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  • Food, Inc.

    Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the

    by Peter Pringle ...
    A “lively and colorful” (The Washington Post) contribution to the complex and important conversation on genetically modified foods unraveling the science, myths, and politics behind the continuing battle over biotech food.For most people, the global war over genetically modified foods is a distant and confusing one. The battles are conducted in the mystifying language of genetics.A handful of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Place at the Table

    The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It

    by Participant ...
    Forty-nine million people -- including one in four children -- go hungry in the U.S. every day, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all. Inspired by the acclaimed documentary A Place at the Table, this companion book offers powerful insights from those at the front lines of solving hunger in America, including:Jeff Bridges, Academy Award-winning actor, cofounder ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov

    The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century

    by Peter Pringle ...
    In The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov, acclaimed journalist and author Peter Pringle recreates the extraordinary life and tragic end of one of the great scientists of the twentieth century.In a drama of love, revolution, and war that rivals Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, Pringle tells the story of a young Russian scientist, Nikolai Vavilov, who had a dream of ending hunger and famine in the world. Vavilov's ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Julian Perry Robinson: Pioneer in the Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Warfare

    Edited by Henrietta Wilson, Mary Kaldor, Josh Kaldor-Robinson, Peter Pringle, Alexander Ghionis, Richard Guthrie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Julian P. Perry Robinson (1941-2020) made a unique contribution to protecting the world from the misuse of chemistry and biology. A trained chemist and patent lawyer, he applied his specialist knowledge to better understand the nature of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) and how best to prevent this. He pioneered open source methods that enabled him to engage with, and inform, national and ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Day of the Dandelion

    An Arthur Hemmings Mystery

    by Peter Pringle ...
    Seeds of a new corn plant are stolen from Oxford University's botany lab, and the professor, Alastair Scott, and his Russian assistant, Tanya Petrovskaya, are missing.Alarms ring in London and Washington, where intelligence officials know that Scott was working on a supergene that could allow control over the world's entire food supply.The British government calls in Arthur Hemmings from the Royal ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cornered

    Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice

    by Peter Pringle ...
    In New Orleans, the widow of an attorney who died of lung cancer vowed to avenge his death by suing the tobacco companies. In Clarksdale, Mississippi, an outraged country lawyer discovered the cost of lung cancer care as his secretary's mother lay dying. In Washington, D.C., a young pediatrician became the first FDA administrator in ninety years to decide nicotine should be regulated as a drug. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Electronic Media Management, Revised

    by Peter Pringle, Michael F Starr ...
    The fifth edition of a classic text features important updates that reflect the enormous changes that have taken place in recent years - the Internet as an important information transmission format that is here to stay and convergence among media. This edition features thorough discussions on the Internet and convergence, as well as reflects the latest information on broadcast and cable ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Experiment Eleven

    Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug

    by Peter Pringle ...
    In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.D. student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksman's lab, searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. In his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    by Graham Thomas ...
    Series Book 4 - Erskine Powell
    DETECTIVE-CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT ERSKINE POWELL RETURNS--INVESTIGATING MALICE IN HIS OWN BACKYARD.When a murder victim is discovered in the murky waters of the River Thames, Erskine Powell of Scotland Yard plunges into the most diabolical case of his distinguished career. A second brutal slaying draws Powell even deeper into a tangled web of greed, deception, and blackmail. From Tower Bridge to Soho ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Forensics

    What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime

    by Val McDermid ...
    Bestselling author of Broken Ground "offers fascinating glimpses" into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day ( The Boston Globe).The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces, forensic scientists ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Accidental Medical Discoveries

    How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World

    by Robert W. Winters ...
    Many of the world’s most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck played a part in the discovery of unintentional cures and breakthroughs:A plastic shard in an RAF pilot’s eye leads to the use of plastic for contact lenses.The inability to remove a titanium chamber from rabbit’s bone leads to dental implants.Viagra was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Happy Accidents

    Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century

    by Morton A. Meyers ...
    Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In the 1990s, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD