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    Classic Essays on Heredity, Evolution, Chromosomes, and the Social Meaning of Genetics

    Perspectives on Genetics: A Comprehensive Collection of 6 Books traces genetics from its formative disputes over heredity to its wider intellectual and social consequences. Bringing together scientific exposition, theoretical argument, historical reflection, and socially oriented inquiry, the volume reveals how genetic thought has been articulated through sharply different registers. Foundational ... Read more

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  • Trumpty Dumpty and The Great Wall

    A Cautionary Tale

    by Chet Lowther ...
    Trumpty Dumpty and The Great Wall: A Cautionary Tale, a nursery-rhyme satirical book for adults, uses humor to criticize the most disturbing undertones of the Trump administration. Featuring cameos by caricatures of Stormy Daniels, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Vladimir Putin, and all Trumpty's favorite flying monkeys! An anonymous reviewer says, "It's a great book about a great wall, built by ... Read more

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  • Greatness

    by Keir Lowther ...
    GREATNESS is a poetic and powerful portrait of a lonely athlete locked in battle with time, memory, and himself. At once intimate and epic, it offers a riveting glimpse into the twilight of a generational talent.On the eve of his retirement, tennis legend King returns to Flushing Meadows for his final US Open. Surrounded by the roar of adoring crowds and the tight-knit team that has become his ... Read more

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  • Les Quizérables

    The Showstopping Musical Trivia Book

    How well do you really know your favourite musicals?Can you remember which fictional opera is being rehearsed at the start of Act I of Phantom of the Opera? Or which real-life scandal inspired the razzle-dazzle of Chicago?Les Quizérables is the ultimate quiz book for musical lovers, packed with trivia and over 800 showstopping questions. Whether you're a casual fan or a showtune specialist there ... Read more

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  • The African American Odyssey of John Kizell

    A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland

    A remarkable story of a West African's life as a South Carolina slave, Loyalist soldier, and activist against the slave tradeThe inspirational story of John Kizell celebrates the life of a West African enslaved as a boy and brought to South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution. Fleeing his owner, Kizell served with the British military in the Revolutionary War, began a family in the Nova ... Read more

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  • Dirty Bird

    by Keir Lowther ...
    Dirty Bird, winner of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award and shortlisted for the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, is the bold and unsettling debut from Keir Lowther.Set against the postcard-perfect backdrop of Prince Edward Island, the novel follows Travis, a young boy navigating a world haunted by the dead, the living, and those caught in between. When there's a knock at the ... Read more

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  • The Asia-Pacific Century

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Adam B. Lowther ...
    When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published "America's Pacific Century" in Foreign Policy magazine in November 2011, the administration was clearly indicating to domestic and international audiences that the United States is beginning a pivot toward the Asia-Pacific. Clinton's article served as a spark for renewed interest in the nation's Asi ... Read more

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  • Defending the Arsenal

    Why America’s Nuclear Modernization Still Matters

    One important area of interest within military and policy circles focuses on an effort to revitalize the nuclear triad amidst a number of competing strategic interests. The difficulties arising from US engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading many scholars and policy makers to question whether a reinvigorated nuclear triad has any role in deterring modern adversaries. This volume takes an ... Read more

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  • Conflict and Cooperation in Cyberspace

    The Challenge to National Security

    Conflict and Cooperation in Cyberspace: The Challenge to National Security brings together some of the world’s most distinguished military leaders, scholars, cyber operators, and policymakers in a discussion of current and future challenges that cyberspace poses to the United States and the world. Maintaining a focus on policy-relevant solutions, it offers a well-reasoned study of how to prepare ... Read more

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  • Writing the West Coast

    Edited by Christine Lowther ...
    This collection of over thirty essays by both well-known and emerging writers explores what it means to “be at home” on Canada’s West Coast. Here the rainforest and the wild, stormy cost dominate one’s sense of identity, a humbling perspective shared in memoirs by individuals who come to see themselves as part of a larger ecological community. Alexandra Morton followed the orcas to the Broughton ... Read more

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  • Future Narratives

    Projections of Female Identity

    These short stories by Australian women feature projections of the life of a woman in the year 2122. The authors were given freedom to design the social, political and environmental aspects of that life.A divergent set of stories has emerged. Themes of utopia, dystopia, female identity and motherhood are prominent, alongside projections of climate change catastrophe. Examples of women exerting ... Read more

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  • Deterrence

    Rising Powers, Rogue Regimes, and Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by A. Lowther ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume moves beyond Cold War deterrence theory to show the many ways in which deterrence is applicable to contemporary security: in space, in cyberspace, and against non-state actors. It also examines the role of nuclear deterrence in the twenty-first century and reaches surprising conclusions. ... Read more

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