MySQL VTC Training CD

Joshua Mostafa "MySQL VTC Training CD"
Publisher: Virtual Training Company | ISBN: 1930519745 | edition: 2002 | English | 71 lectures | 36,2 Mb

Virtual Training Company's MySQL tutorial is just want you need to begin designing and developing database management systems. Joshua Mostafa will help you go from a beginner's understanding of databases and SQL to gaining a mastery knowledge in only 8 hours worth of training. He starts the tutorial by covering the basics of databases and SQL. Once you are comfortable with the basics, let him guide you through the more complex aspects, such as variables and security.
Virtual Training Company makes learning the most challenging software easier. Open the program you want to learn. Open your VTC training CD. A friendly expert takes you smoothly from the basics of the program through every single feature. It's simple to apply what your learning as you go.
Need help in the middle of a project? You can quickly search the subject, and within seconds an expert is showing exactly what you need to know.
VTC makes it possible for you to become an expert in far less time, at a much lower cost, than any other form of training.
VTC...The Tutor in Your Computer!



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MySQL VTC Training CD

Joshua Mostafa "MySQL VTC Training CD"
Publisher: Virtual Training Company | ISBN: 1930519745 | edition: 2002 | English | 71 lectures | 36,2 Mb

Virtual Training Company's MySQL tutorial is just want you need to begin designing and developing database management systems. Joshua Mostafa will help you go from a beginner's understanding of databases and SQL to gaining a mastery knowledge in only 8 hours worth of training. He starts the tutorial by covering the basics of databases and SQL. Once you are comfortable with the basics, let him guide you through the more complex aspects, such as variables and security.
Virtual Training Company makes learning the most challenging software easier. Open the program you want to learn. Open your VTC training CD. A friendly expert takes you smoothly from the basics of the program through every single feature. It's simple to apply what your learning as you go.
Need help in the middle of a project? You can quickly search the subject, and within seconds an expert is showing exactly what you need to know.
VTC makes it possible for you to become an expert in far less time, at a much lower cost, than any other form of training.
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The Teaching Company: American Civil War [Audio Lectures]

The Teaching Company: American Civil War [Audio Lectures]
mp3 | 48 lectures | 30 minutes every lectures | 48 kbps | 525 Mb
Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles streams ran red with blood, and the United States was truly born.
Leading Civil War historian Professor Gary W. Gallagher richly details the effects of the Civil War on all Americans. You'll learn how armies were recruited, equipped, and trained. You'll learn about the hard lot of prisoners. You'll hear how soldiers on both sides dealt with the rigors of camp life, campaigns, and the terror of combat. You'll understand how slaves and their falling masters responded to the advancing war. And you will see the desperate price paid by the families so many left behind.
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Taught by: Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Course Lecture Titles
1. Prelude to War
2. The Election of 1860
3. The Lower South Secedes
4. The Crisis at Fort Sumter
5. The Opposing Sides, I
6. The Opposing Sides, II
7. The Common Soldier
8. First Manassas or Bull Run
9. Contending for the Border States
10. Early Union Triumphs in the West
11. Shiloh and Corinth
12. The Peninsula Campaign
13. The Seven Days' Battles
14. The Kentucky Campaign of 1862
15. Antietam
16. The Background to Emancipation
17. Emancipation Completed
18. Filling the Ranks
19. Sinews of War—Finance and Supply
20. The War in the West, Winter 1862–63
21. The War in Virginia, Winter and Spring 1862–63
22. Gettysburg
23. Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma
24. A Season of Uncertainty, Summer and Fall 1863
25. Grant at Chattanooga
26. The Diplomatic Front
27. African Americans in Wartime, I
28. African Americans in Wartime, II
29. Wartime Reconstruction
30. The Naval War
31. The River War and Confederate Commerce Raiders
32. Women at War, I
33. Women at War, II
34. Stalemate in 1864
35. Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia
36. The Wilderness to Spotsylvania
37. Cold Harbor to Petersburg
38. The Confederate Home Front, I
39. The Confederate Home Front, II
40. The Northern Home Front, I
41. The Northern Home Front, II
42. Prisoners of War
43. Mobile Bay and Atlanta
44. Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley
45. The Final Campaigns
46. Petersburg to Appomattox
47. Closing Scenes and Reckonings
48. Remembering the War

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The Teaching Company: American Civil War [Audio Lectures]

