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Teresi, Dick

Medical Books

McGraw=Hill

Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting. Dick Teresi, a science writer with a dark sense of humor, manages to make this story entertaining, informative, and accessible as he shows how death determination has become more complicated than ever. Teresi introduces us to brain-death experts, hospice workers, undertakers, coma specialists and those who have recovered from coma, organ transplant surgeons and organ procurers, anesthesiologists who study pain in legally dead patients, doctors who have saved living patients from organ harvests, nurses who care for beating-heart cadavers, ICU doctors who feel subtly pressured to declare patients dead rather than save them, and many others. Much of what they have to say is shocking. Teresi also provides a brief history of how death has been determined from the times of the ancient Egyptians and the Incas through the twenty-first century. And he draws on the writings and theories of celebrated scientists, doctors, and researchers—Jacques-Bénigne Winslow, Sherwin Nuland, Harvey Cushing, and Lynn Margulis, among others—to reveal how theories about dying and death have changed. With The Undead, Teresi makes us think twice about how the medical community decides when someone is dead.

The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death

Reference

Pantheon

The world's foremost experimental physicist uses humor, metaphor, and storytelling to delve into the mysteries of matter, discussing the particle accelerator and the as-yet-to-be-discovered God particle. 85,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The God Particle

Science & Math

Lederman, Leon M.

Physics

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Engrossing story — past, present, and future — of tools that use light instead to perform a host of functions — from providing superb fidelity on CDs and conveniences at the check-out counter to transforming surgical processes and improving telephone service and TV reception. "A fascinating, comprehensive book for the layman. Richly, readably thorough." — Wall Street Journal.

Laser: Light of a Million Uses

Hecht, Jeff

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

Dover Publications

A fascinating tour of particle physics from Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman.
At the root of particle physics is an invincible sense of curiosity. Leon Lederman embraces this spirit of inquiry as he moves from the Greeks' earliest scientific observations to Einstein and beyond to chart this unique arm of scientific study. His survey concludes with the Higgs boson, nicknamed the God Particle, which scientists hypothesize will help unlock the last secrets of the subatomic universe, quarks and all—it's the dogged pursuit of this almost mystical entity that inspires Lederman's witty and accessible history.

The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

History

Lederman, Leon

World

Mariner Books

Catalogs products and services specifically designed to expand and exercise the mind, from brain machines to new psychotherapies

Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman?: A Catalogue of Revolutionary Tools for Higher Consciousness

Business & Money

Hooper, Judith

Economics

Fireside

Documents scientific investigations and discoveries that were made by ancient civilizations, including the lowest common denominator, negative numbers, eclipses, the awareness of a round planet, geocentric cosmology, and rubber vulcanization. 25,000 first printing.

Lost Discoveries : The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Simon&Schuster

Boldly challenging conventional wisdom, acclaimed science writer and Omni magazine cofounder Dick Teresi traces the origins of contemporary science back to their ancient roots in an eye-opening account and landmark work. This innovative history proves once and for all that the roots of modern science were established centuries, and in some instances millennia, before the births of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. In this enlightening, entertaining, and important book, Teresi describes many discoveries from all over the non-Western world -- Sumeria, Babylon, Egypt, India, China, Africa, Arab nations, the Americas, and the Pacific islands -- that equaled and often surpassed Greek and European learning in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology. The first extensive and authoritative multicultural history of science written for a popular audience, Lost Discoveries fills a critical void in our scientific, cultural, and intellectual history and is destined to become a classic in its field.

Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya

Americas

Laser: Supertool of the 1980s, describes the many uses of lasers, from outer space to farms, and from operating rooms to checkout counters. Written for the general public, it tells about the wonders of modern laser technology.

Laser: Supertool of the 1980's

Hecht, Jeffrey

Houghton/Mifflin

Popular mechanics book of bikes and bicycling

Book Division, Hearst Corp

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