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Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World BIOTECHNOLOGY EUGENICS ETHICS

2004Best.-Nr. 21195San Francisco California U.S.A.: Encounter Books. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 219 pages -- Interior text is clean tight and unmarked. From the publisher's description of the book: "Cloning researchers claim to have cloned an embryo that is mostly human but also part animal. Biotech companies brag about manufacturing human embryos as 'products' for use in medical treatments. Echoing long discredited master-race thinking James Watson who won a Nobel Prize for co-discovering the DNA double helix claims that genetically enhanced people will someday 'dominate the world.' Events are moving so fast--and biotechnology seems so complicated--that many of us worry that we can't have an informed opinion about these issues that are remaking the human future before our very eyes. But now Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to the brave new world that is no longer a figment of our imagination but right around the corner of our lives. Smith starts with the basic questions. What are stem cells What is the difference between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells and which is most promising for medical therapy What does embryonic stem cell research involve and why is it so controversial What is its relationship to human cloning .In addition to explaining the science of stem cells this highly readable and carefully researched book reports on the gargantuan "Big Biotech" industry and its supporters in the universities and in the science and bioethics establishments. Smith shows how this lobby works and how the lure of huge riches mixed with the ideology of 'scientism' threatens to impose a 'new eugenics' on society that would dismantle ethical norms and call into question the uniqueness and importance of all human life. 'A Consumer's Guide to Brave New World' presents a clear-eyed vision of two potential futures. In one we will use biotechnology as a powerful tool to treat disease and improve the quality of our lives. But in another darker scenario we will be steered onto the anti-human path Aldous Huxley and other prophetic writers first warned against fifty years ago when science fiction had not yet become science fact." -- with a bonus offer--; TOS006624; Smith Wesley J. Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World BIOTECHNOLOGY ETHICS EUGENICS . 2004. 1893554996 . Encounter Books hardcover

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Nagle Wesley M.ABAA

Correspondence of E. I. Dupont Company executive & chemical engineer Wesley M. Nagle his wife children and parents all of El Paso and Bryan Texas Woodbury New Jersey and Wilmington Delaware and his father-in-law Rev. Dr. William B. ""Daddy"" Ricks and family of Gallatin and Nashville Tennessee 1928-1973

Best.-Nr. 030231No Binding. Very Good. 609 letters totaling 1979 pages plus over 350 pieces of ephemera and approximately 1000 photographs and negatives all dating from 1928-1973. The correspondence consists mostly of communication between Wesley M. Nagle his wife Mary Elizabeth Ricks Nagle their children William Wesley Nagle and Elizabeth Cameron Nagle plus both the maternal and paternal grandparents of the children the Rev. Dr. William B. ""Daddy"" Ricks and his wife Nora Neal Ricks and Judge Michael Nagle and his wife Leonora Waldrop Nagle. There is also some correspondence of Mrs. Rick's sisters Martha and Lilly Bell Neal as well as from other family friends and business associates of Wesley M. Nagle. The correspondence includes letters from the time that Wesley M. Nagle studied abroad in France and Germany in 1929-1931 and when his daughter studied in France in the 1960s and his son traveled to Germany in the 1970s. The photographs include approximately 800 photographs and 200 negatives mostly of the Nagle family with some of members of the allied families of Waldorp Neal and Ricks of El Paso and Bryan Texas and Gallatin and Nashville Tennessee. The 350 plus ephemeral items include typed and manuscript pages of essays verse memorandum notes reminiscences address book funeral guest book greeting cards calling cards invitations circulars brochures school ephemera receipts newspaper clippings etc. all dealing with the Nagle and allied families. Wesley Michael Nagle 1905-1995 Wesley Michael Nagle was born 12 January 1905 at Bryan Brazos County Texas. He was the son of Judge Michael Nagle and his wife Lenore Waldorp. His father Michael Nagle was born 20 December 1868 at Culpeper County Virginia. Judge Nagle was the son of Irish immigrants Michael Nagle 1833-1903 and his wife Ellen 1833-1908. Judge Nagle's father was a farmer and the Judge spent his young manhood in Bryan Texas where he met and married Lenora Waldorp about 1898. Wesley's father served as county attorney for Brazos County for several terms 1901-1906 before moving to El Paso in 1906 and becoming a member of Kemp Nagle and Smith a leading law firm of El Paso. He was considered prominent in the El Paso legal community at the time of his death and was also the attorney for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He was a life-long Episcopalian. Judge Nagle died 12 December 1938 at El Paso Texas and was buried at Bryan City Cemetery. Wesley's mother was Lenore Waldorp. She was born 26 April 1875 at Bryan Texas. Mrs. Nagle was the daughter of Wesley Virgil 1846-1891 and Sarah McLelland 1853-1929 and the sister of Allister McLelland Waldorp 1877-1936. The McLelland and Waldorp families were pioneers of Bryan Texas the McLellands emigrated to Bryan after the Civil War from Macon Mississippi. Mrs. Nagle also had brother Wesley Waldorp of New York City. Mrs. Nagle was a member of the First Baptist Church of El Paso the El Paso Woman's Club the United Daughters of the American Revolution and life member of Society of Colonial Dames. She died 27 February 1969 at Chester Pennsylvania at the age of 93 She was buried at Bryan City Cemetery with her husband. Wesley M. Nagle was a student at the College of Mines and El Paso High School. He decided to specialize in chemical engineering. He left El Paso to study at Stanford University where he graduated in the Class of 1929. After Stanford he went to study in Europe for a year at Berlin Germany here he was a student at Institut fur Auslander. He also studied at Technische Hochschule in Munich. He did post graduate work at M.I.T. 1931 then went to Bayonne New Jersey to the chemical engineering practice school at the refinery of the Tidewater Oil Co Aug 1931. He won scholarship as assistant in the chemical engineering department of Boston Tech. Upon completing his thesis for doctor of science at M.I.T. in chemical engineering he went to work for Dupont as a research engineer at Gibbstown New books

