Beast of Never, Cat of God

Beast of Never, Cat of God
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Publisher : Globe Pequot
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1592284469
ISBN-13 : 9781592284467
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Beast of Never, Cat of God by : Bob Butz

Somewhere between myth and reality, the truth behind America's last wild predator.

Cat God's Tales

Cat God's Tales
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Publisher : Funstory
Total Pages : 586
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ISBN-10 : 9781648970986
ISBN-13 : 1648970982
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Cat God's Tales by : Shen YeFaChou

If someone else reincarnated, even if they were trash, they would still be human. Why am I reincarnated as a cat? It's fine if I turned into a cat. Other people entering the academy to act cool and have a relationship was fine, but I became a teacher with my life on the line. Furthermore, the class I took was the most useless one in the entire academy. It's not suitable for me to play the pig to eat the tiger. I can only slap my face to make it look fat. Everything is as I remember it ... 

Frankenstein's Cat

Frankenstein's Cat
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Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781429949521
ISBN-13 : 142994952X
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Frankenstein's Cat by : Emily Anthes

Winner of 2014 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science Book Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award One of Nature's Summer Book Picks One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and hunt, housecats that look like tigers, and teacup pigs that fit snugly in our handbags. But what happens when we take animal alteration a step further, engineering a cat that glows green under ultraviolet light or cloning the beloved family Labrador? Science has given us a whole new toolbox for tinkering with life. How are we using it? In Frankenstein's Cat, the journalist Emily Anthes takes us from petri dish to pet store as she explores how biotechnology is shaping the future of our furry and feathered friends. As she ventures from bucolic barnyards to a "frozen zoo" where scientists are storing DNA from the planet's most exotic creatures, she discovers how we can use cloning to protect endangered species, craft prosthetics to save injured animals, and employ genetic engineering to supply farms with disease-resistant livestock. Along the way, we meet some of the animals that are ushering in this astonishing age of enhancement, including sensor-wearing seals, cyborg beetles, a bionic bulldog, and the world's first cloned cat. Through her encounters with scientists, conservationists, ethicists, and entrepreneurs, Anthes reveals that while some of our interventions may be trivial (behold: the GloFish), others could improve the lives of many species-including our own. So what does biotechnology really mean for the world's wild things? And what do our brave new beasts tell us about ourselves? With keen insight and her trademark spunk, Anthes highlights both the peril and the promise of our scientific superpowers, taking us on an adventure into a world where our grandest science fiction fantasies are fast becoming reality.

Jaguar's Shadow

Jaguar's Shadow
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9780300155938
ISBN-13 : 030015593X
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Jaguar's Shadow by : Richard Mahler

When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend--yet verifiably real. Mahler's passion sets in motion a years-long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries-old debates over how we should properly regard these powerful predators: as varmints or as icons, trophies or gods? He is drawn from border badlands south to Panama's rain forest along a route where the fate of nearly all wildlife now rests in human hands. Mahler's odyssey introduces him to unrepentant poachers, pragmatic ranchers, midnight drug-runners, ardent conservationists, trance-induced shamans, hopeful biologists, stodgy bureaucrats, academic philosophers, macho hunters, and gentle Maya Indians. Along the way, he is forced to reconsider the true meaning of his search--and the enduring symbolism of the jaguar.

It is Never Too Late to Mend

It is Never Too Late to Mend
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 566
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924013538735
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis It is Never Too Late to Mend by : Charles Reade

Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set

Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 987
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ISBN-10 : 9781438109077
ISBN-13 : 1438109075
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set by : Madeleine Pelner Cosman

Capturing the essence of life in great civilizations of the past, each volume in the

God, Human, Animal, Machine

God, Human, Animal, Machine
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780525562719
ISBN-13 : 0525562710
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis God, Human, Animal, Machine by : Meghan O'Gieblyn

A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.