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Codex Orféo A Novel
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Title
Codex Orféo [electronic resource] : A Novel / by Michael Charles Tobias.
ISBN
9783319306223
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Physical Description
X, 282 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color : online resource.
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Summary
Explore shattering ethical, political and practical quagmires in this gripping ecological thriller. A tense plot deals with devastating scientific, secret intelligence and geopolitical issues. “You alright, Professor?” Mal asked in a whisper. “Yeah, I’ll be alright.” World renowned ecologist, UCLA Professor David Lev, aged 84, has just begun a contemporary odyssey. From delivering a plenary address on climate change at the Rio+20 UN Summit, he must prevail on a journey through sub-zero hurricane-force gales, impenetrable bogs and twelve foot drifts of ice in the forests of Belarus. Along the way, Lev’s journey directs us to consider such profound questions as: Are we our Brother’s Keeper? What are the ethical limits of science? And, finally, at what price, glory? It is not only Lev’s story that is the key to this page-turner but also an account from the days of World War II and the Holocaust, which hinges on survival. A constellation of richly nuanced, deeply drawn characters whose enmeshed lives and unique circumstances speak with resonance, melancholy, inspiration and unrelenting drama are all part of this complex and thought-provoking novel - including cutting-edge biochemist Dr Taman Chernichevsky. What has he discovered? .
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 26, 2016
Contents
The Road To Utopia
The Day of the Chicken
Deep in the Forest
Simon Stylites
Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library
The Stampede for a Catalytic Agent
Thermus aquaticus
Alice’s Rabbit Hole
Tuber aestivum
Pavilion 3
Rio Maelstrom
Euclid’s Ghost
The Moment That Would Change A Lifetime
Ugly World
Daze
Obfuscations
Early Morning, Avenida President Wilson
The Bartender’s Apartment
From the Knee Down
The Ides, 2015
The Communiqué
A Classified Huddle
Noitnettaruoydeeniemsti
Cro-Magnon.
Machinations
The Irish Connection
The Decision
London
A Glazed Twist
Warszawa Centralna
Pryvakzaĺnaja plošča, 9:07 am. Minsk
Vulitsa Kirava 13
Minsk Passazhirsky
No Birds
Unique Circumstances
Disaster
Scrimmage
The Great Aunt
Lev’s Dream
225063 Kamieniuki. Region, Brest
The Histories
The Watch
The HIT
Convergences
The Coming Storm
Visions of the Shtetele
Twelve Feet of Snow
The Diary
Life and Death in the Forest
Despair in the Afternoon
Wise Men
The Graves
52°35′22.86″N 23°54′12.54″E. Elv. 201 M.
Eyes On The Gound
Plants That Dream At Night
Mystiques Amid the Rhizosphere
The Genius of a Squirrel
The Wisent of Bialowieza
Nothingness
The Marriage of Figaro Factor
Daybreak
11 am, Tenth Day
The “Parthenon” of Bialowieza
A Single Gnarled Gutteral
Escape From Nature
Paris
Les Deux Magots
The Synagogue de la rue Pavée, 4th district
The Survivors
The Crossing Over.
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