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  • Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race

    by Alexander Kelle, Kathryn Nixdorff, Malcolm Dando ...
    Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in the field of CBW arms control, the book reveals how these two disparate fields might be integrated to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Role of Biotechnology in Countering BTW Agents

    Edited by Malcolm R. Dando, Kathryn Nixdorff, Alexander Kelle ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Biotechnology is vital to counter biological and toxin weapons. Without biotechnology, the detection, identification and diagnoses of, and medical countermeasures to such weapons would be virtually impossible. As biological and toxin agents occur in natural outbreaks of disease or intoxications, there are both civil and military benefit to be had from the use of biotechnology in providing ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Synthetic Biology

    the technoscience and its societal consequences

    Edited by Markus Schmidt, Alexander Kelle, Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Huib de Vriend ...
    Synthetic biology is becoming one of the most dynamic new fields of biology, with the potential to revolutionize the way we do biotechnology today. By applying the toolbox of engineering disciplines to biology, a whole set of potential applications become possible ranging very widely across scientific and engineering disciplines. Some of the potential benefits of synthetic biology, such as the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Deliver Us From Evil

    Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict

    by William Shawcross ...
    Reporting from war zones around the globe, acclaimed journalist William Shawcross gives us an unforgettable portrait of a dangerous world and of the brave men and women, ordinary and extraordinary, who risk their lives to make and keep the peace.The end of the Cold War was followed by a decade of regional and ethnic wars, massacres and forced exiles, and by constant calls for America to lead the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Rigor Mortis

    How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions

    by Richard Harris ...
    An essential book to understanding whether the new miracle cure is good science or simply too good to be trueAmerican taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research, but over half of these studies can't be replicated due to poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent of a death ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • DNA Is Not Destiny

    The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes

    by Steven J. Heine ...
    “[An] important book.… Heine’s vibrant writing makes it come alive with personal significance for every reader.”—Carol Dweck, author of MindsetScientists expect one billion people to have their genomes sequenced by 2025. Yet cultural psychologist Steven J. Heine argues that, in trying to know who we are and where we come from, we’re likely to completely misinterpret what’s “in our DNA.” Heine’s ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Pediatric Allergy, An Issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America

    by Robert A Wood, MD ...
    Series Book Volume 35-1 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    This issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, guest edited by Drs. Robert Wood, Pamela Guerrerio, and Corinne Keet, is devoted to Pediatric Allergy. Articles in this issue include: Role of the Environment in the Development of Allergic Disease; Genetics of Allergic Diseases; Optimizing the Diagnosis of Allergic Disorders; Anaphylaxis and Urticaria; Food Allergy: Epidemiology and ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience

    by Stephen J. McPhee, Margaret A. Winker, Michael W. Rabow, Steven Z. Pantilat, Amy J. Markowitz ...
    From one of the world’s leading medical journals comes the definitive evidence-based, full-color guide to end-of-life and palliative care"...represents an important milestone in the evolution of care for people with advanced disease—-for which its editors and authors and JAMA should be rightly proud. It is wonderful that JAMA had the foresight to publish a series on this topic, which, as medicine ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Fundamentals of Space Business and Economics

    by Ozgur Gurtuna ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book provides an overview of key topics related to space business and management. Case studies and an integrative section are included to illustrate the fundamental concepts and to build intuition. Key topics in the field, such as risk management and cost management, are covered in detail. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Dento/Oro/Craniofacial Anomalies and Genetics

    by Agnes Bloch-Zupan, Heddie Sedano, Crispian Scully ...
    Dental defects may be the physical expression of genetic defects, and so they can often be seen in a variety of syndromes associated with malformations of organs. However, dental defects are often not recognized, identified, nor characterised despite representing a possible diagnostic sign for an undiagnosed condition. This book addresses this gap by providing an understanding of dental genetics ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis

    Edited by Tamara Fischmann, Elisabeth Hildt ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Technological developments in the life sciences confront us with new facets of a Faustian seduction. Are we „playing God“ more and more, as claimed by critical authors of modernity? Achievements in genetic research produce ethical dilemmas which need to be the subject of reflection and debate in modern societies. Denial of ambivalences that ethical dilemmas arouse constitutes a threat to societies ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Stem Cells in Modeling Human Genetic Diseases

    Edited by Mayana Zatz, Oswaldo Keith Okamoto ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    While most stem cell books focus on basic aspects and/or cell therapy, this book emphasizes the relevance of stem cells obtained from patients, the so-called “patients in a petri dish” as tools to investigate human genetic diseases for which there are no available effective treatment. Chapters embrace several examples of the use of iPS cell technology, a recent Nobel Prize-winning scientific ... Read more

    $89.09 USD