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Language
English
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"Spellbinding. Another tour de force from Scottoline. It drew me in, in a single breath." –Mary Kubica, bestselling author of The Good Girl
Donor 3319 Profile:
Tall. Blonde.
Blue eyes.
Medical Student.
Wanted for Serial Murder.
Christine Nilsson and her husband, Marcus, are desperate for a baby. Unable to conceive, they find themselves facing a difficult choice
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 478 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book provides a comprehensive overview of hereditary cancer for a general audience, with coverage of the genetic tests available for detecting risk for heritable cancers as well as options for medical and surgical treatment"--
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With Eat Right 4 Your Type, Dr. d'Adamo proved that one diet plan does not fit all. Here, he provides a customized program that works with your genetic makeup to maximize health and weight loss, as well as prevent or even reverse disease. According to Dr. d'Adamo, a host of environmental factors, including diet and lifestyle, dictate how your genes express themselves. With the right tools, you can turn on the good genes and shut down the bad ones....
Author
Publisher
[Primal Nutrition, Inc.]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to the best-selling The Primal Blueprint draws on the author's evolutionary research to explore genetic reasons behind why people feel depressed and unfulfilled in spite of positive outward circumstances, outlining simple lifestyle strategies for promoting personal contentment.
8) Daybreak
Author
Language
English
Description
The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawfield's beloved, dying son is not their child. Now they must face Peter's death and the shock of having a son they have never met. Grieving, yet compelled, they begin a search that will tear two families apart.
Laura and "Bud" Rice share an elegant home and two children, brilliant,...
Laura and "Bud" Rice share an elegant home and two children, brilliant,...
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At 32, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember. Women in her family had always died young--from cancer--and she and her sisters had grown up in time's shadow. It colored every choice they made and was beginning to come to a head as they approached 35--the...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Have you wondered why some 60-year olds look and feel like 40-year-olds and why some 40-year-olds look and feel like 60-year-olds? While many factors contribute to aging and illness, Nobel Prize-winning Doctor Elizabeth Blackburn discovered biological markers, called telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres, which protect our DNA Dr. Blackburn discovered that the length and health of one's telomeres provides a biological basis for the long...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 267, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Invites readers to change their perceptions about illness in order to understand disease as an essential component of the evolutionary process, citing the role of such malaises as diabetes, STDs, and the Avian Bird Flu in protecting the survival of the human race.
Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to the tanning salon help lower...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a...
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Series
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 246 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the many facets of cancer research, from basic genetic and cellular mechanisms to the danger of carcinogens and the influence of lifestyle.
19) Positive results: making the best decisions when you're at high risk for breast or ovarian cancer
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
395 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
20) The genius in all of us: why everything you've been told about genetics, talent, and IQ is wrong
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the Genius in All of Us, author David Shenk unveils new scientific research to put the kibosh on the long-standing notion concerning genetic giftedness. Infusing genetics and biology research with cognitive science and child development studies, Shenk presents a refreshingly optimistic discussion on human potential.
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