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The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science-writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who...
Reproduction, Technology, and Rights
In Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, philosophers and ethicists debate the central moral issues and problems raised by today's revolution in reproductive technology. Leading issues discussed include the ethics of paternal...
One Renegade Cell: Quest for the Origins of Cancer
This text explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise and spread. The book is an expansion of the article from "Scientific American" which discussed developments...
Perspectives on Ampthetamine-Type Stimulants
In this book the pharmacology of ATS, social contexts and meanings of use, associated risk taking, and potential harms for the individual consumer and his or her family and community...
The Song of the Cell: The Story of Life
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life and ourselves **Longlisted for...
Cracking the Code
As seen on Australian Story on the ABC A family doctor shares a mother and father's determination to save their son This story of a father's search to find a...
Vital Organs
...a bracing adventure, and one where our ancestors are not reduced to characters of myth and legend, but real people of flesh and blood. It is through this most intimate...
Signs of Life: Language and Meanings of DNA
It's barely 40 years ago that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the code of law that governs inheritance, the base-pairing rules of DNA. Since then, there has been an...
Vital Organs
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led to the development of antiseptics.Robert Jenkin's ear started...