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  • Food, Inc.

    Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the

    by Peter Pringle ...
    A “lively and colorful” (The Washington Post) contribution to the complex and important conversation on genetically modified foods unraveling the science, myths, and politics behind the continuing battle over biotech food.For most people, the global war over genetically modified foods is a distant and confusing one. The battles are conducted in the mystifying language of genetics.A handful of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov

    The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century

    by Peter Pringle ...
    In The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov, acclaimed journalist and author Peter Pringle recreates the extraordinary life and tragic end of one of the great scientists of the twentieth century.In a drama of love, revolution, and war that rivals Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, Pringle tells the story of a young Russian scientist, Nikolai Vavilov, who had a dream of ending hunger and famine in the world. Vavilov's ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Day of the Dandelion

    An Arthur Hemmings Mystery

    by Peter Pringle ...
    Seeds of a new corn plant are stolen from Oxford University's botany lab, and the professor, Alastair Scott, and his Russian assistant, Tanya Petrovskaya, are missing.Alarms ring in London and Washington, where intelligence officials know that Scott was working on a supergene that could allow control over the world's entire food supply.The British government calls in Arthur Hemmings from the Royal ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Cornered

    Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice

    by Peter Pringle ...
    In New Orleans, the widow of an attorney who died of lung cancer vowed to avenge his death by suing the tobacco companies. In Clarksdale, Mississippi, an outraged country lawyer discovered the cost of lung cancer care as his secretary's mother lay dying. In Washington, D.C., a young pediatrician became the first FDA administrator in ninety years to decide nicotine should be regulated as a drug. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Experiment Eleven

    Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug

    by Peter Pringle ...
    In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.D. student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksman's lab, searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. In his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Electronic Media Management, Revised

    by Peter Pringle, Michael F Starr ...
    The fifth edition of a classic text features important updates that reflect the enormous changes that have taken place in recent years - the Internet as an important information transmission format that is here to stay and convergence among media. This edition features thorough discussions on the Internet and convergence, as well as reflects the latest information on broadcast and cable ... Read more

    $145.99 CAD

  • Those Are Real Bullets, Aren’t They?

    Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 (Text Only)

    by Peter Pringle, Philip Jacobson ...
    An iconic event in modern Irish history is, for the first time, narrated in directly human terms. Who were the people who marched, who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died? In brilliant narrative form a modern myth is unfolded and revealed fully, and so tells the story of the recent history of the armed struggle in Ireland.Free Derry Corner, 30 January 1972, site of one of the pivotal ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Julian Perry Robinson: Pioneer in the Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Warfare

    Edited by Henrietta Wilson, Mary Kaldor, Josh Kaldor-Robinson, Peter Pringle, Alexander Ghionis, Richard Guthrie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Julian P. Perry Robinson (1941-2020) made a unique contribution to protecting the world from the misuse of chemistry and biology. A trained chemist and patent lawyer, he applied his specialist knowledge to better understand the nature of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) and how best to prevent this. He pioneered open source methods that enabled him to engage with, and inform, national and ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • A Place at the Table

    The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It

    by Participant ...
    Forty-nine million people -- including one in four children -- go hungry in the U.S. every day, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all. Inspired by the acclaimed documentary A Place at the Table, this companion book offers powerful insights from those at the front lines of solving hunger in America, including:Jeff Bridges, Academy Award-winning actor, cofounder ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Psychosocial Practice within a Residential Setting

    by Peter Griffiths ...
    Series series The Cassel Hospital Monograph Series
    The Cassell Hospital Monograph Series, No. 1. The first in a series of monographs, intended to present accessible teaching material concerned with the practice of residential care. ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Inter-City Contract & more

    Seven Full-Cast BBC Radio Crime Dramas

    by Rod Beacham ...
    Narrated by Michael Maloney, Melinda Walker, Steve Hodson, David March, Peter Vaughan, Robin Summers, Bryan Pringle, Alan Thompson, Trevor Nichols, Frances Jeater, Geoffrey Collins, Glynis Brooks, David Daker, Full cast ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    A collection of seven ingenious full-cast thrillers and crime dramas by Rod BeachamActor, dramatist and founding member of Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre, Rod Beacham wrote over 15 plays for BBC Radio. This collection comprises seven crime dramas first broadcast on Radio 4’s ‘Saturday Night Theatre’ strand between 1980 and 1987, ranging in tone from tense whodunnits to light-hearted comedy ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Malice in London

    by Graham Thomas ...
    Series Book 4 - Erskine Powell
    DETECTIVE-CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT ERSKINE POWELL RETURNS--INVESTIGATING MALICE IN HIS OWN BACKYARD.When a murder victim is discovered in the murky waters of the River Thames, Erskine Powell of Scotland Yard plunges into the most diabolical case of his distinguished career. A second brutal slaying draws Powell even deeper into a tangled web of greed, deception, and blackmail. From Tower Bridge to Soho ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD