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Are eugenics practices morally defensible? Who should have access to genetic information about particular individuals? What dangers for cultural and racial diversity do developments in genetics pose? And how should scientific research be regulated and by whom? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which comprises the 1998 Oxford Amnesty Lectures. The lecturers are all respected in their specific field, including Hilary Putnam, Ian Wilmut (co-creator of 'Dolly' the sheep), and Jonathan Glover. Each lecture is proceeded by a discussion article written by prominent lawyers, scientists, and philosophers, and a foreword has been written by Richard Dawkins. Fascinating and thought-provoking, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the future of genetics and humankind. ... Read more

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An important, "reader friendly" history & survey reference.
Biotechnology And Genetic Engineering joins others in the publisher's 'Library in a Book' reference and deserves ongoing mention as an excellent single-volume basic introduction to biotechnology for readers at the high school level on up. From cloning to DNA mapping and legal ramifications of research, this packs in important history, ethical and moral discussions, and plenty of bibliographic references for further study. ... Read more

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A Nobel geneticist confronts a ruthless messianic cult in this suspenseful story of one man's dangerous, determined, global odyssey to save his daughter's life, using the power of modern technology as well as the ancient miracle of healing. A first novel. Tour." ... Read more

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A VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING BOOK
I read this book several years ago, have never forgotten it, and have been watching for an audio version ever since (ATTENTION, MICHAEL CORDY).I can't believe I have not found an audio version.I enjoyed it so much I would like to plug it into my car system and listen while I'm driving.Audios make long trips seem only half as long, and the suspense and thrills of this one would be a great distraction.

Cashing in on DaVinci Code
I read Michael Cordys Messiah Code and loved it.Thought I'd read some more of his books. I bought The Miracle Strain , without reading the review and find that it is The Messiah Code with a different name.Shame on you, its a great book and didn't need to follow the "Code"coattails.

I couldn't put the book down...!!
I just finished the book... and I feel exhausted because it was such an exciting book. I read books only when I feel lured into the story from the first chapter. I just couldn't put the book down.

A great book
This debut novel for Cordy is great.It poses a very interesting question: what would we find in the genes of Christ?A great science fiction thriller with a religious twist. I am a devout Christian and I loved this book.You should read it.I heard it's being made into a movie.It would do very well as a movie and be a relief from most junk movies of present.Everybody should read this!

THe miracle strain
This book is GROUNDBRAKING teh story is wonderful SOME ONE MAKE IT A MOVIE! author 2 words" WRITE MORE" ... Read more

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This book introduces readers to important ethical issues that arise in the realm of genetic engineering. It provides the basic science and ethical analysis necessary to assess central issues confronting our society in this emerging area of research. At the end, readers will be able to formulate their own positions on these crucial issues. Chapter topics include professional and practical principles of conduct, the biological basics, from cell to test tube, the biology of genetic therapy, the limits of science, somatic gene therapy, enhancement, cloning, and germ line therapy. For individuals interested in the formal study of biomedical ethics.

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Discusses genetic engineering, particularly the history and techniques of cloning, and includes material on recombinant DNA research and test-tube babies. ... Read more

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Should we make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances enable us to do so? Matti Häyry asks this question in the context of genetic testing and selection, cloning and stem cell research, gene therapies and enhancements. The ethical questions explored include parental responsibility, the use of people as means, the role of hope and fear in risk assessment, and the dignity and meaning of life. Taking as a starting point the arguments presented by Jonathan Glover, John Harris, Ronald M. Green, Jürgen Habermas, Michael J. Sandel, and Leon R. Kass, who defend a particular normative view as the only rational or moral answer, Matti Häyry argues that many coherent rationalities and moralities exist in the field, and that to claim otherwise is mistaken. ... Read more

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Conceived with the aim of sorting fact from fiction over genetically modified (GM) crops, this book brings together the knowledge of 30 specialists in the field of transgenic plants. It covers the generation and detection of these plants as well as the genetic traits conferred on transgenic plants. In addition, the book looks at a wide variety of crops, ornamental plants and tree species that are subject to genetic modifications, assessing the risks involved in genetic modification as well as the potential economic benefits of the technology in specific cases. The book’s structure, with fully cross-referenced chapters, gives readers a quick access to specific topics, whether that is comprehensive data on particular species of ornamentals, or coverage of the socioeconomic implications of GM technology. With an increasing demand for bioenergy, and the necessary higher yields relying on wider genetic variation, this book supplies all the technical details required to move forward to a new era in agriculture.

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From the author of The Adjuster comes a novelof personal and planetary transformation.Set in a distant age before the rise of Egypt, an inquisitive young man named Damio sets out to explore the fantastic land beyond the Pillars of Hercules. The land of Atlantis.In a place like no other, Damio falls in love with an elusive woman and meets the mysterious High Priest of the Sun Temple who gradually reveals his disturbing secrets. ... Read more

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Sensory delighting read!
Blue Nights in Atlantis
Author: Gerald Libonati


A young man Damio Abydos lives with minimal connection to the village of his birth. One morning he is visited by an apparition that offers him a vision of a world beyond his experience. Not sure if the image was real or a figment of his mind, he nevertheless believes the possibility of a world beyond his borders. He travels to Atlantis more easily than he thought possible and is welcomed into a home there.

What makes this book so magical is the clarity with which we see through Damio's eyes. With powers of observation usually reserved for the artist, the author lets us visualize images as crisp as if we were seeing them ourselves. We feel the energy of the Atlantian structures and the vibrancy of the people.

Damio changes his perceptions about the practices of the ancient sects, taking time to learn as much about them as he can. His own beliefs do not embrace religion. In fact he suspects them of manipulation, but is keenly interested in what he might learn. He becomes involved with the daughter of his guest and divides the family with his interest in a religion opposed to theirs. The conflict is less about ideology than politics and Damio is a bit naive. He is eager to learn of the advances and abilities of the high priests and fails to see how much they interfere in the common mans routine to further their own agenda.

The story is a struggle between ordinary people living the lives they want and power of the more influential. Damio, whose life was radically changed by the initial visitation that brought him here, is further buffeted about when an asteroid is discovered on a collision course with the Earth. In a reaction common to human governments, the religious powers keep the discovery secret as they make their own plans.When the public does become aware of the reality the society breaks down in fear.

The beings who appeared as the high priests hail from a distant part of our galaxy and have the means to return. Their final efforts here are to ensure the continuation of their long- range plans. Damio is an integral part of those plans. Despite himself, he does manage to exit the island and survive the earth changes.

This is a splendid, fantastical journey that occurs as much in your mind as on the pages of this book, due mostly to the author's skill with words. Read it for the story- it's a good one. But read it too, for the sheer beauty of the writing.
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The ability to introduce non-canonical amino acids in vivo has greatly expanded the repertoire of accessible proteins for basic research and biotechnological application.
Here, the different methods and strategies to incorporate new or modified amino acids are explained in detail, including a lot of practical advice for first-time users of this powerful technique.
Novel applications in protein biochemistry, genomics, biotechnology and biomedicine made possible by the expansion of the genetic code are discussed and numerous examples are given.
Essential reading for all molecular life scientists who want to stay ahead in their research. ... Read more

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Getting the genetic code to work for us
There was a time around thirty years ago when it all seemed quite straightforward: the genetic code had been fully determined, it was the same in all organisms, and that was that. Understanding initiation still presented some difficulties, but translation and termination apparently presented none. However, few things in biology turn out to be simple: the universal genetic code is now known not to be universal, and gene splicing and other complications have disposed of other aspects of the simple picture.

Realization that the code is not universal may have complicated the textbooks, but it has also provided an opportunity for the biotechnologist: if nature has been able to modify the code then perhaps we can do so as well, and use the built-in protein synthesizing machinery to make proteins with novel aminoacids to fulfil novel functions. To do this successfully, however, we first need to understand the mechanisms that allowed the code to change during evolution. That is what this book, written by one of the world's foremost experts in the field, is about. A large part is devoted to understanding nature, but always with the hope that understanding will bring a capacity to engineer new proteins. It is a mine of information for anyone seriously interested in the subject, and, although perhaps it is a little too detailed for the general reader, it can be read with profit by any biochemist.

In general the biochemical information in the book is sound, though it is a pity that aminoacids are drawn throughout with neutral structures, as one cannot understand their properties without understanding that they are zwitterions. Expert readers will, of course, have no difficulty in reading the structures correctly, but it is not so clear that students will also do so. On page 123 there is the surprising statement that the biosynthesis of histidine is very expensive at about 40 ATP equivalents. The number is correct, but the implication that other aminoacids are much cheaper is not: with the obvious exception of glycine, none of the others is very much cheaper, and nearly half are more expensive, tryptophan being much more expensive.

An unfortunate trend in modern publishing is to save production costs by dispensing with proofreading, or, often amounting to the same thing, putting the whole responsibility on the author. It is neither realistic nor reasonable to expect a Croatian author who has made his career in Germany to detect every error, but it is certainly reasonable to expect a publisher charging around 50 cents a page for the finished product to invest a little of the profits in paying a professional to do the job properly. This, however, seems not have been done, and although most of the errors are minor they appear in great profusion, and include misspellings of numerous names of chemical compounds when it is not always easy to guess what was intended. They have also saved money on the index, which was clearly compiled by someone who had no idea what the book was about, with consecutive entries (leading to the same page) for both "S-phenyl-cys" and "S-phenylcysteine". ... Read more

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Plant Nutrition - From Genetic Engineering to FieldPractice, the 12th International Colloquium on Plant Nutrition, isthe latest in a series which began in 1954. Early meetings were mainlyconcerned with the practical problems of soil fertility, with soilassessment, fertilizer requirements and methods of analysis. As thecolloquia have progressed, the emphasis has slowly changed. Thepractical problems are still important, but there is increasingemphasis on plant physiology, plant biochemistry, membranebiochemistry, and even on the chemistry of genes which control theproteins which transfer nutrient ions to the inside of cells. Themeetings therefore provide a valuable opportunity for each half of thescience of plant nutrition to interact with, and learn from the otherhalf.This volume begins with five papers which review current knowledge inimportant fields: the rhizosphere, molecular biology, electronmicroscopy, location and function of elements in vivo, andmodelling nutrient responses in the field. These themes are continuedin groups of shorter papers which follow. In addition, there aresections on nutrient dynamics and partitioning, diagnostic techniques,plant survival strategies, mycorrhizas, and on nutrients such as P, N,S, K, Ca, Mg, and micronutrients. A large section is devotedspecifically to boron - reflecting the considerable current interestin this element. In total there are 177 refereed papers providing botha broad overview and a detailed picture of the latest developments inpure and applied plant nutrition. ... Read more

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Beginning with the basic concept of gene cloning, topics such as restriction endonucleases, chemical synthesis of oligonucleotides, cDNA synthesis, plasmids, and polymerase chain reaction have been discussed in detail in this book. The book also contains separate chapters on molecular markets and public concerns. All chapters begin with the chapter objectives and provide a exhaustive recap of the important concepts at the end of the chapter followed by review questions and numerical exercises.

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A collection of state-of-the-art lectures by experts in the field of theoretical, numerical and applied aspects of genetic algorithms for the computational treatment of continuous, discrete and combinatorial optimization problems. The theory presented in this book has numerous applications in fluid dynamics, structure mechanics, electromagnetic, automation control, resource optimization, image processing and economics ... Read more

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The recent literature on whole genome sequences provides abundant evidence for the action of natural genetic engineering in evolution. Discoveries about natural genetic engineering have coincided with rapid progress in our understanding of epigenetic control and RNA-directed chromatin formation. Special attention needs to be paid to the role of viruses and related so-called "parasitic" elements in the origin of genome formatting and natural genetic engineering capabilities especially the role of non-random genetic change operators in the production of complex evolutionary inventions. These Proceedings of the Symposium “Natural Genetic Engineering and Natural Genome Editing” (3-6 July 2008, Salzburg, Austria) assemble scientists working on genome organization, genome restructuring, genome formatting and virus research to discuss how to integrate these discoveries into the basic understanding of evolution, development and disease.

NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas.

ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member. ... Read more

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This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish its control over the very basis of human survival, the provision of our daily bread. Control the food and you control the people. This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms. The author reveals a World of profit-driven political intrigue, government corruption and coercion, where genetic manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide control over food production. The book is an eye-opener, a must-read for all those committed to the causes of social justice and World peace. ... Read more

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Probably a ploy to get you to buy more jeans you soil while reading this
Anybody ever heard of Normon Borlaug? He single-handedly saved over one billion people... yes, that's billion with a big-ass B, using GM crops. And until we find a way to get Iowans to travel to China to make irrigation ditches, till the soil and plant corn, or get Nebraskans to monitor the pH and moisture in the ground in India where they're growing the potatoes to save the lives of starving third-world inhabitants, I'll enjoy my golden rice.

These books are very important.
I've been so busy reading everything I can get my hands on about this GMO topic.From authors who are all for it like Jennifer Thomson in her "Seeds for the Future",to Jeffrey M. Smith in his "Seeds of Deception".If I was into burning books Jennifer's would be the one to go up in flames.What a bunch of hogwash.That these so called Scientist think it is a lark to let us all be fed this GMO swill as their little test cases makes me very angry.That the FDA let them do it makes me very angry.Breathe.Find inner calm.Okay.Thank you to authors like F. William Engdahl, who think we are smart enough to take the truth and hopefully strong enough to do something with it when it is brought to our attention.Shame on anyone who sits on this information.

A Must Read
This book lays out the facts, backed up by the relevant documents, behind the current effort to control the food supply of the planet by the agribusiness giants, working hand in hand with the governments of North America and others. That the plan to control the populations and genetics of the human population was financed by the same foundations that financed Hitler's eugenics program is just one small detail. But it is a decisive one in establishing the roots and goals of this effort at world domination using control over food and genes, instead of atomic bombs, which, says one source, are much more expensive.

If everyone read this book, we would all be on the streets, heading for the seats of power to overthrow them, if we still had any courage that is.However, the same powers that have launched this "genetic armageddon" have also arranged to make our lives so soft and easy that we have all lost our courage, self confidence, and the ability to organize and act.

It will be interesting to see what happens next.

What you should know about the world food supply.
I believe that everyone who eats should read this book to learn about what is going on with the world's food supply. I thought the writing style was a little less than perfect but the content was worth it. The author has done a good job of documenting his sources and it falls in line with a lot of other information I have read about what is going on politically with our food. Incredible as it seems - under the guise of helping people - the large multinational corporations are really narrowing our food choices down to the products they sell (these crops also happen to need their petrochemicals). Pretty remarkable and disturbing...find out what is being done to the seeds themselves and consider the motives behind it. The big 'M' has purchased over 50 seed companies around the world in the last decade. We are not just talking corn and soybeans. We all need to rethink our priorities in terms of what we eat and where it comes from. If you want the motivation to do that - give this book a read.

Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

seeds of destruction.
A very sobering and revealing book that reveals to me how little we know of what the mega companys and governments are getting up to.
Money buys nearly everything and the quest for it knows no boundaries. ... Read more

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Presently, general-purpose optimization techniques such as Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithms, have become standard optimization techniques. Concerted research efforts have been made recently in order to invent novel optimization techniques for solving real life problems, which have the attributes of memory update and population-based search solutions. The book describes a variety of these novel optimization techniques which in most cases outperform the standard optimization techniques in many application areas. ... Read more

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What would happen if we achieved true equilibrium: the utopia of human dreams? On a tropical world around Alpha Centauri, an advanced civilization in harmony with their natural world has met its material needs forever. Thanks in part to photosynthetic skin from ancient eugenics, all that is left is art and long life.On Eleione's world the cycles of life have been carefully balanced. There are three genders: male, female, and neutral. Art and craft are most prized. There is no religion, a highly refined barter system, and little law. Because of mandatory bioengineering thousands of seasons ago (The Coding), the Elan became basically immortal. Only accidents and severe abuse can cause Ending, or, as Eleione soon discovers, suicide.The Elan show humans evidence that stars are sentient and might be manipulating their own solar systems for life. In their collaboration entire new possibilities emerge. They find a tenuous connection in the hybrid concept Love/Beauty. ... Read more