The Teaching Company: American Civil War [Audio Lectures]
mp3 | 48 lectures | 30 minutes every lectures | 48 kbps | 525 Mb
Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles streams ran red with blood, and the United States was truly born.
Leading Civil War historian Professor Gary W. Gallagher richly details the effects of the Civil War on all Americans. You'll learn how armies were recruited, equipped, and trained. You'll learn about the hard lot of prisoners. You'll hear how soldiers on both sides dealt with the rigors of camp life, campaigns, and the terror of combat. You'll understand how slaves and their falling masters responded to the advancing war. And you will see the desperate price paid by the families so many left behind.
More info
Taught by: Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Course Lecture Titles
1. Prelude to War
2. The Election of 1860
3. The Lower South Secedes
4. The Crisis at Fort Sumter
5. The Opposing Sides, I
6. The Opposing Sides, II
7. The Common Soldier
8. First Manassas or Bull Run
9. Contending for the Border States
10. Early Union Triumphs in the West
11. Shiloh and Corinth
12. The Peninsula Campaign
13. The Seven Days' Battles
14. The Kentucky Campaign of 1862
15. Antietam
16. The Background to Emancipation
17. Emancipation Completed
18. Filling the Ranks
19. Sinews of War—Finance and Supply
20. The War in the West, Winter 1862–63
21. The War in Virginia, Winter and Spring 1862–63
22. Gettysburg
23. Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma
24. A Season of Uncertainty, Summer and Fall 1863
25. Grant at Chattanooga
26. The Diplomatic Front
27. African Americans in Wartime, I
28. African Americans in Wartime, II
29. Wartime Reconstruction
30. The Naval War
31. The River War and Confederate Commerce Raiders
32. Women at War, I
33. Women at War, II
34. Stalemate in 1864
35. Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia
36. The Wilderness to Spotsylvania
37. Cold Harbor to Petersburg
38. The Confederate Home Front, I
39. The Confederate Home Front, II
40. The Northern Home Front, I
41. The Northern Home Front, II
42. Prisoners of War
43. Mobile Bay and Atlanta
44. Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley
45. The Final Campaigns
46. Petersburg to Appomattox
47. Closing Scenes and Reckonings
48. Remembering the War

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MEDITATION - Awaken Your Wanderlust

MEDITATION - Awaken Your Wanderlust
Play Time: 16 minutes | MP3 | 128KBPS Stereo | 15 MB

Join MEDITATION GURU "davidji" for a special guided meditation podcast that will take you on a journey within, to experience the peace and wisdom of your inner Self.

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MEDITATION - Awaken Your Wanderlust

MEDITATION - Awaken Your Wanderlust
Play Time: 16 minutes | MP3 | 128KBPS Stereo | 15 MB

Join MEDITATION GURU "davidji" for a special guided meditation podcast that will take you on a journey within, to experience the peace and wisdom of your inner Self.

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English for Work: Everyday Technical English plus CD

Valerie Lambert, Elaine Murray, " English for Work: Everyday Technical English plus CD"
Penguin Books Ltd | 2003 | ISBN: 0582539633 | 95 pages | PDF, mp3 | 45,6 MB

Everyday Technical English is for students at intermediate level and can be used for self study or in class .
The book develops spoken language skills by presenting and practising vocabulary and expressions that are useful in everyday working life . It offers essential language in realsitic contexts , useful notes to explain important points , a variety of exercise with answers and a glossary section with room for the student to put in translations in their own language .
A separate audio CD contains recordings of useful phrases and dialogues .

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English for Work: Everyday Technical English plus CD

Valerie Lambert, Elaine Murray, " English for Work: Everyday Technical English plus CD"
Penguin Books Ltd | 2003 | ISBN: 0582539633 | 95 pages | PDF, mp3 | 45,6 MB

Everyday Technical English is for students at intermediate level and can be used for self study or in class .
The book develops spoken language skills by presenting and practising vocabulary and expressions that are useful in everyday working life . It offers essential language in realsitic contexts , useful notes to explain important points , a variety of exercise with answers and a glossary section with room for the student to put in translations in their own language .
A separate audio CD contains recordings of useful phrases and dialogues .

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Secrets of Podcasting: Audio Blogging for the Masses (Secrets of...)

Secrets of Podcasting: Audio Blogging for the Masses (Secrets of...)
Peachpit Press | 224 pages | 2005 | ISBN: 0321369297 | CHM | 13 mb

Whether you want to create your own podcasts or just would like to locate and then listen to audio programs on your portable player, this is the book for you. In the Secrets of Podcasting, author Bart G. Farkas provides real-world guidance and advice on how to:
* Download and enjoy podcasts with any MP3 player.
* Create a script and set the structure and flow of your podcast.
* Choose the right equipment - including the right microphone, headphones, and even preamp.
* Use a digital recording device instead of your PC or Mac.
* Pick audio editing and recording software
* Legally play music in your podcast.
* Distribute your podcast.
In addition, Bart includes tutorials on creating podcasts on Windows machines and on Macs. He also offers dozens of recommendations for software to use for finding and subscribing to podcasts.

