Birth Science

Human reproduction is by permit only due to global overpopulation many years after the aging process was successfully halted. Prennia Lumis lives roughly a century after this golden era of life extension. Trouble has never found her before, but after a unexpected promotion and new job assignment, her life is forever altered and she finds herself on the wrong side of the law due to no fault of her own. To what lengths will she go to make things right?

What's next for us? Ethics Engineer Jennifer Peterson already knows where humans are going. As robots gain more facility with thought and problem solving, a human future melded with machines seems inescapable. But the timing will be critical, for in 2030, America is torn between an analog past and a digital future. As fiction meets fact, listeners will come to realize they are previewing not what's next for us...but when and how. Is Jennifer's journey near its end? Or is it just beginning?

In the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration became one of the most celebrated women in America when she prevented a deadly sedative from entering the U.S. market. A Canadian-born pharmacologist and physician, Kelsey saved countless Americans from the devastating side effects of thalidomide, routinely given to pregnant women to prevent morning sickness. As the FDA medical officer charged with reviewing Merrell Pharmaceutical’s application for approval, Kelsey was unconvinced that there was sufficient evidence of the drug’s efficacy and safety.

There is only one thing better than a birthday party—a birthday party in Unicornia! Here the cakes are enchanted, the candies change flavor, and the theme parks are covered in glitter. But Pippa’s birthday has started off on the wrong foot, and her friends must think quickly to turn disaster into great fun. Luckily for them, they live in the most magical place ever!

Throughout history, some of the most thoughtful minds have advocated that life does not end with the death of our body, but continues via a process known as reincarnation. The Vedic literature of India advocates that the soul, or atma, gives life to the body. Life does not arise from a particular combination of material elements as some modern scientists theorize. At the time of death, we leave one body and enter a new one. That is called reincarnation.

Vampires don’t exist. That’s what Jake knew. Until that fateful night in a dark alley. Now a rogue half-breed, he will know more than he wants about the hidden world of the inhuman predators who changed his life. And he will have his mortality back, even if he has to destroy them all. With the suspect assistance of a mysterious benefactor, his desperate journey for salvation will take him to the demonic myths of the distant past, lead to war with various vampire clans, deadly battles with different species of their kind, and test his unique skills as never before.

What if you woke up alone in a different galaxy with superhuman abilities and post-traumatic amnesia during a galactic war? In the near future, twelve-year-old Conor Hawk wakes up on an advanced planet, in the palace of a charismatic military leader just before vicious alien warriors attack. Conor departs for the Academy to train in the fight for survival against the fearsome Kravii, but he isn't just honing his combat skills as he encounters strange species, mythical weapons, colossal ships, and danger around every curious corner

With an in-depth look at the two most empowering years in the life of Marilyn Monroe, The Girl details how The Seven Year Itch created an icon and sent the star on an adventure of self-discovery and transformation from a controlled wife and contract player into a businesswoman and unlikely feminist whose power is still felt today. When Marilyn Monroe stepped over a subway grating as The Girl in The Seven Year Itch and let a gust of wind catch the skirt of her pleated white dress, an icon was born.

Imagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise, eat meat without killing animals, have babies without the need to bear them, and choose the time of our painless death. Life would be better, right? All over the globe, people are trying to make this a reality. They want to use technology to solve the thorniest problems of humanity. But what if these ‘problems’ are the very things that make us human?

From the best-selling team behind What the Ladybird Heard, Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, Princess Mirror-Belle and the Party Hoppers is a delightful adventure perfect for independent listeners. Ellen gets a big shock when her double appears out of the bathroom mirror. But Mirror-Belle is a double with a difference! She is a princess, and a very mischievous one at that.

Sophia’s birthday is finally here! And in her world, on your birthday, you can ask for anything you want! Follow her adventure into the colorful underworld where she searches for a magical faery to make her wish come true. With kindness, courage, and love, she turns her birthday into the best one yet!

Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United States, half of all pregnancies remain unintended, and access to birth control is beset by inequities in education, access, and coverage. Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know will offer more than a user's guide to available means of contraception: it will examine how supported family-planning infrastructure impacts society as a whole.

Smirk the hiring gnome wreaks havoc for his superiors once again. He accidentally rescues two spirits - a human and her dog.

In a genetic research center of America, which operates with secret public funds, a team of scientists discovers that during pregnancy, a particular hormone eliminates the memory of the embryo so far. What will happen if they remove this hormone? What information will they gather about the birth and the journey before that? The experiment is crowned by success and Johannes comes into the world, a being with full consciousness and memory of the life before birth.

What do an intergalactic art thief, a snarky AI, and a sexy protestor have in common? It’s up to them to save the universe! Mathia thinks stealing Princess Rosalie’s spaceship will lead to a peaceful protest.

It’s the dawn of the twentieth century. Darwin has theorized that traits get passed down through generations, and Mendel has come up with a mathematical formula that predicts how traits reappear over time. But a key mystery remains: is there a recipe for living beings? If there is, where is it hidden? With the help of powerful new microscopes and x-rays, scientists peer ever closer into cells, searching for answers.

Women everywhere are waking up to the risks associated with birth control. The print edition of this book garnered global attention for exposing how the health of millions of women has been sacrificed In the Name of the Pill. This new, expanded audio edition continues the conversation into these impossibly diverse consequences and reveals how such a dangerous drug ever made it do market. This expanded audiobook also contains new chapters that delve into the risks of long-acting forms of birth control such as injections and IUDs.

Isadora Moon es especial porque es diferente. Su mamá es un hada, su papá un vampiro y ella tiene un poquito de los dos. Por eso su fiesta de cumpleaños no es como las fiestas normales y corrientes.... ¡Hadas, vampiros y niños humanos, están todos invitados!

This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were eventually identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace.

Σε ?να ερευνητικ? κ?ντρο γενετικ?ς της Αμερικ?ς, που λειτουργε? με μυστικ? κρατικ? κονδ?λια, μια ομ?δα επιστημ?νων ανακαλ?πτει ?τι κατ? τη δι?ρκεια της εγκυμοσ?νης μ?α συγκεκριμ?νη ορμ?νη εξαλε?φει τη μ?χρι τ?τε μν?μη του εμβρ?ου.