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The Statue Within: An Autobiography
by Francois Jacob  Synopsis In a new preface to this special edition of his critically acclaimed memoir, Francois Jacob recalls the events that brought him to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the early 1960's and taught him much about phage biology and the informal ways of American...
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Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life
by Peter Raby 
Publisher Comments In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast — his work of decades was about to be...
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
by Kim Todd Publisher Comments Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist known for her botanical illustrations, she was born just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty she sailed from Europe...
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A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
by J. Craig Venter Publisher Comments The triumphant true story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our erathe mapping of the human genome. Growing up in California, Craig Venter didnt appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high...
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Feeling for the Organism : Life and Work of Barbara Mcclintock (10TH Anniversary Edition) (84 Edition)
by Evelyn Fox Keller Publisher Comments For much of her life she worked alone, brilliant but eccentric, with ideas that made little sense to her colleagues. Yet before DNA and the molecular revolution, Barbara McClintock's tireless analysis of corn led her to uncover some of the deepest, most...
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Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science
by Edward Lurie Synopsis A giant of nineteenth-century natural history study, Louis Agassiz made major contributions to modern knowledge of geology, paleontology, and zoology. Agassiz's fame in America was largely as a popularizer of natural history and teacher of advanced...
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Rosalind Franklin and Dna (75 Edition)
by Anne Sayre Synopsis Rosalind Franklin's research was central to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. She never received the credit she was due during her lifetime. In this classic work Anne Sayre, a journalist and close friend of Franklin, puts the record...
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Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science
by Jon Beckwith Publisher Comments In 1969, Jon Beckwith and his colleagues succeeded in isolating a gene from the chromosome of a living organism. Announcing this startling achievement at a press conference, Beckwith took the opportunity to issue a public warning about the dangers of...
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How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science (Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
by J Michael Bishop Publisher Comments In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively...
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Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection (Science Matters)
by Deborah Blum Publisher Comments We take it for granted today that babies need love. But less than a century ago, psychologists warned women against showing their children too much affection-predicting dire consequences ranging from deadly disease to sexual dysfunction in adulthood. The...
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Naturalist
by E. O. Wilson Publisher Comments Edward O. Wilson (University Professor at Harvard, winner of two Pulitzer prizes, eloquent champion of biodiversity) is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His career represents both a blueprint and a challenge to those...
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My Nickel's Worth
by Phillip A Nickel Publisher Comments On October 10, 1937, a child was born to parents whose home had been a tent near the Old West town of Deadwood, South Dakota, located in the Black Hills; sacred to the Sioux Indian Nation. In June of 1969, that same individual began a 17-year teaching...
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Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science
by James D Watson Publisher Comments From a living legend—James D. Watson, who shared the Nobel Prize for having revealed the structure of DNA—a personal account of the making of a scientist. In Avoid Boring People, the man who discovered “the secret of life” shares...
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The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
by Ross A Slotten Synopsis During their lifetimes, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Together, the two men spearheaded one of the greatest intellectual revolutions in modern...
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
by Kim Todd Publisher Comments "Fascinating reading about a little-known, independent woman."--Science Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupa’s skin look like a galaxy. She can...
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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
by Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley Publisher Comments With the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of understanding evolution; a gene's eye view. Dawkins went on to publish five more bestselling books...
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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
by Alan Grafen Publisher Comments This is an advanced textbook on the theory of contracting under asymmetric information, a key part of modern microeconomic theory. It examines the characteristics of optimal contracts when one party has certain relevant knowledge that the other party...
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Ahead of the Curve
by Shane Crotty Publisher Comments Shane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore has made major discoveries in molecular biology...
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
by Brenda Maddox Publisher Comments “ Able, balanced and well researched.”...
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Homage To Gaia: the Life of an Independent Scientist
by James Lovelock Publisher Comments With over fifty patents to his name and a stream of awards--including one from the Queen of England--James Lovelock is a distinguished scientist who has been widely recognized by the international scientific community. In this inspiring autobiography...
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