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Secrets of Podcasting: Audio Blogging for the Masses (Secrets of...)

Secrets of Podcasting: Audio Blogging for the Masses (Secrets of...)
Peachpit Press | 224 pages | 2005 | ISBN: 0321369297 | CHM | 13 mb

Whether you want to create your own podcasts or just would like to locate and then listen to audio programs on your portable player, this is the book for you. In the Secrets of Podcasting, author Bart G. Farkas provides real-world guidance and advice on how to:
* Download and enjoy podcasts with any MP3 player.
* Create a script and set the structure and flow of your podcast.
* Choose the right equipment - including the right microphone, headphones, and even preamp.
* Use a digital recording device instead of your PC or Mac.
* Pick audio editing and recording software
* Legally play music in your podcast.
* Distribute your podcast.
In addition, Bart includes tutorials on creating podcasts on Windows machines and on Macs. He also offers dozens of recommendations for software to use for finding and subscribing to podcasts.

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Viking Adult | 288 pages | 2001 | ISBN: 0670899240 | PDF | 2 mb

In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. Veteran coach and management consultant David Allen recognizes that time management is useless the minute your schedule is interrupted; setting priorities isn't relevant when your e-mail is down; procrastination solutions won't help if your goals aren't clear. Instead, Allen shares with readers the proven methods he has already introduced in seminars and at top organizations across the country. The key to Getting Things Done? Relaxation.
Allen's premise is simple: our ability to be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve stress-free productivity. His seamless system teaches us how to identify, track, and-most important-choose the next action on all our tasks, commitments, and projects and thus master all the demands on our time while unleashing our creative potential. The book's stylish, dynamic design makes it easy to follow Allen's tips, examples, and inspiration to achieve what we all seek-energy, focus, and relaxed control.

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Viking Adult | 288 pages | 2001 | ISBN: 0670899240 | PDF | 2 mb

In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. Veteran coach and management consultant David Allen recognizes that time management is useless the minute your schedule is interrupted; setting priorities isn't relevant when your e-mail is down; procrastination solutions won't help if your goals aren't clear. Instead, Allen shares with readers the proven methods he has already introduced in seminars and at top organizations across the country. The key to Getting Things Done? Relaxation.
Allen's premise is simple: our ability to be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve stress-free productivity. His seamless system teaches us how to identify, track, and-most important-choose the next action on all our tasks, commitments, and projects and thus master all the demands on our time while unleashing our creative potential. The book's stylish, dynamic design makes it easy to follow Allen's tips, examples, and inspiration to achieve what we all seek-energy, focus, and relaxed control.

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The Teaching Company: American Religious History [Audio Lectures]

The Teaching Company: American Religious History [Audio Lectures]
mp3 | 24 lectures | 30 minutes every lectures | 64 kbps | 324 Mb
Why does America, unlike virtually any other industrial nation, continue to show so much religious vitality? Why are the varieties of religion found here so numerous and diverse? The best way to look for explanations of this truly remarkable vitality and diversity, argues Professor Allitt, is to study the nation’s religious history. You will examine religion not only as a set of formal beliefs, ideas, communal or institutional loyalties, and styles of worship, but also as an influence on life "beyond the pews." This will mean investigating the subtle but important links that have long brought religion into close contact with the intellectual, social, economic, and political concerns of Americans. To give just one notable and recent example: Professor Allitt explains how Martin Luther King, Jr., mixed appeals from the Bible and the American "civil religion" to press the case for civil rights.Professor Allitt even reflects on American religion as a sensory experience—a phenomenon whose deep spiritual and social meanings can in part be seen in the design of churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples; heard in the sacred sounds of hymns, prayers, and chants; smelled in Catholic or Buddhist incense; and even tasted. (Here you’ll ask why the casserole may be the most "Protestant" of all dishes!)

