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Life Sciences
Curious Creatures on Our Shores
Chris Thorogood
This veritable marine bestiary tells the fascinating stories of life between the tides. Featuring stunning oil paintings by the author, it presents more than fifty of the most unusual and remarkable marine organisms found on British coasts, from beloved seahorses and starfish to lesser-known critters like sea potatoes and sea lemons.
Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing
2019 128 p. 6 x 8 50 color plates 403 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-534-5 $25.00
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The Beautiful Cure
The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health
Daniel M. Davis
“Focuses on the science of immunology itself, taking us through the evolution of the discipline and the stories behind key advances in the field. . . . Davis conveys a visceral appreciation for how messy, and how human, medical science can be.”—Wall Street Journal
“Refreshingly sober. . . . Intelligent and insightful.” —New York Review of Books
2021 256 p. 6 x 9 404 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75877-0 $18.00
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Global Flu and You
A History of Influenza
George Dehner
“In these times of pandemic anxiety I can think of few better antidotes than Global Flu and You. Dehner is that rare animal, a writer who understands the complex history and science of influenza and can explain those complexities to the general reader in an accessible and level-headed manner.” —Mark Honigsbaum, author of Living with Enza
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2012 191 p. 51/2 x 81/2 405 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-028-3 $30.00
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An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond
John Rhodes
“At a time when online searches for books on vaccines are more likely to turn up misinformation than reliable literature, How to Make a Vaccine is a required primer that demystifies concepts and gives an informative overview of how vaccines are developed and how they work. An essential guide indeed.” —The Inquisitive Biologist
“A go-to guide for non-experts on vaccine development.”—Lancet
“Skilfully pitched at nonspecialists.”—Nature
2021 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 table 406 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79251-4 $15.00
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A Contagious Cause
The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine
Robin Wolfe Scheffler
“Digs into the intersection between science, politics, and the social issues that shape the understanding of the word ‘cancer’ from a contagious to a molecular disease. . . . This book is a must read for those who want a historical immersion into the world of cancer in the United States.”—Anesthesia & Analgesia
2019 368 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 407 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62837-0 $40.00
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White Market Drugs
Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America
David Herzberg
“In the style of a classic work of alternative history, Herzberg’s White Market Drugs reminds us that over the last 150 years, pharmaceutical boom and bust cycles have continually hit small towns and communities across America.” —New Republic
2020 400 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 4 line drawings 408 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73188-9 $27.50
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Risky Medicine
Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty
Robert Aronowitz
“Americans have the most advanced (and expensive) health care—but not the best health. Aronowitz suggests that our market-driven, risk management-focused health care culture has led to excessive tests and overdiagnosis. The cure? Reforming how we think about health and how it’s practiced.” —Discover
2015 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 409 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04971-7 $28.00
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Science, Business, and the Fountain of Youth
Ted Anton
“An engaging, accessible examination of the quest to understand longevity. . . . The book unwinds like a fast-paced thriller, as Anton recounts the highly competitive race in which scientists, research labs, and global drug companies engage in the search for a magic bullet to extend human life.” —Chicago Book Review
2013 240 p. 6 x 9 410 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02093-8 $26.00
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The Long and the Short of It
The Science of Life Span and Aging
Jonathan Silvertown
“’Potatoes live longer than kings,’ sighs ecologist Silvertown ... in this whimsical book on aging. Aging is a complex topic, but the author mixes art, science, and humor to brew a highly readable concoction, presenting one aging theory after another.”—Publishers Weekly
2013 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 halftones, 1 table 411 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75789-6 $25.00
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Body by Darwin
How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine
Jeremy Taylor
“Taylor is often eager to demonstrate that the human body is for the most part a remarkably welladapted structure. . . . He does a fine job of raising provocative questions and pointing the reader toward the ways in which evolutionary biology has been enhancing medical science.” —Wall Street Journal
2015 304 p. 6 x 9 412 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05988-4 $30.00
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Why the Wheel Is Round
Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move
Steven Vogel
“A brilliant history of technology. . . . This is a wonderful book, in the literal sense of the word, full of wonders of nature, human invention, history and the sheer joy of looking at the world through the eyes of a keen—and amiable—scientific observer.”—Wall Street Journal
“Mixing findings in his own field with those from mechanics, dynamics and historical analysis, [Vogel] creates a delightful perspective on the wonders of whirl. . . . Let the good times roll.”—Nature
2018 344 p. 6 x 9 81 halftones, 64 line drawings 413 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59968-7 $20.00
