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Product Description: 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. On his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, at that time the world's leading killer disease...read more
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9780802717740 | Walker & Co, May 8, 2012, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780743264983 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, May 13, 2008), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781451656497 | Simon & Schuster, July 2, 2011, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781416540755 | Simon & Schuster, May 22, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: British Secret Service agent and horticulturist Arthur Hemmings tackles an international conspiracy to control the world's food supply, a case linked to the disappearance of a professor, his assistant, and the seeds of their groundbreaking research.

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9781451623963 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, December 1, 2010), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: 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.

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9781906251024 | Gardners Books, March 24, 2008, cover price $14.35

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The author of Real Bullets introduces readers to the two-sided stories of eco-warriors such as Greenpeace and corporate giants concerning the new agricultural revolution of genetically engineered foods and how they will affect the food supply and world hunger epidemic. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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9780743267632 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, February 1, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Introduces readers to eco-warriors such as Greenpeace and corporate giants such as Monsanto, discussing the new agricultural revolution of genetically engineered food and how it will affect the food supply and the world hunger epidemic.

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The author of Real Bullets introduces readers to the two-sided stories of eco-warriors such as Greenpeace and corporate giants concerning the new agricultural revolution of genetically engineered foods and how it will affect the food supply and world hunger epidemic. (view table of contents)
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9780743226110 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Introduces readers to eco-warriors such as Greenpeace and corporate giants such as Monsanto, discussing the new agricultural revolution of genetically engineered food and how it will affect the food supply and the world hunger epidemic.

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The 1972 'Bloody Sunday' massacre in Derry, Ireland, is chronicled in detail, using interviews, period photographs, and recently declassified information to tell the entire story of the event in which British paratroopers opened fire on unarmed Irish Catholic demonstrators. Reprint. (view table of contents)
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9780802116802 | Grove Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Narrates the events of 'Bloody Sunday,' when British paratroopers opened fire on Irish Catholics, resulting in thirteen deaths and a renewed, violent fight against British presence.

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9780802138798 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The 1972 'Bloody Sunday' massacre in Derry, Ireland, is chronicled in detail, using interviews, period photographs, and recently declassified information to tell the entire story of the event in which British paratroopers opened fire on unarmed Irish Catholic demonstrators.

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Chronicles the most costly civil litigation in history from the revelation of incriminating documents and long-term fraud through the trial that brought the tobacco industry to its knees (view table of contents)
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9780805042924 | Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1998, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Chronicles the most costly civil litigation in history from the revelation of incriminating documents and long-term fraud through the trial that brought the tobacco industry to its knees

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Discusses how the world's destiny is controlled by a small group of scientists, businessmen, politicians, and military officers whose decisions on nuclear power have caused the present nuclear nightmare
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9780030419010 | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1981, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Discusses how the world's destiny is controlled by a small group of scientists, businessmen, politicians, and military officers whose decisions on nuclear power have caused the present nuclear nightmare

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