Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications (Audiobook)

Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications (Audiobook) By David Sadava
Publisher: The Tea ching Com pany 2008 | 11 hours and 58 mins | ISBN: 1598033948 | MP3 | 220 MB
We use it routinely to cure diseases, solve crimes, and reunite families. Yet we've known about it for only 60 years. And what we're continuing to learn about it every day has the potential to transform our health, our nutrition, our society, and our future. What is this powerful mystery?

It is DNA?deoxyribonucleic acid, the self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms. Award-winning teacher, author, and cancer researcher Dr. David Sadava unlocks its mysteries in his new course, Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications. He guides us through decades of scientific discovery and the weighty implications for us, as individuals and as a society.

Genetics: The Science of Heredity

How are the traits of an organism?be it a fern or a human father?passed on to its offspring? This course outlines the history of the science of genetics and explains in detail what we have learned in recent decades about the building blocks?DNA.

Dr. Sadava, a working scientist who draws on examples from his own research, shows us how understanding genetics allows us to improve medical treatment and nutrition, vastly improving our health and quality of life.

Understanding genetics is also a critical step toward understanding our human identity. Examining our DNA?how it works and what happens when something goes wrong?enables us to see the roots of how our bodies work, why we get sick, and how traits are passed through families.

Enjoy this rare opportunity to peer over the shoulder of a working scientist; learn how he puzzles through the problems of genetics to find meaningful solutions that can save lives. Dr. Sadava shares cutting-edge research guided by his passion to help laypeople understand the meaning and importance of genetics.

Course Lecture Titles

* 1. Our Inheritance
* 2. Mendel and Genes
* 3. Genes and Chromosomes
* 4. The Search for the Gene?DNA
* 5. DNA Structure and Replication
* 6. DNA Expression in Proteins
* 7. Genes, Enzymes, and Metabolism
* 8. From DNA to Protein
* 9. Genomes
* 10. Manipulating Genes?Recombinant DNA
* 11. Isolating Genes and DNA
* 12. Biotechnology?Genetic Engineering
* 13. Biotechnology and the Environment
* 14. Manipulating DNA by PCR and Other Methods
* 15. DNA in Identification?Forensics
* 16. DNA and Evolution
* 17. DNA and Human Evolution
* 18. Molecular Medicine?Genetic Screening
* 19. Molecular Medicine?The Immune System
* 20. Molecular Medicine?Cancer
* 21. Molecular Medicine?Gene Therapy
* 22. Molecular Medicine?Cloning and Stem Cells
* 23. Genetics and Agriculture
* 24. Biotechnology and Agriculture
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The Winds of Dune AudioBook

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The Winds of Dune AudioBook
Macmillan Audio | ISBN: 1427207631 | 2009 | MP3 | 470 Mb

Set directly after Frank Herberts Dune Messiah (1969), this satisfying tale from Herberts son and Anderson (Paul of Dune) follows Jessica, the generatrix of galactic emperor Paul Atreides, as she returns to the desolate planet Dune for her sons funeral. Pauls suicide after his mistresss childb>ed death leaves his sister, the insane and brutal Alia, as regent for his twin children. Alia releases Princess Irulan, Pauls wife and biographer, from protect arrest on the condition that she present Paul as a deity, even as Bronso of Ix circulates contrasting writings focusing on Pauls milk of human kindness. Alia, Jessica, Bronso and Irulan can describe aspects of Paul, on the other hand no single narrative can capture him. Fans of the original Dune series will love seeing familiar characters, and the narrative voice smoothly evokes the ranking Herberts style

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The Death of Capital [Audiobook, Unabridged]

Michael E. Lewitt
The Death of Capital: How New Policy Can Restore Stability [Audiobook, Unabridged]
Gildan Media Corp | 2010 | ASIN: B003SGYNDI | MP3@64 kbps | 271.35 Mb
While some semblance of stability has returned to the financial markets, the economies on which these markets must ultimately depend remain structurally weak, and the path toward sustained growth will be difficult. In order to set the economy on a sounder path, we need to understand the sources of instability that caused the failure of the financial system, rethink established ideas, and challenge the intellectual and moral authority of the institutions that control the world's capital.

Written by respected portfolio manager and longtime investment professional Michael Lewitt, The Death of Capital looks at how, in recent years, the U.S. economy has increasingly been dominated by short-term speculation rather than productive investment, debt rather than equity, and short-term thinking rather than long-term planning. These disastrous trends, described here as "financialization," ignore the fact that capital is a highly unstable social process rather than a fixed, historical object or category.

This timely audiobook:
• Explores the most important aspects of capital and capitalism through the prism of four of the world's great economic thinkers
• Addresses "financialization" and its consequences, such as a weaker U.S. dollar, the decline of American industries, and the loss of American economic and political hegemony
• Examines how the legal system contributed to economic deterioration by privileging short-term profitability above other important societal interests such as labor, the environment, and social welfare
• Calls for politically controversial reforms such
• Asks for stricter regulation of hedge funds and private equity firms, banning naked credit default swaps and off-balance sheet financing vehicles, imposition of a Tax on Speculation, and principles-based reforms to improve systemic stability
• And much more

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