[PDF] A Commotion In The Blood eBook

Author : Stephen S. Hall
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780805037968

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Describes how doctors have learned to use the immune system and its irregularities to develop a wide range of innovative treatments for disease, and the biological complexities--human and political--that make the process tough-going.

Author : Stephen S. Hall
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1998-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780805058413

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A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 Library Journal, Best Book of 1997 Beginning with the "occasional miracles" of a mysterious turn-of-the-century cancer vaccine called Coley's toxins, Stephen S. Hall traces the story of how doctors have learned to harness the immune system and its "commotions" to develop a wide array of cutting-edge therapies. Moving deftly between laboratory and bedside, Hall's absorbing narrative navigates the politics of discovery and elucidates the dazzling complexities of the microscope slide, tracking the curiously potent cells and molecules at the heart of the immune response. From the author of "the best book written about the new age of biology" (Nobel laureate Philip Sharp), who "succeeds marvelously in making science accessible to the general reader," (New York Times), this fast-paced account of medicine in the making is part of the Sloan Foundation Technology Book series.

Author : Matt Rees
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848879201

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When lowly artist Caravaggio is commissioned to paint the Pope he quickly becomes the most celebrated artist in Rome. But when he falls for Lena, a low-born fruit seller, and paints her into his Madonna series as a simple peasant woman, Italian society is outraged. He is forced into a duel - and murders a nobleman.

Author : Sharon Sala
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426884303

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At the reading of her father's will, Maria Slade receives shocking news—as a four-year-old, she'd witnessed her prostitute mother's murder and been taken into hiding by the well-meaning preacher who'd raised her as his own. Maria remembers none of that. But now she's determined to flush her mother's killer out of hiding and discover the identity of her birth father. She heads to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she meets Detective Bodie Scott. Empathizing with this beautiful woman looking to find out who she really is, he opens the decades-old case file. Their investigation leads them down a dangerous path, where no one is what they seem. Where a father does not want to be found. And a murderer has "like mother, like daughter" in mind for Maria.

Author : Kendare Blake
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0765328666

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Ghost-hunter Cas Lowood returns to find out what happened to Anna Dressed in Blood.

Author : Dantiel W. Moniz
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802158161

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“Moniz sings of Florida, girlhood, family, loss, and the glorious, ecstatic, devastating human body. A gorgeous debut from a wickedly talented new writer.” —Lauren Groff, New York Times–bestselling author Named a Best Book of the Year by The Atlantic, TIME, Washington Independent Review of Books, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, Library Journal, Literary Hub, Audible, Largehearted Boy, Entropy, Millions, and Tampa Bay Times Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another. A thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter—whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family’s church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their father’s ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them. Wise and subversive, spiritual and seductive, Milk Blood Heat forms an ouroboros of stories that bewitch with their truth, announcing the arrival of a bright new literary star. “A fresh feel for the intensity and contradictions of girlhood sings across tough stories.” —Entertainment Weekly