Bringing together the various statements issued under Bin Laden's name, this volume forms part of a discourse, including Jason Burke's " Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam" & Adam Curtis's, The Power of Nightmares, that seeks to contextualize, to explain & understand the challenge posed by Al-Qaeda, both to the Islam & to the West. ...

When her son, Mattie, was born with a rare disorder now known as Dysautonomic Mitochondrial Myopathy, the author was advised to put her child in an institution & 'let nature take its course'. Recounting the details of his life, this book offers a picture of an ordinary boy who happened to be facing a life-threatening health situation. ...

m RNA (messenger RNA) is the mediating template between DNA & proteins. The information from a particular gene is transferred from a strand of DNA by the construction of a complementary strand of RNA through a process known as transcription. This book presents research in the field. ...

Gothic ghost story featuring children possessed of malevolent spirits & mysterious deaths at a small town America sunflower farm. Roy Solomon (Dylan Mc Dermott ) moves with his wife & three kids from Chicago to a remote North Dakota sunflower farm to make a fresh start on a new, healthier & safer life. In reality, they're running from the ghost of their daughter's drunk-driving accident, which hospitalized one of her brothers. John Burwell (John Corbett), a passing drifter, starts work as the family's man Friday & quickly becomes their trusted employee. As things begin to get dark, however & as ravens begin to circle the ranch, the Solomon kids begin to see queer spectral shapes around the house. One of them keeps what he sees to himself & the other is accused of attention seeking but there can be no mistaking what they are seeing as the signs become more threatening & ominous. Is there a presence at work in the house? What happened here that made the previous occupants leave so quickly? Have they even fully left. ...