Bøger af Dan Cray

NAMED TO KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF 2018 You've never seen a true human being.No one has, because for several millennia a hidden society has conducted a clandestine effort to "diminish" the entire population, biochemically changing humans into lesser beings while they're still in the womb.But now the Diminishing Act is up for renewal and Andra Barger, a last-minute addition to the voting council, has an opportunity to overturn the law. It seems like an easy call... until she learns her cancer-stricken brother, the fate of an elusive culture, and possibly her own life depend on the council's good graces. Meanwhile her conscience--and Andra's only chance of having an unaltered child--demands an opposition vote.Will she vote for... or against... the horrific Act?

It's an unforgettable sight: innovation expert Maureen Clemmons can lift and "fly" massive objects, including five-ton stones, with little more than a steady wind and a good kite.But did the ancient Egyptians do the same thing when hoisting immense obelisks and pyramid stones? Egyptologists say no. Clemmons, backed by a decade of field tests and a Caltech aeronautics team, isn't so certain--especially when she learns the Egyptologists will not consider evidence from anyone outside their insular field. Buoyed by grassroots support and determined to show her children that science is for everyone, she launches into a series of stunning, block-heaving experiments that draw national news coverage... and open up a dangerous opportunity to try lifting a sixteen-ton, twenty-five-foot-tall megalith as the History Channel's documentary cameras roll.Can a backyard scientist lift such a massive stone using wind? Clemmons' unrelenting efforts not only advance a simple "Eureka!" moment to the halls of academia but prove an important point: you don't need a degree, just an inspired idea and some passion, to be a good scientist.