Advances in heritable genome editing, such as with CRISPR-Cas9, promise to ensure that some possible future children with genetic disorders are not created — but at what cost to equality? If only certain kinds of people are brought into existence, do we risk undermining the very foundations of social justice?This groundbreaking volume brings together leading philosophical, ethical, and legal scholars to explore the implications of selecting future children.Examining this ur...

Pitcairn is 4.6 square kilometers with no airport, no harbor, and no beach where a ship can dock. To land you must wait for calm, board a longboat, and run a narrow crack in the rocks called Bounty Bay while 40 people watch. If swell is 2 meters, you turn back and wait 48 hours.Those 40 people are the smallest national population on Earth. In 1937 more than 230 lived here. Today the median age is above 45, no child has been born on island since 2012, and the Island Council lists re...

You picked up this book because financial stress lives in your chest at 2 in the morning when bills replay and an unknown number might be another collector. You believe God is faithful, and you still wonder how the lights will stay on next month. Maybe debt feels heavier than hope, or income dropped overnight, or you and your spouse cannot talk about money without blame. Whatever pressure you face, you share a hope this book was written for, that God wants to meet you where anxiety lives, ...

When Wendy and her brothers meet Peter Pan, the boy who never wants to grow up, he takes them to Neverland. There, they meet the Lost Boys and discover an island full of magical adventures. But there is a great danger waiting for them in Neverland: Captain Hook, a famous pirate who is not afraid of anything… except for one thing! Vocabulary included

Summer, 1996. Sixteen-year-old Jake Jensen delivers newspapers at dawn, fixes engines by day, and carries a secret that could ruin his life in his small Wisconsin town: he's gay, lonely, and running out of hope. Then the silent boy next door moves in.Josh Allenton doesn't speak. He barely reacts. And behind his bright blue eyes is a past so brutal it still holds him prisoner. But where everyone else sees someone broken, Jake sees someone worth knowing. What begins with shared silen...

Four years ago, one kiss cost Robert his home. Now eighteen, he is ready to stop merely surviving.At fourteen, Robert shared his first kiss with his best friend, Sam. When his father discovered he was gay, Robert was cast out with nowhere safe to go. He disappeared into the streets along Lake Michigan, where cold, hunger, and hard choices taught him to trust no one.Now Robert has a chance to build a life beyond the next meal and the next night. Then he meets Mark, a compass...

A hidden world of magic. A boy who has never known safety. A bond powerful enough to reshape an empire.Long ago, wizards, dragons, elves, and Earth's other magical races fled persecution and built a new home on Malati. But the world they created is now ruled by powerful wizarding families—and an emperor determined to preserve their privilege.When Tobin Ammagan's uncle tries to murder him, the eight-year-old's uncontrolled magic carries him to safety. Rescue...

A hunted human. A stolen starship. A galaxy-spanning Empire that cannot afford to let either survive.Cody Perrin has spent ten years as a Runner: a captive released into the stars so Empire Security can hunt him for sport. He should have died within days. Instead, he became the most impossible fugitive in the galaxy.The only Human the Empire has ever seen.With Max, a fiercely loyal AI companion, Cody survives by stealing ships, outthinking patrols, ...

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Now published by Wisehouse Classics, this is the unabridged Anniversary Edition of the original 1911 published novel "Peter and Wendy" (or "Peter Pan") with the original therteen illustrations by F. D. Bedford. "Peter and Wendy" or "Peter Pan" is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mer...

Now published by Wisehouse Classics, this is the unabridged Anniversary Edition of the original 1911 published novel "Peter and Wendy" (or "Peter Pan") with the original therteen illustrations by F. D. Bedford."Peter and Wendy" or "Peter Pan" is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited ...

The Complete Works of J. M. Barrie (Illustrated) gathers the remarkable breadth of Barrie's fiction, drama, and shorter prose, revealing an imagination far larger than the enduring fame of Peter Pan alone suggests. Across novels, plays, sketches, and fantasies, Barrie moves between Scottish domestic realism, Edwardian theatrical wit, and lyrical dream-logic. His style is at once delicate, ironic, sentimental, and psychologically acute, situated between the late-Victorian fascination with c...