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  • Living Downstream

    An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

    de Sandra Steingraber ...
    Sandra Steingraber, biologist, poet, and survivor of cancer in her twenties, brings all three perspectives to bear on the most important health and human rights issue of our time: the growing body of evidence linking cancer to environmental contaminations. Her scrupulously researched scientific analysis ranges from the alarming worldwide patterns of cancer incidence to the sabotage wrought by ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Raising Elijah

    Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis

    de Sandra Steingraber ...
    Series series A Merloyd Lawrence Book
    Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Real Cost of Fracking

    How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food

    de Michelle Bamberger, Robert Oswald ...
    A pharmacologist and a veterinarian pull back the curtain on the human and animal health effects of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”Across the country, fracking—the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing—is being touted as the nation’s answer to energy independence and a fix for a flagging economy. Drilling companies assure us that the process is safe, politicians push through ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Having Faith

    An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

    de Sandra Steingraber ...
    Series series A Merloyd Lawrence Book
    A brilliant writer, first-time mother, and respected biologist, Sandra Steingraber tells the month-by-month story of her own pregnancy, weaving in the new knowledge of embryology, the intricate development of organs, the emerging architecture of the brain, and the transformation of the mother's body to nourish and protect the new life. At the same time, she shows all the hazards that we are now ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • I Contain Multitudes

    The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

    de Ed Yong ...
    New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016 • NPR Great Read of 2016 • Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London)From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking,... ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Survival of the Sickest

    The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity

    de Jonathan Prince, Sharon Moalem ...
    Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other living thing on earth, from plants and animals to insects and bacteria.So why does disease exist? Moalem proposes that most common ailments—diabetes, ... Leer más

    $7.49 USD

  • The Drug Hunters

    The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

    de Donald R. Kirsch, Ogi Ogas ...
    The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Incurable Me

    Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice

    de K. P. Stoller, MD ...
    In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine’s most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and medical research, K. P. Stoller also explains how to treat some of the most worrisome diseases and conditions afflicting humans today-including Lyme disease, brain trauma, dementia, and autism.Dr. Stoller maintains that the best evidence in ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Autoimmune Epidemic

    Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance--and the Cutting-Edge Science that Promises Hope

    de Donna Jackson Nakazawa ...
    Hailed by Mark Hyman, MD, as “a ray of light and hope” for those battling autoimmune diseases, this groundbreaking book provides research and solutions for those affected by chronic disorders including Crohn’s disease, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and more.In the first book of its kind, journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa examines nearly a hundred debilitating autoimmune diseases ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Human Errors

    A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

    de Nathan H. Lents ...
    A biology professor's "funny, fascinating" tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA—that make us human (Discover).We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Why We Get Sick

    The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

    de George C. Williams, Randolph M. Nesse MD ...
    The next time you get sick, consider this before picking up the aspirin: your body may be doing exactly what it's supposed to. In this ground-breaking book, two pioneers of the science of Darwinian medicine argue that illness as well as the factors that predispose us toward it are subject to the same laws of natural selection that otherwise make our bodies such miracles of design. Among the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Denialism

    How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives

    de Michael Specter ...
    In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.In Denialism, Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution of science more today than ever before. For centuries, the general view had been that science is neither good nor bad—that it ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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