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Taught by: Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Course Lecture Titles
1. Major Features of American Religious History
2. The European Background
3. Natives and Newcomers
4. The Puritans
5. Colonial Religious Diversity
6. The Great Awakening
7. Religion and Revolution
8. The Second Great Awakening
9. Oneida and the Mormons
10. Catholicism
11. African-American Religion
12. The Civil War
13. Victorian Developments
14. Darwin and Other Dilemmas
15. Judaism in the 19th Century
16. Fundamentalism
17. War and Peace
18. Twentieth-Century Catholicism
19. The Affluent Society
20. The Civil Rights Movements
21. The Counterculture and Feminism
22. Asian Religions
23. Church and State
24. The Enduring Religious Sensibility

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The Teaching Company: American Religious History [Audio Lectures]

The Teaching Company: American Religious History [Audio Lectures]
mp3 | 24 lectures | 30 minutes every lectures | 64 kbps | 324 Mb
Why does America, unlike virtually any other industrial nation, continue to show so much religious vitality? Why are the varieties of religion found here so numerous and diverse? The best way to look for explanations of this truly remarkable vitality and diversity, argues Professor Allitt, is to study the nation’s religious history. You will examine religion not only as a set of formal beliefs, ideas, communal or institutional loyalties, and styles of worship, but also as an influence on life "beyond the pews." This will mean investigating the subtle but important links that have long brought religion into close contact with the intellectual, social, economic, and political concerns of Americans. To give just one notable and recent example: Professor Allitt explains how Martin Luther King, Jr., mixed appeals from the Bible and the American "civil religion" to press the case for civil rights.Professor Allitt even reflects on American religion as a sensory experience—a phenomenon whose deep spiritual and social meanings can in part be seen in the design of churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples; heard in the sacred sounds of hymns, prayers, and chants; smelled in Catholic or Buddhist incense; and even tasted. (Here you’ll ask why the casserole may be the most "Protestant" of all dishes!)

More info
Taught by: Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Course Lecture Titles
1. Major Features of American Religious History
2. The European Background
3. Natives and Newcomers
4. The Puritans
5. Colonial Religious Diversity
6. The Great Awakening
7. Religion and Revolution
8. The Second Great Awakening
9. Oneida and the Mormons
10. Catholicism
11. African-American Religion
12. The Civil War
13. Victorian Developments
14. Darwin and Other Dilemmas
15. Judaism in the 19th Century
16. Fundamentalism
17. War and Peace
18. Twentieth-Century Catholicism
19. The Affluent Society
20. The Civil Rights Movements
21. The Counterculture and Feminism
22. Asian Religions
23. Church and State
24. The Enduring Religious Sensibility

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Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
Tantor Media | ISBN: 1400157226 | 2008-07-01 | MP3 | 178 Mb

Set during the height of the Ottoman Empire and with Christendom weakened and vulnerable, this is the story of the fifty-year battle for domination of the Mediterranean, centered around the titanic battles of Rhodes, Malta, and Lepanto---three of the most dramatic and decisive battles in world history.

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Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
Tantor Media | ISBN: 1400157226 | 2008-07-01 | MP3 | 178 Mb

Set during the height of the Ottoman Empire and with Christendom weakened and vulnerable, this is the story of the fifty-year battle for domination of the Mediterranean, centered around the titanic battles of Rhodes, Malta, and Lepanto---three of the most dramatic and decisive battles in world history.

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Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences (Library Edition)

Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences (Library Edition)
Blackstone Audiobooks | ISBN: 0786176814 | 2005-10-30 | MP3 381 Mb

Neither the Victorians nor the Feminist revisionists had it right when describing gender differences in children, and the resulting effects on raising and teaching them. There aren't vague innate differences, it isn't all hormones, and children aren't all equal but for socialization. There are measurable, structural, genetically-created differences in boy and girl brains, informing how they act, and how they learn.

All new research, over the last five to ten years, all documented, leads to some startlingly new conclusions about the sexes.
-- Right brain - left brain differences: Yes, but in males. In females, things are distributed completely differently.
-- Boys and men can't hear, while the girls always think you're yelling at them? Yes! Girls literally hear better than boys -- about 20 decibels worth.
-- Can't get girls to engage with math, or boys to engage with literature? You have to relate it to them differently, because their brains are different from the basic wiring up.
-- Boys can't describe their feelings, while girls can't stop? Yes. Girls use the same part of the brain or feelings and for verbal skills. Boys use two different parts, which aren't well connected. Boys still feel strong feelings, but in a part that just isn't connected to the part that talks!
-- Girls are two years ahead of boys? No! Girls are *six* years ahead in verbal reasoning, while boys are four years ahead in tracking and spatial reasoning.

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Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences (Library Edition)

Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences (Library Edition)
Blackstone Audiobooks | ISBN: 0786176814 | 2005-10-30 | MP3 381 Mb

Neither the Victorians nor the Feminist revisionists had it right when describing gender differences in children, and the resulting effects on raising and teaching them. There aren't vague innate differences, it isn't all hormones, and children aren't all equal but for socialization. There are measurable, structural, genetically-created differences in boy and girl brains, informing how they act, and how they learn.

