Mutants

Mutants
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 449
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ISBN-10 : 9781101562765
ISBN-13 : 1101562765
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mutants by : Armand Marie Leroi

Download or read book Mutants written by Armand Marie Leroi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http://armandleroi.com/index.html Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it—a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer’s Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity. This elegant, humane, and engaging book “captures what we know of the development of what makes us human” (Nature).

The New Mutants

The New Mutants
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 365
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ISBN-10 : 9781479823499
ISBN-13 : 147982349X
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The New Mutants by : Ramzi Fawaz

Download or read book The New Mutants written by Ramzi Fawaz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions. In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as “new mutants,” social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from icons of nationalism and white masculinity into actual mutant outcasts, defined by their genetic difference from ordinary humanity. These powerful misfits and “freaks” soon came to embody the social and political aspirations of America’s most marginalized groups, including women, racial and sexual minorities, and the working classes. In The New Mutants, Ramzi Fawaz draws upon queer theory to tell the story of these monstrous fantasy figures and how they grapple with radical politics from Civil Rights and The New Left to Women’s and Gay Liberation Movements. Through a series of comic book case studies—including The Justice League of America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and The New Mutants—alongside late 20th century fan writing, cultural criticism, and political documents, Fawaz reveals how the American superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. The New Mutants provides the first full-length study to consider the relationship between comic book fantasy and radical politics in the modern United States.

Mutants and Mystics

Mutants and Mystics
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9780226453835
ISBN-13 : 0226453839
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mutants and Mystics by : Jeffrey J. Kripal

Download or read book Mutants and Mystics written by Jeffrey J. Kripal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Account of how comic book heroes have helped their creators and fans alike explore and express a wealth of paranormal experiences ignored by mainstream science. Delving deeply into the work of major figures in the field - from Jack Kirby's cosmic superhero sagas and Philip K. Dick's futuristic head-trips to Alan Moore's sex magic and Whitley Strieber's communion with visitors - Kripal shows how creators turned to science fiction to convey the reality of the inexplicable and the paranormal they experienced in their lives. Expanded consciousness found its language in the metaphors of sci-fi - incredible powers, unprecedented mutations, time-loops and vast intergalactic intelligences - and the deeper influences of mythology and religion that these in turn drew from ; the wildly creative work that followed caught the imaginations of millions. Moving deftly from Cold War science and Fredric Wertham's anticomics crusade to gnostic revelation and alien abduction, Kripal spins out a hidden history of American culture, rich with mythical themes and shot through with an awareness that there are other realities far beyond our everyday understanding."--Jacket.

The Sixth-grade Mutants Meet the Slime

The Sixth-grade Mutants Meet the Slime
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Publisher : Yearling
Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 0440413176
ISBN-13 : 9780440413172
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Sixth-grade Mutants Meet the Slime by : Laura E. Williams

Download or read book The Sixth-grade Mutants Meet the Slime written by Laura E. Williams and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1997 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a science experiment goes awry, seven sixth graders are suddenly endowed with special mutant powers. At first it's scary, but then the kids realize that they can use the powers to their advantage. Being a mutant comes in handy, especially when there's a slimeball on the loose!

Mutants

Mutants
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 9780006531647
ISBN-13 : 0006531644
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mutants by : Armand Marie Leroi

Download or read book Mutants written by Armand Marie Leroi and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2005 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of bizarre cases of genetic mutation and irregularity, "Mutants" is an amazing exploration of the human form in all its beautiful and unique guises.

Cute Mutants Vol 1

Cute Mutants Vol 1
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 0473528649
ISBN-13 : 9780473528645
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Cute Mutants Vol 1 by : Sj Whitby

Download or read book Cute Mutants Vol 1 written by Sj Whitby and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Dylan Taylor, human incarnation of the burning dumpster gif, and this is my life. I always wanted to be an X-Man. Except people and me never got along, and apparently you need social skills to run a successful team. Cue Emma Hall's party. One hot make out session with the host herself, and I can talk to objects like my pillow (who's far too invested in my love life) and my baseball bat (who was a pacifist before I got hold of him). Now there's a whole group of us with strange abilities, including super hot ice queen Dani Kim who doesn't approve of how reckless I can be. The bigger problem is a mysterious mutant causing unnatural disasters, and we're the ones who have to stop him. Except trying to make a difference makes things blow up in my face and the team's on the verge of falling apart. Can I bring them back together in time to stop the villain from taking revenge? Have I mentioned I'm not a people person? Magneto help us.

Mutants of Maize

Mutants of Maize
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Publisher : CSHL Press
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 0879694440
ISBN-13 : 9780879694449
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mutants of Maize by : M. Gerald Neuffer

Download or read book Mutants of Maize written by M. Gerald Neuffer and published by CSHL Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work of reference provides quick and easy access to the remarkable diversity of mutant phenotypes expressed by the maize plant. Its major portion consists of over 400 color photographs of well-established mutants arranged by chromosome position, detailed descriptions of the mutants' gene loci, and a current summary of the physical structure of genes that have been characterized at the molecular level. First published in 1968 and long out of print, Mutants of Maizehas been entirely revised by three of the corn plant's most distinguished investigators, enlarged to cover twice the number of mutants, and redesigned with clarity and elegance. All maize biologists will want this magnificent book in their personal library. In addition, because mutant maize genes have counterparts in most species, the book can be considered a general guide to the consequences of mutation in the entire plant kingdom. All maize biologists will want this magnificent book in their personal library. In addition, because mutant maize genes have counterparts in most species, the book can be considered a general guide to the consequences of mutation in the entire plant kingdom.