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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence ServiceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An exciting inside look into the Center for Disease Control's team of elite doctors who make up the Epidemic Intelligence Service. The disease detectives are ready at a moments notice to travel the wo...
author: Maryn McKenna |
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Contains 28 essays from 20 different periodicals. Articles range in topic from the farthest reaches of space to the everyday world around us to the secrets hidden in our own bodies. The mix of hard...
author: Richard Preston, editor |
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2008 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Jerome Groopman, M.D. bring together 24 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists.
author: Jerome Groopman, M.D., editor |
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Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and CommerceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A fascinating historical account of the medical use of human blood and its worldwide commerce; from the first documented transfusion in mid 17th century France to the AIDS epidemic.
author: Douglas Starr |
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Deadly Feasts - Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New PlagueClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A somber exploration of the emergence of deadly ?stealth? maladies known as prion diseases (mad cow disease being one). Rhodes shows how this mysterious group of human and animal diseases is spreadin...
author: Richard Rhodes |
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Deadly Invaders - Virus Outbreaks Around the World, From Marburg Fever to Avian FluClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
New York Times science report Denise Grady traveled to Angola to research the 2005 outbreak of the Marburg virus. She writes about the realities of health care in the developing world and its effects...
author: Denise Grady |
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused ItClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A dramatic account and globe trotting adventure that relates the mystery surrounding the cause of the flu epidemic of 1918 and the current (1998)race to recover a live sample of the pathogen. Includes...
author: Gina Kolata |
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Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great ApesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Mountain gorillas are one of the most endangered species in the world. Now they are facing a new threat, from the very tourism that is helping to protect them: exposure to human disease. This is the s...
author: Pamela S. Turner |
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Great Influenza - The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
History of the 1918 influenza epidemic, the scientists who worked to find a cure, and how the practice of medicine was revolutionized. Also the story of how the war against the epidemic was imposed u...
author: John M. Barry |
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Hive Detectives - Chronicle of a Honey Bee CatastropheClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A fascinating, close-up look at honey bees, as well as the scientists and beekeepers trying to understand colony collapse disorder (CCD). See the inner workings of the colony and learn about the steps...
author: Loree Griffin Burns |
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Outbreak - Science Seeks Safeguards for Global HealthClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
With trans-global air travel routine, infectious diseases can now spread more easily. Read about avian flu, SARS, ebola, drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, and about the scientists on the front l...
author: Charles Piddock, Caryn Oryniak |
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Parasites: Latching on to a Free LunchClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explores the world of parasites and their side affects on their hosts. Includes fungi, plants, single-celled parasites, worms, arthropods and vertebrate parasites. Discusses the evolution and control ...
author: Paul Fleisher |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Contains 28 essays from 20 different periodicals. Articles range in topic from the farthest reaches of space to the everyday world around us to the secrets hidden in our own bodies. The mix of hard...
author: Richard Preston, editor |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2008 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Jerome Groopman, M.D. bring together 24 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists.
author: Jerome Groopman, M.D., editor |
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The Great Influenza - The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
History of the 1918 influenza epidemic, the scientists who worked to find a cure, and how the practice of medicine was revolutionized. Also the story of how the war against the epidemic was imposed u...
author: John M. Barry |
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The Hive Detectives - Chronicle of a Honey Bee CatastropheClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A fascinating, close-up look at honey bees, as well as the scientists and beekeepers trying to understand colony collapse disorder (CCD). See the inner workings of the colony and learn about the steps...
author: Loree Griffin Burns |
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