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In this timely and controversial work, Sue Hubbell contends that the concept of genetic engineering is anything but new, for humans have been tinkering with genetics for centuries. Focusing on four specific examples — corn, silkworms, domestic cats, and apples — she traces the histories of species that have been fundamentally altered over the centuries by the whims and needs of people.Amazon.com Review
Some genetic engineering projects can take millennia to accomplish. In Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes, Sue Hubbell describes how we've evolved four valuable species: corn, apples, silkworms, and domestic cats; and, along the way, furthered some less-desired species, such as apple maggots and gypsy moths. Hubbell mingles recent biological knowledge with archaeological research and glimpses into her private life (as a child, she studied a lion that was kept at a Chevrolet dealership) to produce a multifaceted and positive look at science and history. Hubbell says,

This is an interesting and hopeful time in which to live.... Genes, it turns out, are simple. But the processes of life ... do not yet seem to be. Until we can develop a deep, broad, and sensitive understanding of those processes ... we'll continue to suffer the unintended consequences of alterations.

Hubbell's brief, appealing book provides a pleasant way for anyone to learn more about genetic modification as conducted by the pre-Mayans, along the Silk Road, and in laboratories today. --Blaise Selby ... Read more

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Incorrect information
Genetic engineering was not possible before "we knew about genes".The public often confuses genetic engineering with selective breeding, but the author of this type of book has no excuse for doing so.

Selective breeding works exactly the same way as natural selection (aka "survival of the fittest"), with humans providing the selection pressure (deciding which animal or plant is "fittest" - and gets to reproduce).

Genetic engineering involves combining genetic material on the molecular level - allowing combinations that would otherwise be impossible.Genes from fish being spliced into tomato plants to create a more freeze resistant tomato is one example.

Not incidentally, domestic cats (felis catus) originated from species that are about the same size as domestic cats (felis sylvesterus - the European wildcat, and the North African subspecies).No "shrinking" was involved.

It is interesting to note that the effects of selective breeding as practiced by humans "before we knew about genes" is not always as lasting as we might think.For instance, myriad pigeon and poultry breeds exibit an amazing array of variety in color, feathering, and build, (an internet search will provide examples).However, if allowed to breed amongst themselves with no human selection, the offspring will resemble the original "wild" species within a very few generations.

Once over very lightly
(2 1/2 stars) This is a quick, pleasant, light read that turns out to have very little substance. Hubbell's central thesis appears to be that genetic engineering is nothing to be worried about, since we've been doing genetic engineering - better known as breeding and horticulture - for thousands of years.

There's a good deal to be said for that thesis (as well as a good deal to be said against it), but "Shrinking the Cat" doesn't get around to saying very much of it, since the bulk of the book consists of leisurely digressions. There are a few brief, half-hearted, very elementary science lessons, for those who have forgotten everything they might have heard in high school biology class.They scarcely convey enough information to convey why people ought not be alarmed over "frankenfoods", and certainly not enough information to understand the reasons why (as Hubbell acknowledges) some scientists are nevertheless worried about the implications of genetic engineering. Not a word about the sort of gene-jumping encouraged by certain G.E. techniques (like plasmids), nor about the increasing dangers of monocultures, nor about the potential damage to wild stocks by inadvertent interbreeding with engineered organisms, nor the long term danger posed to food supplies when Monsanto engineers crops to be sterile, so that farmers must return to the corporation for each and every year's supply of seeds. Though she is correct about many of the public's fears being groundless, her book will not be of any appreciable use in helping anyone understand the real technical or policy issues in any depth.

If you aren't expecting to learn anything serious, though, her randomly chosen facts about the history of domestication, concentrating on the beneficial development of corn, silkworms, cats, and apples, are sufficiently diverting to justify the short time it will take to browse through them. It's nice to get a two-page spread showing just where the Silk Roads ran; to be told just when and where Golden Delicious and Macintosh apples first turned up;to learn that the Egyptian word for cat was "miaw", and that Johnny Appleseed was a devout Swedenborgian, with a knapsack full of other such agreable trivia.

Not persuasive
By reading the prologue I assumed the author was going to ease a reader's concerns about "FrankenFoods." Instead, it turned into a history book, detailing how our first bio-engineered foods and species came about. It did not address some of the questions I had hoped an advocate for today's technology would challenge: about commodifying seeds used the world over, and forcing people to use them by removing those that are unpatented; about allergies and the need for labeling. In short, I thought it avoided the issues I hoped to consider.

