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Synthetic

How Life Got Made

By: Sophia Roosth

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In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques, these scientists treated biological media as elements for design and manufacture: viruses named for computers, bacterial genomes encoding passages from James Joyce, chimeric yeast buckling under the metabolic strain of genes harvested from wormwood, petunias, and microbes from Icelandic thermal pools. In Synthetic: How Life Got Made, cultural anthropologist Sophia Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. The first book-length ethnographic study of this discipline, Synthetic documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age. Roosth traces this new science from its origins at MIT to start-ups, laboratories, conferences, and hackers’ garages across the United States—even to contemporary efforts to resurrect extinct species. Her careful research reveals that rather than opening up a limitless new field, these biologists’ own experimental tactics circularly determine the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon. Exploring the life sciences emblematic of our time, Synthetic tells the origin story of the astonishing claim that biological making fosters biological knowing.

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258

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University of Chicago Press

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022644063X

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9780226440637

Delineation of Progressions

By: Sophia Mason

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Delineation of Progressions

By: Sophia Mason

A complete guide to the progressed horoscope. Ample delineations of major & minor progressions between planets are included along with orbs, aspects, interceptions, sign & house positions of Sun, Moon, planets & North Node. Plus there are detailed instructions for mathematical techniques, converse progressions & a generous offering of sample horoscopes to illustrate the principles in action.

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338

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American Federation of Astr

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0866902805

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9780866902809

Open Me Up

By: Sophia M Tampakopoulos

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Open Me Up

By: Sophia M Tampakopoulos

Following on the very hot heels of Pick Me Up, Do Not Open, and Take Me Back, comes Open Me Up, and irreverant, graphically dynamic, intelligently hilarious, and gruesomely informative book about the goings on of our innards. Learn about the discovery of penicillin from a graphic novel, see how the heart works via its social networking page, and watch white blood cells zap invaders on a video-game spread. This is not your father's Gray's Anatomy.

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Penguin

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0756668247

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9780756668242

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