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“john h evans”

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  • Disembodied Brains

    Understanding our Intuitions on Human-Animal Neuro-Chimeras and Human Brain Organoids

    by John H. Evans ...
    Recent new technologies have brought the realm of science fiction to reality. The development of human-animal neuro-chimeras, which are animals with some component of a human brain, plays into society's long-standing fascination with the crossover between humans and animals. In the same way, the development of human brain organoids-small parts of a human brain grown from harvested human cells ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • We Sang and Whistled Then

    The Glory Years of the American Popular Song

    by John H Evans ...
    There is a magic to music—a feeling created that removes one from the humdrum constraints of everyday life to a wonderful make-believe world where, as famous lyricist E. Y. (Yip) Harburg put it in ‘Over the Rainbow’, troubles melt like lemon drops and dreams really do come true. In this book, you’ll meet the men of the early twentieth century who wrote the most wonderful creative music the world ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Human Gene Editing Debate

    by John H. Evans ...
    In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012. This controversial advancement overturned the pre-existing moral consensus, which had held for over fifty years before: while gene editing an adult person was morally acceptable, modifying babies, and thus subsequent generations, crossed a significant moral line ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Is a Human?

    What the Answers Mean for Human Rights

    by John H. Evans ...
    What is a human? Are humans those with human DNA, those in possession of traits like rationality, or those made in the image of God? The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for centuries. Many think that if society accepts the wrong definition of what it is to be human, people will look at their neighbor as more of an animal, object, or machine-making maltreatment more likely. In ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Ornamental Turning

    A Work of Practical Instruction in the Above Art ; With Numerous Engravings and Autotype Plates

    by John H. Evans ...
    Evans, like his contemporaries, the Holtzapffels, was a manufacturer of high quality lathes; but he was also an accomplished turner and, for 33 years, the author of many articles for English Mechanic, a leading journal of the time. His broad combination of engineering and practical experience, along with his literary skills, makes Ornamental Turning one of the most useful books in the field. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The Human Gene Editing Debate

    by John H. Evans ...
    Narrated by Victor Bevine ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012. This controversial advancement overturned the pre-existing moral consensus, which had held for over fifty years before: while gene editing an adult person was morally acceptable, modifying babies, and thus subsequent generations, crossed a significant moral line ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • 1922

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  • February House

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  • The Art of Watch Repair - Including Descriptions of the Watch Movement, Parts of the Watch, and Common Stoppages of Wrist Watches

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    A Biography of Jonathan Miller

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