A surprising ray of hope from the past are viruses that kill bacteria, but not us. Award-winning science journalist Thomas Häusler investigates how these long-forgotten cures may help sick people today.
From Sibert Honor-winning author/illustrator Don Brown, the nonfiction graphic novel Fever Year tells the true story of 1918’s Spanish Influenza epidemic.
This laboratory manual will be welcomed by all research scientists involved in the extraction, fractionation and isolation of compounds from natural materials, especially those working with plants.
This volume brings together eighteen thought-provoking biographical essays of some of the most remarkable outsiders of the modern era, each written by an authority in the respective field.
Provocative, compelling and alarming, A Plague Upon Humanity exposes one of the most shameful chapters in human history - the story of Japan's deadly biological warfare programme, and how it was hidden from the history of World War Two.
In contrast, other analysts argue that the empirical record provides no basis for concern, and thus largely dismiss the potential threat. Neither approach is helpful.