Seeds Of Science

Author : Mark Lynas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472946952
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds of Science written by Mark Lynas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mark Lynas is a saint' Sunday Times 'Fluent, persuasive and surely right.' Evening Standard Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s – working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement – he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades later, most people around the world – from New York to China – still think that 'GMO' foods are bad for their health or likely to damage the environment. But Mark has changed his mind. This book explains why. In 2013, in a world-famous recantation speech, Mark apologised for having destroyed GM crops. He spent the subsequent years touring Africa and Asia, and working with plant scientists who are using this technology to help smallholder farmers in developing countries cope better with pests, diseases and droughts. This book lifts the lid on the anti-GMO craze and shows how science was left by the wayside as a wave of public hysteria swept the world. Mark takes us back to the origins of the technology and introduces the scientific pioneers who invented it. He explains what led him to question his earlier assumptions about GM food, and talks to both sides of this fractious debate to see what still motivates worldwide opposition today. In the process he asks – and answers – the killer question: how did we all get it so wrong on GMOs? 'An important contribution to an issue with enormous potential for benefiting humanity.' Stephen Pinker 'I warmly recommend it.' Philip Pullman

Author : Finn Bowring
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859846872
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Seeds, and Cyborgs written by Finn Bowring and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the wide reach of modern biotechnology, from the genetic modification of plants and animals to medical genetics, assisted reproduction and human cloning, it suggests that we are losing sight of the human being in favour of adapting that being to an inhuman world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Christine Howitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646549200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planting the Seeds of Science written by Christine Howitt and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465094961
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seeds of Life written by Edward Dolnick and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from. Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery. These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs. A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from.

Author : Christine Howitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646539379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planting the Seeds of Science written by Christine Howitt and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planting the seeds of science contains a range of teaching and learning resources relating to the themes of the environment, day and night, forensic science, cleanliness and solar energy. Presented in five modules, each module contains an overview, a range of ideas and play-based activities, focus questions, follow up sub-themes and suggestions for assessment, curriculum integration and a list of resources that support the themes. The flexible program is designed to respond to young children's needs and interests while guiding them to explore scientific ideas and develop a better understanding of their world.

Author : Lincoln Bergman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598214772
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's Stronger? written by Lincoln Bergman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin Beals
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598215113
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling Through the Atmosphere written by Kevin Beals and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN 13 : 9712202887
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sowing the Seeds of Rice Science written by and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Erickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598215298
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading written by John Erickson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. Padmavath
Publisher : NIPA GENX ELECTRONIC RESOURCES & SOLUTIONS P. LTD.
ISBN 13 : 9390175321
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Textbook Of Seed Science And Technology written by S. Padmavath and published by NIPA GENX ELECTRONIC RESOURCES & SOLUTIONS P. LTD.. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Text Book of Seed Science and Technology: Seed Science and Technology is the science of new discipline which deals with the principles and methods of production of Quality Seed and improving the quality of the seed by various seed enhancement techniques starting from sowing till the storage. The Importance of Seed Quality can be felt by the proverb “what are known as Seeds of Hope may turn into Seed of Frustration if Quality is not maintained”. The Multidisciplinary development of the subject has necessitated an up to-date knowledge of this aspect of science in order to truly comprehense synthesis of the whole field of seed. The splendid growth of this science has catered to the development of related areas viz., Biology, Physiology and Biochemistry which has direct and indirect impact on Seed Science and Technology. The s of this book have been formulated to help the reader in acquiring the knowledge of Seed Technology starting from Seed Biology to seed Processing and care is taken to cover the basic and fundamental aspects of Seed Technology. It also includes the area of applied science and covers the area of seed legislation, law governing the seed production and marketing of the produced seeds.