In an attempt to engineer the most popular science book ever, Nelson and Hollingham try to make our everyday fantasies come true using the very latest in scientific theory: the dating game simplified with human cloning, righting everyday mistakes with time travel, avoiding the dreaded commute using teleportation and flying cars, plus living forever, always winning, becoming a permanent size 12 or making your home townor place of work disappear forever. While the humour of the fantasy is always kept in view and addressed, the book takes a detailed look at the cutting edge science that just could make it possible. The topics touched on include: biotechnology, quantum mechanics, gene therapy, time travel, parallel universes, block holes, genetic modification, bionics, cybernetics, crygenics, nanotechnology, teleportation and antigravity.

How to Clone the Perfect Blonde : Making Fantasies Come True With Cutting-Edge Science

Nelson, Sue

Ebury & Vermilion

Clones of Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz. A robotic housekeeper who makes your bed every morning. A permanent size 6 figure. These are all just fantasies . . . or are they? How much do you really know about gene therapy, artificial intelligence, and bionic modification? In How to Clone the Perfect Blonde, award-winning journalists Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham show how cutting-edge science will eventually make your wildest dreams come true. With amazing anecdotes and breezy humor, they describe the latest discoveries in biotechnology, quantum mechanics, cryogenics, nanotechnology, wormholes, and much more -- complete with ironic "instructions" on How to Build a Robotic Servant, How to Live Forever, How to Turn Back Time, and more. You'll be amazed to learn how many of these "fantasies" are already well within our reach. In the tradition of bestselling pop-science books such as The Physics of Star Trek and How to Build a Time Machine, this entertaining read explores the science of science fiction -- and proves that anything is possible!

How to Clone the Perfect Blonde: Using Science to Make Your Wildest Dreams Come True

Hollingham, Richard

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Quirk Books

Wally Funk's Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer

Wally Funk was among the Mercury 13, the first group of American pilots to complete NASA’s 1961 Women in Space program. Funk breezed through the rigorous physical and mental tests, her scores beating those of many of the male candidates—even John Glenn. Just one week before Funk was to enter the final phase of training, the entire program was abruptly cancelled. Politics and prejudice meant that none of the more-than-qualified women ever went to space. Undeterred, Funk went on to become one of America’s first female aviation inspectors and civilian flight instructors, though her dream of being an astronaut never dimmed. In this offbeat odyssey, journalist and fellow space buff Sue Nelson travels with Wally Funk, approaching her 80th birthday, as she races to make her giant leap. Covering their travels across the United States and Europe—taking in NASA’s mission control in Houston and Spaceport America in New Mexico, where Funk’s ride to space awaits—this is a uniquely intimate and entertaining portrait of a true aviation trailblazer.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Chicago Review Press

For years marketing students and practitioners have slavishly learned and followed the four Ps approach to marketing. It is time to replace this dusty old marketing roadmap with a model that embraces advances in technology, our different attitude to authority, capitalism and consumerism, and the hard reality of organizational survival. This book offers an alternative to the Four Ps, at last. It is the marketing equivalent of "The Emperor's New Clothes", with everything stripped away, and marketing mythologies laid bare; practical guide to marketing in the 21st century.

Naked Marketing: How the 4Ps Have Destroyed Business and What to Do Instead

Management Books 2000 Ltd

Wally Funk's Race For Space

The Westbourne Press

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