A mother-daughter writing team reports on what's really up with kids today Science writer Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter, journalist Samantha Henig, offer a smart, comprehensive look at what it's really like to be twentysomething—and to what extent it’s different for Millennials than it was for their Baby Boomer parents. The Henigs combine the behavioral science literature for insights into how young people make choices about schooling, career, marriage, and childbearing; how they relate to parents, friends, and lovers; and how technology both speeds everything up and slows everything down. Packed with often-surprising discoveries, Twentysomething is a two-generation conversation that will become the definitive book on being young in our time. "The fullest guide through this territory . . . A densely researched report on the state of middleclass young people today, drawn from several data sources and filtered through a comparative lens." —The New Yorker

Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?

Henig, Robin Marantz

Henig, Samantha

Parenting & Relationships

Plume

The story of the monk who experimented with peas in his monastery has all the highs and lows of great fiction. Mendel was a man of nervous constitution (whenever he had to visit the sick and dying he was so overcome physically that he had to take to bed) who was determined to work out how traits are inherited. He spent seven years in the monastery garden experimenting on over 300,000 strains of plants. Determined to discover how species change, adapt and arise anew but essentially remain the same from generation to generation, he worked out that traits are inherited independently, that they come in pairs, one from each parent. Mendel presented a paper outlining his findings in 1865, just 6 years after Darwin's The Origins of Species came out. While Darwin's work provoked agitated debate, Mendel continued to labour away in silence in his garden and his work was completely ignored. Mendel sent his paper to fellow scientist Carl von Nageli who told Mendel that his work was incomplete and unconvincing. He encouraged Mendel to create hybrids from hawkweed which Naegeli knew was incredibly difficult to achieve as he had himself spent years working on them. Was he furious that a younger man had struck on something far more original than he could ever produce? Did he deliberately divert the monk After Mendel's death all his papers were burnt in a bonfire in the monastery. Was this routine housekeeping or the result of a fit of jealousy by a monk who succeeded him as abbot? Finally, in 1900, 35 years after it first appeared, Mendel’s paper was found by the Cambridge scientist William Bateson. It became immediately apparent that Mendel was onto something extremely significant. Had Darwin known about his work many of the debates about the details of natural selection might have been resolved.
This is a captivating book about a remarkable and neglected man who played an enormous role in our understanding of the mechanisms of life itself.

A Monk and Two Peas: The Story of Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of Genetics

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

In The People's Health, author Robin Marantz Henig brings to life the compelling story of the successes and setbacks of public health. This engaging book documents the expansion of public health from a search for microbes to a global effort to secure a healthful environment--from physician John Snow's breakthrough in cholera prevention in mid-nineteenth-century Britain to the public health crisis emerging today from the war in Bosnia. Henig explores the multiple perspectives from which public health must be viewed--well illustrated by the medical, behavioral, and social aspects of AIDS. In telling the stories of the wars on malaria, polio, and other diseases, she describes the machinery of public health and highlights the detective work of the early searches for pathogens. Since mid-century, most disease has related not to epidemics but to personal choices about smoking and eating that can lead to heart disease and cancer. Henig looks at the groundbreaking Framingham Heart Study, running nearly 50 years, from which emerged the concept of risk factors for disease. The People's Health discusses the link between health and human rights--for example, how legal and cultural practices force many African women into unprotected sex with HIV-infected husbands. The subtext of The People's Health is the contribution of the Harvard School of Public Health, direct descendent of the first professional training program for public health in America, where many of the advances of the past half-century originated. Throughout the book, Henig highlights individuals, such as Philip Drinker, who invented the iron lung, and Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine. Also included is the story of Jay Winsten, who, as director of Harvard's Center for Health Communication, imported the designated-driver concept from Sweden and persuaded television's largest production companies to weave it into program plots. A fast-moving overview of humankind's effort to conquer disease and the public health challenges on the horizon, this volume is a "must read" for anyone concerned about public health. Table of Contents <ul>
<li>Front Matter</li>
<li>1 The Mission of Public Health</li>
<li>2 Confronting the Biological Environment</li>
<li>3 Confronting the Physical Environment</li>
<li>4 Confronting the Social Environment</li>
<li>5 Providing Guidance for Individual Behavior</li>
<li>6 Rethinking the Health Care System</li>
<li>7 The Global Perspective</li>
<li>Acknowledgments</li>
<li>Bibliography</li>
<li>Photo Credits</li>
<li>About the Author</li>
<li>Index</li>
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The People's Health: A Memoir of Public Health and Its Evolution at Harvard

Joseph Henry Press

A look at the aging process in women discusses the impact of aging on the body, the importance of diet and nutrition, the problems of pregnancy, menstruation, and menopause, childbearing in later years, and other important topics

How a Woman Ages (Growing Older: What to Expect and What You Can Do About It)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ballantine Books

The Myth of Senility

Mental Health

DOUBLEDAY

Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.

Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)

Brodzinsky, David M.

Schecter, Marshall D.

Psychology & Counseling

Anchor

Explains the tenacity of viral infections and details the latest work that scientists are doing to combat the tiny parasites that could be the "single biggest threat to man's dominance on the planet." 15,000 first printing.

A Dancing Matrix: Voyages Along the Viral Frontier

KNOPF

A fresh study of the groundbreaking work in genetics conducted by Gregor Mendel, acclaimed as the father of modern genetics, argues that the Moravian monk was far ahead of his time.

The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Houghton/Mifflin

In THE MONK IN THE GARDEN, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly evokes a little-known chapter in science, taking us back to the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Shrouded in mystery, Gregor Mendel's quiet life and discoveries make for fascinating reading. Among his pea plants Henig finds a tale filled with intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. She "has done a remarkable job of fleshing out the myth with what few facts there are" (Washington Post Book World) and has delivered Mendel's story with grace and glittering prose. THE MONK IN THE GARDEN is both a "classic tale of redemption" (New York Times Book Review) and a science book of the highest literary order.

Reference

Mariner Books

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