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  • Better for All the World

    The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity

    by Harry Bruinius ...
    A timely and gripping history of the controversial eugenics movement in America–and the scientists, social reformers and progressives who supported it.In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius charts the little known history of eugenics in America–a movement that began in the early twentieth century and resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 65,000 people. Bruinius tells the stories ... Read more

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  • The Forever Fix

    Gene Therapy & the Boy Who Saved It

    by Ricki Lewis ...
    Fascinating narrative science that explores the next frontier in medicine and genetics through the very personal prism of the children and families gene therapy has touched.Eight-year-old Corey Haas was nearly blind from a hereditary disorder when his sight was restored through a delicate procedure that made medical history. Like something from a science fiction novel, doctors carefully injected ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • My Beautiful Genome

    Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time

    by Lone Frank ...
    Internationally acclaimed science writer Lone Frank swabs up her DNA to provide the first truly intimate account of the new science of consumer-led genomics. She challenges the business mavericks intent on mapping every baby's genome, ponders the consequences of biological fortune-telling, and prods the psychologists who hope to uncover just how much or how little our environment will matter in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Lives of Ants

    by Laurent Keller, Elisabeth Gordon ...
    Humans have long been fascinated by ants. While not necessarily brightly coloured or beautiful, ants display some remarkable characteristics that are almost unique in the animal world. They live in intricately organized societies, made up of individuals that cooperate, communicate, and divide up daily tasks. They display amazing ingenuity when it comes to building nests and other structures, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Animal Evolution

    Genomes, Fossils, and Trees

    by NATURAL SCIENCES and MATHEMATICS (500), ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCES (590) ...
    Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms - is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In this book, a group of leading researchers adopt a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Principles of Gene Manipulation and Genomics

    by Sandy B. Primrose, Richard Twyman ...
    The increasing integration between gene manipulation and genomics is embraced in this new book, Principles of Gene Manipulation and Genomics, which brings together for the first time the subjects covered by the best-selling books Principles of Gene Manipulation and Principles of Genome Analysis & Genomics.Comprehensively revised, updated and rewritten to encompass within one volume, basic and ... Read more

    $110.00 USD

  • Basic Phylogenetic Combinatorics

    by Andreas Dress, Katharina T. Huber, Jacobus Koolen, Vincent Moulton, Andreas Spillner ...
    Phylogenetic combinatorics is a branch of discrete applied mathematics concerned with the combinatorial description and analysis of phylogenetic trees and related mathematical structures such as phylogenetic networks and tight spans. Based on a natural conceptual framework, the book focuses on the interrelationship between the principal options for encoding phylogenetic trees: split systems, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Epigenetic Principles of Evolution

    by Nelson R Cabej ...
    This is the first and only book, so far, to deal with the causal basis of evolution from an epigenetic view. By revealing the epigenetic "user" of the "genetic toolkit", this book demonstrates the primacy of epigenetic mechanisms and epigenetic information in generating evolutionary novelties. The author convincingly supports his theory with a host of examples from the most varied fields of ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Alcohol and Its Biomarkers

    Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination

    by Amitava Dasgupta ...
    Series series Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination
    Alcohol and Its Biomarkers: Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination is a concise guide to all currently known alcohol biomarkers, their clinical application, and the laboratory methods used to detect them. Pathologists can use this resource to understand the limitations and cost factors associated with each method for determining certain alcohol biomarkers. In addition, interferences in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • DNA Repair of Cancer Stem Cells

    Edited by Elain Hurt, Stephanie M Cabarcas, Lesley A Mathews ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The existence of ‘cancer stem cells’ (CSCs) has been a topic of heated debate for the last few years within the field of cancer biology. Their continuous characterization in a variety of solid tumors has lead to an abundance of evidence supporting their existence. CSCs are believed to be responsible for resistance against conventional treatment regimes of chemotherapy and radiation, ultimately, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Epigenetics and Dermatology

    Edited by Qianjin Lu, Bruce C. Richardson, Christopher Chang ...
    Epigenetics and Dermatology explores the role of epigenetics in the pathogenesis of autoimmune-related skin diseases and skin cancer. Leading contributors cover common and uncommon skin conditions in which extensive epigenetic research has been done. They explain how environmental exposures (chemicals, drugs, sunlight, diet, stress, smoking, infection, etc.) in all stages of life (from a fetus in ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Computer-Aided Drug Design and Delivery Systems

    by Baishakhi Dey, Ahindra Nag ...
    THE LATEST BREAKTHROUGHS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DRUG DESIGN AND DELIVERYThis definitive text provides in-depth information on computer-assisted techniques for discovering, designing, and optimizing new, effective, and safe drugs. Computer-Aided Drug Design and Delivery Systems offers objective and quantitative data on the use and delivery of drugs in humans. Enabling technologies such as bioinformatics ... Read more

    $112.99 USD