A Fascinating Read
This is a wonderful book.I was fascinated from cover to cover.I have never read this author before and went right out and got more of her books.Many of my friends responded to my enthusiasm by telling me that had known and loved her writing for years.How could I have missed it?
The book is very well written and clearly very well researched.It captures your attention and holds it.
The author has very cleverly chosen to illustrate her subject with three species that have changed because of their connection with humans.By limiting her scope, she is able to cover her subject thoroughly.I was fascinated from start to finish.

Lots of fun facts seen in a new light
I have to admitt that I first picked up this book because the title jumped out at me, but I'm glad I did.Shrinking the Cat is a wonderful little book crammed full of the sort of lucious tidbits of scientific knowlege that I love.As I read the book I just couldn't wait to work the ideas I was picking up into conversations with my friends. This is one of those books that can make you look at things you already know in a whole new light, and that is a rare thing. I already knew a lot of the facts that Hubbell covered in this book, but I had not looked at them the way Hubbell does. I really enjoyed the way she wove the history of Man's creation of Silkworms, Domestic Cats, and Apples in to a single story tied together the Silk Road linking Asia and Europe.

I'm not sure that Hubble really lays to rest the fears that people have about transgenic plant and animals, but she does a very good job of showing how in many ways we have always lived in a world created by human hands, and that shaping the world is the basic and defining thing that make us human. ... Read more

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The Perfect Baby is the most popular introduction to ethical issues in genetics.Amazon.com Review
Glenn McGee is a philosopher at the Center for Bioethics inPhiladelphia, but The Perfect Baby is no dry or abstract tome."Philosophical systems must be tested where the rubber meets the road,"says McGee, and he discusses ethical issues in human reproduction with afocus on real people and real choices. McGee's approach is based on thepragmatism of American philosophers William James and John Dewey, broughtup to date by looking at "the ideas that are in play in our actualdiscussions of parenthood and babies, about ideas like identity,perfection, enhancement, and illness." McGee concludes that "we mustresist the tendency to explain away the 'felt' aspects of the problem":feelings have ethical reality. ... Read more

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Be careful what you pray for you may recieve it
A well written and provocative exploration of what the future may hold as the meaning of family continues to change.

I saw Dr. McGee Speak at University of Minnesota
It is amazing to me that the author is so young, because he is an excellent and interesting speaker.I bought The Perfect Baby after I saw him speak at our Student Convocation. He was so inspirational that Idecided to major in bioethics.

A cool read
This book was a great way to get to know the people who work on genetics and new reproductive technologies. I read the book for my genetics class but I loved it anyway! It tells the history and the science and ethics, butI liked that it is so well written and so human.

A great book all the way around.
This book changed our minds about using BRCA-1 genetic testing.It is the best $11 we spent--about the same amount as a single prenatal vitamin!The history part is really interesting.We shared this book with our friends and it is being discussed at our church after the minister saw it discussed on C-SPAN.There really isn't much bad to say. ... Read more

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Network models are critical tools in business, management, science and industry. Network Models and Optimization: Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Approach presents an insightful, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of multiple objective genetic algorithms to network optimization problems in many disciplines, such as engineering, computer science, operations research, transportation, telecommunication, and manufacturing.

Network Models and Optimization: Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Approach extensively covers algorithms and applications, including shortest path problems, minimum cost flow problems, maximum flow problems, minimum spanning tree problems, travelling salesman and postman problems, location-allocation problems, project scheduling problems, multistage-based scheduling problems, logistics network problems, communication network problem, and network models in assembly line balancing problems, and airline fleet assignment problems.

Network Models and Optimization: Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Approach can be used both as a student textbook and as a professional reference for practitioners in many disciplines who use network optimization methods to model and solve problems.

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This volume presents the principles of plant biotechnology as related to crop improvement and the controlled but directed use of natural plant processes in industry. It serves as an introduction to this rapidly expanding field for undergraduates and those working in the plant sciences or related disciplines who wish to exploit the potential of the emerging techniques of gene manipulation and tissue culture in the broad area of crop improvement and development. ... Read more