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141) Silk
Series
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A group of paranormal researchers investigate the scene of a murder, when a picture is found of the ghost of a young boy in an empty room. Will they be able to capture the ghost, or will they unleash an even more powerful force?
142) Lucy
Language
English
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Description
An action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlas Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Francis Crick-the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life-will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic code-the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things-acclaimed bestselling science writer Matt Ridley traces Crick's...
144) The green trap
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Microbiologist Michael Cochrane has been murdered. His brother Paul wants to find out who did it...and why.
Accompanied by a beautiful industrial spy, Elena Sandoval, Paul follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along the way, a lot of people seem to be interested in getting in their way, or discovering what they know. It's clear that Michael was working with cyanobacteria, the bacteria that crack water molecules and release...
145) 49 Up
Series
Up ; 6
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The latest installment in Michael Apted's Up Series. In 1964, 14 children from diverse backgrounds were interviewed about their lives and dreams. Every seven years, Apted has been back to talk to them, examining the progression of their lives.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Whether it is asthma, food or pollen allergies, type-1 diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, or Crohn's disease, everyone knows someone who suffers from an allergic or autoimmune disorder. And if it appears that the prevalence of these maladies has increased recently, that's because it has--to levels never before seen in human history. These days no fewer than one in five, and likely more, Americans suffer from one of these ailments. We seem newly,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vaccines save millions of lives every year, and one man, Maurice Hilleman, was responsible for nine of the big fourteen. Paul Offit recounts his story and the story of vaccines
Maurice Hilleman discovered nine vaccines that practically every child gets, rendering formerly dread diseases—including often devastating ones such as mumps and rubella—practically forgotten. Paul A. Offit, a vaccine researcher himself,
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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This book has a lists of questions that you may want to ask your doctor. Many people find it helpful to take a list of questions to a doctor visit. To help remember what your doctor says, you can take notes. You may also want to have a family member or friend go with you when you talk with the doctor-to take notes, ask questions, or just listen.
152) Huysman's pets
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brilliant geneticist, whose last years of research were shrouded in secrecy, leaves a legacy that affects the lives of a strangely diverse group of people.
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna thought she left the tragedies of the past behind when she moved from Pennsylvania to California, but when her brother vanishes from the genetics lab where he works, Anna has no choice but to head back home. Using skills well-honed in Silicon Valley, she follows the high-tech trail her brother left behind, a trail that leads from the simple world of Amish farming to the cutting edge of DNA research and gene mapping.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals how gender bias infects every level of medicine and healthcare today--leading to inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment that threatens women's lives and well-being. Modern medicine is failing women. Half of all American women suffer from at least one chronic health condition--from autoimmune...
157) The snake scientist
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the work of Bob Mason and his efforts to study and protect snakes, particularly red-sided garter snakes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vampires and Vampirism (1914) is a work from another era, a time when belief and wonder led some to travel down pathways of knowledge in search of truth and terror, not knowing what they would find.
Written in response to an "awakened [popular] interest in supernormal phenomena" in the early twentieth century, Dudley Wright's Vampires and Vampirism traces the history of vampirism around the world, from ancient Babylonia, Assyria, and Greece, to Great...
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