Ten Monkeys Ten Minutes
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Ten Monkeys Ten Minutes
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Author : Peter Watts
language : en
Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, Incorporated
Release Date : 2000
Ten Monkeys Ten Minutes written by Peter Watts and has been published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
In this collection of short stories from best-selling author Peter Watts, enter strange new worlds that defy the imagination. Journey to the depths of the ocean floor with genetically engineered human beings ... push the boundaries of life with a scientist obsessed with death ... and watch as sentient gaseous entities offer destruction and salvation to the human race. Nine stories make up this stunning new collection from a rising talent in the field of Science Fiction.
American Zoo
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Author : David Grazian
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-05
American Zoo written by David Grazian and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-05 with Social Science categories.
A close-up look at the contradictions and wonders of the modern zoo Orangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old television sets. In American Zoo, sociologist David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders. Trading in his tweed jacket for a zoo uniform and a pair of muddy work boots, Grazian introduces us to zookeepers and animal rights activists, parents and toddlers, and the other human primates that make up the zoo's social world. He shows that in a major shift away from their unfortunate pasts, American zoos today emphasize naturalistic exhibits teeming with lush and immersive landscapes, breeding programs for endangered animals, and enrichment activities for their captive creatures. In doing so, zoos blur the imaginary boundaries we regularly use to separate culture from nature, humans from animals, and civilization from the wild. At the same time, zoos manage a wilderness of competing priorities—animal care, education, scientific research, and recreation—all while attempting to serve as centers for conservation in the wake of the current environmental and climate-change crisis. The world of the zoo reflects how we project our own prejudices and desires onto the animal kingdom, and invest nature with meaning and sentiment. A revealing portrayal of comic animals, delighted children, and feisty zookeepers, American Zoo is a remarkable close-up exploration of a classic cultural attraction.
Beyond The Rift
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Author : Peter Watts
language : en
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Release Date : 2013-11-12
Beyond The Rift written by Peter Watts and has been published by Tachyon Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Fiction categories.
Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and introspective. A seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter’s The Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown. An artificial intelligence shields a biologically-enhanced prodigy from her overwhelmed parents. A deep-sea diver discovers that her true nature lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her psyche. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself. A father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms. Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.
Manipulative Monkeys
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Author : Susan Perry
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-11
Manipulative Monkeys written by Susan Perry and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-11 with Nature categories.
With their tonsured heads, white faces, and striking cowls, the monkeys might vaguely resemble the Capuchin monks for whom they were named. How they act is something else entirely. They climb onto each other's shoulders four deep to frighten enemies. They test friendship by sticking their fingers up one another's noses. They often nurse--but sometimes kill--each other's offspring. They use sex as a means of communicating. And they negotiate a remarkably intricate network of alliances, simian politics, and social intrigue. Not monkish, perhaps, but as we see in this downright ethnographic account of the capuchins of Lomas Barbudal, their world is as complex, ritualistic, and structured as any society. Manipulative Monkeys takes us into a Costa Rican forest teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Susan Perry and Joseph H. Manson have followed the lives of four generations of capuchins. What the authors describe is behavior as entertaining--and occasionally as alarming--as it is recognizable: the competition and cooperation, the jockeying for position and status, the peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into bloody chaos, and the complex traditions passed from one generation to the next. Interspersed with their observations of the monkeys' lives are the authors' colorful tales of the challenges of tropical fieldwork--a mixture so rich that by the book's end we know what it is to be a wild capuchin monkey or a field primatologist. And we are left with a clear sense of the importance of these endangered monkeys for understanding human behavioral evolution.
Beyond The Rift
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Author : Peter Watts
language : en
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Release Date : 2013-11-12
Beyond The Rift written by Peter Watts and has been published by Tachyon Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Fiction categories.
Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and introspective. A seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter’s The Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown. An artificial intelligence shields a biologically-enhanced prodigy from her overwhelmed parents. A deep-sea diver discovers that her true nature lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her psyche. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself. A father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms. Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.
Advanced Abstracts Of Scientific And Technical Papers Submitted For Publication And Presentation
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Author : United States. Army Medical Research and Development Command
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Advanced Abstracts Of Scientific And Technical Papers Submitted For Publication And Presentation written by United States. Army Medical Research and Development Command and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Medicine, Military categories.
The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey
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Author : Kenneth H. Blanchard
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2000-11-29
The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey written by Kenneth H. Blanchard and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-29 with Delegation of authority categories.
The latest addition to the very successful one-minute manager series cuts to the very essence of management. A monkey is a problem to be solved, and the message of the book is "don't take on other peoples' problems"--Put the monkey back on the shoulders where it belongs.
The Church Missionary Intelligencer
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
The Church Missionary Intelligencer written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Missions categories.
The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year
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Author : Jonathan Strahan
language : en
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2010-03-01
The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year written by Jonathan Strahan and has been published by Start Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-01 with Fiction categories.
The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.
Conversations With Nalo Hopkinson
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Author : Isiah Lavender III
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2022-12-28
Conversations With Nalo Hopkinson written by Isiah Lavender III and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives—Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine—project complex futures and complex identities for people of color in terms of race, sex, and gender. Hopkinson has always had a vested interest in expanding racial and ethnic diversity in all facets of speculative fiction from its writers to its readers, and this desire is reflected in her award-winning anthologies. Her work best represents the current and ongoing colored wave of science fiction in the twenty-first century. In twenty-one interviews ranging from 1999 until 2021, Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson reveals a writer of fierce intelligence and humor in love with ideas and concerned with issues of identity. She provides powerful insights on code-switching, race, Afrofuturism, queer identities, sexuality, Caribbean folklore, and postcolonial science fictions, among other things. As a result, the conversations presented here very much demonstrate the uniqueness of her mind and her influence as a writer.