This is the story of how three men won the Nobel Prize for their research on the humble nematode worm C. elegans; how their extraordinary discovery led to the sequencing of the human genome; how a global multibillion-dollar industry was born; and how the mysteries of life were revealed in a tiny, brainless worm. In 1998 the nematode worm―perhaps the most intensively studied animal on earth―was the first multicellular organism ever to have its genome sequenced and its DNA mapped and read. "When we understand the worm, we will understand life," predicted John Sulston, one of the three Nobel laureates, and his prediction proved astonishingly accurate. Four years later, the research that led to this extraordinary event garnered three scientists a Nobel Prize. Along with Robert Horvitz and Sydney Brenner, Sulston discovered the phenomenon of programmed cell death in the worm, an essential concept that explains how biological development occurs in animal life and, as Horvitz later showed, how it occurs in human life. C. elegans is about as simple as an animal can be, but understanding its genetic organization is helping to reveal the mechanisms of life and, by extension, the mechanisms of our own lives. In the Beginning Was the Worm shows that in order to unlock the secrets of the human genome we must first understand the worm. But this story is about more than just the worm. It is about how an eccentric group of impassioned scientists toiled in near anonymity for years, driven only by a deep passion for knowledge and scientific discovery. It is the story of countless hours of research, immense ambition, and one of the greatest discoveries in human history.

In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite

Science & Math

Andrew Brown

Biological Sciences

Columbia University Press

Customer Care Management

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd.

The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick

peculiar physical and behavioral characteristics of animals around the world large-size, realistic illustrations of each animal simple text explains defence mechanisms, hunting techniques, how they raise their young, and why some can live underwater.  Animals include: Lion Tiger Snake Eagle Wolf GrizzlyBear Hippopotamus Orca Shark and more

Dangerous Animals

San Val

A nameless narrator is drifting through the summer of 2010. He spends his days skateboarding in Tompkins Square Park and his nights darting between downtown Manhattan hotspots, indulging in his last remaining vices Diet Coke and promiscuity. Amidst one of these aspartamed evenings he meets Rachel, an equally disengaged beauty visiting from Los Angeles. The chaotic and intensely sexual weekend that follows offers only questions. And as he tries to make sense of Rachel, the narrator is forced to take a hard look at the life he s been living and the person he thinks he is. From the Inside Flap Andrew Brown's rendering of New York in the late aughts feels ahead of schedule. There is a sense that one is reading a novel whose incubation took decades rather than a few years. And it is only the details all exquisitely drawn that betray his accelerated pace . . . Whether describing clubs, skating or women, his sentences are scraped free of waste and sentimentality. What remains are raw, incisive lines that laugh and rail and cry simultaneously. It is, then, that rare novel that avoids flourish without sacrificing the sort of sensitivity needed to capture a period and community in time. And capture he does. Readers are given a world in which glitz and glamour are shown to be smudged and imperfect and even still, or maybe because of this imperfection, full of longing and feeling and life.

None of the Bad Ones

Literature & Fiction

Literary

ESF Books

Musculoskeletal X-Rays for Medical Students and Trainees

David G. King

Wiley/Blackwell

Fractures of the Facial Skeleton

Michael Perry

Peter Banks

Book Only. Some wear on the outside, but no writing on the inside.

Modern Piracy and Maritime Terrorism: The Challenge of Piracy for the 21st Century

Maria Haberfeld

Agostino Von Hassell

Criminal Law

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire

Amín Pérez

Polity Press

Uncertain Times

Jacques Rancière

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