Stories
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Why gene editing can never eliminate disability
In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.
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Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
Catalogue
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Parental investment and elite family structure in preindustrial states : a case study of late medieval-early modern Portuguese genealogies / James L. Boone III.
Boone, James L., III.Date: 1986- Books
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Rails, mines, and progress : seven American promoters in Mexico, 1867-1911 / by David M. Pletcher.
Pletcher, David MDate: 1958- Books
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Empire and revolution : the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War / John Mason Hart.
Hart, John M. (John Mason), 1935-Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
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Pioneers for profit : foreign entrepreneurship and Russian industrialization, 1885-1913 / John P. McKay.
McKay, John PDate: 1970- Books
Experiments in cooperation : assessing U.S.-Russian programs in science and technology / Glenn E. Schweitzer.
Schweitzer, Glenn E., 1930-Date: 1997