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  • Crop Biotechnology: Genetic Modification And Genome Editing

    Plant molecular biology came to the fore in the early 1980s and there has been tremendous growth in the subject since then. The study of plant genes and genomes, coupled with the development of techniques for the incorporation of novel or modified genes into plants, eventually led to the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the mid-1990s. This was seen as the start of a ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Introduction To Bioenergy, An

    The bioenergy industry has grown rapidly since the turn of the century as politicians and energy producers have sought alternatives to fossil fuels. This has been driven by the growing consensus that carbon dioxide released during the burning of fossil fuels is causing global warming and climate change and the fact that fossil fuel reserves are finite and alternatives will have to be found. The ... Read more

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  • Acrylamide In Food

    Acrylamide, a chemical described as 'extremely hazardous' and 'probably carcinogenic to humans', was discovered in food in 2002. Its presence in a range of popular foods has become one of the most difficult issues facing not only the food industry but all stakeholders in the food supply chain and its oversight. Acrylamide is not present in raw food but forms from natural precursors during high ... Read more

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  • Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile

    The devastating truth about a class of chemicals called "estrogenics" and how your daily exposures can cause weight-gains, depression, infertility and many other exploding health problems.In this book, Anthony Jay, biochemistry Ph.D. and President of an international medical non-profit, offers a clear and fascinating look at:• THE Top 10 List of Everyday Estrogenics• Cutting-Edge Weight-Loss ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saved by Science

    The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology

    How can we accelerate the development of vaccines? How do we feed three billion people when 12 million died of hunger in 2019? Does synthetic biology hold the answer?With all the advances in science in the last century, why are there still so many infectious diseases? Why haven’t we found cures for difficult cancers? Why hasn’t any major progress been made in the treatment of mental illness? And ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genetically Modified Plants

    Assessing Safety and Managing Risk

    A transgenic organism is a plant, animal, bacterium, or other living organism that has had a foreign gene added to it by means of genetic engineering. Transgenic plants can arise by natural movement of genes between species, by cross-pollination based hybridization between different plant species (which is a common event in flowering plant evolution), or by laboratory manipulations by artificial ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Pine Pollen: Ancient Medicine for a New Millennium

    Although the Western world has been undergoing its greatest herbal renaissance in over a century, the medicinal actions of trees are often overlooked, perhaps none more so than pine. Given the drive for a new herb-of-the-day that will simulate excitement in the general populace (e.g. rhodiola, maca), it is astonishing that pine has been unrecognized for so long. This is particularly perplexing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toxic Beauty

    The hidden chemicals in cosmetics and how they can harm us

    Every year we each absorb an estimated 2 kilograms of chemicals through beauty and cosmetic products. Chemicals found in lipsticks, skin lotions and hair dyes have been linked with tumours, cell mutation, allergies, reproductive complications, endocrine disruption and cancer. Isn't it time we all paid more attention to exactly what goes into the eye shadows, body washes and deodorants we love to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Body Toxic

    How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being

    by Nena Baker ...
    We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being understood. These toxic substances, unknown to our grandparents, accumulate in our fat, bones, blood, and organs as ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Cannabis

    A Complete Guide

    by Ernest Small ...
    Cannabis sativa is best known as the source of marijuana, the world’s most widely consumed illicit recreational drug. However, the plant is also extremely useful as a source of stem fiber, edible seed oil, and medicinal compounds, all of which are undergoing extremely promising research, technological applications, and business investment. Indeed, despite its capacity for harm as a recreational ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Dodging the Toxic Bullet

    How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Health Hazards

    by David R. Boyd ...
    Dodging the Toxic Bullet presents workable strategies that show how we can live longer, healthier lives by breathing clean air, eating healthy food, drinking safe water, and using non-toxic products. Author David R. Boyd provides accessible background on a range of hazards including mercury in fish, carcinogens in cleaning products, lead in toys, and lethal E. coli in ground beef. His clear ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature

    What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Our Planet

    • The book that takes a comprehensive look at the threat to our food supply from genetic engineering.• 15,000 copies sold in the first six months.• Includes new studies about the dangers of genetically engineered food.• Refutes the "feed the poor" propaganda spread by agribusinesses.• Is both an expose and educational primer on this controversial technology that is already a part of every American ... Read more

    $7.99 USD