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  • Cantor's Dilemma

    by Carl Djerassi ...
    When Professor Isidore Cantor reveals his latest breakthrough in cancer research, his promising research fellow, Dr. Jeremiah Stafford, has only to conduct the experiment and win Cantor the Nobel prize. But how far will Stafford go to guarantee the results? Carl Djerassi draws from his career as a world-famous scientist to describe the fierce competition driving scientific superstars in this ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • This Man's Pill

    Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill

    by Carl Djerassi ...
    October 15, 1951 marks the birthday of one of the key episodes in 20th century social history: the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive in a small laboratory in Mexico City - an event that triggered the development of the Pill. Carl Djerassi has been honoured worldwide for that accomplishment, which ultimately changed the life of women and the nature of human reproduction in ways that ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Four Jews on Parnassus—a Conversation

    Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg

    by Carl Djerassi ...
    This book features a CD of rarely performed music, including a specially commissioned rap by Erik Weiner of Walter Benjamin's "Thesis on the Philosophy of History."Theodor W. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Walter Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish German, Gershom Scholem was a committed Zionist, and Arnold Schönberg converted to Protestantism for professional ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Newton's Darkness: Two Dramatic Views

    by Carl Djerassi, David Pinner ...
    ”What purpose is served by showing that England's greatest natural philosopher is flawed … like other mortals?” asks one of the characters in Newton's Darkness. “We need unsullied heroes!” But what if the hero is sullied? At stake is an issue that is as germane today as it was 300 years ago: a scientist's ethics must not be divorced from scientific accomplishments. There is probably no other ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse

    The Remarkable Autobiography of the Award-Winning Scientist Who Synthesized the Birth Control Pill

    by Carl Djerassi ...
    The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse by Carl Djerassi (129,000 words; 26 illustrations) This unusually wide-ranging memoir, moving from Europe to America, academia to industry, science to art, triumph to tragedy, is the idiosyncratic life story of Carl Djerassi, teenage refugee from Nazism and prodigiously gifted chemist who experimented with a local yam in Mexico, synthesized steroids and, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Chemistry In Theatre: Insufficiency, Phallacy Or Both

    by Carl Djerassi ...
    This book examines the questions “What can science do for the theatre?” and “What can the theatre do for science?” which raise challenges for both theatre professionals and scientists. Unusually, this book deals with plays first and foremost as reading material — as texts to be read alone or in dramatic readings — rather than emphasizing performances on the stage. Concrete examples are given to ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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    Immaculate Misconception, An

    by Carl Djerassi ...
    Narrated by JoBeth Williams, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 33 min

    Dr. Melanie Laidlaw is a scientist developing the first use of ICSI, short for intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Her collaborator, Dr. Felix Frankenthaler, turns out to have his own ideas about how to implement their new procedure. The wild card is Melanie’s new lover, Menachem Dvir, a fellow scientist. This darkly comic menage-a-tois plays out not only in bedrooms and labs, but also in test tubes ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Case for a Creator

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  • Isaac Newton

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  • The Tangled Tree

    A Radical New History of Life

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  • The Age of Wonder

    How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

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