Mutants

Author: Armand Marie Leroi
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101562765
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http://armandleroi.com/index.html Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it—a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer’s Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity. This elegant, humane, and engaging book “captures what we know of the development of what makes us human” (Nature).

The New Mutants

Author: Ramzi Fawaz
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147982349X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365

Book Description
2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions. In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as “new mutants,” social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from icons of nationalism and white masculinity into actual mutant outcasts, defined by their genetic difference from ordinary humanity. These powerful misfits and “freaks” soon came to embody the social and political aspirations of America’s most marginalized groups, including women, racial and sexual minorities, and the working classes. In The New Mutants, Ramzi Fawaz draws upon queer theory to tell the story of these monstrous fantasy figures and how they grapple with radical politics from Civil Rights and The New Left to Women’s and Gay Liberation Movements. Through a series of comic book case studies—including The Justice League of America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and The New Mutants—alongside late 20th century fan writing, cultural criticism, and political documents, Fawaz reveals how the American superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. The New Mutants provides the first full-length study to consider the relationship between comic book fantasy and radical politics in the modern United States.

Mutants and Mystics

Author: Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226453839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
"Account of how comic book heroes have helped their creators and fans alike explore and express a wealth of paranormal experiences ignored by mainstream science. Delving deeply into the work of major figures in the field - from Jack Kirby's cosmic superhero sagas and Philip K. Dick's futuristic head-trips to Alan Moore's sex magic and Whitley Strieber's communion with visitors - Kripal shows how creators turned to science fiction to convey the reality of the inexplicable and the paranormal they experienced in their lives. Expanded consciousness found its language in the metaphors of sci-fi - incredible powers, unprecedented mutations, time-loops and vast intergalactic intelligences - and the deeper influences of mythology and religion that these in turn drew from ; the wildly creative work that followed caught the imaginations of millions. Moving deftly from Cold War science and Fredric Wertham's anticomics crusade to gnostic revelation and alien abduction, Kripal spins out a hidden history of American culture, rich with mythical themes and shot through with an awareness that there are other realities far beyond our everyday understanding."--Jacket.

The Sixth-grade Mutants Meet the Slime

Author: Laura E. Williams
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440413172
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
After a science experiment goes awry, seven sixth graders are suddenly endowed with special mutant powers. At first it's scary, but then the kids realize that they can use the powers to their advantage. Being a mutant comes in handy, especially when there's a slimeball on the loose!

Mutants

Author: Armand Marie Leroi
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0006531644
Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Full of bizarre cases of genetic mutation and irregularity, "Mutants" is an amazing exploration of the human form in all its beautiful and unique guises.

Mutants of Maize

Author: M. Gerald Neuffer
Publisher: CSHL Press
ISBN: 9780879694449
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
This unique work of reference provides quick and easy access to the remarkable diversity of mutant phenotypes expressed by the maize plant. Its major portion consists of over 400 color photographs of well-established mutants arranged by chromosome position, detailed descriptions of the mutants' gene loci, and a current summary of the physical structure of genes that have been characterized at the molecular level. First published in 1968 and long out of print, Mutants of Maizehas been entirely revised by three of the corn plant's most distinguished investigators, enlarged to cover twice the number of mutants, and redesigned with clarity and elegance. All maize biologists will want this magnificent book in their personal library. In addition, because mutant maize genes have counterparts in most species, the book can be considered a general guide to the consequences of mutation in the entire plant kingdom. All maize biologists will want this magnificent book in their personal library. In addition, because mutant maize genes have counterparts in most species, the book can be considered a general guide to the consequences of mutation in the entire plant kingdom.

New Mutants Classic, Volume 1

Author: Chris Claremont
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302368230
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Cannonball. Sunspot. Moonstar. Karma. Rahne. Teenagers, thrown together by the one thing they had in common - the X-Factor in their genes that made them different, made them mutants. Relive the adventures of the team that will come to be known as X-Force... if they survive. Also collects Marvel Graphic Novel #4, and Uncanny X-Men #167.

Cute Mutants Vol 1

Author: Sj Whitby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473528645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
My name is Dylan Taylor, human incarnation of the burning dumpster gif, and this is my life. I always wanted to be an X-Man. Except people and me never got along, and apparently you need social skills to run a successful team. Cue Emma Hall's party. One hot make out session with the host herself, and I can talk to objects like my pillow (who's far too invested in my love life) and my baseball bat (who was a pacifist before I got hold of him). Now there's a whole group of us with strange abilities, including super hot ice queen Dani Kim who doesn't approve of how reckless I can be. The bigger problem is a mysterious mutant causing unnatural disasters, and we're the ones who have to stop him. Except trying to make a difference makes things blow up in my face and the team's on the verge of falling apart. Can I bring them back together in time to stop the villain from taking revenge? Have I mentioned I'm not a people person? Magneto help us.

Go, Mutants!

Author: Larry Doyle
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062000144
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
Larry Doyle, the author of I Love You, Beth Cooper, returns with Go, Mutants!, a hilariously outrageous novel of teenage angst and restlessness, populated with heroes and villains straight out of the classic sci-fi and teen movies of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Studios, Larry Doyle’s Go, Mutants! is the funniest, most original bit of genre-bending since Pride, Prejudice and Zombies. This story of alien high school rebels without a cause is sure to bring out the unabashed B-movie fan in everyone.

The Mutant Frequency

Author: Jerry Hanel
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781092298797
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Jackson and Lacey are mutants. They weren't born, they were created in a lab. The world outside doesn't know that they even exist, and corporations like Centratek want it that way. They want to keep their trained and specialized properties locked away to sell to the highest bidder.That is, until Jackson uses his illusion abilities to escape, and Lacey reaches out with her mind to find him. This sets a series of events in motion where Centratek must covertly do all they can to pluck Jackson and Lacey from the wild and return them -- dead or alive -- to the confines of the labs where they were created.Chased by a trained hunter and a ten-year-old mutant named Sniff, Jackson and Lacey flee across the USA, encountering other freed mutants, and learning to hide in plain sight. What they don't know might kill them, and their unwitting escape is the perfect dry kindling to spark a mutant/human war.