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Animosity between the genetically engineered Elites and their human subjects is fierce, and many rebels fight back against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the Elite regime, and their number one target.
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Series
Hawk volume 2
Description
Hawk accepts her mother Max's help to prevent vengeful hybrids, amoral scientists, traitorous politicians, and a deadly virus from overwhelming her beloved, polluted city.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
352 pages cm
Description
"In Decoding the World, Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta-two renegade venture capitalists from Silicon Valley-take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their twisted and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapter isprefaced with a real-world headline ripped from today's chaotic news cycle: Trump's trade war. Dying bees. Rogue planets. Beyond Meat. Glaciers melting. Bronson and Gupta then decipher what's really...
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Series
Novel of the Commonwealth volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
403 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Hoping to reverse the body's genetic clock to return human beings to vigorous youth, scientists come up with their first human guinea pig, a seventy-year-old philanthropist, but their first efforts are disastrous, in more ways that one.
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Series
Maximum Ride volume 2
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After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.
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Unnaturals volume 1
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"When Castor the street dog is captured, he learns there is a nefarious underground fighting ring in Lion's Head where animals are injected with DNA-changing serums, transformed into dangerous hybrids, and forced to battle one another to survive"--
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
xxi, 340 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Huxley's vision of the future comes to life in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World--a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering--and its sequel, written thirty years after his classic novel of the future, in which Huxley describes the shocking scientific devices and techniques available to any group in a position to manipulate society.
Huxley's...
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in history. Almost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencingthe exponential growth once seen with the Internet, and the plummeting cost of DNA sequencing makes it increasingly accessible for individuals and families. Dr. Steven M. Lipkin suggests that today's...
11) Tool of war
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
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In a future beset with rising seas, corporate government, and constant civil war, a bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier who calls himself Tool breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the corporation that created him and seeks revenge against his old masters.
12) Human nature
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Our DNA can determine attributes from eye color to medical predispositions. An extraordinary technology called CRISPR allows us to edit human DNA, possibly eliminating genetic diseases or choosing our children's features. But how far should we go?
13) The gene doctors
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every year, over a million babies are born worldwide with a hereditary disease; most are serious, and many are fatal. For much of history, doctors could only treat symptoms. Now an elite cadre of pioneers, gene doctors, is starting to target root causes. Through intimate stories of families whose lives are being transformed, the film takes viewers to the frontlines of a medical revolution.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle-- and his transformation begins. In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution--preying on human-trafficking victims to experiment and advance...
16) Leviathan
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
440 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
17) Hawk
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Maximum Ride's seventeen-year-old daughter, Hawk, is living under the radar in post-apocalyptic New York City until a destiny that is perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.
20) Jurassic Park
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (2 hrs., 7 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A scheme to open a theme park featuring real dinosaurs cloned from DNA turns into a catastrophe.
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