Good book when you prepare for a cultural section of any lesson at the given level. Students enjoy it. The teacher's factsheets and answers are added to the end of the file. New York is the city that never sleeps. Read about the people, events works and culture that make this city one of the greatest in the world.
"Chromosome 6" is a
science thriller about some scientists in Africa that are using cloning to
create subhuman monkeys using bonobos so that their body parts can harvested
for the specific human who is matched with the animal, and about a medical examiner
named Jack Stapleton who discovers at the morgue in New York City while working
that something strange is going on. He notices during an autopsy that a man had
had a liver transplant but for some reason he has trouble finding out where and
when and also the man didn't need anti - immunity drugs, in other words the
body did not try to reject the liver. Jack digs deep to find the answer and the
two plots finally connect. I felt I was educated as I read the book, it was very well detailed with
scientific and medical information, but not boring, book keeps a good pace. An exciting read.
Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences
Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences is a brief, informative
yet informal guide to recent developments in the cognitive
neurosciences by the scientists who are in the thick of things.
"Getting a fix on important questions and how to think about them from
an experimental point of view is what scientists talk about, sometimes
endlessly. It is those conversations that thrill and motivate,"
observes Michael Gazzaniga. Yet all too often these exciting
interactions are lost to students, researchers, and others who are
"doing" science. Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences brings
together a series of interviews with prominent individuals in
neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology that have
appeared over the past few years in the Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience.
The ten interviews are divided into five sections: basic neuroscience
approaches to cognition (Floyd Bloom and Mark Raichle), attentional and
perceptual processes (Michael I. Posner and William T. Newsome), neural
basis of memory (Randy Gallistel and Endel Tulving), language (Steven
Pinker and Alfonso Caramazza), and imagery and consciousness (Stephen
M. Kosslyn and Daniel C. Dennett)
Love Story
Love Story is a 1970 romance novel by the American writer Erich Segal. Segal adapted the novel from a screenplay he had written. A film based on the screenplay ( Love Story) was also released in 1970.
Love Story became the top selling work of fiction for all of 1970 in the United States, and was translated into more than 20 languages. A sequel, Oliver's Story, was published in 1977.
Its a very unpretentious small book; just over 150 pages but once you start reading it you will finish it in one go. What’s different about this novel is that the bulk of the novel consists of actual conversations between the characters, which is very realistic. This tragic story of love inspires and enriches anyone who reads it.
Bestselling author Bryson sets out to put his irrepressible stamp on all things under the sun. This is a book about life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the ascendancy of Homo sapiens. "This is a book about how it happened," the author writes. "In particular how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since." What follows is a brick of a volume summarizing moments both great and curious in the history of science, covering already well-trod territory in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, paleontology, geology, chemistry, physics and so on.
