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“thom rooke”

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  • A Germ's Journey

    by Thom Rooke, M.D. ...
    Illustrated by Anthony Trimmer ...
    Series series
    Where did your cold germ come from? And ACHOO! Where is it going next? A germ's journey is filled with snuffles, sniffles, and sneezes. Pack your bags, and get ready to follow it! ... Read more

    $19.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gene Basset’s Vietnam Sketchbook

    A Cartoonist’s Wartime Perspective

    by Thom Rooke ...
    In 1965, Gene Basset, a well-known political cartoonist, was sent to Vietnam by his newspaper publishing syndicate. His assignment: to sketch scenes of the increasingly controversial war in order to help the newspaper-reading public better understand the events occurring in Southeast Asia. In much the same way that M.A.S.H. gave viewers an irreverent, wry view of war and its devastating effects on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quest for Cortisone

    by Thom Rooke ...
    In 1948, when “Mrs. G.,” hospitalized with debilitating rheumatoid arthritis, became the first person to receive a mysterious new compound—cortisone—her physicians were awestruck by her transformation from enervated to energized. After eighteen years of biochemical research, the most intensively hunted biological agent of all time had finally been isolated, identified, synthesized, and put to the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Comprehensive Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

    Expert Consult - Online and Print

    by John W. Hallett Jr., Joseph L. Mills, Jonathan Earnshaw, Jim A. Reekers, Thom Rooke ...
    Comprehensive Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 2nd Edition, edited by John W. Hallett, Jr., MD, FACS, Joseph L. Mills, MD, Jonothan Earnshaw, DM, FRCS, Jim A. Reekers, MD, PhD, and Thom Rooke, MD delivers in-depth, clinically focused coverage of all aspects of vascular surgery in an exceptionally well-designed single reference. Each disease chapter follows the same consistent format, for quick ... Read more

    $278.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Germ's Journey

    by Thom Rooke M.D. ...
    Narrated by Jared Kaelber ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    A germ's journey is filled with snuffles, sniffles, and sneezes. Pack your bags, and get ready to follow it! This is a perfect story for explaining the immune system to children at home or at school. The Follow It! series teaches children about an array of topics—from germs to legislative bills—with stories that are fun and easy-to-understand. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Biography of Cancer

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
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  • The Gene

    An Intimate History

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerThe basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate HistoryNow includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee**’**s new book Song of the Cell!From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingen... ... Read more

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  • The Body

    A Guide for Occupants

    by Bill Bryson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A must-read owner’s manual for every body. Take a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body in this “delightful, anecdote-propelled read” (The Boston Globe) from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything. With a new Afterword.“You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." —The Washington PostBill Bryson once again proves ... Read more

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  • Plague of Corruption

    Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science

    by Judy Mikovits, Kent Heckenlively ...
    Series series Children’s Health Defense
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  • Accidental Medical Discoveries

    How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World

    by Robert W. Winters ...
    Many of the world’s most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck played a part in the discovery of unintentional cures and breakthroughs:A plastic shard in an RAF pilot’s eye leads to the use of plastic for contact lenses.The inability to remove a titanium chamber from rabbit’s bone leads to dental implants.Viagra was ... Read more

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  • Flesh Made New: The Unnatural History and Broken Promise of Stem Cells

    by John Rasko, Carl Power ...
    The dazzling promise of stem cell medicine: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hypeFor decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then the next day, or the day after that, and so on. We're still waiting.This book is an antidote to ... Read more

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  • Happy Accidents

    Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century

    by Morton A. Meyers ...
    Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In the 1990s, ... Read more

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