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When a single extraterrestrial arrives on Planet Earth and claims his race created mankind only to have abandoned them early in their evolution, a U.S. politician and a doctor are drawn into a world that extends beyond the Milky Way and become the first humans to go where no humans have gone before....

Lifecell is an intense sweeping futuristic tale of the ultimate prison for murderers - a blunt and disturbing look at the people and their actions that made the Lifecell necessary.

 The book begins in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. John and Jay are on vacation horse packing through the mountains of the Sangre De Cristo's in the southern portion of the Rocky Mountains. The second day into their trip they come across a mutilated animal and the end of their peaceful...

The world is in ruins after a cataclysmic event, known as the flash, has destroyed every adult in the western world, leaving only a generation of children to preserve the remnants of Australian culture. This generation, however, is not alone, as a cascade of third world refugees soon arrive on the...

Western Canada has spectacular scenery. Running through this scenery we see various types of freight and passenger trains. Not everyone has the good fortune to witness this daily parade. This book is for those who share the passion for trains and railroading. With a willingness to invest the time, carrying...

Is the election result in a constituency affected by the amount of campaign spending there? This book, originally published in 1987 was the first major study of this important question. Based on extensive original research, it addresses two main issues: the impact of constituency campaign spending...

This book illustrates the degree of variability in voting behaviour within social groups and suggests reasons for that variability. It reviews and critiques conventional analyses and presents statistical analyses of the geography of voting in England. The book reveals that substantial geographical...

Released in 2007 and the first handbook-sized practical training guide to provide easily accessible, detailed information on how to get good images, make key measurements and report findings, the first edition of Echocardiography rapidly become a bestselling echocardiography manual. Now in its second...

Even as classic cytogenetics has given way to molecular karyotyping, and as new deletion and duplication syndromes are identified almost every day, the fundamental role of the genetics clinic remains mostly unchanged. Genetic counselors and medical geneticists explain the "unexplainable," helping...

The author, a popular Nonconformist preacher, reimagines traditional Christian beliefs in this 1906 study of the historical Jesus. Attempting to harmonize religion with modern scholarship, he considers the humanity and divinity of Jesus, the nature of evil, the authority of scripture, the doctrine of atonement, and questions of salvation, judgment, and the afterlife.

God symbolically showed Zechariah the Ten Commandments covering the promised land, and He warned of consequences. [Zec.5.3] They apply to us today too. Zechariah looked forward to a day when the exiled returnees would say. Let us go at once to entreat the Lord and seek the Lord Almighty. [8.21] They...

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Ever wondered why primroses have three sorts of flowers; or about pesticide resistance in rats and mice, mosquitoes and green-fly; antibiotic resistance in disease organisms – all are examples of genetical adjustment, explained in this book. This absorbing book is about genetics as it applies to...