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[2015], Adult, Harper Avenue Call No: 616.550 U79b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story begins on St. Stephen's Day, 2010, in St. John's, NL, when the author gives birth to a baby girl named Sadie Jane who has a shock of snow-white hair. After three months of medical testing, Sadie is diagnosed with albinism, a rare genetic condition where pigment fails to form in the skin, hair and eyes. She is visually impaired and faces a lifetime indoors. A journalist and folklore scholar accustomed to processing the world through other people's stories, Emily is drawn to understanding her child's difference by researching the cultural beliefs associated with albinism worldwide.
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2016., Scribner Call No: 616.042 M941g Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, author Siddhartha Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee's own family, with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness, cuts like a bright, red line, reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. He describes the centuries of research and experimentation from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Thomas Morgan to Crick, Watson and Rosa Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.
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1993, c1990., Encyclop dia Britannica Call No: 575 D228o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Great books of the Western world Volume: 49.
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-- Evolution.2006., Adult, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Underworld (2006) Edition: Widescreen special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Vampire heroine Selene continues the saga of war between the aristocratic Death Dealers and the barbaric Lycans. The film traces the beginnings of the ancient feud between the two tribes. Selene and her love Michael, the lycan hybrid, try to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines. The tale of action, intrigue and forbidden love takes them into the battle to end all wars as the immortals must finally face their retribution.
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