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A global guidebook to the "utopias" being constructed—in cities, deserts, and on islands—in a capitalist era unfettered by union and state regulations.A New York Times Art and Architecture Critic's PickAlthough they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery existed until very recently, a gilded archipelago of private islands known as "The World...

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Daniel M. Davis

A leading expert explains how discoveries about the immune system are leading the way to a revolution in beating cancer and other diseases.The immune system holds the key to human health. The scientific quest to understand how it works--and how it is affected by stress, diet, sleep, age, exercise and our state of mind--is now unlocking a revolutionary new approach to medicine and well-being.The body's ability to fight disease and heal itself is one of the g...

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Daniel M. Davis

“Utterly absorbing. Nearly every paragraph brings a revelation.”—Bill Bryson • **“Wise, and beautifully written. . . . It will change the way you think about your body and live your life.”****—**Chris van Tulleken • “This great book from a world expert offers practical tips and dispels many myths.”—Tim SpectorA world-renowned scientist offers a much-needed analysis of what it takes to have good immune health—helping readers navigate what ca...

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Daniel M. Davis

The Compatibility Gene takes readers on a global journey of discovery spanning 60 years, involving scores of scientists, and encompassing the history of transplants and immunology. That journey has revealed astonishing links between who we are as individuals and our never-ceasing struggle to survive disease. Most of the 25,000 genes we possess are the same for all of us. Compatibility genes are those that vary most from person to person and give each of us a unique molecular signature. The...

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Daniel M Davis

'A big-picture forecast of how medicine stands on the threshold of a revolution that will radically change all of our lives' The TimesWelcome to a revolution in the science of you. This landmark new book from award-winning scientist Daniel M. Davis explores the future of the human body.Imagine taking drugs to help you acquire new skills, or knowing years in advance the precise likelihood of developing specific cancers, or following...

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SULI Daniel Johnson

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Davie Chase

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Practical Applications of Taoism

I decided to write this book after having written several books on the applications of Taoism in different areas. The applications of Taoism are broad. For everything that has been written, it remains poorly understood. There are several reasons for this. I have practiced Taoism for most of my life. I studied under a Taoist Master and spent many years in a temple. I have read a great deal on the subject. I have discovered that most of what is written is unclear and, in many cases, misleadi...

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Daniel M Davis

The Compatibility Gene is a scientific adventure story set in a new field of genetic discovery - that of the crucial genes that define our relationships, our health and our individuality. Here, Daniel M Davis, one of the leading scientists in the field, tells us the story of its groundbreaking developments that have the potential to change us allWe each possess a similar set of around 25,000 human genes. Yet a tiny, distinctive cluster of these genes plays a disproportiona...

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Daniel T. Davis

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Emerging Civil War Series

"Presents Custer's Civil War accomplishments in clear and engaging prose, while its ample images and battle maps place unfamiliar readers in the action." — The Civil War MonitorThrough the passage of time, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's last fight, the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, has come to overshadow the rest of his military career, which had its brilliant beginning in the American Civil War.Plucked from obscurity by Maj. Gen. George ...

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Daniel Davis, Phillip Greenwalt

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Emerging Civil War Series

Robert E. Lee gave Joseph E. Johnston an impossible task.Federal armies under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had rampaged through Georgia on their “March to the Sea” and now were cutting a swath of destruction as they marched north from Savannah through the Carolinas. Locked in a desperate defense of Richmond and Petersburg, there was little Lee could do to stem Sherman’s tide—so he turned to Johnston.The one-time hero of Manassas had squabbled for years with Confederat...

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James Luceno

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Daniel Davis

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Star Wars - Legends

He was the most powerful Sith lord who ever lived.But could he be the only one who never died?“Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise that he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying.”—Suprem...

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Daniel C Davis

A heartwarming children's book about breaking generational cycles and learning to be emotionally present across three generations of fathers.The story follows three generations:Curtis's grandfather: Absent, leaving a woundCurtis's father: Present but distant, trying to heal without the toolsCurtis: Present AND emotionally available, completing the healing

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Daniel T. Davis, Phillip S. Greenwalt

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Emerging Revolutionary War Series

“I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price we did Bunker Hill,” Nathanael Greene wrote to the governor of Rhode Island after the battle of June 17, 1775.Fought on Breed’s Hill outside Boston, Massachusetts, the Battle of Bunker Hill proved a pyrrhic victory for British forces. Confident in their ability to overwhelm the New England militia that opposed them, long lines of neatly uniformed British infantry and marines swept uphill toward a quickly built earthen redoub...