Avian Embryology

Avian Embryology
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2011-09-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080925294

This revised edition will continue to serve as the most complete and up-to-date guide to the use of the avian embryo in studies of vertebrate development. It will include new approaches to analysis of the chick genome, gene knock-out studies using RNA interference, morpholinos, and other cutting edge techniques. As with the original edition, emphasis has been placed on providing practical guidance, highlighting potentials and pitfalls of all key cell biological and embryological techniques. - Fully revised second edition - Organized into basic and advanced Methods - New section on Functional Genomics

Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in China

Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in China
Author: Michael Clarke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190922613

China, hitherto barely affected by terrorism, now confronts a phenomenon all too familiar to other nations.

"Eradicating Ideological Viruses"

Author: Maya Wang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2018
Genre: China
ISBN: 9781623136567

"This report presents new evidence of the Chinese government's mass arbitrary detention, torture, and mistreatment, and the increasingly pervasive controls on daily life. Throughout the region, the Turkic Muslim population of 13 million is subjected to forced political indoctrination, collective punishment, restrictions on movement and communications, heightened religious restrictions, and mass surveillance in violation of international human rights law."--Publisher website, viewed September 19, 2018.

I Murdered Your Mother, I Think?

I Murdered Your Mother, I Think?
Author: Robert Beckstedt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Maria, the nurse and nanny. invokes Haitian Voodoo to protect those she loves from her damaged and violent sister Andrea. And Michael. the wealthy man between them fights desperately to save his infant son and escape with the sister he truly loves. This exhilarating saga of love and revenge sweeps us from Hispaniola in 1916. where the sisters' ancestors lived in poverty to the lurking drug culture of Balboa Panama and finally to the U.S. The ripples of the sisters' history spread insidiously and threatens all Michael has built. Will the Voodoo meant to protect them save them? Or will it bring death to Michael and his son?

Women in the Sun, Linen in the Wind

Women in the Sun, Linen in the Wind
Author: MarĂ­a Claudia Otsubo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781726745550

These fifteen short stories dive deeply into reality looking to pull out new senses. They have the ability to show - especially what cannot be told. Tales of the feminine world, the natural world and of freedom (or the lack of it) open up the blinds to let us see beyond everyday's acts and wordly rites; to let us see beyond words and gestures.

Fist of the Blue Sky

Fist of the Blue Sky
Author: Nobu Horie
Publisher: Raijin Comics Collection
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781932454222

It is just before World War II and Kasumi Kenshiro hides as a quiet, absent-minded professor teaching literature at a small women's college in Tokyo. Once the 62nd Grand Master of Kohuto Shinken, "God Fist of the North Star," and known as Yan Wang, or "the king of Death" who preserved the peace in the City of Devils, a fighter of thugs and drug dealers, Kasumi now seeks anonymity and a quiet life until the death of his lover, and former brothers, forces him to return to Shanghai to fulfill his destiny and avenge the deaths of his associates.

The Tale of Terror

The Tale of Terror
Author: Edith Birkhead
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1921
Genre: English fiction
ISBN:

A history of the 'thriller' from myth and folk-tale through Walpole and Mrs Radcliffe to Poe and Le Fanu.

The Story of an Epoch Making Movement

The Story of an Epoch Making Movement
Author: Maud Nathan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429511310

Published in 1926: The author tells the story of the Consumers’ League from the genesis of the idea through the days of its development to its present days of power.