Stable isotope techniques offer advantages in safety, sensitivity, specificity, and economy for many types of pharmaceutical investigations when compared to conventional techniques. Nevertheless, pharmaceutical researchers are slow to embrace stable isotope techniques.

This book assembles in one place comprehensive reviews of the many applications of stable isotopes and the background material necessary to understand the application. This approach is a deliberate attempt to encourage the usage of stable isotopes in pharmaceutical research. A bonus to the reader is the high standard of contributions from a very talented and diverse group of investigators.

With the collaboration of Joe Lutton, T. R. Brown, and I, wrote a science fiction novel 2082 The New Era Begins, giving a peek into not too far off future earth, ravished and torn from the effects of what mankind has done to our mother planet. A future that consists of androids, robots, inner space travel through different dimensions, and a world domination of a super power called The Elite. How simple farmers and herders take on this group that oppressed them to gain their freedom from the mind chips. This new future is the home of three separate, yet unique, mutated human species resulting from the effects of our ozone layer depletion with the damaging UV rays. The three new races consisted of The Amerians (The American continent), The Euridians (The European continent), and The Austians (Australia and New Zealand), which were all controlled by a dominating group named The Elite made up of world leaders, scientists, doctors and the wealthiest. The Amerian race mutated the most, and they were able to live in and out of water. Their bubble-like cities which floated on the ocean's surface protected them from further damage of the UV rays. The Euridian race migrated inland to what was the Middle East, living in domed covered cities. And last of all, the Austian race, made up mostly of a farming community raising cloned mammoths, were the least affected by the damaging rays but suffered from memory capacity loss of their brains. The Elite stepped in and design mind chips, originally, to help the Austians. However, they later used these chips to control this race, making them enslaved to upgrading or being locked into a certain mind set. The Truth Seekers, a secret society hidden in the caves of Euridian, would help the poor children of Austian by snatching chips from a privilege youth whose families could afford the chip upgrades in return that they join their society. When Simon, a thirteen year old, received his chip that was in a college age student, that The Truth Seekers provided, he in turn joined The Truth Seekers. His mother, Mary, felt an obligation give back the son who was murdered for his chip by being a surrogate mother to carry a cloned son of the deceased. But when traveling through inner space to escape The Elite, who was hunting her down, the DNA was mutated into a more advanced female child. Dr. Dixon, the clone's father, had to go to the Euridian caves to save both Mary's life and his child that she carried. During all of this, Simon is completing his desert training with The Truth Seekers to find his life's destiny. Part of his training was to go out into the desert alone for three days to commune with the desert land and find his true purpose in life. He meets a Euridian youth, Amar, who is also doing a similar thing that is part of his people's traditions and rites. The two save each other's lives, so they form a blood brother bond. Later, Amar will have to choose loyalty between his only family and Simon, the future leader of the Austian race. With the training from Truth Seekers, Simon is molded into a future leader. Will he be able to free his people from the slavery of the mind chips?

When everyone doubts your humanity, can you hang on to being humane? The sequel to The Face in the Mirror: a transhuman identity crisis Todd Hershel had tried to start a new life in the artificial islands of the Libertarian Colonies. A place where humans and escaped neo-people, genetically engineered anthropomorphic animals, lived as equals. Having her brain transplanted into one of their bodies had given Todd common cause with these bioengineered escaped slaves. When an attack by her former homeland tore Todd's family apart, she couldn't stay in her new home. Not when a chance to challenge the legality of enslaving her new people arose. When a dishonest judge unites with the industrial system that profits from the enslavement of neos Todd finds herself stripped of the rights she'd had as a human and forced into slavery. Escape and flight is her only choice. To regain her freedom will be arduous. To free her people seems impossible. When her road to freedom brings her into the hands of the family that raised Shade, the young woman who had provided her new feline body, Todd finds it difficult to be sure who she really is anymore. Can Todd regain her freedom, reunite her family and stop the struggle for neo-person freedom from becoming a race war?

What does it mean to be human?

imagine you're in a tragic accident.

You expect to die

Instead, you awaken in a body that is not yours.

Not even your own species.

Not even your own gender.

In a desperate attempt to save your life your brain has been transplanted into the only body available, the body of a genetically engineered slave.

Everyone is quick to assure you that you are still "legally human," but you know that when any stranger sees you they see property or perhaps a Frankenstenian abomination.

It is a transformation that causes Todd Herschel to reevaluate his sense of self, his gender identity, her sexual orientation, and how humanity relates to its biological creations.

If your brain is in a new body, whose soul do you have?