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Flying Eye Books
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2024.
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68 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
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"Why do children look like their parents? Why are some people blond and others brunette, and where do we get our eye colour from? This book explains genetic theory, what genes are, why DNA plays an important role and what all these insights have to do with a curious monk. An exciting journey through the history of science, present-day genetic research and engineering and right through to the question of identity – because who would have thought...
2) Wrath
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New York Times bestselling coauthors Shäron Moalem and Daniel Kraus's terrifying sci-fi horror thriller takes place in a future that is much nearer than you think. It is a world where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit and under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of our existence.
Wrath is the story of Sammy, a lab rat instilled with human genes whose supersized intelligence...
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"La vida de George" se sitúa temporalmente en la Cataluña del año 2121, y en una época en la que la ciencia y la tecnología han evolucionado de forma acelerada, hasta el punto de que los viajes a la Luna y a Marte se han convertido en algo habitual, así como la fabricación artificial de seres vivos, incluyendo seres humanos sintéticos.George es uno de estos humanos sintéticos, salido hace tres años de la empresa "Human Biofactory". Pese...
4) Savage Lands
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In a post apocalyptic world, Rovdyren have been hunted to near extinction. The Alpha has incited fear in all hearts – human and beast alike. His bite can heal, but as of late destruction is all he's been about. They say he's gone to the darkest parts of himself. Savage to the extreme. On the hunt for what doesn't exist – a mate. Losing his mind in the process. Kenley and her older brother, Sawyer, are part of a small pack of eight. They know that...
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Overwhelming Beauty! Helen Winship moved to New York to pursue her studies in biology. John Burke, her fiancé, arrives in the Big Apple to find she has transformed into the most beautiful woman in the world thanks to an experimental microbial treatment given to her by her professor. The treatment is successful beyond everyone's wildest dreams, catapulting Helen into high society as every man wishes to be near her. Will her outlook on life be changed?...
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Paralyzed EmotionsI'm trapped – a slave to a ruthless doctor, but I don't know how or why, and that's a hell I desperately want to escape.Lie after lie. Day after day.Something sadistic is taking place within the confines of Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital.I must uncover the truth, but I'll need help.Kai Hastings, a former employee of the hospital, is eager to rebel, but doing so could cost him his life… and mine, too.Can we expose the truth about...
7) Braided Silk
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Rapunzel was made with technologically advanced hair. As a trained Mother agent, Zel can't escape the DNA that makes her a pawn in corporate espionage. Kidnapped and held in a tower on Gothel Island, she falls to the sexual allure of her captor's son, Langley, a man whose every tantalizing touch makes her forget she wasn't born human.
Langley Gothel protests the existence of creations such as Zel, but when faced with losing her, he sees the truth:...
8) Threshold
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All-around gold-metal-winning Olympic athlete, world-class pilot, race driver, and hugely successful financial genius, Peter Cory had every reason to be content with life and satisfied with himself. He didn't know, however, that he was the product of a 9000-year-long alien breeding program, that the challenge for which they had bred him was now impending, and that all the special qualities they had instilled into his DNA were about to face their ultimate...
9) Apollo
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Apollo is having nothing but difficulties securing his mate. They go on a raid where they have a long march to a secluded facility and she gets ill. He is afraid she won't recover. He knows he can't live without her.Waverly fights the chemistry between her and Apollo with all she has. She loved and lost once and she can't do it again. But does she have a choice?
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If I'm malfunctioning, I don't care. There's only one woman I want. Atticus, a new limited edition android built specifically for the classroom, is met with a cold reception when he's won in a bionic lottery by a middle school in St. Morgan, Illinois. When everyone's scared of losing their jobs, making connections is nearly impossible. But being assigned as Lucy Warren's teaching aide has awakened something inside him. He's adapting, evolving into...
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However, in the three hundred years since the school was founded, no organization or individual has achieved real control of the school until our protagonists took the stage in 20030. Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight, the second and last stage of human beings on the planet Akapov to acquire knowledge through specialized schools, our protagonists had great joy, sorrow, anger, and sadness, disappointment, and decadence during these ten...
12) A River Divided
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A River Divided follows Evelyn, a geneticist and amateur archeologist, who discovers a tomb while vacationing in Israel. Believing she has found the remains of Christ, she attempts to revive the DNA found preserved at the site so that she can clone Him. But with human cloning being both illegal and unprecedented, she takes the risk of carrying the embryo herself. Though more a scientist than a zealot, she wants to do everything to bring Him back to...
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The Age of the Singularity has arrived, the time when A.I. can exist and function independently. The A.I. Department of International Humane Resources, was set up in 2030 and it was established to provide humans with a comfortable existence on the planet, making sure that living conditions were always humane and no one had to suffer from lack of anything.There was no hunger and no poverty in the world, since the Artificial Intelligent machines were...
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She's an android under my care. My secretary. I shouldn't feel this way.Nicholas Kane doesn't have time for romance. Running his own high-profile company based in London means most women are only interested in his bank account. Skipping the heart-ache entirely? That's easy.When a friend asks him to care for a rescued android, Nick can't refuse. Sweet, curious Sophie deserves kindness and peace, something he's certain he can provide.It should be simple....
15) Hades
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Hades messed up his relationship with Doc and he knows it. He doesn't remember a thing, but he's seen the proof. He just wants, no needs, another chance to do things right. He doesn't want to live without her, why can't she see how much he cares?Maybe it's not fair that she won't give him another chance because of the way her father was. Hades was tried and convicted in the court of public opinion and her own for that matter. Are there facts that...
16) Blink
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As the fires of rebellion spread, one thing is clear - war has come to our city.And I find myself at the center of the storm. The government wants their human weapon back. And they'll raze the city to ashes to capture me. With my rebel friends at my side, we've given the people something to believe in. But the darkness only grows. I know what I have to do. Even if it means leaving behind everything I've grown to love, including Jameson. Torn between...
17) Acadie
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The first humans still hunt their children across the stars. Dave Hutchinson brings far future science fiction on a grand scale in Acadie.
The Colony left Earth to find their utopia--a home on a new planet where their leader could fully explore the colonists' genetic potential, unfettered by their homeworld's restrictions. They settled a new paradise, and have been evolving and adapting for centuries.
Earth has other plans.
The original humans...
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A genetically engineered child wielding incredible power. Chaos unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. And a darkness spreading like an uncontrollable plague… One year after the devastating events of Shortcake: Impulse Reborn, Project Impulse has reached its endgame. With the fate of the world at stake, Amanda must emerge from hiding and embrace the power within to protect those she loves. But can she conquer the malevolent force that seeks to consume...
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After ten thousand years of war, humanity has obtained its wish-crusading the Milky Way. My name was Argo Herrero. I'm now Lynx, my code of war. Planetary system after planetary system, we've slain all intelligent species once alive in our galaxy. All but one, the last intelligent species left to be purged by our ranks.
What will become of us when we've purged the whole galaxy? I don't know, but I'm afraid of what we'll become, of what I've already...
20) Hybrid
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Lee Urban's search for truth could destroy everything. After narrowly surviving several attempts on her life, Lee Urban retreats into hiding, seeking refuge with her family for the Lunar New Year. But the relaxing holiday turns into a heist when someone crashes the party with intel on the hybrid's identity. Driven by desperation, Urban accepts a position within the elite Dragons AI team, a high-stakes gamble that will propel her into the heart of...
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