Featured Book : Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Basics & Beyond:Treatments, Resources, Self-Help, Good News, Updates

by Delthia Ricks.

Amazon Review - By Amie Barnett (Phoenix, AZ)

My oncologist had two of these books on his desk and gave me one the day I was told about my diagnosis. I started thumbing through it when I got home and could not put it down because with each page, all of the questions I had about this terrifying disease were being answered. I wound up reading it from cover to cover in two days.

The real-life stories from women and men who discuss their breast cancer experiences are invaluable and made me think how lucky I have been so far to have good, caring doctors. The author, Delthia Ricks, a medical writer for Newsday in New York, interviewed dozens of breast cancer survivors and each survivor's story is featured in little vignettes.

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Featured Book : Biology

Life in Cold Blood

by Sir David Attenborough.

Legendary Broadcaster and World Renowned Naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, journeys through the weird and wonderful world of reptiles and amphibians - rulers of the Earth for neearly 200 million years!

In Life In acclaimed naturalist Sir David Attenborough reveals the secrets of these animals and their astounding success -- and the profound implications of their uncertain future

Amphibians and reptiles once ruled the planet, and their decendants exhibit some of the most colorful variety and astounding behavior known to the aninmal kingdom. Whate are the origins of these creatures? How have they transformed themselves into the beautiful and bizarre forms found today?

Hardcover: 288 pages
Pub date: March 26, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-691-13718-6
List Price: $29.95
200 Color Illustrations

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Featured Book : Physics

A Briefer History of Time

by Stephen Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow.

In an effort to make the concepts presented in A Brief History of Time more accessible to the reading public, Stephen Hawking and pysicist Leonard Mlodinow have created a book that eliminates lengthy explanations of purely technical concepts. Instead, they focus on topics of greatest significance and interest, for example, the creation of the universe, the nature of space and time, relativity, curved space, and quantum gravity. A Briefer History of Time is reorganized, simplified, and contains 37 full color illustrations. It is an exciting guide for non-scientists to the on-going research into the nature of space and time.

Paperback: 176 pages
Pub date: May 20, 2008
Publisher: Bantam Book Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-553-38546-5
List Price: $18.00
37 Color Illustrations

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Featured Book :Paleontology

Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs

by David Darling.

Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science is a gripping dective story examining a 65-million-year cold case which begins with the discovery of the finest and rarest dinosaur specimens ever unearthed. Tyler Lyson, a 16-year-old fossil hunter, found a partially intact dino mummy found in the Hell Creek Formation Badlands of North Dakota.

The fossilized remains, discovered in 1999, included not just bones, but fossilized soft tissues like skin, tendons and ligaments. It was the fisrt-ever find of a dinosaur where the skin "envelope" had not collapsed onto the skeleton.

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