Mukherjee, Siddhartha.
Summary: A "biography" of cancer from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. A combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms the listener's understanding of cancer and much of the world around them. The author provides a glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a bold new perspective on the way doctors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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Summary: "The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat-and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg-a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs-was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity's understanding of cancer. He was also among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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Summary: "Weaving his own moving family story with this sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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Summary: "Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative, go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for cancer There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it's estimated that about 1.3 million of these cases are hereditary. Yet despite advanced training in cancer genetics and years of practicing medicine, Dr. Theo Ross was never certain whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003
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Horton, James
Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Judith Jadinger, RE (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 : Defining a Wood Engraving -- Chapter 2 : History of Wood Engraving as It Pertains to Commercial Engraving -- Chapter 3 : The Commercial Wood Engraver -- Chapter 4 : The Tools and Specialized Processes of the Wood Engraver -- Chapter 5 : The Sander Engraving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of a harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books/ Henry Holt and Company 2014
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Summary: "In the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, Dennett's name has largely faded from public knowledge. Each held a radically different vision for what reproductive autonomy and birth control access should look like in America ... Meticulously researched and vividly drawn,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.309 TARBarbo, Theresa M.
Summary: Jack Nickerson and his faithful lab, Sinbad, wake early one snowy Cape Cod morning, ready for winter fun. Meanwhile, miles away in the ocean, the crew of a cargo tanker ship called the "Pendleton" is in serious trouble. The waves and wind of a raging nor'easter rip the tanker in two, leaving the people to cling for their lives in the wicked, cold storm. There's no time to waste--the Coast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2013
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Summary: "Was the world's wealthiest woman--Liliane Bettencourt--heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause celebre that has captivated both France and the world. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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Summary: "The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is commemorated every year. Today, Oradour is a destination for people interested in one of the most horrific events in French history....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 LUPWoolf, John
Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019