Leslie Alan Horvitz

Joseph B. McCormick

Susan Fisher-Hoch

The epidemiologist who developed the Biosafety Level 4 facility at the the Centers for Disease Control chronicles his work as a virus hunter

Virus Hunters of the CDC

Level 4

Kay Redfield Jamison

J. Raymond DePaulo

What We Know and What You Can Do About It

Understanding Depression

Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World

Eureka!

A man looking for the truth about his brother’s death uncovers a chain of lies that may leave him in peril The death of Wall Street trader Alan Friedlander leaves his brother stunned. Officially recorded as being caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Alan’s death shocks his brother Michael to the core and leaves him desperate for answers. Determined to find the real cause of Alan’s death, Michael begins to uncover dark secrets implicating some of the city’s most trusted institutions. But Michael is not alone in his suspicions. A young pathologist has cause for doubts as well. By the time their investigation leads to New York’s chief medical examiner, they may both be in serious danger.

Causes Unknown

A man looking for the truth about his brother’s death uncovers a chain of lies that may leave him in peril. The death of Wall Street trader Alan Friedlander leaves his brother stunned. Officially recorded as being caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Alan’s death shocks his brother Michael to the core and leaves him desperate for answers. Determined to find the real cause of Alan’s death, Michael begins to uncover dark secrets implicating some of the city’s most trusted institutions. But Michael is not alone in his suspicions. A young pathologist has cause for doubts as well. By the time their investigation leads to New York’s chief medical examiner, they may both be in serious danger.

After lying dormant for decades, a deadly virus is unleashed, threatening millions of lives and uncovering a shocking conspiracy Danger lies frozen in the Alaskan wilderness, unnoticed by mankind, waiting to be released. A man’s corpse holds the remnants of a ferociously infectious disease that ravaged the globe at the end of World War I. Once the virus is set free again, a gruesome death awaits millions of unlucky victims. Everyone on Earth is at risk—or so it seems. The followers of a mysterious religion possess an uncanny immunity to the illness, and a sinister intrigue unravels. But before long, the insidious virus begins to mutate, daring the unwavering Dr. Lightman to keep up with it. Desperate to find a cure, he discovers that in order to stop the spread of the pandemic, it will be necessary to discover the human forces responsible.

The Dying

Harvey Gerhard, M.D.

LETHAL SEX A famous medical researcher suddenly falls over dead, leaving his mistress stunned…a superstar actor dies mysteriously after a weekend of wild lovemaking…a prominent U.S. senator becomes deathly ill after a one-night stand…a playboy doctor meets a violent end after a fabulous fling with a sexy salesgirl. They all die hideously after a spectacular sexual experience. Something very strange is going on. And Kris Erlanger, a beautiful investigative reporter, risks her life to expose the terrifying secret. The nightmarish truth is far more horrible than anything she could have imagined…

Double Blinded

Christopher Catherwood

Entries address topics related to genocide, crimes against humanity and peace, and human rights violations; profile perpetrators including Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin; and discuss institutions set up to prosecute these crimes in countries around the world.

Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide

The common language of genius: Eureka! While the roads that lead to breakthrough scientific discovery canbe as varied and complex as the human mind, the moment of insightfor all scientists is remarkably similar. The word "eureka!",attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, has cometo express that universal moment of joy, wonder-and even shock-atdiscovering something entirely new. In this collection of twelvescientific stories, Leslie Alan Horvitz describes the drama ofsudden insight as experienced by a dozen distinct personalities,detailing discoveries both well known and obscure. From Darwin,Einstein, and the team of Watson and Crick to such lesser knownluminaries as fractal creator Mandelbrot and periodic tablemastermind Dmitri Medellev, Eureka! perfectly illustrates LouisPasteur's quip that chance favors the prepared mind. The book alsodescribes how amateur scientist Joseph Priestley stumbled onto theexistence of oxygen in the eighteenth century and how televisionpioneer Philo Farnsworth developed his idea for a TV screen whileplowing his family's Idaho farm.

Leslie Alan Horvitz

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