All new research, over the last five to ten years, all documented, leads to some startlingly new conclusions about the sexes.
-- Right brain - left brain differences: Yes, but in males. In females, things are distributed completely differently.
-- Boys and men can't hear, while the girls always think you're yelling at them? Yes! Girls literally hear better than boys -- about 20 decibels worth.
-- Can't get girls to engage with math, or boys to engage with literature? You have to relate it to them differently, because their brains are different from the basic wiring up.
-- Boys can't describe their feelings, while girls can't stop? Yes. Girls use the same part of the brain or feelings and for verbal skills. Boys use two different parts, which aren't well connected. Boys still feel strong feelings, but in a part that just isn't connected to the part that talks!
-- Girls are two years ahead of boys? No! Girls are *six* years ahead in verbal reasoning, while boys are four years ahead in tracking and spatial reasoning.

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DNA: The Secret of Life

DNA: The Secret of Life
Random House Audio | ISBN: 0739302620 | 2003-04-01 | MP3 | 419 Mb

Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just twentyfour, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time. Now, with unique authority and sweeping vision, he gives us the first full account of the genetic revolution—from Mendel’s garden to the double helix to the sequencing of the human genome and beyond.
Watson’s lively, panoramic narrative begins with the fanciful speculations of the ancients as to why “like begets like” before skipping ahead to 1866, when an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel first deduced the basic laws of inheritance. But genetics as we recognize it today—with its capacity, both thrilling and sobering, to manipulate the very essence of living things—came into being only with the rise of molecular investigations culminating in the breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA, for which Watson shared a Nobel prize in 1962. In the DNA molecule’s graceful curves was the key to a whole new science.

Having shown that the secret of life is chemical, modern genetics has set mankind off on a journey unimaginable just a few decades ago. Watson provides the general reader with clear explanations of molecular processes and emerging technologies. He shows us how DNA continues to alter our understanding of human origins, and of our identities as groups and as individuals. And with the insight of one who has remained close to every advance in research since the double helix, he reveals how genetics has unleashed a wealth of possibilities to alter the human condition—from genetically modified foods to genetically modified babies—and transformed itself from a domain of pure research into one of big business as well. It is a sometimes topsy-turvy world full of great minds and great egos, driven by ambitions to improve the human condition as well as to improve investment portfolios, a world vividly captured in these pages.

Facing a future of choices and social and ethical implications of which we dare not remain uninformed, we could have no better guide than James Watson, who leads us with the same bravura storytelling that made The Double Helix one of the most successful books on science ever published. Infused with a scientist’s awe at nature’s marvels and a humanist’s profound sympathies, DNA is destined to become the classic telling of the defining scientific saga of our age.

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DNA: The Secret of Life

DNA: The Secret of Life
Random House Audio | ISBN: 0739302620 | 2003-04-01 | MP3 | 419 Mb

Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just twentyfour, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time. Now, with unique authority and sweeping vision, he gives us the first full account of the genetic revolution—from Mendel’s garden to the double helix to the sequencing of the human genome and beyond.
Watson’s lively, panoramic narrative begins with the fanciful speculations of the ancients as to why “like begets like” before skipping ahead to 1866, when an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel first deduced the basic laws of inheritance. But genetics as we recognize it today—with its capacity, both thrilling and sobering, to manipulate the very essence of living things—came into being only with the rise of molecular investigations culminating in the breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA, for which Watson shared a Nobel prize in 1962. In the DNA molecule’s graceful curves was the key to a whole new science.

Having shown that the secret of life is chemical, modern genetics has set mankind off on a journey unimaginable just a few decades ago. Watson provides the general reader with clear explanations of molecular processes and emerging technologies. He shows us how DNA continues to alter our understanding of human origins, and of our identities as groups and as individuals. And with the insight of one who has remained close to every advance in research since the double helix, he reveals how genetics has unleashed a wealth of possibilities to alter the human condition—from genetically modified foods to genetically modified babies—and transformed itself from a domain of pure research into one of big business as well. It is a sometimes topsy-turvy world full of great minds and great egos, driven by ambitions to improve the human condition as well as to improve investment portfolios, a world vividly captured in these pages.

Facing a future of choices and social and ethical implications of which we dare not remain uninformed, we could have no better guide than James Watson, who leads us with the same bravura storytelling that made The Double Helix one of the most successful books on science ever published. Infused with a scientist’s awe at nature’s marvels and a humanist’s profound sympathies, DNA is destined to become the classic telling of the defining scientific saga of our age.

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