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  • Drugs That Changed the World

    How Therapeutic Agents Shaped Our Lives

    by Irwin W. Sherman ...
    Drugs are used in the diagnosis, alleviation, treatment, prevention or cure of disease. This is a book about drugs, how they came to be, and how they exert their ‘magic’. Today we have drugs to protect against infectious diseases, to alleviate aches and pains, to allow new organs to replace the old, and for brain functions to be modified. Yet, for the most part the manner by which drugs are ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Twelve Diseases that Changed Our World

    by Irwin W. Sherman ...
    Series Book 60 - ASM Books
    Covers the history of twelve important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals.Chronicles the ways disease outbreaks shaped traditions and institutions of Western civilization.Explains the effects, causes, and outcomes from past epidemics.Describes a dozen diseases to show how disease control either was achieved or failed.Makes clear the interrelationship between ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Malaria Vaccines: The Continuing Quest

    by Irwin W Sherman ...
    In 2013, 200 million people were infected with malaria, resulting in over 584,000 deaths, with the potential to affect over half the world's population. Such is the widespread nature of malaria that it is increasingly believed only a vaccine will lead to its eradication.Although the first attempt at a vaccine was made a century ago, it is only in the last 30 years that real progress in testing has ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • The Power of Plagues

    by Irwin W. Sherman ...
    Series series ASM Books
    The Power of Plagues presents a rogues' gallery of epidemic- causing microorganisms placed in the context of world history. Author Irwin W. Sherman introduces the microbes that caused these epidemics and the people who sought (and still seek) to understand how diseases and epidemics are managed. What makes this book especially fascinating are the many threads that Sherman weaves together as he ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Malaria Genome Projects, The: Promise, Progress, And Prospects

    by Irwin W Sherman ...
    The year 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and that of its mosquito vector Anopheles. The genome sequences were a result of the Plasmodium falciparum Genome Project.This book covers in detail the biology of malaria parasites and the mosquitoes that transmit the disease, how the Genome Projects came into ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World

    by Irwin W. Sherman ...
    Narrated by Chris Sorensen ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 43 min

    This book covers the history of twelve important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals.● Chronicles the ways disease outbreaks shaped traditions and institutions of Western civilization.● Explains the effects, causes, and outcomes from past epidemics.● Describes a dozen diseases to show how disease control either was achieved or failed.● Makes clear the ... Read more

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    Outline of a Comprehensive Hydrogen Bond Theory

    by Gastone Gilli, Paola Gilli ...
    Series Book 23 - International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography
    Hydrogen bond (H-bond) effects are known: it makes sea water liquid, joins cellulose microfibrils in trees, shapes DNA into genes and polypeptide chains into wool, hair, muscles or enzymes. Its true nature is less known and we may still wonder why O-H...O bond energies range from less than 1 to more than 30 kcal/mol without apparent reason. This H-bond puzzle is re-examined here from its very ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Therapeutic Vaccination Strategies

    Edited by P. Walden, W. Sterry, H. Hennekes ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The induction of immune responses against tumor cells by vaccination is rapidly evolving as a therapeutic modality with new potentials for the treatment of cancer. It is based on the fact that our immune system can identify tumor cells and, once activated, is capable of developing specific immunity against the neoplastic cells. Numerous observations and intense research clearly document the major ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides

    Edited by Abba Kastin, Abba J. Kastin ...
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    $273.59 CAD

  • New Insights to Neuroimmune Biology

    Edited by Istvan Berczi ...
    New Insights to Neuroimmune Biology investigates the mechanisms that and functions of the Neuroimmune Regulatory Supersystem. Covering molecular regulation of cytokines in brain astrocytes, immunoregulation by the sympathetic nervous system, circadian regulation of immune reactions, antigen recognition by the CNS, the modulation of the immune response by head injury, neurogenic inflammation, the ... Read more

    $150.39 CAD

  • Healing Lyme Disease Naturally

    History, Analysis, and Treatments

    by Wolf D. Storl ...
    In Healing Lyme Disease Naturally, anthropologist Wolf D. Storl shares his own success in overcoming a difficult, sometimes deadly disease that is reaching epidemic proportions. When he was diagnosed, Dr. Storl refused standard treatments because of antibiotic intolerance. Instead, he researched healing systems of various cultures including Traditional Chinese Medicine, American Indian healing ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Translational Biology in Medicine

    by M. Montano ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomedicine
    The recent emphasis in biomedical research on translational biology and personalized medicine is revolutionizing conceptual and experimental approaches to understanding and improving human health. Translational Biology in Medicine begins with an introduction to experimental model systems for disease, such as cell lines, primary cells, stem cells and animal models for disease, followed by a ... Read more

    $176.79 CAD