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Los Angeles in the 1930s

The WPA Guide to the City of Angels

By: WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California

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Los Angeles in the 1930s

The WPA Guide to the City of Angels

By: WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California

Previously published: New York: Hastings House, 1941, under the title Los Angeles: a guide to the city and its environs, as part of the American guide series.

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0520268830

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9780520268838

NAKFI Synthetic Biology:

Building a Nation's Inspiration: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries

By: Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine California, November 20-22, 2009,The National Academies

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NAKFI Synthetic Biology:

Building a Nation's Inspiration: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries

By: Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine California, November 20-22, 2009,The National Academies

Synthetic biology is an innovative and growing field that unites engineering and biology. It builds on the powerful research that came about as a result of a recombinant DNA technology and genome sequencing. By definition, synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary enterprise comprising biologists of many specialties, engineers, physicists, computer scientists and others. It promises a fundamentally deeper understanding of how living systems work and the capacity to recreate them for medicine, public health and the environment, including renewable energy. NAKFI Synthetic Biology: Building a Nation's Inspiration discusses new foundational technologies and tools required to make biology easier to engineer, considers ethical issues unique to synthetic biology, explores how synthetic biology can lead to an understanding of the principles underlying natural genetic circuits and debates how synthetic biology can be used to answer fundamental biological questions.

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120

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National Academies Press

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0309153700

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9780309153706

The Architect : Chapters in the History of the Profession

Chapters in the History of the Profession

By: Berkeley Spiro Kostof Professor of Architectural History University of California

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The Architect : Chapters in the History of the Profession

Chapters in the History of the Profession

By: Berkeley Spiro Kostof Professor of Architectural History University of California

How did architects get to be architects in any given period in history? How were they trained? How did they find their clients and communicate with them? What did society think of them?. Spiro Kostof's The Architect, a collection of essays by historians and architects, explores these and other intriguing questions about the profession of architecture. The first book in more than fifty years to survey the profession from its beginnings in ancient Egypt to the modern day, it is the most complete synthesis to date of our knowledge of how the architect's profession developed. Included are a major study of the Beaux-Arts, a vivid memoir by the distinguished architect Josephy Esherick, and an excellent chapter on women which demostrates how the ethic of professionalism has contributed to the exploitation of women in this as in many other professions. The Architect places the current dilemma about the architect's role in society in historical perspective and offers a good overview of the development of one of the world's oldest professions.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198020198

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9780198020196

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Science, Governance, and the Pursuit of Cures

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on a Review of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Science, Governance, and the Pursuit of Cures

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on a Review of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was created in 2005 by The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act (Proposition 71) to distribute $3 billion in state funds for stem cell research. The passage of Proposition 71 by the voters of California occurred at a time when federal funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells was uncertain, given the ethical questions raised by such research. During its initial period of operations, CIRM has successfully and thoughtfully provided more than $1.3 billion in awards to 59 California institutions, consistent with its stated mission. As it transitions to a broadened portfolio of grants to stimulate progress toward its translational goals, the Institute should obtain cohesive, longitudinal, and integrated advice; restructure its grant application review process; and enhance industry epresentation in aspects of its operations. CIRM's unique governance structure, while seful in its initial stages, might diminish its effectiveness moving forward. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine: Science, Governance, and the Pursuit of Cures recommends specific steps to enhance CIRM's organization and management, as well as its scientific policies and processes, as it transitions to the critical next stages of its research and development program.

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0309265908

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Los Angeles in the 1930s

Los Angeles in the 1930s

NAKFI Synthetic Biology:

NAKFI Synthetic Biology:

The Architect : Chapters in the History of the Profession

The Architect : Chapters in the History of the Profession

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

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