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  • Food, Inc.

    Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • About Time

    Surviving Ireland's Death Row

    par Peter Pringle ...
    Law and justice are not always one and the same. On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: 'Peter Pringle, for the crime of capital murder … the law prescribes only one penalty, and that penalty is death.' The problem was that Peter did not commit this crime. Facing a sentence of death by hanging, Peter sought the inner strength and determination ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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

    Modifié par Henrietta Wilson, Mary Kaldor, Josh Kaldor-Robinson, Peter Pringle, Alexander Ghionis, Richard Guthrie ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $166.49 CAD

  • Day of the Dandelion

    An Arthur Hemmings Mystery

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Il genio dei semi

    Nikolaj Vavilov, pioniere della biodiversità

    par Peter Pringle, Carlo Petrini ...
    In un dramma degno del Dottor Živago, nel quale si intrecciano scienza, amori, rivoluzioni e guerre, Peter Pringle ricostruisce la storia di Nikolaj Vavilov, lo scienziato che, agli albori della genetica, sognava di sconfiggere la fame nel mondo coltivando piante in grado di sopravvivere in ogni condizione climatica e ad ogni latitudine, nei deserti di sabbia e tra i ghiacci della tundra, e ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Experiment Eleven

    Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Place at the Table

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Those Are Real Bullets, Aren’t They?

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Cornered

    Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice

    par 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. ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Electronic Media Management, Revised

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $145.99 CAD

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  • Broadmoor Revealed

    Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum

    par Mark Stevens ...
    "A fascinating insight into the country's most famous asylum for criminals" which reveals Victorian England's care and management of the mentally ill (Your Family Tree).On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoor's first patients had arrived.In Broadmoor Revealed, Mark Stevens writes about what life was like ... En savoir plus

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