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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick This is an absolutely fascinating account of a line of cells that would proliferate to such a degree that they became immortal. Shaved from a tumor in a poor black woman in the 1950s, cultured without her knowledge, and grown to amazing proportions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Selfish Gene New Edition by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments This nontechnical description of modern genetics is based on the insight that replicating structures have a built-in drive for self-preservation. A fascinating and provocative popular account.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Studies in Rhetoric & Religion #14: After the Genome: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future by Michael J. (edt) Hyde Publisher Comments Biotechnological advancements during the last half-century have forced humanity to come to grips with the possibility of a post-human future. The ever-evolving opinions about how society should anticipate this biotechnological frontier demand a language... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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Genomes and What to Make of Them by Barry Barnes Publisher Comments In 2003 the Human Genome Project announced that it had achieved a stunning scientific breakthrough: the full map of the human genome, and with it our first complete picture of the basic building block of human life. Since then, boasts about the benefits... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level by Jessica Wapner Publisher Comments One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist, David Hungerford, had no way of knowing that he had stumbled... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Synthesis) by Sally Smith Hughes Publisher Comments In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi Publisher Comments Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http://armandleroi.com/index.html Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll Publisher Comments 'Evo Devo is evolutionary developmental biology, the third revolution in evolutionary biology. The first was marked by the publication of The Origin of Species. The second occurred in the early twentieth century, when Darwin\'s theories were merged with... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the tale of a woman whose cells were used — without her knowledge — in breakthrough medical research after her 1951 death. Skloot's moving story of faith, family, and science uses the past to teach us about... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean Publisher Comments From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes more incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In The... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA by Mark Schultz Publisher Comments Lets face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better than an alien to explain it all? Enter Bloort 183, a scientist from an asexual alien race threatened by... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition With a New Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Equine Genomics by Bhanu P. (edt) Chowdhary Publisher Comments The complete mapping of the horse genome sequence makes a significant contribution to understanding equine biology. This book provides a timely comprehensive overview of equine genomic research. Chapters detail key accomplishments and the current state... (read more) Your price: $169.95 New - Hardcover
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Human Genetics and Society (2ND 12 Edition) by Ronnee K. Yashon Publisher Comments HUMAN GENETICS AND SOCIETY is an engaging text that demonstrates the relevance of genetics with an integrated case-based approach. Written for non-science majors, it shows the importance of genetics by placing concepts within real-life contexts that you... (read more) List Price $260.95 Your price: $194.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments This is a revised edition with a new afterword by Daniel Dennett. The Extended Phenotype carries on from where The Selfish Gene takes off. It is a fascinating look at the evolution of life and natural selection. Dawkins's theory is that individual... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Book of Life : a Personal and Ethical Guide To Race, Normality, and the Implications of the Human Genome Project (01 Edition) by Barbara Katz Rothman Synopsis "This is an exciting book. Its plea that genetic theory be integrated into social thought-rather than the other way around-is wonderfully lucid and well informed. A pleasure to read." --Vivian Gornick, author of The End of the Novel of Love... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nutritional Genomics: The Impact of Dietary Regulation of Gene Function on Human Disease Synopsis Written as a platform for researchers, scientists, educators, and policy makers to discuss the current status of nutritional genomic research, this book contains the latest scientific findings on the mechanisms underlying diet-genome interactions. With... (read more) List Price $139.95 Your price: $131.50 New - Hardcover
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Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes by Richard C. Francis Publisher Comments The burgeoning new science of epigenetics offers a cornucopia of insights--some comforting, some frightening. For example, the male fetus may be especially vulnerable to certain common chemicals in our environment, in ways that damage not only his own... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life by Marcus Wohlsen Publisher Comments Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules." The most disruptive force on the planet... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel J Kevles Publisher Comments Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of genetic... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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