Author: G. B. R. WalkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780713708042
Category : Canaries
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
New-coloured Canaries
Author: Anthony Kirby GillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canaries
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Red Canary
Author: Tim BirkheadPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408849437
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Though his experiments failed, they paved the way for others to succeed when it was recognised that the canary needed to be both a product of nature and nurture. This highly original narrative, of huge contemporary relevance, reveals how the obsession with turning the wild canary from green to red heralded the exciting but controversial developments in genetic manipulation.
Coloured, Type, and Song Canaries
Author: G. B. R. WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canaries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Coloured Canaries
Author: G. B. R. WalkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780713708042
Category : Canaries
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Fundamentals of Color Genetics in Canaries
Author: Octavio Perez-BeatoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781434990747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Miner's Canary
Author: Lani GUINIERPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674038037
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept political race, Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that drew on the strength and won the support of the entire local community. The aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect changes that will improve conditions for everyone. In a book that is ultimately not only aspirational but inspirational, Guinier and Torres envision a social justice movement that could transform the nature of democracy in America.
The Canary Book
Author: Robert L. WallacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canaries
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Red Canary
Author: Tim BirkheadPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620406497
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Winner of the Consul Cremer Prize, The Red Canary follows the compelling quest to turn the green canary red. The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new, for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Favored originally for their voice, by the middle of the nineteenth century canaries had become so popular that millions were exported from Europe to the United States to satisfy demand. During the 1870s, English canary breeders caused a scandal by feeding their birds red peppers to turn them orange. In the 1930s, Duncker's genetics efforts caught the attention of the Nazi regime who saw him as a champion of their eugenic policies, even though his ingenious experiments were not successful. Nonetheless, Duncker's work paved the way thirty years later for an Englishman, Anthony Gill, and an American, Charles Bennett, to succeed, after recognizing that the red canary would need to be a product of both nature and nurture. In Tim Birkhead's masterful hands, this highly original narrative reveals how the obsession of bird keepers turned the wild canary from green to red, and in the process, heralded exciting but controversial developments in genetic manipulation.
Policing the Womb
Author: Michele GoodwinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703017X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This book tells the real-life horror story of states' abusing laws and infringing on rights to police women and their pregnancies.
189 Canaries
Author: Dieter BögePublisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 1467463833
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
In a cozy room in northern Germany, a yellow canary sings rolling melodies to the miners and carpenters of the Harz mountains. But today a bird dealer has come, and he will take the canary far, far away from everything he knows. The journey leads onto trains and steamships, across Europe and even the Atlantic. At last the canary arrives in a room in New York where he hears a strangely familiar song… This beautiful, poignant book introduces readers to the little-known history of a beloved songbird. Lushly illustrated in rich colors, 189 Canaries is an unforgettable story about music, migration, and the search for home.