This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. Features Summary From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Beak of the Finch" comes a book about the new biology and how it touches a defiant family-in-crisis fighting an incurable disease.. Author Jonathan Weiner Publisher Ecco Press Release date 20050614 Pages 356 ISBN 0-06-001008-8 ISBN 13 978-0-06-001008-9

The Second Creation deals with some of the most important issues confronting us today: genetic engineering and cloning, and the control that science has over the process of life. Written by the noted science author Colin Tudge, the book is based on interviews with Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell, the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep. Its aim is to explain the story of how and why they came to cloning sheep and the implications for the future, from curing diseases to human cloning. But that's not easy to convey simply, according to Ian Wilmut: The full story is, however, inescapably complicated. The science and technology of cloning, at least by our method, takes us into some of the most esoteric reaches of biology... Their subject is complex and requires careful reading, but the reward is worth the effort. Inevitably, the issue of human cloning is looked at in some detail, and all three of the authors find the idea repugnant and do not believe society will accept it: The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life. The book contains a comprehensive glossary to explain the scientific terms and abbreviations.

Out of Africa's Eden In 1988 Newsweek broke the news that everyone alive on the planet today carries DNA that can be traced back to a single woman living in Africa over 150 000 years ago. Modern humans are truly 'out of Africa'. But how, when and why we left our motherland was open to question and until very recently most experts believed that many waves of ex-African migration had resulted in a gradual populating of the world. In a brilliant synthesis of new genetic, archaeological and climatic evidence, the author challenges the orthodoxy by arguing that all modern non-Africans can be shown to have sprung from a single successful exodus. One migrant band of no more than a few hundred souls was forced out of its homeland by increasing salinity in the Red Sea, some 80 000 years ago, and all non-Africans today can trace their mitochondrial DNA to one woman from the group ? the Out-of-Africa eve. This is the story of that remarkable group and its great global trek. Authors Stephen Oppenheimer ISBN 9781868421992 Format Paperback Pages 440p.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Chapter by chapter, the rotating narratives evolve into an elaborate dance of inner worlds enfolded within the outer forces of history as, one by one, the intimate plot of each Ferguson's story rushes on across the tumultuous and fractured terrain of mid twentieth-century America. A boy grows up-again and again and again.As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written 4 3 2 1 is an unforgettable tour de force, the crowning work of this masterful writer's extraordinary career. Features Summary LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson... Author Paul Auster Publisher Faber and Faber Release date 20170128 Pages 866 ISBN 0-571-32462-2 ISBN 13 978-0-571-32462-0