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When Jennifer Doudna was in the sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback, titled The Double Helix, on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturdeay, she discovered she was right,in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the building blocks of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didnt become scientists, she decided she would. She and her collaborators tuned their curiosity into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy to use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.

Leonardo Da Vinci is a book by Walter Isaacson that narrates the life, accomplishments and struggles of the Italian painter, Engineer & Scientist. It describes how Leonardo Da Vincis delight at combining diverse passions remains the main recipe for creativity. He also highlights Leonardo's ease at being a bit of a misfit. Illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical.

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Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.Signed by the author, Kazuo Ishiguro, on title page."You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay..."The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.Included on TIME Magazine's "THE 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME"