It's a routine mission. The Enterprise-D is in synchronous orbit over a Class-M planet to be surveyed for possible colonization. Commander Riker calls the life science team to its station, then Captain Picard orders a "search for life signs." As the principal investigator on this mission, you're up.
What do you do now? With Life Signs: The Biology of Star Trek, you'll know exactly what to do. In this vastly entertaining and informative volume, a research geneticist at a world-renowned medical center and a noted psychiatrist investigate the myriad questions Star Trek raises about "new life and new civilizations." They draw surprising conclusions about everything from the likelihood that any humanoid could be blue in color to the climate on the Vulcan homeworld to what caused the dramatic physiological changes in the Klingon race between the twenty-third and twenty-fourth centuries (something even Klingons themselves avoid discussing). 
Life Signs: The Biology of Star Trek pays special attention to the Federation's astonishing technological advances, probing the accuracy and effects of these developments. How might the food replicators work? (And how would replicated food taste?) Is there any scientific basis for all that hyper-high-tech equipment in sickbay? Will it ever be possible to genetically enhance intelligence (the way Dr. Bashir's wits were sharpened when he was a boy)? 
 The Jenkinses also chart the remarkable parallels between the Star Trek universe and our own. They find earthly analogues to the Pon farr that puts Vulcans in heat every seven years. They hunt down common creatures reminiscent of the "crystalline entity" and the silicon-based Horta. They even introduce us to the billions of life-forms residing in our own bodies and induce us to wonder whether Jadzia Dax's Trill symbiont is really such a far-fetched notion after all. 
Throughout, this engaging and authoritative book bristles with insights on the cutting edge of contemporary biology. Discover how close we are to cloning humans. Examine implants and prosthetics that might make the Borg proud. Watch NASA wrestle with the perils of extended space travel as it plans for a three-year-long manned mission to Mars. And learn where no one has gone before -- or ever will go -- as the Jenkinses highlight some of Star Trek's more notable biological bloopers.
Whether you run your own genetics lab or you ran screaming from high-school biology class, Life Signs: The Biology of Star Trek will heighten your appreciation for the mind-expanding magic of Star Trek.

Life Signs: The Biology of Star Trek

JENKINS, ROBERT

Jenkins, Susan

Science & Math

Harper

Presenting the work of thirty artists from each Australian state and territory, the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial demonstrates the incredible range of contemporary Indigenous art practice. The works included were created during the past three years in a variety of media, including painting on bark and canvas, sculpture, textiles, weaving, new media, photomedia, printmaking, and installation. This substantial book provides an ongoing authoritative critical reference for contemporary Indigenous art in Australia. Brenda L. Croft is senior curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, National Gallery of Australia.

Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial 07

Arts & Photography

Clark, Deborah

Croft, Brenda L.

History & Criticism

National Gallery of Australia

Once described as 'England's Apollo' James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos (1674-1744) was an outstanding patron of the arts during the first half of the eighteenth century. Having acquired great wealth and influence as Paymaster-General of Queen Anne's forces abroad, Chandos commissioned work from leading artists, architects, poets and composers including Godfrey Kneller, William Talman, Sir John Vanbrugh, Sir James Thornhill, John Gay and George Frederick Handel. Despite his associations with such renowned figures, Chandos soon gained a reputation for tasteless extravagance. This reputation was not helped by the publication in 1731 of Alexander Pope's poem 'Of Taste' which was widely regarded as a satire upon Chandos and Cannons, the new house he was building near Edgware. The poem destroyed Chandos's reputation as a patron of the arts and ensured that he was remembered as a man lacking in taste. Yet, as this book shows, such a judgement is plainly unfair when the Duke's patronage is considered in more depth and understood within the artistic context of his age. By investigating the patronage and collections of the Duke, through an examination of documentary sources and contemporary accounts, it is possible to paint a very different picture of the man. Rather than the epitome of bad taste described by his enemies, it is clear that Chandos was an enlightened patron who embraced new ideas, and strove to establish a taste for the Palladian in England, which was to define the Georgian era.

Portrait of a Patron: The Patronage and Collecting of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1674–1744)

Biographies & Memoirs

Routledge

Illustrates and tells the history of fifty quilts from the author's collection, and includes complete directions for thirty of them

The American Quilt Story: The How-To and Heritage of a Craft Tradition : Step by Step Directions for 30 Antiques Quilts

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

SEWARD, Linda

Crafts & Hobbies

Rodale Pr

Check for Understanding: 65 Classroom-Ready Tactics Formative Assessment Made Easy! In Visible Learning, John Hattie describes a powerful strategy to enhance student learning-formative assessment (effect size .90). Implemented with fidelity, the result is assessment-capable learners, a pivotal skill for post-secondary success. "Are my students learning?" Join us in reimagining formative assessment-a fluid, robust, daily practice. Step-by-Step Activation Guide 65 Tactics to Check for Understanding Live-Action Classroom Videos for Each Tactic THE STORY OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Part I - Formatives: What they are and what they are not Part II - Why formative assessment matters Part III - Best practice formative assessment Part IV - Leveraging formative data to enhance teaching and learning 65 CLASSROOM-READY TACTICS Contributing authors share tactics to check for understanding. Includes user-friendly instructions and video clips to model implementation at any grade level, any content area.

Check for Understanding 65 Classroom Ready Tactics: Formative Assessment Made Easy

Education & Teaching

Gillespie, Kelly

Schools & Teaching

Lulu Publishing Services

Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London accompanies the first tour of an important group of works from the Iveagh Bequest, a magnificent painting collection that resides at Kenwood House, a neoclassical villa in London. Donated to the nation by Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847-1927) and heir to the world's most successful brewery, the collection was shaped by the tastes of the Belle Epoque-Europe's equivalent to America's Gilded Age-and reveal the earl's taste for the portraiture, landscape, and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish works that could typically be found in English aristocratic collections.The publication includes an illustrated checklist of the works in the exhibition and texts by Guest Curator Susan Jenkins, Curator at English Heritage; Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word and Image at the Victoria & Albert Museum and formerly Chief Curator at English Heritage; and Walter Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the works in the publication are Thomas Gainsborough's Mary, Countess Howe (ca. 1764), Frans Hals's Pieter van den Broecke (1633), Rembrandt's sublime Portrait of the Artist (ca. 1665), Joshua Reynold's Lady Louisa Manners (1779), and Anthony van Dyck's Princess Henrietta of Lorraine Attended by a Page (1634).

Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London

BRYANT, Julius

LIEDTKE, Walter

American Federation of Arts

Start to Finish: Starting a Walk with God That Can Finish Strong

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Up Is Just Backwards When You're on the Way Down: Thirty Doses of Wit and Wisdom on Staying Upright

Independently published

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