The confluence of advances in human genetics and reproductive science has resulted in the ability to design babies ldquo Designing babies rdquo is an imprecise term used by journalists and commentators mdash not by scientists mdash to describe several different reproductive technologies that have

When the second edition of Thomas Bokenkotter rsquo s book appeared in 1990 the publisher boasted that over 125 000 copies were already in circulation Tens of thousands more have surely been sold in the meantime That fact alone testifies to the merits of the book and the need it has filled This

The front cover of Gabriel Garc a M rquez rsquo s Living to Tell the Tale shows the author as a wide-eyed child of 2 while the back cover shows the Nobel laureate as a distinguished gentleman of 75 The passage from one stage of life to the other will be the subject of a three-volume memoir and

Tobias Wolff is best known as a memoirist both for This Boy rsquo s Life and In Pharaoh rsquo s Army as well as a fine short-story writer Old School his first novel though clearly labeled a novel takes the form of a first-person memoir about a schoolboy rsquo s encounters with books and their a

Although Gene Outka rsquo s The Ethics of Human Stem Cell Research first appeared in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal it serves as the centerpiece for the valuable collection God and the Embryo While size alone might indicate its strategic place it is at least two-thirds longer than the ot

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea is Thomas Cahill rsquo s fourth volume in the Hinges of History series which includes his How the Irish Saved Civilization The Gifts of the Jews and Desire of the Everlasting Hills In these books Cahill interprets the achievements of the ancient civilizations that are f