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Powell, John WesleyBiblio.com

Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries. Explored in 1869 1870 1871 and 1872 Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

1875Best.-Nr. 71484Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good . 291pp. Quarto 29.5 cm Dark green cloth over boards. With map has a couple of minor fold splits and profile in an envelope at the rear. Both in near pristine condition. Light scratching and scuffing to the monograph's boards. Multiple small faint spots on backstrip. Darkening to p. 180 and the plate opposite. Text block cracked at p. 185 but book remains very sturdy. Complete. In better than very good condition. Powell's 1869 exploration was the first documented expedition to successfully navigate the perilous rapids of the Colorado River through the uncharted Grand Canyon. The expedition set off in 1869 with ten men and four boats under the direction of one-armed American explorer and Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell 1834-1902. After three months and nearly 1000 miles only five of the original party emerged from the depths of the canyon. Their historic journey mapped the last wild untamed river of the American West and named the last unknown regions of American geography. The Henry Mountains and the Dirty Devil River were until the Powell expedition the last nameless mountain range and river in the continental U.S. Carl Wheat writes in "Mapping the Transmississippi West 1850-1861" "As a narrative of adventure this book of 1875 is one of the most justly celebrated documents in the literature of exploration." In recognition of Powell's contributions to American exploration geology and ethnology he was appointed the first director of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as director of the U.S. Geological Survey from 1881 to 1894. Powell Plateau a butte in Grand Canyon National Park is named after him as is Lake Powell. Howes P525. Farquhar 42a. Wheat 1261. Graff 3336. Sabin 64753. Government Printing Office hardcover

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de Kay John Wesley. Illustrations by Winifred ElliotABAA

Manuscript The Holy Book of Dreams

1907Best.-Nr. 006192London 1907-1913. Full Morocco. Very Good. A strange lyrical manuscript that celebrates the spiritual the mystical and the beautiful. Oblong 25.5 by 37 cm. 49 pages with content many of which are illustrated with watercolors until the last few unfinished pages which have illustrations sketched in pencil. 21 pages have watercolors not counting painted letters. Two pages have finished well-executed pen-and-ink drawings. Followed by blank leaves constituting half of the album. John de Kay 1872-1938 was an American entrepreneur millionaire author and eccentric. With earnings from publishing ventures he invested in the Mexican meatpacking business becoming in the process the "Sausage King of Mexico". By 1909 his meatpacking business in Mexico had a book value of $22 million which translates to about $500 million in today's dollars although he sold his interest in the business to the Mexican government five years later for just $5 million still over $100 million in today's dollars. With his fortune he produced his own play "Judas" on Broadway with no less a star than Sarah Bernhardt as Mary Magdalen. The play with its depiction of a vampish heroine was shut down by the police after its opening night. It was also banned in Boston and Philadelphia. De Kay reportedly infatuated with Bernhardt showered jewelry and other gifts on her. De Kay went on to pen many other works on a wide range of topics including women's rights the labor movement Mexico and world peace as well as at least one work of poetry. As a man of great wealth de Kay owned substantial properties in both France and England as well as having a lavish apartment in New York. We have not been able to discover anything about the presumed illustrator credited in pencil on the cut out back of the FEP Winifred Elliot whose enchanting work is to us the glory of this manuscript. As far as the manuscript this is an anthology of disparate pieces including poetry prose meditations and apercus some of which might be rightly deemed ruminative essays except the organization tends to be somewhat discursive and the purpose is not so much the setting forth of an argument as much as the gathering of loosely linked insights and observations. The writing style can be epigrammatic but also pompous and pretentious perhaps deliberately so as the tone desired would seem at times to be biblical and prophetic. Topics include the law of beauty the soul on being etc. In one essay entitled "On Civilization" de Kay appears to propound rather radical notions. He writes for instance: "The individual is not to expect any help from a Government so long as that Government is organized upon the theory that it is right that a few men may claim the ownership of the earth. . . " If we wish to flatter de Kay we could say some of his writing prefigures that of Kahlil Gibran. On the other hand it shares some kinship with the fusty belletrists of the Late Victorian period as well. However one might assess the writing on its own we would maintain it has merit in how it complements the artwork which it deserves credit for having inspired. The artwork generally has a strong affinity to the pre-Raphaelite style. Here are opulent floral borders seraphs aplenty Medievalist historicism and fantasy. We especially like a page which abounds with butterflies painted with magnificent detail. Condition: Rebacked with matching navy morocco with most of original spine re-mounted but loss of everything from lowest raised band to below from the original spine. Considerable amount of rubbing of leather along edges with a few minor abrasions to leather elsewhere. One shallow but wide ding on rear upper edge. Silk moire endpapers suffering some edge tattering. The FEP is deliberately scooped out neatly so by edge of turn-ins to reveal on back pencilled information about the book. We have relied on this information for the title and also as solidifying the attribution and dating. The pages have light edge toning and an occasional stray mark or smudge. books

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