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"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 building blocks of life. Even though her high...
Author
Publisher
Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Technology keeps progressing and advancements in artificial intelligence will continue to amaze mankind for years to come. Readers will learn about amazing inventions throughout the years, what they do, why they're important, and what technology of the future might look like" --
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
xi, 295 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive history of how women of the United States served their country during the First World War.
Interweaving personal stories with historical photos and background, this lively account documents the history of the more than 40,000 women who served in relief and military duty during World War I. Through personal interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, and memoirs, Lettie Gavin relates poignant stories of women's wartime experiences...
Author
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 209 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seeking to better understand the processes that push teenage girls to acts of criminal violence, Judith Ryder explores the relationship between childhood victimization and adolescent delinquency. Ryder draws on intimate interviews to show how teenage girls navigate experiences of physical abuse, emotional loss, and parental abandonment, revealing how their violent acts become a means of connecting with others however maladaptive and misplaced those...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 447 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives. In Human, Gazzaniga explores a number of related issues, including what makes human brains unique, the importance of language and art in defining the human condition, the nature of human consciousness, and even artificial intelligence....
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Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
We imagine posthumans as humans made superhumanly intelligent or resilient by future advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science. Many argue that these enhanced people might live better lives; others fear that tinkering with our nature will undermine our sense of our own humanity. Whoever is right, it is assumed that our technological successor will be an upgraded or degraded version of us: Human 2.0. Posthuman...