Skip to main content
Search Button
Estados Unidos Tienda Kobo Tarjetas de regalo Ayuda

Kobo Rakuten

Wishlist

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...


Serie m´´as popular en Estados Unidos

1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “peter pringle”
Skip side bar filters

  • Food, Inc.

    Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Place at the Table

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Il genio dei semi

    Nikolaj Vavilov, pioniere della biodiversità

    de Peter Pringle, Carlo Petrini ...
    In un dramma degno del Dottor Živago, nel quale si intrecciano scienza, amori, rivoluzioni e guerre, Peter Pringle ricostruisce la storia di Nikolaj Vavilov, lo scienziato che, agli albori della genetica, sognava di sconfiggere la fame nel mondo coltivando piante in grado di sopravvivere in ogni condizione climatica e ad ogni latitudine, nei deserti di sabbia e tra i ghiacci della tundra, e ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

  • Day of the Dandelion

    An Arthur Hemmings Mystery

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Cornered

    Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • Electronic Media Management, Revised

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Experiment Eleven

    Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • Malice in London

    de Graham Thomas ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Forensics

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Accidental Medical Discoveries

    How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD