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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Challenges common beliefs that human potential is largely determined by genetics and other biological factors, drawing on a variety of scientific disciplines to explain how to tap innate abilities that have been influenced by environmental factors.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Outlines a program for reversing the signs of aging, improving overall life quality, and maintaining youthful skin through strategic nutritional and lifestyle practices.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Seven Stories Press edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters' lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator's ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Have you wondered why some 60-year olds look and feel like 40-year-olds and why some 40-year-olds look and feel like 60-year-olds? While many factors contribute to aging and illness, Nobel Prize-winning Doctor Elizabeth Blackburn discovered biological markers, called telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres, which protect our DNA Dr. Blackburn discovered that the length and health of one's telomeres provides a biological basis for the long...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xv, 286 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross shares the story of discovering her own cancer gene mutation and unraveling her family's unclear history, showing readers along the way what to do if they have a genetic predisposition for cancer or suspect one runs in their family"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother's Day--and this becomes one of many things Kimball's family never speaks about. As she searches for answers nearly thirty years later, Kimball embarks on a thrilling visual journey into the secrets her family has kept for decades. Using old diary entries, hospital records, home videos, and other archives, Margaret pieces together a narrative map of her childhood--her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA. It is a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In Pandora's DNA, Stark uses her family's experience to frame a larger story about the so-called...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (5 video files, approximately 200 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Raising of America Series is a five-part documentary series that explores the question: Why are so many children in America faring so poorly? What are the consequences for the nation's future? How might we, as a nation, do better? The series investigates these questions through different lenses: What does science tell us about the enduring importance of early life experiences on the brain and body? What it is like to be a parent today? And what...
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