1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452149303321

Autore

McKinnell Robert Gilmore

Titolo

Cloning of frogs, mice, and other animals [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Gilmore McKinnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1985

ISBN

0-8166-5532-4

1-4356-0613-2

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Disciplina

596/.016

Soggetti

Cloning

Cell nuclei - Transplantation

Embryology, Experimental

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed. published as: Cloning : a biologist reports. 1979.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; 1 Why a Discourse on Cloning? Of E. coli, Quaking Aspens, and Frogs. Humans Too?; 2 ""A Fantastical Experiment""; 3 To Clone a Frog; 4 Cancer, Aging, and Other Challenges; 5 Cloning Mice, Large Domestic Animals, and Humans; 6 Epilogue: An Essay on Human Cloning; References; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; X; Z; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Cloning of Frogs, Mice, and Other Animals was first published as Cloning: A Biologist Reports in 1979 and was reissued under the present title in 1985. When cell biologist Robert McKinnell first wrote his layman's guide to cloning in 1979, no creature higher than a frog had been successfully cloned. In the years since then, scientific advances have made mammalian clones a reality -- cloned mice have been reported from laboratories using two different techniques. In this revised edition of Cloning: A Biologist Reports, McKinnell explains the process of mammalian cloning and discusses its import



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910583597103321

Autore

Raj Jayaseelan

Titolo

Plantation crisis : ruptures of dalit life in the indian tea belt. / / Jayaseelan Raj

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : UCL Press, 2022

ISBN

1-80008-227-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource. (xvi, 213 pages)

Collana

Economic exposures in Asia

Disciplina

331.7633720954

Soggetti

Tea plantations - India - History

Tea plantation workers - India - Economic conditions

Tea plantation workers - India - Social conditions

Dalits - India

Tea trade - India - History

Dalits

Tea plantation workers - Social conditions

Tea plantations

Tea trade

History

India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Pre-crisis: The making of moral order2 -- Workers: Stay on, move out -- Retirees: Failed attempt to stay on -- Youth: Hidden injuries of caste -- 'Dam'ned in dispute -- Crisis of relations -- Rumour and gossip in a time of crisis. -- New companies, new workforce -- The social consequences of crises.

Sommario/riassunto

What does the collapse of India's tea industry mean for Dalit workers who have lived, worked and died on the plantations since the colonial era? Plantation Crisis offers a complex understanding of how processes of social and political alienation unfold in moments of economic rupture. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Peermade and Munnar tea belts, Jayaseelan Raj - himself a product of the plantation system - offers a unique and richly detailed analysis of the



profound, multi-dimensional sense of crisis felt by those who are at the bottom of global plantation capitalism and caste hierarchy. Tea production in India accounts for 25 per cent of global output. The colonial era plantation system - and its two million strong workforce - has, since the mid-1990s, faced a series of ruptures due to neoliberal economic globalisation. In the South Indian state of Kerala, otherwise known for its labour-centric development initiatives, the Tamil speaking Dalit workforce, whose ancestors were brought to the plantations in the 19th century, are at the forefront of this crisis, which has profound impacts on their social identity and economic wellbeing. Out of the colonial history of racial capitalism and indentured migration, Plantation Crisis opens our eyes to the collapse of the plantation system and the rupturing of Dalit lives in India's tea belt. Praise for Plantation Crisis 'Raj's well-crafted ethnography offers profound and moving insight into the experience of Tamil Dalit plantation workers as they become alienated not just from their labour and its product, but from their families, communities, settlements and selves. An excellent read.' - Tania Li, University of Toronto 'An important, insightful and compelling story of the alienation of Tamil Dalit plantation workers, the disjuncture between economic and social mobility, the production of stigma and the role of caste and class, the failure of unions alongside that of the state and corporations, the destruction of labour organisation yet the possibility of finding resistance. Not only a major contribution to the South Asian literature but also a decolonisation "must read".' - Alpa Shah, London School of Economics



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964167603321

Autore

Isles John

Titolo

Ark : poems / / by John Isles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa City, c2003

ISBN

9781587294457

1587294451

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (69 p.)

Collana

Kuhl House poets

Disciplina

811.6

811/.6

Soggetti

American poetry

American literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Part I; To a Pretending Leaf; Static Report; Carrion Days; Sirens; Out of the Past; Elegy for the Present Moment; Small Traveling Islands; General Trees; Part II; Covenant; West of Here, North of True; The Evangelist of Fish; City upon a Hill; Saint in the Wilderness; New World Narratives; The Old Hunting Grounds; The Night-Flier's Song; Western Landscape with Storm; Natural History; Every City; Part III; How the Dead Kiss; Part IV; The Blouse Keeps Opening; The Wounded Angel; Our Daughter; Impossible Garden; As One with Foot in Mouth; Like Freedom; Outlaws, According to the Movies

In the Erogenous Zone of the Body PoliticNotes

Sommario/riassunto

John Isles's Ark is about the people and events that pass through a life, leaving a void; about finding a presence in that absence and waking up to the realities of the present moment. It is concerned, at its watery heart, with discovery and confrontation, uncovering and witnessing, whether it be the new world, "the world behind every blouse," or the tender mysteries that can only be seen through the eyes of belief: that which "starts the wild grasses trembling."With its deft maneuvers through both a historical and an emotional landscape, Ark speaks to us with a truly conte