Why telling is important
The use of science and medicine to help make a baby, called reproductive technology, may be the only way some people can have a child. This may mean using gametes (eggs or sperm) or embryos, given or donated by someone else. Not being able to ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Royal Society's New President An Enthusiast For GE Plants
A biologist who wants to genetically engineer new plants to improve the world's environment has been elected president of the Royal Society of New Zealand - the national academy of science. AUCKLAND 17/03/2003 - A biologist who wants to ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Biological Collections at the Australian Museum
Behind the public galleries are one of the Australian Museum's greatest resources, the research collections. What is the size and value of the Australian Museum's collections? TAXONOMY - the part of science that deals with ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
William R. Forstchen
William R. Forstchen, author of several dozen books in the fields of science fiction, history, and historical fiction, resides in western North Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Purdue University and is a professor of history at Montreat ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 1939) is a prolific British writer primarily of science fiction and science fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. His most popular works by far have been the Elric novels. As editor of the ... [... more]
Random House |
Frederik Pohl
Two of science fiction's most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a ... [... more]
Random House |
Brian W. Aldiss
From one of science fiction's greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Orwell's 1984, and Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Both a searing indictment of a fear-drenched ... [... more]
Random House |
Pamela Johnson
Best-selling simplifier of science Lucille Recht Penner unearths the truth about the water bug which sucks its victims' blood like a vampire, the assassin bug which turns its prey to mush with a special poison, and other barbaric bugs. This ... [... more]
Random House |
Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D., was an internationally known psychoanalyst, researcher, and clinician, the author of groundbreaking papers on female development, the nature of science, and intuition. In addition to her private practice, she was ... [... more]
Random House |
D. Graham Burnett
D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science and the author of Masters of All They Surveyed. After graduating from Princeton University, he was a Marshall Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1999, Chicago's Newberry Library awarded him the ... [... more]
Random House |
George Johnson
George Johnson is a science writer for the New York Times. He is a recipient of the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a finalist for the distinguished Rhone-Poulenc Prize. This is his ... [... more]
Random House |
Alan B. Wallace
Alan B. Wallace and Brian Hodel The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality Embracing Mind [... more]
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